top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-24

Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

2 years ago

772 upvotes – 151 comments

Linux Crisis Tools

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.html

2 years ago

596 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

https://glossarie.app/

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 155 comments

Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android

https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis/releases/tag/v3.0

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 169 comments

TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh

2 years ago

322 upvotes – 115 comments

Majority of web apps could just run on a single server

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1bmfrjm/majority_of_web_apps_could_just_run_on_a_single/

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 243 comments

“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills-20240213/

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 201 comments

DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card

https://github.com/LeoDJ/FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 99 comments

The Format Dialog in Windows NT

https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1772042158046146792

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 116 comments

Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 232 comments

Gerbil Scheme – A Lisp for the 21st Century

https://cons.io/

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 126 comments

What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)

http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rwarner/classes/legalaspects_ukraine/securities/case_studies/ledbed.htm

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 171 comments

The ü/ü Conundrum

https://unravelweb.dev/2024/02/12/the-u-u-conundrum/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 275 comments

C++ left arrow operator (2016)

https://www.atnnn.com/p/operator-larrow/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 111 comments

Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 42 comments

Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python

https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/10/15/creating-an-autopilot-in-x-plane-using-python-part-1/

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 31 comments

GPT-4, without specialized training, beat a GPT-3.5 class model that cost $10M

https://www.threads.net/@ethan_mollick/post/C46AfItO8RS

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 127 comments

Weather Planning for Eclipse Day

https://eclipsophile.com/eclipse-day-weather/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 96 comments

"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

https://lithub.com/shes-bouncing-the-ball-on-the-uncanny-way-octopuses-play/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 69 comments

'Super memory': Why Emily Nash is sharing her brain with science

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/why-18-year-old-canadian-emily-nash-is-sharing-her-unique-brain-with-science-1.6818765

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

https://oxide.computer/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 111 comments

D2 Playground

https://play.d2lang.com/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

Maps that show time instead of space

https://spacetime-maps.vercel.app/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 44 comments

After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/03/after-41-years-my-first-assembly.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 26 comments

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers: Report

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/china-blocks-use-intel-and-amd-chips-government-computers-report-4218101

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 139 comments

TCP connection timeout mystery

https://devnonsense.com/posts/tcp-connection-timeout-mystery/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/speaking-without-vocal-cords-ucla-engineering-wearable-tech

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

ARM64EC (and ARM64X) Explained

http://www.emulators.com/docs/abc_arm64ec_explained.htm

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/03/21/scan/

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/the-new-windows-update-made-me-think-id-installed-malware-but-it-was-just-microsofts-latest-attempt-to-try-and-fool-me-into-using-bing/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 72 comments

Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/22/1090059/how-scientists-traced-a-mysterious-covid-case-back-to-six-toilets/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

Be more lucky

https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/be-more-lucky

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/style/lan-party-online-gamers-photos/index.html

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 94 comments

Core I9 14900KF Breaks World Record, Almost Achieves 9.1GHz (2023)

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/core-i9-14900kf-breaks-world-record-almost-achieves-91ghz

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 73 comments

Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine [pdf]

https://www.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs584/static_files/papers/p3372-pedreira.pdf

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

Type-Safe Printf() in TypeScript

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#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-VAAKytAAsrQAnAqgA

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

The Mirror (Godot bashed game engine)

https://github.com/the-mirror-gdp/the-mirror

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 133 comments

Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001904/downloads/20200001904.pdf

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data

https://mashable.com/article/google-ordered-to-hand-over-viewer-data-privacy-concerns

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: How common is developer burnout? Have you ever been burnt out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809061

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 92 comments

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers

https://www.ft.com/content/7bf0f79b-dea7-49fa-8253-f678d5acd64a

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Only walking for exercise?

https://theconversation.com/only-walking-for-exercise-heres-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-it-224159

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

For the love of cats in Turkey

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/cat-human-bonds-history-turkey/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Why isn't preprint review being adopted?

https://www.theroadgoeson.com/why-isnt-preprint-review-being-adopted

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 159 comments

Programmers are bad at managing state (2020)

https://nolanlawson.com/2020/12/29/programmers-are-bad-at-managing-state/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 55 comments

How ML Model Data Poisoning Works in 5 Minutes

https://journal.hexmos.com/training-data-poisoning/?src=hn

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

The Lone Volcano in California's Central Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/the-lone-volcano-in-californias-central-valley.html

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Solving the Nerd-Sniping Problem: When Electronics Meets Heat Equations

https://praveshkoirala.com/2024/03/07/solving-the-nerd-sniping-problem-when-electronics-meets-heat/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Do artifacts have politics? [pdf]

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

The Immortal Jellyfish (2015)

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the-immortal-jellyfish

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Reactive Programming Without Functions

https://programming-journal.org/2024/8/11/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Sure. Let Adobe AI scan all of your documents. What could go wrong?

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/111965550971762920

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead (2017)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 70 comments
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