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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due to XZ Nightmare

    25 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  2. Speeding up autoconf with caching (2022)

    25 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  3. Bloom Filter Indexes in PostgreSQL

    25 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  4. Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network

    25 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  5. Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)

    25 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  6. Patching requests for fun and (concurrent) profit

    25 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  7. Google delays phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome yet again

    25 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  8. Why is software quality worse than a decado ago

    25 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  9. Unity executives see a bright future for WebGPU in game development

    25 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  10. I tried to automate job applications as a software engineer (and failed)

    25 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  11. Flame retardants found in consumer products linked to cancer

    25 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  12. Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

    25 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  13. An IRC client that runs on your motherboard's UEFI is born

    25 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  14. The wealthy are starting to have more babies than the poor again

    25 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  15. Learning from snapshots of lost fossils

    25 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  16. How macOS opens a file in the correct app

    25 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  17. The Beginning of the End for Terraform?

    25 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  18. Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News?

    24 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  19. Artist evicted by London landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina

    24 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  20. Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists

    24 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  21. Copyleft licenses are not "restrictive"

    24 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  22. Adobe's 'Ethical' Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images

    24 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  23. Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve

    24 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  24. Ancestry.com: Helping you trace your roots and share your exact address

    24 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  25. People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier

    24 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  26. BlizzCon 2024 has been cancelled

    24 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  27. Alienating Tesla Buyers by the Cybertruck-Load

    24 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  28. Light Waves Brought to a Stop in a Crystal Promises New Ways to Control Photons

    24 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  29. Trudeau Unveils $1.8B Plan to Boost AI Sector in Canada

    24 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  30. Ask HN: What is it with all the spambots on HN?

    24 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  31. The Evolution of the Super Nintendo Motherboard

    24 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  32. Airport security line cutters are target of first-in-the-nation California bill

    24 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  33. Internet Archive in Court: There's More to Copyright Than Financial Incentives

    24 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  34. NASA officially greenlights $3.35B mission to Saturn's moon Titan

    24 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  35. Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source

    24 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  36. Show HN: Use the cloud for your dev environment on the fly

    24 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  37. Antonymph: An audiovisual experience using the browser

    24 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  38. OpenAI Japan

    24 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  39. Show HN: Logfmtxx – Header only C++23 structured logging library using logfmt

    24 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  40. Catholic Group Quickly Defrocks AI Priest Father Justin

    24 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  41. Using AI to analyse 30k school policies across 1k school websites

    24 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  42. Implementing your own garbage collector in Java

    24 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  43. Tesla Model 3 Traps TikToker Inside 115-Degree Car During a Software Update

    24 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  44. A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades

    24 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  45. Do Best Practices Matter?

    24 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  46. Gamers report memory RGB lights are damaging GPU backplates

    24 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  47. Electric Cars Pass the Tipping Point to Mass Adoption in 31 Countries

    24 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  48. Bill Gates never left - Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft

    24 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  49. Struve's Flat(ter) Earth (2023)

    24 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  50. Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding

    24 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  51. Long-form factuality in large language models

    24 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  52. Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness

    24 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  53. Microsoft: Laptops with Snapdragon X Elite Will Be Faster Than M3 MacBook Air

    24 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  54. Selling Lisp by the Pound

    24 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  55. Scientists use biodegradable straws to protect lab-grown coral from hungry fish

    24 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  56. Probing electron spin states at much higher resolution and efficiency

    24 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  57. Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908)

    24 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  58. Show HN: Suno AI Download – Download Suno AI Music Song MP3

    24 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  59. Google to delete search data of millions who used 'incognito' mode

    24 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  60. Ask HN: Who are your favorite tech youtubers

    24 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  61. Putting an xz Backdoor Payload in a Valid RSA Key

    24 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  62. Seven seconds: the Tower Bridge Hawker Hunter incident (2016)

    24 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  63. Spotify CEO is shocked by negative impact of recent layoffs

    23 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  64. Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  65. Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

    23 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  66. Tesla former VP of engineering liquidated virtually entire stake in the company

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  67. Facebook caught snooping on Snapchat users. What is going on?

    23 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  68. Fastest way to get IPv4 address from string (2015)

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  69. ChatGPT Can Predict the Future Telling Stories Set in the Future About the Past

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  70. Plunging Home Prices, Fleeing Companies: Austin's Glow Is Fading

    23 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  71. Musk challenges Brazil's order to block certain X accounts

    23 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  72. N+1 in Ruby on Rails

    23 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  73. Biotech Executive Who Bet on Rival's Stock Committed Insider Trading, Jury Says

    23 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  74. Starbucks shares sink 8% as same-store sales fall, quarterly results miss

    23 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  75. Video2Game: Real-Time, Interactive, Realistic Environment from a Single Video

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  76. On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  77. Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usually)

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  78. Google scraps minimum wage, benefits rules for suppliers and staffing firms

    23 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  79. A frozen lake and several Lamborghinis provide lessons on traction control

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  80. More enterprise-grade features for API customers

    23 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  81. How should we define ‘open’ AI?

    23 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  82. Population tipping point could arrive by 2030

    23 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  83. PHP Is Web Shell

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  84. Finnair pauses some Estonia flights due to GPS interference

    23 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  85. Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO [video]

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  86. Posts About Broken Cybertrucks Fill Tesla Owners' Forums

    23 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  87. Turchin's Terrifying Predictions

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  88. Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China

    23 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  89. "Pink slime" local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears

    23 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  90. The Open Secret about Confidential Computing

    23 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  91. Farmed salmon production leads to an overall loss of essential dietary nutrients

    23 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  92. AMD to Open Source more of their software stack, release more hardware docs

    23 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  93. Show HN: I made a site that lets you make interactive demos for free

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  94. XZ Utils Attack: A Threat Actor Spent 2 Years to Implement Linux Backdoor

    23 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  95. Citizenship Privilege Harms Science

    23 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  96. Apple Services Down Are (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

    23 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  97. CISA Emergency Directive: Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email

    23 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  98. YouTube algorithm weaponised to shut down Russia-Ukraine war reporting channel [video]

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  99. The Greatest CSS Tricks (Volume 1)

    23 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  100. Mixtral 8x7B going 378 tokens per second on CPU

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2024