top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-04-17

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

6 months ago

1419 upvotes – 455 comments

CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

6 months ago

762 upvotes – 343 comments

The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847

6 months ago

718 upvotes – 390 comments

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer

https://bawolf.substack.com/p/embeddings-are-a-good-starting-point

6 months ago

675 upvotes – 174 comments

Stop Acting Like You're Famous

https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous

6 months ago

620 upvotes – 275 comments

How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/how-many-bathrooms-have-neandertals-in-the-tile/

6 months ago

543 upvotes – 230 comments

Mixtral 8x22B

https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/

6 months ago

533 upvotes – 242 comments

Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG

https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation/blob/master/README.md

6 months ago

529 upvotes – 116 comments

An electric new era for Atlas

https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/

6 months ago

473 upvotes – 425 comments

ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/

6 months ago

426 upvotes – 201 comments
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