680
187
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/shapeup/
2 years ago
531
57
Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
https://www.tunera.xyz/fonts/teranoptia/
433
69
A Single Div
https://a.singlediv.com/
406
230
mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/mrna-cancer-vaccine-reprograms-immune-system-to-tackle-glioblastoma/
395
167
Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231790
377
Online Cryptography Course (2017)
https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/
366
103
Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
362
93
Building a rocket engine from scratch
https://blog.ablspacesystems.com/p/building-e2
300
135
Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming
https://ret2pop.nullring.xyz/blog/cognition.html
272
200
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/rool_530_is_here/
269
23
Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter
https://kyju.org/blog/piccolo-a-stackless-lua-interpreter/
256
107
ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
255
94
The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/
254
149
Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/microsoft-bans-u-s-police-departments-from-using-enterprise-ai-tool/
253
156
Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68942123
250
99
How did Ancient Greek music sound?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y
246
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/
240
They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/they-thought-they-were-joining-an-accelerator-instead-they-lost-their-startups/
233
73
Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
https://hackersearch.net
220
74
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2024/05/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-dies-of-sudden-illness.html
219
114
Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
https://longnow.org/ideas/to-save-it-eat-it/
213
A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
https://sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-recent-security-incident-involving-dropbox-sign
211
343
AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/am-radio-is-a-lifeline-lawmakers-say-tech-and-auto-industries-disagree/
208
147
Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
https://platform.uno/
191
83
The Snapdragon 855's iGPU
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/01/inside-the-snapdragon-855s-igpu/
185
3
Second Boeing whistleblower dies after raising concerns about 737 MAX
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-whistleblower-dies-second-b2538563.html
184
20
TSMC Jumps into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap for 12.8 Tbps Interconnect
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21373/tsmc-adds-silicon-photonics-coupe-roadmap-128tbps-on-package
178
63
Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenbcbjcnkhkikgopniimobmmdcfog
162
120
YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTYg6vnQvw
159
51
Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/05/hacking-on-postgresql-is-really-hard.html
148
71
Goodyear Inflatoplane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Inflatoplane
142
2
Whistleblower who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/whistleblower-joshua-dean-ex-worker-at-boeing-supplier-dies
131
102
AI Photo Geolocation
https://geospy.ai/
127
117
Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created
https://search.chatgpt.com
125
5
Johnson & Johnson announces $6.5B settlement over ovarian cancer allegations
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/01/johnson-johnson-talc-baby-powder-settlement-ovarian-cancer
123
521
The fishy death of Red Lobster
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy-private-equity-debt-real-estate-2024-5
121
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vivianite-blue-human-remains
112
You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
https://mastodon.social/@Edent/112372412442888807
Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists
https://steplist.app/
115
52
Rust: Box Is a Unique Type
https://blog.nilstrieb.dev/posts/box-is-a-unique-type/
50
More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-synonyms/
113
111
An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK
https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/rabbit-r1
79
Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/nurses-say-hospital-adoption-of-half-cooked-ai-is-reckless/
106
The business of wallets
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-business-of-wallets/
82
Key Consciousness Connections Uncovered
https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-neuroimaging-brain-26017/
98
100
The user is on their own
https://www.selfawaresoup.com/notes/2024/05/01/the-user-is-on-their-own/
29
The life and times of an Abstract Syntax Tree
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/05/02/the-life-and-times-of-an-abstract-syntax-tree/
97
87
Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/computers-reduce-efficiency-case-studies-of-the-solow-paradox/
95
22
Hacking on PostgreSQL Is Hard
88
28
Heat Death of the Internet
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
12
Godot 4.3 Dev Snapshot 6 Updates
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-6/
66
Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia
https://lithub.com/how-silk-helped-the-armies-of-genghis-khan-conquer-asia/
86
7
Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else
146
00Key a 75% Keyboard
https://github.com/ZeroZeroOne-dev/00Key
81
Modern Linux on the Desktop in 2023
https://crepererum.net/linux-2023/
Pet parrots prefer live video-calls
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-pet-parrots-video-pre-videos.html
34
Amazon CEO Andy jassy broke federal labor law with anti-union remarks
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-broke-federal-labor-law-with-anti-union-remarks.html
78
36
A knight's tale
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/04/a-knights-tale.html
76
26
Rewriting the Technical Interview (2020)
https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview
75
Hobby's algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines (2020)
https://www.jakelow.com/blog/hobby-curves
Tesla slashes its summer internship program
https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/
60
Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)
https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html
80
Warn HN: The AI That Plugs Your Product on Reddit in Conversations
https://replyguy.com/
72
Another Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Has Died
https://time.com/6973635/boeing-spirit-aerosystems-whistleblower-josh-dean-dead/
Show HN: SpRAG – Open-source RAG implementation for challenging real-world tasks
https://github.com/SuperpoweredAI/spRAG
68
116
How much is enough to FIRE in San Francisco?
https://andrenader.substack.com/p/enough-to-fire-in-san-francisco
30
Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that decide
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pleasure-or-pain-he-maps-the-neural-circuits-that-decide-20240416/
65
62
Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo
https://twitter.com/arithmoquine/status/1785834410312454389
I'm closing up shop on my Mastodon for the foreseeable future
https://vkc.sh/its-not-you-its-me-taking-a-break-from-mastodon/
109
The Stripper Index: An unorthodox recession measurement
https://theamericangenius.com/tech-news/the-stripper-index-recession/
61
Losing My Hands
https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/04/29/losing-my-hands/
Why I'm Resigning from the Intercept
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept
Mongoose IM 6.2.1 – Erlang Solutions robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server
https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/releases/tag/6.2.1
58
37
Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238911
17
Federal frenzy to patch gaping Gitlab account takeover hole
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/critical_gitlab_vulnerability/
Desert greening is transforming dust and sand into farmable soil (2023)
https://www.freethink.com/energy/desertification-desert-greening
