top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-12

Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P

https://github.com/tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules

a year ago

829 upvotes – 335 comments

An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data

https://heatpumpmonitor.org/

a year ago

708 upvotes – 340 comments

I Lost Faith in Kagi

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

a year ago

695 upvotes – 607 comments

Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017180

a year ago

517 upvotes – 155 comments

Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens

https://kenkantzer.com/lessons-after-a-half-billion-gpt-tokens/

a year ago

512 upvotes – 172 comments

There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/theres-a-dead-rabbit-in-seven-sisters-tube-station-71502/

a year ago

423 upvotes – 229 comments

XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-1/112354/

a year ago

406 upvotes – 250 comments

Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

https://www.doscher.com/recovery-kit-version-2/

a year ago

403 upvotes – 81 comments

What is Webb observing now?

https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01HTJT20C0STKNZ01KQYGEKBQ1

a year ago

368 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

https://www.zerosheets.com/

a year ago

356 upvotes – 162 comments

Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015961

a year ago

343 upvotes – 126 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014087

a year ago

330 upvotes – 407 comments

I accidentally built a meme search engine

https://harper.blog/2024/04/12/i-accidentally-built-a-meme-search-engine/

a year ago

319 upvotes – 52 comments

Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed [video]

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

a year ago

302 upvotes – 43 comments

Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128363/google-cjpa-news-removal-california

a year ago

301 upvotes – 428 comments

DNS over Wikipedia

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

a year ago

290 upvotes – 82 comments

The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA

https://tspeterkim.github.io/posts/cuda-1brc

a year ago

241 upvotes – 74 comments

How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)

https://chelseatroy.com/2022/08/03/how-i-do-and-dont-prepare-a-talk-for-a-technical-conference/

a year ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

Building a Linux Container Using Namespaces: Part – 1 (2020)

https://www.polarsparc.com/xhtml/Containers-1.html

a year ago

232 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Running TempleOS in user space without virtualization

https://github.com/1fishe2fishe/EXODUS

a year ago

228 upvotes – 36 comments

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/11/hospital_website_data_sharing/

a year ago

223 upvotes – 62 comments

Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties

https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/mapping-party-tips.html

a year ago

213 upvotes – 96 comments

DwarFS – Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File System

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

a year ago

211 upvotes – 81 comments

Ray tracer in a boot sector

https://github.com/nanochess/RayTracer

a year ago

210 upvotes – 21 comments

H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/

a year ago

193 upvotes – 217 comments

Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/04/12/use-renovate/

a year ago

185 upvotes – 73 comments

FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go

https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk

a year ago

185 upvotes – 64 comments

Htmx and the Rule of Least Power

https://blog.gypsydave5.com/posts/2024/4/12/htmx-and-the-rule-of-least-power/

a year ago

181 upvotes – 152 comments

Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-virtually-kills-efforts-to-develop-alexa-skills-disappointing-dozens/

a year ago

172 upvotes – 203 comments

Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers

https://mathstodon.xyz/@two_star/112242224494626411

a year ago

171 upvotes – 169 comments

Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay

https://fortune.com/2024/04/12/kpmg-study-us-ceos-accept-hybrid-working-employee-return-to-office/

a year ago

164 upvotes – 212 comments

Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas

https://github.com/andrewcourtice/ripl

a year ago

161 upvotes – 35 comments

Green's Dictionary of Slang

https://greensdictofslang.com/

a year ago

159 upvotes – 45 comments

"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/11/tretten-bridge-collapse-norway-timber/

a year ago

158 upvotes – 137 comments

Ford's battery flagship socked by mold sickness, workers say

https://labornotes.org/2024/02/fords-battery-flagship-socked-mold-sickness-workers-say

a year ago

144 upvotes – 108 comments

Threads on Mastodon and the bright future of the Fediverse

https://www.augment.ink/threads-on-mastodon/

a year ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

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a year ago

131 upvotes – 0 comments

House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program

https://www.wired.com/story/house-section-702-vote/

a year ago

126 upvotes – 106 comments

Ubuntu 24.04 (and Debian) removed libsystemd from SSH server dependencies

https://fosstodon.org/@3v1n0/112260950753323500

a year ago

117 upvotes – 60 comments

DIY Wi-Fi thermostat from scratch with ESPHome and Home Assistant

https://olegtarasov.me/opentherm-thermostat-esphome/

a year ago

117 upvotes – 27 comments

Systemd replacing ELF dependencies with dlopen

https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112256363180973672

a year ago

113 upvotes – 90 comments

Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix

https://devenv.sh/

a year ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

Researchers find a new organelle evolving

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/researchers-find-a-new-organelle-evolving/

a year ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploitation

https://www.volexity.com/blog/2024/04/12/zero-day-exploitation-of-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-globalprotect-cve-2024-3400/

a year ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices

https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/04/ten-years-microservices.html

a year ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Andrew Ng Appointed to Amazon's Board of Directors

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/dr-andrew-ng-joins-amazon-board-of-directors

a year ago

92 upvotes – 7 comments

Data-as-a-Product and Data-Contract: An evolutionary approach to data maturity

https://blog.owulveryck.info/2024/04/09/data-as-a-product-and-data-contract-an-evolutionary-approach-to-data-maturity.html

a year ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127545/discord-suyu-sudachi-server-shutdown-account-ban

a year ago

87 upvotes – 106 comments

Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance

https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2024-04-09-rust-protobuf-performance

a year ago

85 upvotes – 57 comments

China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips in Blow to Intel, AMD

https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-telecom-intel-amd-chips-99ae99a9

a year ago

83 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: tu – Convert natural language date/time to UTC

https://github.com/ad-si/tu

a year ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Childhood Loneliness Linked to Later Psychosis

https://neurosciencenews.com/childhood-loneliness-psychosis-25891/

a year ago

82 upvotes – 73 comments

An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)

http://mathtourist.blogspot.com/2009/02/pondering-artists-perplexing-tribute-to.html

a year ago

81 upvotes – 90 comments
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