493
95
Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces
https://zengm.com/facesjs/
2 years ago
452
286
The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
https://twitter.com/bl4sty/status/1776691497506623562
334
134
What I think about when I edit (2019)
https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit
311
113
WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
67
Show HN: Online database diagram editor
https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb
305
680
Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/home-insurance-aerial-images-37a18b16
288
206
More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05120
258
224
Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/
238
68
Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification
213
106
Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/12/21/fear-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/
210
109
Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
https://blacksmith.sh/blog/cache-is-king-a-guide-for-docker-layer-caching-in-github-actions
207
293
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
https://www.popsci.com/technology/vpn-boom/
201
72
NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-sun-footage-parker-solar-probe
192
81
PiVPN v4.6.0: The End
https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/releases/tag/v4.6.0
172
Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951422
165
14
xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine
https://xkcd.com/2916/
155
45
NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/04/nist-researchers-use-cellphone-compass-measure-tiny-concentrations
145
77
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
https://experimentalworks.net/posts/2024-03-18-a-history-of-vcs-part1/
143
162
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-even-more-customization-apps-in-windows-11-version-24h2/
142
100
How we communicate
https://37signals.com/how-we-communicate
140
33
Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
https://mathspp.com/blog/503-days-working-full-time-on-foss-lessons-learned
131
43
Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train
https://github.com/facebookresearch/schedule_free
127
71
Structuralism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
https://www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/structuralism
123
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apple-now-allows-retro-game-emulators-on-its-app-store-but-with-big-caveats/
119
31
Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice
https://www.visitvenezia.eu/en/venetianity/discover-venice/the-venetian-antibandito-humps-or-pissotte-what-exactly-are-they
118
133
What is the most useful project you have worked on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954849
114
11
A memory model for Rust code in the kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/967049/0ffb9b9ed8940013/
111
59
Ask HN: SQLite in Production?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955288
108
54
Xbox has a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/exclusive-xbox-president-sarah-bond-has-set-up-a-new-team-dedicated-to-game-preservation-and-forward-compatibility
107
47
Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)
https://susam.net/programming-with-dos-debugger.html
55
Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web
https://www.devslovecoffee.com/blog/making-apple-progressive-blur-on-web/
105
70
Language models are Super Mario: Absorbing abilities from homologous models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03099
Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full
101
181
Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design
https://brutalisthackernews.com
96
17
A Theory of Composing Protocols (2023)
https://programming-journal.org/2023/7/6/
4
Retrospective on 10 Years of colour-science
https://www.colour-science.org/posts/retrospective-on-10-years-of-colour-science/
37
PID Controller Explainer (2022)
https://ben.bolte.cc/pid-controller
What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name
https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/southwest-flight-bug
92
112
Why AWS Supports Valkey
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-supports-valkey/
91
74
Working with Qubes OS at the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2024/apr/04/when-security-matters-working-with-qubes-os-at-the-guardian
79
Cybersecurity Is Broken
https://crankysec.com/blog/broken/
90
82
NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/the-diagnosis-is-in-bad-memory-knocked-nasas-aging-voyager-1-offline/
13
Transistor takes advantage of quantum interference
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-interference-transistor
15
Optuna – A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework
https://optuna.org/
36
System/360 – CHM Revolution
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/164
66
Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1178
Replacing Complicated Hashmaps with SQLite
https://husin.dev/ephemeral-sqlite/
51
The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack
https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/why-the-eisenhower-matrix-is-a-fantastic-productivity-hack/
2
Maintenance.md
https://github.com/FiloSottile/FiloSottile/blob/main/maintenance.md
9
Hacked
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hacked/
Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/silent-school-lunch-kids-mental-health
Ohmyksh: A Framework for OpenBSD's Ksh
https://github.com/qbit/ohmyksh
22
Gakken Ex-System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakken_EX-System
69
CISA publishes 447 page draft of cyber incident reporting rule
https://therecord.media/cisa-publishes-circia-rule-cyber-incident-reporting
63
Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/04/05/twenty-years-maintaining-the-wix-toolset/
46
Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-to-unbundle-office-and-teams-globally-following-years-long-criticism/
61
40
Trademark bully': Momofuku turns up heat on others selling 'chili crunch'
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/04/chili-crunch-trademark-momofuku-david-chang
5
Citizen scientist has measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years
https://apnews.com/article/citizen-scientist-snow-rocky-mountains-drought-water-3a4e053d7db9be3eb22aa6809eab57c0
60
Piku – a micro-PaaS for any server
https://piku.github.io
28
The eC Programming Language
https://ec-lang.org
57
Photoshop for Text (2022)
https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text
M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4
https://mastodon.social/@seindal/112205415790637632
56
7
Tridge returns to rsync
https://lwn.net/Articles/968732/
Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Some experts are raising ethical concerns
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/tech/teachers-grading-ai/index.html
