top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-04-29

Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail

9 months ago

1078 upvotes – 301 comments

Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=earlyowlsoftware.justme.justme&hl=en_US

9 months ago

732 upvotes – 199 comments

Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

https://theins.ru/en/politics/271205

9 months ago

708 upvotes – 468 comments

GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

https://rentry.co/GPT2

9 months ago

543 upvotes – 360 comments

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/

9 months ago

515 upvotes – 124 comments

Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades

https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/lange-erhoffter-durchbruch-erstmals-atomkern-mit-laser-angeregt

9 months ago

475 upvotes – 210 comments

The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5556650/the-internet-archives-last-ditch-effort-to-save-itself

9 months ago

475 upvotes – 403 comments

Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654

9 months ago

466 upvotes – 856 comments

I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS

https://codedbearder.com/posts/f3-backplane/

9 months ago

411 upvotes – 131 comments

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

https://threlte.xyz/

9 months ago

389 upvotes – 66 comments

FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402213A1.txt

9 months ago

351 upvotes – 186 comments

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

9 months ago

311 upvotes – 111 comments

GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview

https://github.blog/2024-04-29-github-copilot-workspace/

9 months ago

308 upvotes – 323 comments

The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number

https://tedium.co/2024/04/27/mobile-phone-imei-number-history/

9 months ago

282 upvotes – 170 comments

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

9 months ago

278 upvotes – 123 comments

FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/firechat-was-a-tool-for-revolution-then-it-disappeared/

9 months ago

270 upvotes – 123 comments

Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996

9 months ago

261 upvotes – 155 comments

Exploit.education

https://exploit.education

9 months ago

239 upvotes – 18 comments

SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-04-29-sb1047.html

9 months ago

225 upvotes – 190 comments

What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/nonplussed

9 months ago

220 upvotes – 325 comments
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