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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. Arti: A Tor Implementation in Rust

    175 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  2. Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs

    175 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  3. The unstallable plane that stalled

    175 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  4. FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go

    175 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  5. Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice

    174 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  6. H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts

    174 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  7. How the XZ Backdoor Works

    174 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  8. VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-Rich Video Super-Resolution

    174 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  9. Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)

    174 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  10. I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)

    174 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  11. Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months

    173 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  12. Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis

    173 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  13. Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  14. What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't

    172 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  15. What even is a JSON number?

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  16. Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

    172 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  17. Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming

    172 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  18. Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms

    171 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  19. Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

    171 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  20. Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool

    171 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  21. Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform

    171 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  22. New paintings found at Pompeii

    171 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  23. How ECMO is redefining death

    171 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  24. The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers

    171 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  25. Show HN: QWANJI

    170 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  26. Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

    170 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  27. Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion"

    170 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  28. FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers

    170 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  29. KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore

    170 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  30. Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds

    170 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  31. Why everything is becoming a game

    169 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  32. Answering Legal Questions with LLMs

    169 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  33. Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?

    169 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  34. Htmx and the Rule of Least Power

    169 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  35. Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers

    169 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  36. Magic Numbers

    169 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  37. First languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberia

    169 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  38. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

    168 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  39. Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

    168 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  40. Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems – Update on April 18

    168 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  41. Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing

    168 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  42. Bitcoin Block 840000

    168 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  43. AI made these movies sharper – critics say it ruined them

    167 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  44. Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation

    167 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  45. The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)

    167 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  46. Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”

    167 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  47. Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode execution

    167 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  48. David Lynch presents 'A Thinking Room'

    167 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  49. My journey into personal computer software development in 1983

    166 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  50. Discovering my roommate's death on Facebook

    166 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  51. Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)

    165 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  52. Adventures Making Vegemite

    165 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  53. Good news against dengue

    165 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  54. Bradford pear trees banned in few states – More are looking to eradicate them

    165 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  55. Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs

    164 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  56. Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

    164 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  57. AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors

    164 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  58. India’s electric rickshaws

    163 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  59. AzerothCore: Self-Hosted World of Warcraft 3.3.5a Server

    163 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  60. Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)

    163 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  61. Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019)

    163 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  62. Error Handling in Baby Toys

    163 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  63. Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP

    162 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  64. Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

    162 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  65. The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)

    162 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  66. Flow Field Pathfinding

    162 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  67. GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer

    162 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  68. Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse

    162 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  69. Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation

    161 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  70. Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills

    161 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  71. GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes

    161 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  72. Research into why some people have a better sense of direction

    161 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  73. AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  74. Speeding up C++ build times

    161 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  75. The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

    161 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  76. Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

    161 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  77. El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

    160 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  78. Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser

    160 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  79. Google CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma [pdf]

    160 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  80. Web-based Turbo Pascal compiler

    160 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  81. From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

    160 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  82. Visualizing malicious IP addresses

    159 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  83. Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length

    159 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  84. The Vision Pro is a flop

    159 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  85. How to improve the RISC-V specification

    159 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  86. Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)

    159 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  87. The Eclipse via Satellite

    159 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  88. Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm

    159 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  89. Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro

    158 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  90. Sandboxing all the things with Flatpak and BubbleBox

    157 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  91. Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier

    157 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  92. The PostgreSQL community debates ALTER SYSTEM

    157 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  93. Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills

    157 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  94. Vortex: OpenCL compatible RISC-V GPGPU

    157 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  95. Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown

    157 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  96. Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]

    157 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  97. High Definition CSS Color Guide

    157 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  98. MFJ is ceasing its on-site production

    157 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  99. Use Your Potions and Scrolls

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  100. Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models

    156 points • comment • apr 27, 2024