top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-01

LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

https://justine.lol/matmul/

2 years ago

1372 upvotes – 451 comments

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

2 years ago

1147 upvotes – 324 comments

Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor

https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot

2 years ago

849 upvotes – 469 comments

But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

2 years ago

473 upvotes – 53 comments

Bun 1.1

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.1

2 years ago

462 upvotes – 263 comments

Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

https://github.com/heyform/heyform

2 years ago

389 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894820

2 years ago

377 upvotes – 485 comments

Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy

https://github.com/pufferffish/wireproxy

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 65 comments

OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-removes-sam-altmans-ownership-its-startup-fund-2024-04-01/

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 45 comments

10 > 64, in QR Codes

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/03/qr-base10-base64/

2 years ago

332 upvotes – 78 comments

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 320 comments

Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver

https://github.com/tedkim97/adcache

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 48 comments

First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)

https://florey.edu.au/news/2023/12/first-in-human-implantation-of-bionic-device-to-halt-crohns-disease/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 123 comments

RAGFlow is an open-source RAG engine based on OCR and document parsing

https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 53 comments

Ross Anderson

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/ross-anderson.html

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 16 comments

Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance

https://doublepulsar.com/inside-the-failed-attempt-to-backdoor-ssh-globally-that-got-caught-by-chance-bbfe628fafdd

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 191 comments

The Hearts of the Super Nintendo

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_hearts/index.html

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 56 comments

Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6186023867908096

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 112 comments

Headline Driven Development

https://www.spakhm.com/headline-development

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 69 comments

Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)

https://fsturmat.net/blog/04202022/

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39893142

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 88 comments

The Tale of Daniel

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tale-of-daniel/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 60 comments

Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy

https://momo5502.com/posts/2024-03-31-bypassing-denuvo-in-hogwarts-legacy/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 100 comments

What even is a JSON number?

https://blog.trl.sn/blog/what-is-a-json-number/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 147 comments

Error Handling in Baby Toys

https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/04/error-handling-in-baby-toys/

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 73 comments

Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894818

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 459 comments

I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD

https://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2024-03-31/i-upgraded-my-ibook-g4-to-have-an-ssd

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/germany-legal-cannabis-weed-laws-personal-use

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 296 comments

Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect? (2020)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

OWASP Data Breach Notification

https://owasp.org/blog/2024/03/29/OWASP-data-breach-notification

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly

https://openai.com/blog/start-using-chatgpt-instantly

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 154 comments

Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/31/cancer-signs-could-be-spotted-years-before-symptoms-says-new-research-institute

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/04/keto-diet-mental-illness.html

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform

https://celest.dev/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 47 comments

Get a person at the IRS

https://gist.github.com/getaaron/323466af3f489f0e5c55411c930d43a2

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Not so fast, Mr. Fourier

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Does America suddenly have a record number of bees?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/29/bees-boom-colony-collapse/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 109 comments

Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39893160

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

The Great Oxygenation Event

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/oxygen-killed-life-on-earth/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

Your database skills are not 'good to have' (2023)

https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-are-not-good-to-have.html

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 122 comments

10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

https://customizedresumes.com/blog/hackernews-who-is-hiring-analysis

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 52 comments

OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights

https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-s-comment-to-the-ntia-on-open-model-weights

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

An Awk Implementation in C99

https://www.raygard.net/awkdoc/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 17 comments

Google to delete records from Incognito tracking

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68709119

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice

https://parallel-arabic.com/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments

Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/24222253.mind-blowing-theory-god-may-spark-radical-new-21st-century-religion/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 234 comments

Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit

https://theins.ru/en/politics/270425

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 94 comments

Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-us/blogs/ancient-warfare-blog/mycenaean-warriors-and-the-sea-peoples

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck

https://www.pathsensitive.com/2024/04/book-review-tidy-first.html

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178124001513

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894823

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

First human case of avian flu in Texas

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/01/first-human-avian-flu-case-texas-00149949

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

Programming Beyond Paradigms

https://www.micahcantor.com/blog/programming-beyond-paradigms/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 65 comments

Climate Pulse

https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

Big Banks Are "Quiet Quitting" Their Climate Promises

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-01/big-banks-are-cooling-on-climate-change-promises

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

AI used well can restore middle class jobs [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32140/w32140.pdf

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 139 comments

The Best* Python Cheat Sheet

https://kieranholland.com/best-python-cheat-sheet/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Demographics professor warns that by 2531, everyone in Japan will be named Sato

https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2531-sato-surname-problem/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/anarchy-in-the-us-part-1

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 90 comments

Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19887

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-separate-teams-office-globally-amid-antitrust-scrutiny-2024-04-01/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 104 comments

U.S. dairy cows have tested positive for bird flu

https://text.npr.org/1241897770

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

Why isn't anyone signing up?

https://imgz.org/blog/2024/02/25/why-isnt-anyone-signing-up/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 89 comments
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