top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-21

Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)

http://agileotter.blogspot.com/2014/09/programming-is-mostly-thinking.html

2 years ago

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

2 years ago

Tiny World Map

https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map

2 years ago

I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

https://tonoko.notion.site/I-made-an-open-source-app-to-rewind-search-everything-happened-on-your-screen-on-Windows-184d1a9d5edb494dba0c2f46d311ec5c

2 years ago

Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/11/pharmaceutical-giant-bayer-ceo-bill-anderson-rid-bosses-staff-self-organize-save-2-billion/

2 years ago

From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38

https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/lorry-driver-to-rails-developer-at-38/

2 years ago

Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-grows-over-750-000-153000967.html

2 years ago

Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop

https://github.com/0x0mer/doom-htop

2 years ago

Racket Language

https://racket-lang.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

https://stepify.tech/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104823

2 years ago

I love programming but I hate the programming industry

https://www.deathbyabstraction.com/I-love-programming-but-I-hate-the-programming-industry

2 years ago

Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets

https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai

2 years ago

Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked

https://crapts.org/2024/04/21/all-fritz-box-modems-have-been-hijacked/

2 years ago

Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

https://petapixel.com/2024/04/17/baby-penguins-jump-off-50-foot-cliff-in-first-of-its-kind-drone-footage/

2 years ago

Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/

2 years ago

I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

https://bold-edit.com/wrote-my-own.html

2 years ago

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

2 years ago

Lunatik: Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua

https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik

2 years ago

Glibc Buffer Overflow in Iconv

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/18/4

2 years ago

Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York

https://communitynets.org/content/anti-muni-broadband-budget-amendment-gets-nixed-new-york

2 years ago

The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-failure-of-the-dominos-30-minute-delivery-guarantee

2 years ago

The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)

https://www.roguelynn.com/talks/everyday-apis/

2 years ago

A hacker's guide to Language Models

https://github.com/fastai/lm-hackers/blob/main/lm-hackers.ipynb

2 years ago

Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08698

2 years ago

A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html

2 years ago

Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North Face logo

https://old.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/1c98wpq/i_noticed_my_pixel_is_blurring_brand_namesmy_7/

2 years ago

Dangers of “decentralized” ID systems

https://paper.wf/crypto-agorism/the-dangers-of-decentralized-id-systems

2 years ago

Fallout style RPG made in Excel

https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/04/21/i-made-a-fallout-inspired-rpg-game-in-excel/

2 years ago

Show HN: Volume rendering 3D data in Three.js and GLSL

https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/volume-rendering

2 years ago

California Electricity Mix Live Dashboard

https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso

2 years ago

It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says (2021)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/health/how-to-boost-metabolism-wellness/index.html

2 years ago

Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?

https://www.kadoa.com/blog/llama3-killed-proprietary-models

2 years ago

Environment shapes emotional cognitive abilities more than genes

https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-genetics-metacognition-25945/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104547

2 years ago

The Copier Wars: Fair Use's Rude Awakening

https://newart.press/p/the-copier-wars-fair-uses-rude-awakening

2 years ago

Everyone has JavaScript, right?

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html

2 years ago

Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smartphones, social media

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/jonathan-haidt-wants-you-to-take-away-your-kids-phone

2 years ago

Dataflow Analyses and Compiler Optimizations That Use Them, for Free

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2578

2 years ago

Open letter to the NixOS foundation

https://save-nix-together.org/

2 years ago

Google Reader shutdown tidbits (2013)

https://blog.persistent.info/2013/06/google-reader-shutdown-tidbits.html?m=1

2 years ago

You might not want to use your fingertip to unlock your phone

https://reason.com/2024/04/19/appeals-court-rules-that-cops-can-physically-make-you-unlock-your-phone/

2 years ago

StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port

https://gonzoknows.com/posts/streetcomplete-osm-contribution-app-begins-ios-port/

2 years ago

House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold

https://text.npr.org/1245594589

2 years ago

Do you need antivirus software in 2024?

https://blog.thenewoil.org/do-you-even-need-antivirus-software-in-2024

2 years ago