top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-17

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

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

2 years 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/

2 years ago

762 upvotes – 343 comments

The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet

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

2 years ago

718 upvotes – 389 comments

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

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

2 years ago

675 upvotes – 174 comments

Stop Acting Like You're Famous

https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous

2 years 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/

2 years ago

543 upvotes – 230 comments

Mixtral 8x22B

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

2 years 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

2 years ago

530 upvotes – 116 comments

An electric new era for Atlas

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

2 years ago

473 upvotes – 425 comments

ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

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

2 years ago

426 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)

https://asciinema.org/a/piP22yYwcaohu5cA2gyuv1W61

2 years ago

419 upvotes – 114 comments

Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-feathers-are-one-of-evolutions-cleverest-inventions/

2 years ago

410 upvotes – 256 comments

How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries

https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 168 comments

Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer

https://rmarcus.info/blog/2024/04/12/pg-over-time.html

2 years ago

299 upvotes – 63 comments

The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-271-the-biggest-untapped-opportunity

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 247 comments

libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop

https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 32 comments

Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project

https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai-project

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 141 comments

The forgotten war on beepers

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-beepers

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 386 comments

Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-covid-brain-1.7171918

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 271 comments

The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening

https://yosefk.com/blog/the-state-of-ai-for-hand-drawn-animation-inbetweening.html

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 38 comments

Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)

https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 267 comments

Reddit is taking over Google

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-is-taking-over-google-right-now-2024-4

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 334 comments

Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-api

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 61 comments

I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/i-cant-use-my-number-pad-for-2fa-codes/

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 166 comments

Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs

https://research.google/blog/solving-the-minimum-cut-problem-for-undirected-graphs/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 36 comments

Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-ssh-ga

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 92 comments

LXQt 2.0.0

https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/04/15/release-lxqt-2-0-0/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 56 comments

AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112287515017810339

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 141 comments

I nearly died drowning

https://longreads.com/2024/04/02/i-nearly-died-drowning-maggie-slepian/

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 162 comments

Future of Humanity Institute shuts down

https://www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 291 comments

MKBHDs for Everything

https://stratechery.com/2024/mkbhds-for-everything/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 215 comments

Math Puzzles

https://jrmf.org/puzzle/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 5 comments

Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming

https://nautil.us/the-part-time-climate-scientist-542351/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 145 comments

Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240415-47/?p=109663

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool

https://github.com/WINSDK/bite

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 16 comments

Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019)

https://neverwasmag.com/2019/08/flying-aircraft-carriers/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 101 comments

How Antithesis finds bugs

https://antithesis.com/blog/sdtalk/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 53 comments

Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/linus-torvalds-reiterates-his-tabs-versus-spaces-stance-with-a-kernel-trap/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 130 comments

Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070566

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components

https://github.com/EasyFrontend-com/html-tailwindcss-components

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

The Acid Test Clause (2017)

https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-2-acid-test-clause

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 48 comments

Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1

https://csvbase.com/blog/8

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 35 comments

F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language

https://fosscomics.com/8.%20The%20Origins%20of%20Unix%20and%20the%20C%20Language/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build

https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-121225/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/cloudflare-billionaire-matthew-prince-fights-utah-locals-over-house-dogs-wall

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 74 comments

Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference

https://kolinko.github.io/effort/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 4 comments

Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude

https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/16/google-sit-in-employee-protest-nimbus-israel/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 215 comments

New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 3 comments

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 13 comments

How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/food-industry-influencers

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 153 comments

Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing (2022)

http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Tell the U.S. Senate: Stop Risaa, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.32

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 55 comments

NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

Boeing whistleblower says 787 fleet should be grounded

https://thehill.com/homenews/4598076-boeing-whistleblower-says-787-fleet-should-be-grounded/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU

https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/media-service/singleview/article/sicherheitsluecke-in-browser-schnittstelle-erlaubt-rechnerzugriff-ueber-grafikkarte

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 49 comments

Quantum mechanics is the operating system other physical theories run on (2007)

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 88 comments

Why SQLite Performance Tuning Made Bencher 1200x Faster

https://bencher.dev/learn/engineering/sqlite-performance-tuning/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Collapse of self-trained language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02305

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10002

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/17/1090856/international-space-station-axiom-low-earth-orbit/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 79 comments

RHttp: REPL for HTTP

https://github.com/1buran/rHttp

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library

https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

First known fractal molecule

https://newatlas.com/biology/fractal-molecule-natural-mathematical-marvel/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-atlas-retires

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/0014253/google-workers-protest-cloud-contract-with-israels-government

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

The Making of Django Reinhardt

https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/04/12/djangos-journey-the-making-of-the-nomadic-king-of-french-swing/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: A self-published art book about Google's first 25 years

https://www.damaia.com/google

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Joseph Priestley created revolutionary "maps" of time

https://www.neh.gov/article/joseph-priestley-created-revolutionary-maps-time

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

The Making of Dune II

https://readonlymemory.com/the-making-of-dune-ii/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments
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