top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-31

Guess my RGB

https://susam.net/myrgb.html

2 years ago

Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24520332-merged-fb

2 years ago

Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883747

2 years ago

A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024

https://www.xomedia.io/blog/a-deep-dive-into-email-deliverability/

2 years ago

Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance

https://github.com/letsblockit/letsblockit/discussions/663

2 years ago

Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler

https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

2 years ago

Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux

https://github.com/buserror/libmui

2 years ago

A proposal to add signals to JavaScript

https://github.com/proposal-signals/proposal-signals

2 years ago

XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and

2 years ago

Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9tnIB2Yro

2 years ago

Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX

https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx

2 years ago

The illusion of being stuck

https://the-simulation-strategists.beehiiv.com/p/being-stuck

2 years ago

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/

2 years ago

Can GPT optimize my taxes? An experiment in letting the LLM be the UX

https://finedataproducts.com/posts/2024-03-10-tax-scenarios-with-ai/

2 years ago

Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get and build cppfront?

https://hsutter.github.io/cppfront/

2 years ago

Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game

https://truncate.town/

2 years ago

Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners

https://twitter.com/illyism/status/1774425117117788223

2 years ago

The xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story

https://rigor-mortis.nmrc.org/@simplenomad/112184869681420177

2 years ago

A. K. Dewdney has died

https://lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/alexander-dewdney-1089463499

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886178

2 years ago

Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/30/i128-layout-update.html

2 years ago

How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope

https://huiwenn.github.io/feynman

2 years ago

How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)

https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/What-happened-to-Endor-from-Star-Wars-17145105.php

2 years ago

Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-c-lynch-dead.html

2 years ago

Zoomable Circles, a Svelte component for hierarchical data

https://www.npmjs.com/package/svelte-zoomable-circles

2 years ago

InternLM2

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17297

2 years ago

Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883005

2 years ago

PaperBack: How to store arbitrary data on A4 sheets of paper (2007)

https://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#1

2 years ago

Adaptive RAG – dynamic retrieval methods adjustment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14403

2 years ago

Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)

https://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home

2 years ago

Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/fired-americans-say-indian-firm-gave-their-jobs-to-h-1b-visa-holders/ar-BB1kIVHE

2 years ago

The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project

2 years ago

How Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4498

2 years ago

World Backup Day

https://www.worldbackupday.com/en

2 years ago

Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nvidia-simulating-copy-earth

2 years ago

Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

2 years ago

There are likely >1e12 SQLite databases on Earth

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai

https://ragdoll-studio.vercel.app/

2 years ago

Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times for AMD Zen 4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.7

2 years ago

Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure

https://www.focumon.com/landing

2 years ago

Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00034-2?

2 years ago

Dr. Katalin Karikó (2021)

https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021

2 years ago

Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

https://www.androidpolice.com/smart-devices-poor-investment/

2 years ago

Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/mar/silicon-nanospikes

2 years ago

Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18814

2 years ago

Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal data it gathers

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/your-smart-tv-is-snooping-on-you-heres-how-to-limit-the-personal-data-it-gathers/

2 years ago

Skin in the Game

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/31/skin-in-the-game/

2 years ago

2023 was one of the safest years in commercial aviation

https://askthepilot.com/safest-year-2023/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886586

2 years ago

YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious

https://chipp.in/news/youtube-google-has-found-a-way-to-break-invidious/

2 years ago

A kinematically coupled, nanometer-resolution piezo focus stage

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=7066

2 years ago

Wanted narco boss exposes whereabouts by posting Google reviews

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/30/kinahan-cartel-wanted-narco-boss-exposes-whereabouts-by-posting-google-reviews/

2 years ago

Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/30/work-log-off-early-fridays-early-weekend

2 years ago

A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars for Years

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-a-microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-from-hell-slowed-williams-f1-cars-for-years

2 years ago