955
1234
SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-d9989401e2e07cdfc9753f352e44f6e2
3 years ago
954
42
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
https://x.st/spinning-diagrams-with-css/
775
334
Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/
749
401
Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
https://www.legittorrents.info/
689
626
Google DeepMind
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind
550
129
Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
https://stretch15.com
526
157
Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
https://keith-mcnulty.medium.com/only-one-pair-of-distinct-integers-satisfy-this-equation-76ea45469a96
523
634
Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks
453
452
Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
https://imgurinc.com/rules
444
253
BuzzFeed News is shutting down
https://www.thedailybeast.com/buzzfeed-news-is-shutting-down
423
391
US could soon approve MDMA therapy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01296-3
416
89
Bark – Text-prompted generative audio model
https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
97
Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
https://evidence.dev
316
267
Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/20/seagate_300million_huawei_shipment_settlement/
283
60
How to train your own large language models
https://blog.replit.com/llm-training
275
70
POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
257
139
PC Engines EOL
https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm
256
176
Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638552
248
392
Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
https://davidlaprade.github.io/give-a-lot-of-notice
219
50
Diagnosing cancer by profiling the immune system
https://github.com/jostmey/msm
196
183
Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI
192
110
Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service
https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/main/README.md
191
193
TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-effects-on-mental-health-in-focus-after-teen-suicide
181
149
Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt
https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html
180
71
Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-20-introducing-trusted-publishers/
175
76
Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose
https://zachsim.one/blog/2023/4/19/introducing-glucomate
102
In 1981, Intel released the iAPX 432
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110231910098167742
169
32
Lithuania: Students stop university from using only proprietary authentication
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230418-01.en.html
168
46
Software developer gets $5M judgement against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/mike-lindell-2020-election/index.html
166
90
Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire
158
210
Gov. Inslee signs bill to remove death penalty from Washington state law
https://www.kptv.com/2023/04/20/gov-inslee-signs-bill-remove-death-penalty-washington-state-law/
154
30
Babylon.js 6.0
https://www.babylonjs.com/
152
53
Stop irreversible damage to the Amazon
https://www.junglekeepers.org/
The NIH has poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/20/long-covid-nih-billion/
145
51
Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Useful?
https://hllmn.net/blog/2023-04-20_rsqrt/
143
22
Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing
https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/pico-cray-small-scale-distributed-computing/
Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
https://gizmodo.com/clearlink-ceo-clarke-sell-your-dog-for-the-office-1850353910
141
198
Why Perl?
https://two-wrongs.com/why-perl
137
Show HN: CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database
https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.6.html
122
165
Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/google-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-montrealer-over-links-to-post-calling-him-pedophile
55
Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins
https://news.stanford.edu/2023/04/20/study-finds-new-pathway-clearing-misfolded-proteins/
120
61
Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-links-stuck-stem-cells-hair.html
Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/record-labels-panic-as-ai-generated
119
Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/20/proton-announces-proton-pass-a-password-manager/
113
92
Current issues with the Qt project from the outside looking in
https://kelteseth.com/post/20-04-2023-current-issues-with-the-qt-project-from-the-outside-looking-in/
111
A Plea for Fairness for Non-Profit Developers of Open Source Software
https://www.isc.org/blogs/2023-cyber-resilience-act-letter/
124
Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties
https://cthiriet.com/articles/scaling-laws
109
27
Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactive text games
https://infinityarcade.com/news
107
148
A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-15/making-300-000-a-year-feels-more-like-100-000-salary-in-these-three-cities
106
Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.23755
104
123
Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35640310
103
Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL
https://isthisit.nz/posts/2023/building-a-chat-gpt-enhanced-python-repl/
101
116
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-23-04-lunar-lobster
99
39
When you buy a book, you can loan it to anyone – a judge says libraries can’t
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/libraries-copyright-internet-archive-lawsuit/
98
26
Autonomous Agents and Agent Simulations
https://blog.langchain.dev/agents-round/
91
Richer UI install available for desktop
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/richer-install-ui-desktop/
86
72
Why are ethernet jumbo frames 9000 bytes? (2018)
https://blog.dave.tf/post/jumbo-frames/
84
The Rust Performance Book (2020)
https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/
83
Use databases without putting domain logic in them
https://alexkondov.com/use-databases-without-putting-domain-logic-in-them/
82
167
Rear-wheel-drive cars are back and we have EVs to thank
https://www.thedrive.com/news/rear-wheel-drive-cars-are-back-baby-and-we-have-evs-to-thank
79
40
Why it’s so hard to say what you mean
https://ammarmian.substack.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-say-what-you-mean
77
OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-hunger-for-data-is-coming-back-to-bite-it/
33
Michael Schumacher's family take legal action over AI-generated interview
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/12861595/michael-schumachers-family-to-take-legal-action-over-german-magazines-ai-generated-interview
75
9
Embedding Archives: Millions of Wikipedia Article Embeddings in Many Languages
https://txt.cohere.com/embedding-archives-wikipedia/
19
No DNS address record found for repo.maven.apache.org
https://www.nslookup.io/domains/repo.maven.apache.org/dns-records/
73
23
xkcd: Escape Speed
https://xkcd.com/2765/
