top 50% 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

2 years ago

835 upvotes – 379 comments

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

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

2 years ago

730 upvotes – 518 comments

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

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

2 years 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

2 years ago

526 upvotes – 85 comments

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

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

2 years 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/

2 years ago

489 upvotes – 386 comments

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

https://bandmatch.app

2 years 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/

2 years 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

2 years ago

431 upvotes – 127 comments

Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker

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

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 64 comments

How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?

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

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 86 comments

AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

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

2 years 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/

2 years 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/

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 263 comments

How to Use JSON Path

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

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 131 comments

Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

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

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 167 comments

Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

https://www.lowercase.app/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 178 comments

CSS Text Box Trim

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

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 52 comments

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

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

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft ties executive pay to security after multiple failures and breaches

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/microsoft-ties-executive-pay-to-security-following-multiple-failures-and-breaches/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 104 comments

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

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

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 97 comments

Deletion of user account

https://www.soflow.com/eu/product/deletion-of-user-account/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 115 comments

Dressmaking CAD

https://xn--6xw240d.net/

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 40 comments

Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)

https://jeroenjanssens.com/dsatcl/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 30 comments

Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2024/05/02/georgia-tech-and-meta-create-massive-open-dataset-advance-ai-solutions-carbon

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 174 comments

Manta Ray UUV prototype completes in-water testing

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-05-01

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 94 comments

Mexico's Floating Gardens

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 31 comments

I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-24-hours-with-github-copilot-workspaces

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 72 comments

Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons

https://github.com/enzet/map-machine

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 5 comments

Using a LLM to compress text

https://o565.com/llm-text-compression/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 63 comments

The Physics of Karate (2021)

https://daily.jstor.org/the-physics-of-karate/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 105 comments

What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-modern-css-spring-2024-edition/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Make More Money Renting a GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/02/how-to-make-more-money-renting-a-gpu-than-nvidia-makes-selling-it/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

llm.c: multi-GPU, bfloat16, flash attention, ~7% faster than PyTorch

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1786461447654125625

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 10 comments

SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework

https://sato-team.github.io/Stable-Text-to-Motion-Framework/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ/refusal-in-llms-is-mediated-by-a-single-direction

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 20 comments

Folding and One Straight Cut Suffice [pdf] (1999)

https://www.imsc.res.in/~hbar/PDFs_2017/Paper_by_Demaine_Demaine_Lubiw.pdf

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino

https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/04/23/creating-a-low-cost-ev-charging-station-with-arduino/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 118 comments

Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader

https://theunderground.blog/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

I can fix this PC, boss, but I'll need to play games for hours to do it

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/on_call/

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust

https://github.com/xlmnxp/blue-recorder

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: I have been unable to land a job in two years, does anybody

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40243598

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates

https://boilermate.site/hot

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

StructLM: Towards Building Generalist Models for Structured Knowledge Grounding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16671

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 0 comments

CO2 removal 'gap' shows countries 'lack progress' for 1.5C warming limit

https://www.carbonbrief.org/co2-removal-gap-shows-countries-lack-progress-for-1-5c-warming-limit/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments

Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy

https://www.theverge.com/24146299/costa-rica-forest-restoration-renewable-energy-lessons

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Auckland: A city with a labyrinth of underground caves

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240501-the-new-zealand-city-with-a-labyrinth-of-underground-caves

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

Firefox Webserial Addon

https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments

Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

https://boehs.org/node/bountysource

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

The most important cryptography papers

https://evervault.com/papers

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Beware of the Turing tar-pit (2004)

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/10/beware-of-turing-tar-pit.html

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Agricultural IoT system sends power through the soil

https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-agriculture

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

DrEureka: Language Model Guided SIM-to-Real Transfer

https://eureka-research.github.io/dr-eureka/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments
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