455
200
Why you should not apply to YC
https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1781751108211511680
9 months ago
415
128
Doomscroller.xyz
https://doomscroller.xyz/
408
270
U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
https://record.umich.edu/articles/study-alphabetical-order-of-surnames-may-affect-grading/
391
100
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/mailoji
334
218
Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
https://apnews.com/article/fisa-donald-trump-surveillance-congress-johnson-81e991c9f82e77b2fe13f8a3e0e25349
318
89
MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo
https://mupdf.com/wasm/demo/index.html?file=../../docs/mupdf_explored.pdf
291
108
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/
278
143
Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/adventures-in-rust-bringing-exchange-support-to-thunderbird/
253
111
Financial market applications of LLMs
https://thegradient.pub/financial-market-applications-of-llms/
248
97
Coroutines and effects
https://without.boats/blog/coroutines-and-effects/
209
59
Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/17/scientists-discover-first-nitrogen-fixing-organelle/
190
133
Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)
https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t
430
Bitcoin Block 840000
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000320283a032748cef8227873ff4872689bf23f1cda83a5
180
77
Why everything is becoming a game
https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/why-everything-is-becoming-a-game
166
79
My journey into personal computer software development in 1983
https://farrs.substack.com/p/my-journey-into-personal-computer
155
102
Ceefax Simulator
https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/
153
54
Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/business/volkswagen-uaw-vote/index.html
30
Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
https://reasoning-tokens.ghost.io/reasoning-tokens/
145
91
AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store
https://altstore.io/#Downloads
38
GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-comments-abused-to-push-malware-via-microsoft-repo-urls/
142
55
VLC vs. the App Stores
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/19/vlc-vs-the-app-stores/
138
135
Cindy Lee might be the future of music
https://www.gq.com/story/pulling-weeds-with-chris-black-cindy-lee-might-be-the-future-of-music
132
Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/children-need-neighborhoods-where-they-can-walk-and-bike-5f3a9b4a
131
141
How to fix America's aviation system (2023)
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/11/15/how-to-fix-americas-aviation-system
129
107
Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated
120
116
Stop Doing Cloud
https://grski.pl/self-host
119
58
Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
https://ziglang.org/download/0.12.0/release-notes.html
Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/debugging-the-doctor-brain
113
88
On Terry A. Davis
https://schizophrenic.io/blog/on-terry-a-davis
112
76
Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility. (2021)
https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/
110
52
Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
6
Show HN: Exploring Indra's Pearls with WebGPU
https://medium.com/@philogb/exploring-indras-pearls-with-webgpu-e0f4a745c2f6
104
216
US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-critical-aid-ukraine-israel-potential-tiktok-ban-rcna148395
95
136
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S.
https://fortune.com/2024/04/18/mercedes-self-driving-autonomous-cars-california-nevada-level-3-drive-pilot/
93
Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgae075/7608307
10
Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psychedelia'
https://psychedeliasyndro.me/
53
Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41k years ago
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cosmic-rays-streamed-earth-atmosphere.html
Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407
24
Show HN: LLM Scraper – turn any webpage into structured data
https://github.com/mishushakov/llm-scraper
83
17
UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01089-2
82
172
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban
81
29
GPT-4 can exploit vulnerabilities by reading CVEs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/gpt4_can_exploit_real_vulnerabilities/
80
15
N-Wheeled Vehicles
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwheelcar.htm
26
Don Bluth's Garage Band
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/don-bluths-garage-band
56
HelloKitty ransomware rebrands, releases CD Projekt and Cisco data
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hellokitty-ransomware-rebrands-releases-cd-projekt-and-cisco-data/
74
27
h5ai – modern HTTP web server index
https://larsjung.de/h5ai/
73
4
BQN for birdwatchers (2021)
https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/birds.html
72
Wax compiler – a tiny language designed to transpile to other languages
https://waxc.netlify.app/
70
47
A Trivial Llama 3 Jailbreak
https://github.com/haizelabs/llama3-jailbreak
69
68
Americans' new TV habit: Subscribe, watch, cancel, repeat
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/business/media/streaming-subscription-jumping.html
65
0
Rust Custom Target for QEMU RISC-V on Apache NuttX RTOS
https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/rust4.html
64
16
Show HN: Open-source SDK for creating custom code interpreters with any LLM
https://github.com/e2b-dev/code-interpreter
63
14
The 'blem wit' error messages: Things get terse (2008)
https://www.theregister.com/2008/01/28/error_messages/
62
Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/thousands-protest-canary-islands-unsustainable-tourism
11
MITRE Response to Cyber Attack in One of Its R&D Networks
https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/mitre-response-cyber-attack-one-its-rd-networks
