760
767
Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942397
2 years ago
531
223
FFmpeg 7.0
https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0
453
355
M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbh3yv/executive
372
85
So you wanna de-bog yourself
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/so-you-wanna-de-bog-yourself
368
377
Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/former-university-of-iowa-hospital-employee-used-fake-identity-for-35-years/
346
365
The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics
343
75
An IRC client in your motherboard
https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
326
120
OpenBSD 7.5
https://www.openbsd.org/75.html
302
92
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
297
139
World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator
https://worldsim.nousresearch.com/
284
259
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse
258
193
Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo
235
51
Fortran on WebAssembly
https://gws.phd/posts/fortran_wasm/
219
64
C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a compiler
https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights
213
156
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
https://www.404media.co/google-books-is-indexing-ai-generated-garbage/
210
136
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/05/app-store-guidelines-emulators-music-app-links/
206
143
A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBv_hvvbBg
202
74
Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-partykit
196
84
A Lego model of financial capitalism
https://www.asomo.co/p/a-lego-model-of-financial-capitalism
194
38
Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/04/big-tech-digital-trade-regulation/
189
127
AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03502
170
Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-uekD6VTIQ
152
146
Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-big-techs-underground-race-buy-ai-training-data-2024-04-05/
145
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
https://www.euronews.com/health/2022/06/07/this-breakthrough-drug-trial-saw-cancer-vanish-in-every-patient
141
106
She slept with a violin on her pillow
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/arts/violin-italy-antonio-stradivari-ayoung-an.html
354
Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/your-money/paying-for-college/100k-college-cost-vanderbilt.html
135
58
Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-cockroachdb-doesnt-use-evalplanqual/
86
Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
https://codewithkira.com/2024-04-04-state-of-clojure-ml.html
130
9
Postgres locks explorer
https://leontrolski.github.io/pglockpy.html
129
Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/no-one-cares-site-on-social-media/
128
25
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths
https://hazlitt.net/longreads/dark-matter
66
Deep sea mining could be worse for the climate than land ores
https://planet-tracker.org/deep-sea-mining-could-be-worse-for-the-climate-than-land-ores/
76
Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/12/proton-mail-says-that-the-new-outlook-app-for-windows-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service/
107
50
Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an OpenBSD developer
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=171227941117852&w=2
104
11
Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic
https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/[email protected]/T/#u
93
1
AMD to Open Source Micro Engine Scheduler Firmware for Radeon GPUs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/amd_mes_open_source/
91
121
Scientists may have discovered a flaw in their understanding of dark energy
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/science/space/astronomy-universe-dark-energy.html
90
15
Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122079/data-brokers-fisa-extension-nsa-section-702-surveillance-lexis-nexis
114
Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98rz9nq9rvo
83
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science
12
BeeTrove – OpenAI GPTs Open-Source Dataset
https://beetrove.com/
80
55
The IT Productivity Paradox (2015)
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/productivity-paradox/background.html
79
10
Why academia sucks [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
33
KDE1 on Debian 13
https://ariasft.github.io/
73
53
Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe)
https://www.filfre.net/2024/04/jedi-knight-plus-notes-on-an-expanded-universe/
77
GitHub is down
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bnkkbj90yhz6
71
59
Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/04/prostate-cancer-cases-worldwide-diagnoses-deaths-2040-study
70
2
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/roku-hdmi-ad-insertion-patent
29
RubyGems is not vulnerable to the xz/liblzma backdoor
https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/03/31/rubygems-and-xz.html
69
I fell out of love with academia
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13907
68
24
Identifying Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 images from VAE artifacts (2023)
https://hforsten.com/identifying-stable-diffusion-xl-10-images-from-vae-artifacts.html
65
17
Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/surveillance-by-the-new-microsoft-outlook-app.html
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/04/amazon-increases-plastic-packaging-us
63
C++ coroutines do not spark joy (2021)
https://probablydance.com/2021/10/31/c-coroutines-do-not-spark-joy/
62
22
Jordan Mechner vs. the sands of time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/04/01/jordan-mechner-prince-persia-karateka/
41
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
https://torrentfreak.com/plex-asks-github-to-take-down-reshare-repository-over-piracy-fears-240404/
60
8
Opt-Models: Intro to Optimization Programming Using LEGOs
https://opt-models.org/
Under Attila's Gaze
https://quillette.com/2024/04/05/the-so-called-dark-ages-herbert-bushman-attila-the-hun/