top 50% 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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

https://rentry.co/GPT2

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

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

2 years ago

I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS

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

2 years ago

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

https://threlte.xyz/

2 years ago

FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview

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

2 years ago

The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number

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

2 years ago

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

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

2 years ago

FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared

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

2 years ago

Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

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

2 years ago

Exploit.education

https://exploit.education

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Memary: Open-Source Longterm Memory for Autonomous Agents

https://github.com/kingjulio8238/memary

2 years ago

You can't just assume UTF-8

https://csvbase.com/blog/9

2 years ago

FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-fines-big-three-carriers-196m-for-selling-users-real-time-location-data/

2 years ago

Calendar types in watches

https://arslan.io/2024/04/29/calendar-types-in-watches/

2 years ago

Answering Legal Questions with LLMs

https://hugodutka.com/posts/answering-legal-questions-with-llms/

2 years ago

Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240423-how-to-make-a-mini-wildlife-pond

2 years ago

Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance

2 years ago

30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/30-of-children-ages-5-7-are-on-tiktok

2 years ago

Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line

https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder

2 years ago

500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)

http://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons.html

2 years ago

Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/phishing-usps-malicious-domains-traffic-equal-to-legitimate-traffic

2 years ago

Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/project-habbakuk-britains-secret-ice-bergship-aircraft-carrier-project/

2 years ago

Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify

https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy

2 years ago

P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX40hbAHx3s

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40196880

2 years ago

A leadership crisis in the Nix community

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/970824/0d89c6d83efad1e0/

2 years ago

Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

2 years ago

I Built an Ld_preload Worm

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/that-time-i-built-an-ld_preload-worm

2 years ago

Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac

https://gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-maniac-1851433847

2 years ago

FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator

https://www.philpem.me.uk/code/3b1emu

2 years ago

A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

https://wordsandbuttons.online/a_smooth_and_sharp_image_interpolation.html

2 years ago

CloudGoat

https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/cloudgoat

2 years ago

Collection of publicly available IPTV channels

https://iptv-org.github.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: Kaytu – Optimizing cloud costs using actual usage data

https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu

2 years ago

Pulumi AI is poisoning Google search results with AI answers

https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-ai/issues/79

2 years ago

iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/29/eu-says-ipados-digital-gatekeeper-dma/

2 years ago

Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)

https://lukekanies.com/writing/why-we-hate-working-for-big-companies/

2 years ago

Quacker News

http://quackernews.com/

2 years ago

Everything Curl

https://everything.curl.dev/

2 years ago

Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, and They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/

2 years ago

London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/london-drugs-closure-western-canada-1.7187615

2 years ago

Gradient AI Releases 1M Context Llama 3 8B

https://twitter.com/Gradient_AI_/status/1785036209468907796

2 years ago

Debugging Tech Journalism

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/debugging-tech-journalism

2 years ago

"So that a truncated partial download doesn't end up executing half a script"

https://tailscale.com/install.sh

2 years ago

Tour of CLIPS (2022)

https://ryjo.codes/tour-of-clips.html

2 years ago

Memory Management Every Programmer Should Know

https://zacharylee.substack.com/p/memory-management-every-programmer

2 years ago

Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds

2 years ago

The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams

http://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-part-5-illusions.html

2 years ago

Russian GRU was behind the attack in Vrbětice, NCOZ confirms

https://www.bis.cz/aktuality/za-utokem-ve-vrbeticich-byla-ruska-gru-potvrdila-ncoz-48976dbe.html

2 years ago

Physical fitness and risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2818132

2 years ago

Functional semantics in imperative clothing

https://rtfeldman.com/imperative-clothing

2 years ago