top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-25

FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet.html

2 years ago

Open Sourcing DOS 4

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

2 years ago

We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/29/2024-01580/taking-additional-steps-to-address-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-significant-malicious

2 years ago

A useful front-end confetti animation library

https://github.com/catdad/canvas-confetti

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates

https://github.com/ArhanChaudhary/NAND

2 years ago

TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-unveils-16nm-process-technology-with-backside-power-delivery-rivals-intels-competing-design

2 years ago

HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties

https://jakearchibald.com/2024/attributes-vs-properties/

2 years ago

Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/media/the-onion-sold.html

2 years ago

Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/flow-state/

2 years ago

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com/

2 years ago

No Abstractions: our API design principle

https://increase.com/articles/no-abstractions

2 years ago

Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog

https://github.com/adam-maj/tiny-gpu

2 years ago

Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy

2 years ago

Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

2 years ago

Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/cost-of-developing-new-drugs-may-be-far-lower-than-industry-claims-trial-reveals

2 years ago

Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/air-force-picks-anduril-general-atomics-for-next-round-of-cca-work/

2 years ago

Rust Stream API visualized and exposed

https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns/blob/master/rust-stream-visualized/Readme.md

2 years ago

Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

2 years ago

Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

https://reason.com/2024/04/25/judge-acquits-backpage-co-founder-michael-lacey-on-most-counts/

2 years ago

Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/

2 years ago

TIS-100: Tessellated Intelligence System

https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

2 years ago

DDC OLED (2022)

https://mitxela.com/projects/ddc-oled

2 years ago

Launch HN: Nango (YC W23) – Source-available unified API

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158481

2 years ago

David Frankel is a man on a mission against robocalls

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-stop-robocalls

2 years ago

IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-elusive-icecube-potential-tau-neutrinos.html

2 years ago

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/slim_another_lunar_night/

2 years ago

Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/apple-releases-eight-small-ai-language-models-aimed-at-on-device-use/

2 years ago

Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat

https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/

2 years ago

Visualizing malicious IP addresses

https://romeov.github.io/malicious_ip_addresses/malicious_ip_analysis.html

2 years ago

Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/2024q1-alphabet-earnings-release-pdf.pdf

2 years ago

A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go

https://jacobfilipp.com/place/

2 years ago

Big telecom used fake and dead people to fight net neutrality, New York AG says

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqq7b/big-telecom-used-fake-and-dead-people-to-fight-net-neutrality-ny-ag-says

2 years ago

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/recoding-voyager-1-nasas-interstellar-explorer-is-finally-making-sense-again/

2 years ago

Palm OS and the devices that ran it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/

2 years ago

China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0

2 years ago

Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)

https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-story-of-midi

2 years ago

Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895

2 years ago

MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database

https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-memorydb-a-fast-and-durable-memory-first-cloud-database

2 years ago

Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeed

https://medium.com/@sumandas0/fine-tune-llama3-on-million-scale-dataset-in-consumer-gpu-using-qlora-deepspeed-3ae8ad75299a

2 years ago

Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/30802

2 years ago

Digital Wood Joints

https://openup.design/we-learn/50-digital-wood-joints/

2 years ago

Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-retaliated-against-its-own-engineers-working-for-faa-union-says/

2 years ago

FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-rules-that-ban-blocking-and-throttling-in-3-2-vote/

2 years ago

Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/4-software-design-principles-i-learned

2 years ago

Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/stripe-doubling-down-on-embedded-finance-de-couples-payments-from-the-rest-of-its-stack/

2 years ago

In Response to Google

https://www.wheresyoured.at/in-response-to-google/

2 years ago

Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/1cckj2q/today_microsoft_banned_my_country_iran_from/

2 years ago

The "it" in AI models is the dataset

https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dataset/

2 years ago

Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-tech-jobs-are-jokes-and-i-am-not-laughing/

2 years ago

A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries

https://www.osohq.com/post/logic-language-distributed-sql-queries

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects

https://github.com/goksan/Statusnook

2 years ago

Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10281

2 years ago

Show HN: I put PubMed in a vector DB

https://www.pubmedisearch.com/

2 years ago

Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/nintendo-forces-garrys-mod-to-delete-20-years-of-content-garry-confirms-nintendo-is-behind-steam-workshop-purge

2 years ago

Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat

2 years ago

John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1782826465207165288

2 years ago

Australia's spies, cops want accountable encryption- a.k.a. access to backdoors

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/asio_afp_accountable_encryption/

2 years ago

A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter

https://gebna.gg/blog/brief-history-of-web-development

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156205

2 years ago

AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/ai-powered-cameras-installed-on-metro-buses-will-be-used-to-spot-illegally-parked-cars

2 years ago

Leaving Substack

https://www.mostlypython.com/leaving-substack/

2 years ago

Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)

https://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/

2 years ago

Chime Design and Build

http://leehite.org/Chimes.htm

2 years ago

Anduril Selected for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-air-force-collaborative-combat-aircraft-CCA/

2 years ago

Parallel Snapshotting: make pg_dump and pg_restore multi-threaded per table

https://blog.peerdb.io/how-can-we-make-pgdump-and-pgrestore-5-times-faster

2 years ago

Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWJHHmi-6g

2 years ago

Enron tried to trade memory chip futures; why didn't it work?

https://www.felixstocker.com/blog/chips

2 years ago

Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls

https://www.seangoedecke.com/animal-call-audio-recognition/

2 years ago

Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

https://torrentfreak.com/researchers-showcase-decentralized-ai-powered-torrent-search-engine-240425/

2 years ago

Honda to spend $11B on four EV factories in North America

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/honda-to-spend-11-billion-on-four-ev-factories-in-north-america/

2 years ago

40 Years of Sopwith

https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/40years.html

2 years ago

Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/metafluid-gives-robotic-gripper-a-soft-touch/

2 years ago

JSR Is Not Another Package Manager

https://deno.com/blog/jsr-is-not-another-package-manager

2 years ago

Philosophus Autodidactus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan

2 years ago

Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/pay-to-stay-florida-inmates-charged-for-prison-cells-long-after-incarceration

2 years ago