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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  2. AI Coach designed to help you start your tasks

    43 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  3. Startup Idea: Reverse Amazon

    43 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  4. Apple Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

    43 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  5. The largest deep lake water cooling project just got bigger

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  6. Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his show

    43 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  7. Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

    43 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  8. The death of the 60/40 portfolio

    43 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  9. Steam Controller reverse engineering and customization project

    43 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  10. Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

    43 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  11. U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs

    43 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  12. Hackers had access to Volkswagen IT systems for years

    43 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  13. Homicides Are Plummeting in American Cities

    43 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  14. Fyrox - A feature-rich game engine built in Rust

    43 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  15. Apple Did a Dry Run of APFS on Your Device Even Before iOS 10.3 (2017)

    43 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  16. Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, Python teams before dev conference

    43 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  17. Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

    43 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  18. Retro-tech HP-25 Calculator

    43 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  19. British Columbia has banned self-driving vehicles that exceed Level 2

    43 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  20. Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

    43 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  21. Another Boeing whistleblower raises fresh concerns about the 787

    43 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  22. Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram

    43 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  23. The Threat of Discontinued Software (2021)

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  24. Garry's Mod faces deluge of Nintendo-related DMCA takedown notices

    43 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  25. Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

    43 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  26. Apple Ordered to Pull WhatsApp/Threads from China App Store

    43 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  27. The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing–and We're Not Ready

    43 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  28. The City and the Limiting Virtues

    43 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  29. O1 Visa Hacks for Founders

    43 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  30. RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models

    43 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  31. FCC votes to restore net neutrality

    43 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  32. Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Models

    43 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  33. Ghost Is Federating over ActivityPub

    43 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  34. What happens when we pay public high school teachers based on performance

    42 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  35. Rerank 3: A new foundation model for efficient enterprise search and retrieval

    42 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  36. Don't waste your time recycling plastic

    42 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  37. Facebook must "minimize" personal data for ads in EU

    42 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  38. Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue

    42 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  39. Why Don't I Like Git More?

    42 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  40. GMB launches legal action against 'out of control' Amazon at Coventry warehouse

    42 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  41. Helixx: $6 a day EV subscription service could disrupt the auto industry

    42 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  42. Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD

    42 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  43. Go's Error Handling Is Perfect

    42 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  44. Show HN: Undermind – Deep scientific paper search with adaptive LLMs

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  45. Google Blog on DMA

    42 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  46. Caltech restores standardized test requirement for undergraduate admission

    42 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  47. How a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life

    42 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  48. DRAM mfgrs stop publishing contract DRAM prices after quake, price hike expected

    42 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  49. GenZ software engineers, according to older colleagues

    42 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  50. 'Revealing images that seemed lost forever:' Research revives 1800s photos

    42 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  51. Baltic GPS Jammer is in Kaliningrad–Fourth proof,refined dataset,second method

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  52. Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?

    42 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  53. xz has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  54. JFrog research discovers coordinated attacks on Docker Hub that planted millions

    42 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  55. Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada

    42 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  56. Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)

    42 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  57. Gum disease-related bacteria tied to colorectal cancer

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  58. How do you recognize an expert?

    41 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  59. OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models

    41 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  60. We Built a 19 PiB Logging Platform with ClickHouse and Saved Millions

    41 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  61. Why dentists say you shouldn't rinse after brushing

    41 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  62. Mark Zuckerberg himself appears in the list of direct contributors to Llama 3

    41 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  63. How ruthless is Amazon, really?

    41 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  64. Infrastructure as code is not the answer (2022)

    41 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  65. Eight Transaction Papers by Jim Gray

    41 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  66. 996 working hour system

    41 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  67. I "Blitzed" 50 Books in 50 Days – My Experiment in Language Learning

    41 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  68. Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand

    41 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  69. Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot

    41 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  70. UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time (2019)

    41 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  71. Tesla discloses it spent $200k advertising on X

    41 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  72. OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4

    41 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  73. Anthropic's Haiku Beats GPT-4 Turbo in Tool Use

    41 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  74. Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

    41 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  75. On Self-Respect (1961)

    41 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  76. New minerals on the moon explaining the mystery of the lunar landscape

    41 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  77. Facebook blocked local news site for posting an editorial critical of them

    41 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  78. The fading memories of youth

    41 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  79. How to take down production with a single Helm command

    41 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  80. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

    41 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  81. Finding the First 10-digit Prime in Digits of e (2017)

    41 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  82. 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war

    41 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  83. For Go programmers, a cheap CGo pattern to give Jia Tan a headache

    41 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  84. NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust

    41 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  85. A City Is Not a Computer (2017)

    41 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  86. PostgreSQL and Its Annoying Crosstab

    41 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  87. Ask HN: Recommendations for Local LLMs in 2024: Private and Offline?

    40 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  88. Commercial wing in ground effect plane (2018)

    40 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  89. Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate

    40 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  90. Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas

    40 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  91. Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys

    40 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  92. Microsoft Maintains Go Fork for FIPS 140-2 Support

    40 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  93. About 25% of Americans age 50 and older expect to never retire, AARP study finds

    40 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  94. Build Systems à La Carte: Theory and Practice [pdf]

    40 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  95. The Endless Maze algorithm (Atari 2600)

    40 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  96. llm.c is now down to 26.2ms/iteration, matching PyTorch

    40 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  97. Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service

    40 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  98. Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

    40 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  99. Elon Musk Today

    40 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  100. Tougher rules for sellers of internet-enabled devices in the UK

    40 points • comment • apr 29, 2024