952
630
Daniel Dennett has died
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/
2 years ago
501
187
Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
https://supabase.com/blog/s3-compatible-storage
453
96
Quill v2 – Rich text editor
https://quilljs.com/
451
593
Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/
382
420
Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091622
259
59
Add Depth of Field to Screenshots
https://www.blurmatic.com/
249
99
Scale of the Universe
https://scaleofuniverse.com/en
245
226
3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
https://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html
232
102
Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
https://www.mptcp.dev/
229
165
Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023)
https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/tips-on-how-to-structure-your-home-directory.html
228
113
The Curse of Monkey Island
https://www.filfre.net/2024/04/the-curse-of-monkey-island/
227
75
SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite
https://www.seamonkey-project.org
218
67
The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
https://imagico.de/blog/en/the-current-state-of-map-design-in-openstreetmap/
212
387
I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-israel-project-nimbus
200
110
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/nestle-adds-sugar-to-infant-milk-sold-in-poorer-countries-report-finds
192
85
Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
https://devops.com/valkey-is-rapidly-overtaking-redis/
131
C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
https://github.com/CodaFi/C-Macs
186
158
DuckDuckGo AI Chat
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo&ia=chat
178
70
The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers
https://www.nubero.ch/blog/011/
174
23
Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform
https://nimbo.earth/products/earth-online/
170
108
I Used Netscape Composer in 2024
https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/
169
270
'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4605739-widespread-animal-consciousness-irresponsible-to-ignore-new-york-declaration-scientists/
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems – Update on April 18
http://www.chenyilei.net/
168
111
Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B
https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF/discussions/5
160
82
The PostgreSQL community debates ALTER SYSTEM
https://lwn.net/Articles/968300/
120
My 25-year engineering career retrospective
https://hybridhacker.email/p/my-25-year-engineering-career-retrospective
156
90
Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms
https://www.fastcompany.com/91108331/these-solar-assembling-robotic-arms-could-solve-one-of-the-industrys-biggest-problems
148
Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085887
141
92
Single vendor is the new proprietary
https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/
71
Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/the-official-mta-app/id1297605670
138
51
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
https://talktomehuman.com/
133
46
Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests
https://gajus.com/blog/setting-up-postgre-sql-for-running-integration-tests
132
47
Show HN: A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work
https://www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com
130
103
JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8323658
126
Does light have an infinite lifetime?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/light-infinite-lifetime/
134
Meta.ai Oh My
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/18/Meta-AI-oh-my
123
86
Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68831061
39
Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
https://ollama.com/blog/llama-3-is-not-very-censored
119
22
Morton: Bit Interleaving in C/C++
https://github.com/jart/morton
115
118
New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when providing expert testimony
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/04/19/protocol-3/
128
Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/tech/china-apple-whatspp-threads-removal-hnk-intl/index.html
Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-bet-on-joys-of-pokies.html
IBM and the Holocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
106
62
What a difference four years makes
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/
40
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084193
30
Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE
https://medium.com/@grubbycoder/porting-8-bit-sonic-2-to-the-ti-84-ce-7ec99f9981c9
98
20
Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2488
95
What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage?
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/what-happens-when-hyperscalers-and-clouds-buy-most-servers-and-storage/
97
49
Llama 3 70B tied with GPT-4 for first place on LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard
https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1781328542367883765
37
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
https://anori.app/
16
Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Day_(Psychedelic_Holiday)
89
17
Coz: Causal Profiling
https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz
88
13
Natural language processing in Bash (2023)
https://massimo-nazaria.github.io/nlp.html
87
45
Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCiXu6S6vEw
VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble
http://www.vors.stargrave.org/
Epigenetic age oscillates during the day
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.14170
124
Android features I envy as an iPhone user
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/android-features-envy-iphone/
14
Erdos Problems Collection
https://www.erdosproblems.com/
79
28
Z80 Product Line Z84C00 End of Life / Last Time Buy [pdf]
https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf
78
146
Household size and the housing stock
https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/household-size-and-the-housing-stock
76
100
Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/three-reasons-why-you-should-not-use-iperf3-on-windows/ba-p/4117876
Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior
https://animate-your-word.github.io/demo/
74
Inverters with constant full load capability for electric drives
https://www.izm.fraunhofer.de/en/news_events/tech_news/inverters-with-constant-full-load-capability.html
I'm no longer involved at Signal
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1781144255848997330
25
Scriptable operating systems with Lua (2014) [pdf]
https://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/dls14.pdf
68
57
Why are there so many beetle species?
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/why-are-there-so-many-types-of-beetles
Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-memo-warning-employees-think-again-before-sit-in-protests-2024-4
66
3
Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track/
64
How the internet became shit
https://herman.bearblog.dev/how-the-internet-became-shit/
2
Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/google-merges-the-android-chrome-and-hardware-divisions/
