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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. WizardLM 2

    156 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  2. Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice

    156 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

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

    156 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  4. Green's Dictionary of Slang

    156 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  5. Mise: a polyglot tool version manager

    155 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  6. Brutalist Churches

    155 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  7. End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity

    155 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  8. A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go

    155 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  9. Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly

    155 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  10. ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

    154 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  11. Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms

    154 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  12. I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD

    154 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  13. iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

    154 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  14. "Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

    154 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  15. Client libraries are better when they have no API?

    154 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  16. I Used Netscape Composer in 2024

    154 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  17. 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue

    153 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  18. Reentry – An Orbital Simulator

    153 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  19. Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth

    153 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  20. Ceefax Simulator

    153 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  21. US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers

    153 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  22. GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding

    152 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  23. Church's λ-Calculus (2023) [pdf]

    152 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  24. How Antithesis finds bugs

    152 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  25. Planes in 3D Space

    152 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  26. Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas

    152 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  27. Hitting every branch on the way down

    152 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  28. It's Been a Year and Georgia.gov Continues to Be Hacked

    152 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  29. The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City

    152 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  30. ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video]

    151 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  31. How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

    151 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  32. Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead

    151 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  33. Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

    151 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  34. A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)

    150 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  35. Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B

    150 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  36. ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying

    150 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  37. Fast and secure translation on your local machine with a GUI

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  38. Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions

    150 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  39. Japanese American Bird Pins

    150 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  40. How deep does life go?

    149 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  41. The purge of German science in 1933

    149 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  42. Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart

    149 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  43. Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

    149 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  44. Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack

    149 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  45. Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

    149 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  46. Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU

    149 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  47. Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB

    148 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  48. Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python

    148 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  49. Google Common Lisp Style Guide

    148 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  50. My 25-year engineering career retrospective

    148 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  51. Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)

    147 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  52. Distributed Authorization

    146 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  53. Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types

    146 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  54. Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data

    146 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  55. NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose

    146 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  56. China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made

    146 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  57. Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line

    146 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  58. Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future

    146 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  59. An open-source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization (2022)

    145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  60. Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency

    145 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  61. Pydantic Logfire

    145 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  62. RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

    145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  63. Transformer as a general purpose computer

    145 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  64. Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code

    144 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  65. Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood

    144 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  66. Xr0: C but Safe

    144 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  67. Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code

    143 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  68. MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console

    143 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  69. Palm OS and the devices that ran it

    143 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  70. Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW

    143 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  71. To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune

    143 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  72. Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017)

    143 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  73. Insatiable: A life without eating

    143 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  74. Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push

    142 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  75. Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git

    142 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  76. Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide

    142 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  77. 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)

    142 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  78. Lambda Screen: Fractals in pure lambda calculus

    142 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  79. Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)

    142 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  80. AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store

    141 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  81. A hacker's guide to Language Models

    141 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  82. iOS404

    141 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  83. Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

    141 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  84. Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event

    141 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  85. The Guide to Stock Options Conversations

    141 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  86. Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU

    141 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  87. Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?

    141 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  88. Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act

    141 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  89. A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS

    141 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  90. Ford's battery flagship socked by mold sickness, workers say

    140 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  91. Digital Wood Joints

    140 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  92. Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model

    140 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  93. ETag and HTTP Caching

    140 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  94. Henry Darger

    140 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  95. Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect? (2020)

    140 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  96. Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself

    140 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  97. A day in the life of a Walmart manager

    140 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  98. She slept with a violin on her pillow

    139 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  99. Every Dunder Method in Python

    139 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  100. Letting go of the idea of keeping up

    139 points • comment • apr 02, 2024