top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-03

DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android

9 months ago

835 upvotes – 379 comments

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woodworking-escape-from-software-absurdity/

9 months ago

730 upvotes – 522 comments

Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

https://github.com/abi/secret-llama

9 months ago

547 upvotes – 139 comments

I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

https://alexgarcia.xyz/blog/2024/building-new-vector-search-sqlite/index.html

9 months ago

526 upvotes – 85 comments

Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/556

9 months ago

490 upvotes – 532 comments

Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/

9 months ago

489 upvotes – 386 comments

Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

https://bandmatch.app

9 months ago

452 upvotes – 222 comments

As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/wheelchair-repair-delay-numotion-national-seating-mobility/

9 months ago

440 upvotes – 317 comments

Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

https://english.nv.ua/life/27-unique-volumes-of-grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-were-found-in-poland-50415035.html

9 months ago

431 upvotes – 127 comments

Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker

https://richarddas.com/blog/turning-airpods-into-fitness-trackers-to-fight-cancer/

9 months ago

284 upvotes – 64 comments

How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?

https://glitchcomet.com/articles/1024-bit-primes/

9 months ago

271 upvotes – 85 comments

AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding

9 months ago

270 upvotes – 487 comments

Figma’s Journey to TypeScript

https://www.figma.com/blog/figmas-journey-to-typescript-compiling-away-our-custom-programming-language/

9 months ago

261 upvotes – 248 comments

Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job

https://globalnews.ca/news/10463535/ontario-family-doctor-artificial-intelligence-notes/

9 months ago

260 upvotes – 263 comments

How to Use JSON Path

https://bump.sh/blog/how-to-use-json-path

9 months ago

255 upvotes – 131 comments

Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

9 months ago

248 upvotes – 167 comments

CSS Text Box Trim

https://github.com/jantimon/text-box-trim-examples

9 months ago

222 upvotes – 52 comments

Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

https://www.lowercase.app/

9 months ago

222 upvotes – 177 comments

Interview with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack Enigma (1974) [video]

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=56989

9 months ago

205 upvotes – 60 comments

Discord Applying Forced Arbitration - opt-out before it is too late!

https://bsky.app/profile/silverwuffamute.bsky.social/post/3kqbd476nvk2i

9 months ago

186 upvotes – 97 comments
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