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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. The Three Byte Fix

    54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  2. How do satellites communicate with a GPS system? (2018)

    54 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  3. Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?

    54 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  4. Presence and collection of DNA from air and air conditioner units

    54 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  5. Blink to generate power for smart contact lenses

    54 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  6. Employers and job candidates are dueling with AI in the hiring process

    54 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  7. Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate

    54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  8. Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

    54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  9. BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost

    54 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  10. The Domino Computer

    54 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  11. Datacenter Processors for AI is already 78% of Nvidia's Revenue

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  12. Meta opens Horizon OS for other companies to build VR headsets

    53 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  13. The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  14. US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  15. Windows 11 now comes with its own adware

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  16. IPv6 for the remotely interested

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  17. Fire alarm audio detection, using FFTs and Go

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  18. Stop using the Internet Archive as the sole host for preservation projects

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  19. Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds

    53 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  20. Exploring batch caching of trees

    53 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  21. A Delivery Chain Breach: A UK bank opened the back door to China

    53 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  22. Google Podcasts is gone – and so is my faith in Google

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  23. Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  24. Electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low

    53 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  25. TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers

    53 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  26. eC Programming Language

    53 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  27. US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  28. Unreal Engine 5 multi-threaded rendering in the browser with WASM

    53 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  29. Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  30. European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

    53 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  31. Virtual Machine Administration Using QEMU Monitor

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  32. The Invention of the Integrated Circuit: Jean Hoerni's Patent Notebook

    53 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  33. Software Supply Chain Security

    53 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  34. Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung

    53 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  35. Vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus in mice

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  36. Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out

    53 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  37. Myscaledb: Open-source SQL vector database to build AI apps using SQL

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  38. Open Circuits Book

    53 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  39. Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results for Linux Gaming

    53 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  40. Base 10 is not a good base

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  41. How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  42. The project to migrate Android to Bazel is cancelled

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  43. SeL4 Device Driver Framework 0.4.0

    53 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  44. Reflections on Qualitative Research

    52 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  45. The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video]

    52 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  46. New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  47. Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany

    52 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  48. Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby

    52 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  49. Thefastest.ai

    52 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  50. Large language models as research assistants

    52 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  51. HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation

    52 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  52. Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024

    52 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  53. How Matzo Is Made

    52 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  54. Architecture decisions in Neon, a serverless Postgres service

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  55. Piku – a micro-PaaS for any server

    52 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  56. Serious flaws in SQL (1990)

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  57. LLMs can't simulate a Turing machine reliably

    52 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  58. Sophia: Scalable Stochastic 2nd-Order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training

    52 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  59. Scaling to Count Billions

    52 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  60. Framework won't be just a laptop company anymore

    52 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  61. Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible

    52 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  62. Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes

    52 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  63. Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  64. The evolution of stupidity (and octopus intelligence)

    51 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  65. Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  66. Trimming The Herbs TAS Clear on my Wii U [video]

    51 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  67. Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense

    51 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  68. Thermoelectric Cooling

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  69. Photoshop for Text (2022)

    51 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  70. Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system

    51 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  71. Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit

    51 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  72. Modeling societal demise and reversal

    51 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  73. White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  74. 1800-2023 – IEEE Standard for SystemVerilog

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  75. Program synthesis

    51 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  76. Framework Series A-1

    51 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  77. Moxie: I'm no longer involved at Signal

    51 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  78. The Graph of Wikipedia [video]

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  79. Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  80. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  81. European privacy regulator will stop using its own social media platforms

    51 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  82. The unwritten laws of engineering at Stedi

    51 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  83. Geoengineering test launched in Alameda

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  84. Qiling: A true instrumentable binary emulation framework

    51 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  85. Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Some experts are raising ethical concerns

    51 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  86. Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?

    51 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  87. Three women contract HIV from dirty "vampire facials" at unlicensed spa

    51 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  88. Virtual Pinhead

    50 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  89. Google layoffs hit Flutter team

    50 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  90. Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching language models to self-improve

    50 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  91. FCC to Vote to Restore Net Neutrality Rules, Reversing Trump

    50 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  92. Can Gemini 1.5 read all the Harry Potter books at once?

    50 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  93. An alternative to cursor pagination

    50 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  94. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail

    50 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  95. RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) Sleuthing with the TinySA (2021)

    50 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  96. Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments

    50 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  97. Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countries

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  98. Cubic Life: Conway's Game of Life in 3D

    50 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  99. Meter-scale distance manipulation of diverse objects with jet-induced airflow

    50 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  100. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health

    50 points • comment • apr 05, 2024