top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-03

The Mullvad Browser

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

2 years ago

1182 upvotes – 418 comments

Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL

https://pouria.dev/unknown-pleasures

2 years ago

661 upvotes – 115 comments

Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426482

2 years ago

527 upvotes – 269 comments

Saying Goodbye to GitHub

https://ersei.net/en/blog/bye-bye-github

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 437 comments

Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-removes-parking-sensors-to-save-money-the-results-are-predictably-terrible

2 years ago

472 upvotes – 592 comments

How to do hard things

https://every.to/no-small-plans/how-to-do-hard-things

2 years ago

456 upvotes – 151 comments

Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/31/midjourney-ceo-says-political-satire-in-china-is-pretty-not-okay-but-apparently-silencing-satire-about-xi-jinping-is-pretty-okay/

2 years ago

452 upvotes – 331 comments

Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/03/apple-stopped-m2-chip-production-1q-2023/

2 years ago

426 upvotes – 1014 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424807

2 years ago

418 upvotes – 591 comments

Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy

https://petapixel.com/2023/04/03/photographer-captures-ultra-rare-red-ring-of-light-over-italy/

2 years ago

412 upvotes – 81 comments

System76 Open Firmware

https://github.com/system76/firmware-open

2 years ago

407 upvotes – 75 comments

Alibaba breaks itself up in six

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/30/alibaba-breaks-itself-up-in-six

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 308 comments

Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429801

2 years ago

377 upvotes – 835 comments

Pandas 2.0

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/releases/tag/v2.0.0

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 111 comments

Safari releases are development hell

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/safari-releases-development-1616

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 274 comments

Show HN: Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker

https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 53 comments

Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/17/giving-kids-no-autonomy-at-all-has-become-a-parenting-norm--and-the-pandemic-is-worsening-the-trend/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 328 comments

Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data

https://csvbase.com/blog/3

2 years ago

283 upvotes – 186 comments

AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2023/04/03/ai-wont-steal-your-job-people-leveraging-ai-will/

2 years ago

273 upvotes – 479 comments

State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights

https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1642968294998306816

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 139 comments

Rational Dress Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Dress_Society

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 193 comments

If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys?

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-01-10/if-parrots-can-talk-why-cant-monkeys.html

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 205 comments

Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks

https://haystack.deepset.ai/blog/introducing-haystack-agents

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 102 comments

Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-dead-simple-lossless-or-lossy-lz4.html

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

Proton’s mass radius is apparently shorter than its charge radius

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/protons-mass-radius-is-apparently-shorter-than-its-charge-radius/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 114 comments

Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/adderall-shortages-are-made-worse-by-the-opioid-crisis

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 269 comments

Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-01/do-you-need-a-yearly-checkup-experts-warn-that-they-carry-risks-and-do-not-reduce-mortality.html

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 249 comments

Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April

https://www.presidentti.fi/en/press-release/finland-becomes-a-member-of-nato-on-tuesday-4-april/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 203 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424805

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 535 comments

We're Knot Friends

https://jeremykun.com/2023/04/01/were-knot-friends/

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 14 comments

Was there a U.S. nuclear weapons accident at a Dutch air base?

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2023/04/volkel-nuclear-weapon-accident/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 91 comments

$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/advanced-nuclear-ge-hitachi-mwh-nuscale-smr-small-modular-reactor/630154/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 366 comments

Django 4.2 Released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/apr/03/django-42-released/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 84 comments

How HyperCard got its color back

https://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/how-hypercard-got-its-color-back/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 36 comments

Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation

https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1642921475849203712

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 90 comments

Wronger Than Wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 86 comments

Why MMAP in llama.cpp hides true memory usage

https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1642726595436883969

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: WWYD? Built a company valued at $1B and may walk away with nothing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35419407

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 91 comments

Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/03/japan-says-15-million-people-living-as-recluses-after-covid

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 122 comments

Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 103 comments

Framework’s computers aren’t perfect, but they are exciting

https://www.theverge.com/23664746/framework-laptop-excitement-vpr-matrix-history-nostalgia

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/04/what-if-chatgpt-was-trained-on-decades-of-financial-news-and-data-bloomberggpt-aims-to-be-a-domain-specific-ai-for-business-news/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 107 comments

C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230403-00/?p=108005

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

PDF ChatBot – Upload, chat and interact with any PDF document

https://askyourpdf.com/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 82 comments

Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-breaks-with-u-s-allies-buys-russian-oil-at-prices-above-cap-1395accb

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 184 comments

The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich

https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/3/30/23661712/influencer-online-course-class-miss-excel

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 112 comments

Chemist Rafael Luque suspended without pay for thirteen years

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 117 comments

A Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpuiJitKwk

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Animated Unknown Pleasures in 3 lines of K (2015)

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=f78af1a96ec206dc3b07ike.html?key=c9argHWP

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

WWE Agrees to Merge with UFC

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/wwe-ufc-merger-endeavor.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421474

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 76 comments

Tennis balls serve as decent bicycle tires that don’t easily puncture

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/03/tennis-balls-serve-as-decent-bicycle-tires-that-dont-easily-puncture/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 58 comments

Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

https://www.ft.com/content/c41be6b0-f625-46f2-91e4-d03eb4b6372b

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 166 comments

‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/arts/television/hot-ones-youtube-show.html

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

The Nine Billion Names Of God (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvS9UXTsPI

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

How Stop-Motion Movies Are Animated at Aardman (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZvQzkFcKEM

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments
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