top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-07

Apple introduces M4 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/

9 months ago

1588 upvotes – 2061 comments

Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyIEGRw4-U

9 months ago

917 upvotes – 301 comments

Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/05/Ultrasonic_cold_brew_coffee_ready_under_three_minutes

9 months ago

537 upvotes – 351 comments

LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops

https://www.ifixit.com/News/95078/lpcamm2-memory-is-finally-here

9 months ago

374 upvotes – 167 comments

Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-office-towers-into-apartments-save-downtowns

9 months ago

366 upvotes – 717 comments

Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet

https://pyspread.gitlab.io/

9 months ago

356 upvotes – 121 comments

Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/hackers-discover-how-to-reprogram-nes-tetris-from-within-the-game/

9 months ago

300 upvotes – 103 comments

How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch

https://jacobpadilla.com/articles/recreating-asyncio

9 months ago

282 upvotes – 57 comments

Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

https://news.mit.edu/2024/sound-suppressing-silk-can-create-quiet-spaces-0507

9 months ago

281 upvotes – 186 comments

Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics

https://www.beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

9 months ago

280 upvotes – 78 comments

The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)

https://audioacademy.in/the-grateful-deads-wall-of-sound/

9 months ago

270 upvotes – 122 comments

Gradient descent visualization

https://github.com/lilipads/gradient_descent_viz

9 months ago

263 upvotes – 36 comments

Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/07/boeing-us-investigation-787-inspections-faa

9 months ago

255 upvotes – 134 comments

IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-code-models

9 months ago

252 upvotes – 74 comments

SecureDrop Protocol

https://securedrop.org/news/introducing-securedrop-protocol/

9 months ago

246 upvotes – 11 comments

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

https://stateline.org/2024/03/29/vets-fret-as-private-equity-snaps-up-clinics-pet-care-companies/

9 months ago

244 upvotes – 229 comments

Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"

https://www.core77.com/posts/132088/Fantastic-Industrial-Design-Student-Work-How-Long-Should-Objects-Last

9 months ago

240 upvotes – 181 comments

Linux When?

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-linux-when

9 months ago

239 upvotes – 160 comments

Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

https://dotfiles.github.io/

9 months ago

229 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS

https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop-extension-bootc

9 months ago

219 upvotes – 59 comments
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