1164
Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epidemic
2 years ago
945
104
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94
558
292
Beeper acquired by Automattic
https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/
541
84
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
https://qdiv.dev/posts/eth2/
532
176
Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
https://www.pricelevel.com/
460
172
Cow Magnets
https://www.stanfordmagnets.com/cow-magnets.html
435
250
Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/vision-2024-gaudi-3-ai-accelerator.html
412
47
Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git
https://ohmygit.org/
405
80
A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
https://github.com/dolthub/go-mysql-server
380
287
Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries
https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds
351
198
Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations
https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/06/two-bay-area-railway-workers-charged-for-building-secret-apartments-inside-train-stations/
339
101
How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerability
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/04/09/how-i-tripped-over-the-debian-weak-keys-vuln.html
335
756
The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1241148577/table-saw-injuries-safety-sawstop-cpsc
295
54
Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents
https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/building-reliable-systems-out-of-unreliable-agents
282
68
The simple beauty of XOR floating point compression
https://clemenswinter.com/2024/04/07/the-simple-beauty-of-xor-floating-point-compression/
269
126
Google Axion Processors – Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu/
25
"Volkswagen" detects when your tests are being run in a CI server
https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
262
40
ScreenAI: A visual LLM for UI and visually-situated language understanding
https://research.google/blog/screenai-a-visual-language-model-for-ui-and-visually-situated-language-understanding/
252
157
Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?
https://kerkour.com/distributed-sqlite
236
98
TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
https://bellard.org/tsac/
220
107
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Generally Available
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-turbo-and-gpt-4
218
93
PS1 Programming Course with MIPS Assembly and C
https://pikuma.com/courses/ps1-programming-mips-assembly-language
33
SSSL – Hackless SSL bypass for the Wii U
https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/SSSL
214
67
Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui
https://stalw.art/blog/stalwart-webadmin/
211
88
Zed Decoded: Async Rust
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-async-rust
193
Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/find-your-logs-data-with-explore-logs-no-logql-required/
190
154
Multimillion-dollar L.A. heist was seamless, sophisticated, stealthy
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-06/30-million-theft-from-l-a-vault-was-seemless-sophisticated-daring
181
224
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism
https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/
179
186
Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57916-z
175
17
The Eclipse via Satellite
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2024/04/09/the-eclipse-via-satellite/
169
63
First languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberia
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-languages-north-america-language-groups.html
168
200
India’s electric rickshaws
https://restofworld.org/2024/e-rickshaw-yc-electric-india/
162
26
Google CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/codegemma_report.pdf
147
23
MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console
https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
145
73
Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/08/intels-ambitious-meteor-lake-igpu/
142
8
Lambda Screen: Fractals in pure lambda calculus
https://text.marvinborner.de/2024-03-25-02.html
138
13
Sqlime: Online SQLite Playground
https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlime
133
62
Supreme Commander Graphics Study (2015)
http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/06/23/supreme-commander-graphics-study/
132
135
BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/bart-to-offer-final-rides-on-original-equipment-on-april-20/
131
27
Penpot 2.0 Released
https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-2-0-a-major-milestone-in-our-journey-is-now-yours-to-explore-and-enjoy/4906
130
My deployment platform is a shell script
https://j3s.sh/thought/my-deployment-platform-is-a-shell-script.html
The Collapse of Small Press Distribution
https://lithub.com/the-small-press-world-is-about-to-fall-apart-on-the-collapse-of-small-press-distribution/
125
Show HN: DualShock calibration in the browser using WebHID
https://blog.the.al/2024/04/09/dualshock-calibration-in-the-browser.html
124
41
I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad
https://cliffle.com/blog/keypad-go/
118
How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39976387
115
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
https://blog.cloudflare.com/total-eclipse-internet-traffic-impacts-mexico-us-canada
21
The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)
https://urbigenous.net/library/alicebob.html
50
The challenges of building modern open source software on PowerPC Mac OS X
http://www.netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/
99
Social Skill Training with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04204
Google's Chrome antitrust paradox
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4780718
100
16
The Git repositories of XZ projects are available on GitHub again
https://github.com/tukaani-project
96
Computing the Eclipse
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/computing-the-eclipse-astronomy-in-the-wolfram-language/
60
AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement
https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover
90
With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24124168/google-vids-video-ai-workspace-app
18
Virtual Colossus
https://www.virtualcolossus.co.uk/colossus3d/
86
The Internet Archive just backed up an entire Caribbean island
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/
94
The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam
https://www.upworthy.com/the-lonely-funeral-project
2
1.3k recordings and trace drawings of neurons
https://celltypes.brain-map.org/data
82
14
Embedding models
https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models
36
A secret code may have been hiding in Beethoven's manuscripts
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/beethoven-code-dynamics-manuscript/677964/
77
12
Making an RISC-V OS (Part 3): Managing free memory
https://traxys.me/riscv_os_buddy.html
42
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/
74
22
Juicebox: Squeezing the hassle out of encryption key recovery
https://www.juicebox.xyz/blog/key-to-simplicity-squeezing-the-hassle-out-of-encryption-key-recovery
Bioluminescent petunias at home
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1242346659/genetically-modified-bioluminescent-petunias-make-their-own-light
71
7
Evaluating faithfulness and content selection of LLMs in book-length summaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01261
79
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598
1
The Future of Pretendo After Nintendo Network
https://pretendo.network/blog/4-8-24
70
Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend the abortion-crime hypothesis
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/04/08/steven-levitt-and-john-donohue-defend-a-finding-made-famous-by-freakonomics
66
4
Lessons learned from manually classifying CIFAR-10 (2011)
http://karpathy.github.io/2011/04/27/manually-classifying-cifar10/
141
BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost
https://electrek.co/2024/04/08/byd-launch-next-gen-ev-battery-more-range-lower-price/