top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-09

Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

https://www.usebruno.com/

2 years ago

1538 upvotes – 400 comments

Monodraw

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

2 years ago

996 upvotes – 200 comments

Apple curl security incident 12604

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08/the-apple-curl-security-incident-12604/

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 62 comments

Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

https://fingerprint.com/blog/bypassing-safari-17-audio-fingerprinting-protection/

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 236 comments

1BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words

https://questdb.io/blog/1brc-merykittys-magic-swar/

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 83 comments

What Monks Know about Focus

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/jamie-kreiner-how-to-focus

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 81 comments

4D Knit Dress

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/4d-knit-dress

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 80 comments

Self-Retrieval: Building an information retrieval system with one LLM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00801

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 29 comments

An all-optical general-purpose CPU and optical computer architecture

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00045

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 103 comments

TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder

https://github.com/wkaisertexas/ScreenTimeLapse

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 50 comments

I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/bet-on-cbpv/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653625

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 36 comments

Using LLMs to Generate Fuzzers

https://verse.systems/blog/post/2024-03-09-using-llms-to-generate-fuzz-generators/

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 28 comments

Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries

https://arkadiyt.com/2024/03/03/reverse-engineering-protobuf-definitiions-from-compiled-binaries/

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 12 comments

AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generated-data-can-poison-future-ai-models/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

The No Symbol: The History of the Red Circle-Slash

https://tedium.co/2024/03/09/red-circle-slash-no-symbol-history/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 73 comments

Anomalous contribution to galactic rotation curves due to stochastic spacetime

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19459

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 77 comments

An ALS drug fails, again

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/als-drug-fails-again

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 133 comments

The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)

https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the-suicide-phd-candidate-huixiang-chen-236cd39f79d3

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 81 comments

What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04582

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Schedule iMessage Texts from .txt Files

https://github.com/reidjs/schedule-texts-from-txt

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 69 comments

FDA Designates MM120 (LSD) Breakthrough Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240307733599/en/MindMed-Receives-FDA-Breakthrough-Therapy-Designation-and-Announces-Positive-12-Week-Durability-Data-From-Phase-2B-Study-of-MM120-for-Generalized-Anxiety-Disorder

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Tesla starts shipping $3k Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled

https://electrek.co/2024/03/08/tesla-shipping-cybertruck-tent/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 111 comments

mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/mrna-vaccines-lets-be-sick-a-whole

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

Motorola's legal terms claim to strip owners of their right to sell their device

https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 85 comments

A helicopter and boats to perform a rare ceremony at the Tower of London

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-helicopter-and-boats-to-perform-a-rare-ceremony-at-the-tower-of-london-70761/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

Scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/these-scientists-built-their-own-stone-age-tools-to-figure-out-how-they-were-used/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 83 comments

Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antarctica-book-and-newspapers

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

'Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now'

https://twitter.com/ILiedAboutCake/status/1766509947016139163

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

SuperC: Parsing All of C by Taming the Preprocessor [pdf] (2012)

https://paulgazzillo.com/papers/pldi12.pdf

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

The Acme Klein Bottle (From Cliff Stoll and Family)

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/03/the-acme-klein-bottle-from-cliff-stoll.html

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240307-the-160-year-mystery-of-the-stone-age-venus-figurines

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Gallery of Simple Websites

https://deadsimplesites.com/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Digital Superpowers, a free book highlighting various FOSS tools

https://digitalsuperpowers.com/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Lose Control of Your Shell

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-to-lose-control-of-your-shell

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Samsung won't sell you a phone if you live in East Fairview, North Dakota

https://hardfault.life/p/samsung

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices

https://www.opencampusmedia.org/2024/03/04/an-engineer-bought-a-prison-laptop-on-ebay-then-1200-incarcerated-students-lost-their-devices/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 72 comments

STM32 MCU family goes 64-bit with the STM32MP2x (Cortex-A35)

https://www.hackster.io/news/stmicro-s-stm32-family-makes-the-64-bit-jump-with-new-edge-ai-3d-capable-stm32mp-parts-2a470d8eb2cb

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Sycamore Gap: New life springs from rescued tree

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68497720

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

The Purple Streetscape

https://computer.rip/2024-03-09-the-purple-streetscape.html

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in EU for a month

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093437/apple-iphone-third-party-app-store-dma-eu

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 77 comments

Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions

https://www.differential.dev

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 138 comments

The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-obscene-energy-demands-of-ai

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 180 comments

The Mystery of Sudden Genius

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202403/the-mystery-of-sudden-genius

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Cells from Pregnancy Fluid Used to Grow Mini Lungs, Organs

https://apnews.com/article/mini-organs-organoids-amniotic-fluid-fetus-f5a48564368d2cf383a7eac1371d67cf

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Essential tremor linked to tripled risk of dementia, study finds

https://scienceblog.com/542898/essential-tremor-linked-to-tripled-risk-of-dementia-study-finds/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Rigid Body Physics in Minecraft without mods [video]

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

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

The Existential Relief of Having Children

https://thelivingfossils.substack.com/p/the-existential-relief-of-having

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 111 comments

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/04/1089403/large-language-models-amazing-but-nobody-knows-why/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Why star dunes are rarely recognised in the rock record

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53485-3

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Let's give the Mac Classic 4 megs of RAM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iE-CKcyR2E

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/microsoft_confirms_russian_spies_stole/

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

M3 MacBook Air Peak CPU Temperature Can Reach 114 Degrees Celcius, 33% Slower

https://wccftech.com/m3-macbook-air-severely-throttles-under-load/

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 103 comments

"I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078213/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 65 comments

Toyota's hybrid-first strategy is delivering big profits

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/toyotas-hybrid-electric-vehicles.html

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams

https://github.com/gbletr42/bef

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

How HEAD works in Git

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/03/08/how-head-works-in-git/

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Trapped in the Ivory Basement (2021)

https://thelocal.to/trapped-in-the-ivory-basement/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 52 comments

Claude 3 System Prompt

https://twitter.com/amandaaskell/status/1765207842993434880

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web

https://benjdd.com/posts/stylized-image-binning-algorithm/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments
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