top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-01

New startup sells coffee through SSH

https://www.terminal.shop/

2 years ago

904 upvotes – 407 comments

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

https://github.com/KindXiaoming/pykan

2 years ago

568 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224213

2 years ago

549 upvotes – 731 comments

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/

2 years ago

515 upvotes – 562 comments

Every map of China is wrong

https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

2 years ago

482 upvotes – 263 comments

The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)

https://natureofcode.com/introduction/

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 51 comments

Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

https://www.ft.com/content/54671865-4c7f-4692-a879-867ef68f0bde

2 years ago

357 upvotes – 330 comments

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 315 comments

Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 128 comments

Figma OSS Alternative

https://penpot.app/

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 95 comments

Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-markey-reveal-automakers-provide-detailed-location-information-to-law-enforcement-without-a-warrant-rarely-notify-car-owners-request-ftc-investigate-broken-promises-to-protect-drivers-privacy

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 121 comments

Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231906

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 142 comments

StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation

https://storydiffusion.github.io/

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

https://factful.io/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221210

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 186 comments

Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust

https://github.com/pcwalton/offset-allocator

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 58 comments

At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-security-debt-crashing-down/714685/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 96 comments

DEA Accepts Health Agency's Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis

https://norml.org/blog/2024/04/30/dea-accepts-health-agencys-recommendation-to-reclassify-cannabis/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 2 comments

The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack

https://blog.limbus-medtec.com/the-aws-s3-denial-of-wallet-amplification-attack-bc5a97cc041d?gi=67ac052cc1ce

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments

How to install Linux from a Windows installer

https://prose.nsood.in/linux-from-windows-installer

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 83 comments

Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-toxicity-fresh-scrutiny-salmon-die.html

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 164 comments

Johnson and Johnson to pay $6.5B to resolve talc ovarian cancer lawsuits in U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/johnson-johnson-will-pay-6point5-billion-to-resolve-nearly-all-talc-ovarian-cancer-lawsuits-in-us.html

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 125 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224210

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 456 comments

Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68935522

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 2 comments

Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0xhIe1LFE

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 88 comments

LLMs can't do probability

https://brainsteam.co.uk/2024/05/01/llms-cant-do-probability/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 202 comments

Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2

https://go.dev/blog/randv2

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 44 comments

I've forked neofetch to keep it alive

https://github.com/LorenDB/neofetch

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229549

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 88 comments

Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?

https://jgeekstudies.org/2024/04/26/are-japanese-anime-robots-isometric-or-allometric/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 63 comments

BASIC turns 60

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 141 comments

The LaserDisc

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-laserdisc

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 118 comments

Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/akyia-houses-why-japan-has-nine-million-empty-homes

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 131 comments

Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting

https://research.paulengstler.com/invisible-stitch/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 6 comments

The drinking fountain button

https://www.theverge.com/24144774/drinking-fountain-bubbler-button-of-the-month

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 196 comments

Theory of Constraints

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

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report [pdf]

https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/T5be/reports/2024-dbir-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Paul Auster has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article286920890.html

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: I've build a stupidly simple invoicing for freelancers and contractors

https://onigiri.one/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/the-two-largest-geostationary-satellite-operators-will-become-one/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 140 comments

The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/european-unions-remarkable-growth-performance-relative-united-states

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 279 comments

The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

Dune 3D 1.1.0 Released

https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/releases/tag/v1.1.0

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224211

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 200 comments

TORAX is a differentiable tokamak core transport simulator

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

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Are We Modules Yet?

https://arewemodulesyet.org/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 90 comments

Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer

https://www.osnews.com/story/139517/chinese-tencent-owned-company-riot-games-installs-rootkit-on-every-league-of-legends-players-computer/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Beware of fake beaches (Pokémon Go)

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work?

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/why-we-cant-have-nice-things

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 93 comments

Aboriginal Linux

https://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Please don't share our links on Mastodon

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Browser-based web design platform with code import and CSS filters

https://demo.gocodestudio.com/studio/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-applications-down-5-percent-claudine-gay/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 163 comments

Possible to dot your Is with hearts?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/716175/possible-to-dot-your-is-with-hearts

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats

https://maps-and-splats.glitch.me/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: MuscleWiki Workout Generator – Generate unique workouts

https://musclewiki.com/workout-generator

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/centurylink-left-users-with-no-service-for-two-months-then-billed-them-239/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/22/the-big-idea-what-if-dreaming-is-the-whole-point-of-sleepp

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 110 comments

Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 128 comments

Claude Team plan and iOS app

https://www.anthropic.com/news/team-plan-and-ios

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

Google lays off hundreds of ‘core’ employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core-workers-moves-jobs-to-india-mexico.html

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

JPEG XL and Google's War Against It

https://vale.rocks/blog/JPEG_XL_And_Googles_War_Against_It

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-tax-fraud

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 105 comments

Tesla uses new Texas law to avoid Austin's environmental regulations

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/tesla-avoids-texas-law-concerns/269-19de0eff-73c8-4231-891c-0b0a78b9dcf8

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Cracked Rabbit R1 APKs running on Android phone

https://twitter.com/MarcelD505/status/1785346490635878837

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time

https://www.businessinsider.com/job-market-high-pay-employees-labor-economy-finding-work-2024-4

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/engineer-builds-a-gpu-from-scratch-in-two-weeks-process-much-harder-than-he-expected

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: FileKitty – Combine and label text files for LLM prompt contexts

https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/19/realestate/st-francis-college-brooklyn.html

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 106 comments

Jeff Barr acknowledges S3 unauthorized request billing issue

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1ch1ir4/jeff_barr_acknowledges_s3_unauthorized_request/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments
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