673
212
Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
https://mastodon.social/@haeckerfelix/110272427676278609
3 years ago
615
334
Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742606
464
496
Is Gmail killing independent email?
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-independent-email
429
74
Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/quickcam-usb-userspace-driver
407
222
Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside
https://www.neowin.net/news/senior-microsoft-exec-says-windows-11-kernel-will-soon-be-booting-with-rust-inside/
386
141
Beautiful branchless binary search
https://probablydance.com/2023/04/27/beautiful-branchless-binary-search/
354
953
New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/nyregion/gas-stove-ban-ny.html
331
262
How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
https://billmei.net/blog/bribe-friends
290
310
A small number of companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-some-companies-cheat-h-1b-lottery-driving-record-applications-1a3e4fd
279
238
Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free
276
241
Europe’s Longest Bicycling Tunnel Opens in Norway
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/europes-longest-bicycling-tunnel-opens-in-norway/
270
462
U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-regulator-set-take-over-first-republic-source-2023-04-28/
256
100
There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/
245
84
A brief history of LLaMA models
https://agi-sphere.com/llama-models/
240
286
Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-q1-fy-2023-results
237
65
Startup Playbook
https://playbook.samaltman.com/
216
29
Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
https://polishpixels.com
206
49
Many public Salesforce sites are leaking private data
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/many-public-salesforce-sites-are-leaking-private-data/
204
63
Fibonacci Hashing: An optimization that the world forgot (2018)
https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-optimization-that-the-world-forgot-or-a-better-alternative-to-integer-modulo/
200
183
We're afraid language models aren't modeling ambiguity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14399
192
79
Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server
https://davidhampgonsalves.com/junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-streaming-server/
179
296
The Difference Between European and American Butter
https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/difference-between-european-and-american-butter
173
37
Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
https://clojure.org/news/2023/04/28/introducing-morse
172
Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020
https://blog.airsequel.com/exciting-sqlite-improvements-since-2020/
164
30
JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (2015)
http://janos.io/
163
34
Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds
https://www.slidebook.io/blog/article/on-the-road-to-failure/
159
227
Upward Farms throws in towel ten years after founding vertical-farming business
https://www.just-food.com/news/upward-farms-throws-in-towel-ten-years-after-founding-vertical-farming-business/
158
54
Plan 9 from User Space
https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
155
27
Curl 8 Is Faster
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/28/curl-8-is-faster/
293
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/representative-angie-craig-drops-college-requirement-for-staffers/89-ec3eafe5-8714-4683-9c70-cbeb04fd88bb
153
3
Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
https://stability.ai/blog/deepfloyd-if-text-to-image-model
148
Too many people take too many pills
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/26/too-many-people-take-too-many-pills
144
20
GameBox is a programmable, turn-based, WebAssembly game platform
https://extism.org/blog/extending-fly-io-distributed-game-system-part-3/
131
41
Udemy to pay $4M to settle a case alleging it advertised fake discounts
https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/1651760647871561728
129
61
What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
https://bitecode.substack.com/p/whats-up-in-the-python-community
126
85
Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)
https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/
93
I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GrafanaLokiSimpleNotRecommended
123
161
How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses
https://narratively.com/how-to-subvert-a-democracy-stage-2-condition-the-masses/
14
Hidet: A Deep Learning Compiler for Efficient Model Serving
https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-hidet/
70
Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT
https://lamini.ai/blog/introducing-lamini
122
Grokking
https://www.domluna.com/grokking/
121
Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (2002) [pdf]
https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
147
Europe to ChatGPT: disclose your sources
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-to-chatgpt-disclose-your-sources-863ef330
120
184
Why I develop on Windows
https://blog.shortround.dev/why-i-think-windows-is-the-best-dev-platform/
118
16
Eytzinger Binary Search
https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger
115
39
OrbStack – Fast, lightweight Docker Desktop and Colima alternative for macOS
https://orbstack.dev/
114
133
JavaScript private class fields considered harmful
https://lea.verou.me/2023/04/private-fields-considered-harmful/
111
26
Late Architecture with Functional Programming
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/late-arch-functional-programming/
108
53
Tuple Space (2014)
http://wiki.c2.com/?TupleSpace
105
76
The State of Serverless GPUs
https://www.inferless.com/serverless-gpu-market
96
136
Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
89
43
Quite OK Audio Format
https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/04/qoa-specification
87
Andrew Ng Course – ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/
77
Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/04/28/dell-latitude-5411/
81
31
Daimler is setting up a $650M charging network for commercial EVs
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/04/daimler-is-setting-up-a-650-million-charging-network-for-commercial-evs/
80
44
Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/27/amazon-omits-india-business-in-earnings-a-first-in-years/
Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/28/red_hat_layoffs_union/
67
I cloned myself with AI, and she fooled my bank and my family
https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cloned-myself-with-ai-she-fooled-my-bank-and-my-family-356bd1a3
5
Provora: tiny predators that have been evolving separately for millions of years
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/10/nibblerids-provora-new-branch-on-tree-of-life/
78
28
The Ukrainian police arrested a man for selling data of over 300M people
https://securityaffairs.com/145406/cyber-crime/ukraine-cyber-police-arrested-man.html
73
Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Want to Talk About It
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocean-warming-study
104
Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI
https://storiesby.ai/p/why-im-no-longer-writing-stories
72
The classic “homunculus” has gone through a radical revision
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-our-team-overturned-the-90-year-old-metaphor-of-a-little-man-in-the-brain-who-controls-movement1/
71
40
SF pays big bucks to nonprofits, fails to properly monitor them
https://sfstandard.com/politics/city-records-show-sf-failed-to-properly-monitor-nonprofits-that-got-millions/
38
How Paris Is Taking Back Its Streets from Cars
https://www.distilled.earth/p/how-paris-is-taking-back-its-streets
69
48
Parrondo's Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo%27s_paradox
68
17
Genetic circuitry boosts cell longevity
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4872
2
Liubo: Ancient Chinese board game originally played from about 500 BCE to 500 CE
https://liubolab.itch.io/liubo
102
More Young Adults Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck in the US
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-28/us-gen-z-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-is-on-the-rise