top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-27

Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)

https://theluddite.org/#!post/google-ads

9 months ago

1112 upvotes – 529 comments

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/signed-out-of-apple-id-account-problem-password/

9 months ago

732 upvotes – 516 comments

SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs

https://www.svgviewer.dev

9 months ago

500 upvotes – 76 comments

Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm

https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

9 months ago

484 upvotes – 73 comments

What can LLMs never do?

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do

9 months ago

460 upvotes – 374 comments

Keep Out – WebGL Game

http://www.playkeepout.com/

9 months ago

442 upvotes – 129 comments

Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600

https://github.com/lodefmode/moviecart

9 months ago

346 upvotes – 39 comments

So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)

https://incolumitas.com/2021/11/03/so-you-want-to-scrape-like-the-big-boys/

9 months ago

321 upvotes – 159 comments

The server chose violence

https://cliffle.com/blog/hubris-reply-fault/

9 months ago

306 upvotes – 62 comments

PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python

https://pysheets.app/

9 months ago

287 upvotes – 72 comments

World Wide Web (1991)

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

9 months ago

279 upvotes – 125 comments

The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down

https://www.theverge.com/24141929/apple-iphone-imessage-antitrust-dma-lock-in

9 months ago

271 upvotes – 415 comments

Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15-months/

9 months ago

264 upvotes – 17 comments

Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/26/irs-direct-file/

9 months ago

239 upvotes – 276 comments

How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

https://gagor.pro/2024/02/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-loved-makefiles/

9 months ago

227 upvotes – 140 comments

Burn After Wearing

https://grist.org/international/burn-after-wearing-fashion-waste-chile/

9 months ago

213 upvotes – 142 comments

I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs

https://github.com/khiner/CrosswordFiller

9 months ago

210 upvotes – 189 comments

Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181000

9 months ago

192 upvotes – 151 comments

Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

https://www.staysketchy.com/p/pablo-azocar

9 months ago

181 upvotes – 155 comments

What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't

https://suchdevblog.com/opinions/WhatOpenSourceIs.html

9 months ago

179 upvotes – 110 comments

The Vision Pro is a flop

https://disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro-is-a-big-flop/

9 months ago

167 upvotes – 320 comments

Speeding up C++ build times

https://www.figma.com/blog/speeding-up-build-times/

9 months ago

165 upvotes – 203 comments

iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSDdU8bJI0

9 months ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/06/how-to-prevent-lyme-disease-this-summer/

9 months ago

160 upvotes – 141 comments

Planes in 3D Space

https://alexharri.com/blog/planes

9 months ago

160 upvotes – 49 comments

Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758

9 months ago

159 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Cognita – open-source RAG framework for modular applications

https://github.com/truefoundry/cognita

9 months ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft at Work

https://computer.rip/2024-04-26-microsoft-at-work.html

9 months ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

Janky Apple ID Security

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/26/janky-apple-id-security/

9 months ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (2023)

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2023/07/embedded-go-prog/

9 months ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/ftc-amazon-antitrust-signal-ephemeral-messaging-evidence

9 months ago

132 upvotes – 143 comments

Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-24-04-noble-numbat-deep-dive

9 months ago

128 upvotes – 110 comments

Self-hosting forms, the sane way

https://karelvo.com/blog/selfhosting-forms-the-sane-way

9 months ago

127 upvotes – 92 comments

APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/ipv4_nats_slow_ipv6_transition/

9 months ago

121 upvotes – 110 comments

VMware outsourcing their support

https://rubenerd.com/vmware-outsourcing-their-support/

9 months ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Practical Vim command workflow (2023)

https://m4xshen.dev/posts/vim-command-workflow/

9 months ago

106 upvotes – 97 comments

Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

9 months ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

Clang’s -O0 output: branch displacement and size increase

https://maskray.me/blog/2024-04-27-clang-o0-output-branch-displacement-and-size-increase

9 months ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server

https://sourceforge.net/p/twelveto11/code/HEAD/tree/README

9 months ago

93 upvotes – 96 comments

"Kawaii" tech logos by Sawaratsuki

https://github.com/SAWARATSUKI/ServiceLogos

9 months ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Hertz is ditching even more electric cars

https://qz.com/hertz-ev-sales-tesla-rental-cars-1851438100

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 245 comments
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