top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-11

Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD

https://paulbupejr.com/developing-the-optigap-sensor-system/

2 years ago

886 upvotes – 130 comments

Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html

2 years ago

743 upvotes – 375 comments

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/

2 years ago

666 upvotes – 368 comments

Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/apple-warning-mercenary-spyware-attacks/

2 years ago

472 upvotes – 284 comments

Mental health in software engineering

https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/mental-health-in-software-engineering/

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 426 comments

Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/11/vietnamese-property-tycoon-sentenced-to-death-in-27bn-case

2 years ago

270 upvotes – 332 comments

Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser

https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-owes-525-mln-cloud-storage-patent-fight-us-jury-says-2024-04-11/

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 213 comments

Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Using-Clickhouse-to-scale-an-events-engine

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 97 comments

Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 124 comments

Going in circles without a real-time clock

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/04/10/rtc/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 153 comments

Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught

https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 419 comments

If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/if-inheritance-is-so-bad-why-does-everyone-use-it/

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 376 comments

Stacking triangles for fun and profit

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/angle-addition/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 60 comments

End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/10/the-line-saudi-arabia-scaling-back-plans-105-mile-long-desert-megacity-crown-prince

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 424 comments

New paintings found at Pompeii

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 72 comments

Vortex: OpenCL compatible RISC-V GPGPU

https://vortex.cc.gatech.edu/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 52 comments

ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-constellation-formation-flying-esa

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 54 comments

Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python

https://github.com/mtshiba/pylyzer

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 26 comments

Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46016-1

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 107 comments

OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter

https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 30 comments

Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)

http://insectoid.budwin.net/dos/descent/descent.html

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 113 comments

Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/adobe-is-buying-video-clips-for-3-per-minute-to-build-ai-model

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 154 comments

Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/301691/readme-txt-vs-readme-txt

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 88 comments

One man's artistic wonderland, created in rental, gets protected status

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/style/rental-apartment-artwork-listed-gbr-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 105 comments

Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article

https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 97 comments

I am no longer attending vintage computer festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/why-cisa-is-warning-cisos-about-a-breach-at-sisense/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 52 comments

Discovering the xz backdoor with Andres Freund [audio]

https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Harvard will require test scores for admission again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/11/harvard-reinstates-sat-act-admissions-requirement/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 187 comments

Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

Replacing Wires Could Double How Much Electricity the US Grid Can Handle

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/10/replacing-wires-could-double-how-much-electricity-the-us-grid-can-handle/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

Browser Security Bugs That Aren't: JavaScript in PDF

https://textslashplain.com/2024/04/10/browser-security-bugs-that-arent-javascript-in-pdf/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/starting-today-isps-must-display-labels-with-price-speeds-and-data-caps/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 82 comments

The DDoS attack of academic bullshit

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/the-ddos-attack-of-academic-bullshit

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UbuntuGrubUpdateConfusion

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)

https://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/15/metaprogramming-in-ruby-its-all-about-the-self/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Humane AI Pin review: not even close

https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 91 comments

NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)

https://realtime.org/data/nyc-rat-sightings

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

Stack Overflow is documentation, not Q&A

https://landedstar.com/blog/posts/stack-overflow-is-documentation/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: What resources to learn tech and software in manufacturing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39998335

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

Running DOS Apps on Windows from 1.0 to 95 (2020)

https://gekk.info/articles/dosapps.html

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40001222

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 54 comments

Building an AI Coach to Tame My Monkey Mind

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ai-coach/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

Rooster King: A multimedia zine website collage album memoir thing

https://roosterking.drewschorno.com/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Parler-TTS: Natural language guidance of high-fidelity TTS

https://github.com/huggingface/parler-tts

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Flow-IPC: Open-source toolkit for low-latency inter-process communication in C++

https://www.linode.com/blog/open-source/flow-ipc-introduction-low-latency-cpp-toolkit/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 1 comments

Backyard Birding (2023)

https://worldsensorium.com/backyard-birding/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement

https://www.optometryadvisor.com/home/meetings/aaopt-2021/social-media-scrolling-detrimental-to-ocular-health/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/m4-ai-chips-late-2024/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: Wunderbar – Learn language while working on your Mac

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999163

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

VNC Resolver

https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

HP 200LX and Related Palmtops

https://dfarq.homeip.net/hp-200lx-and-related-palmtops/

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04392

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Asymmetric Routing Around the Firewall

https://devnonsense.com/posts/asymmetric-routing-around-the-firewall/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments

https://yueyang1996.github.io/holodeck/

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments
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