top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-21

Gordon Bell has died

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

8 months ago

1257 upvotes – 70 comments

What UI density means and how to design for it

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/

8 months ago

767 upvotes – 387 comments

CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium

8 months ago

669 upvotes – 241 comments

The curious case of the missing period

https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period

8 months ago

531 upvotes – 193 comments

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

https://amber-lang.com/

8 months ago

463 upvotes – 313 comments

Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

https://plsfix.co/

8 months ago

444 upvotes – 398 comments

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

8 months ago

421 upvotes – 216 comments

Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html

8 months ago

393 upvotes – 456 comments

Shipbreaking

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbreaking

8 months ago

358 upvotes – 200 comments

Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654

8 months ago

346 upvotes – 168 comments

The OpenAI board was right

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right

8 months ago

340 upvotes – 342 comments

NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

8 months ago

325 upvotes – 266 comments

Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures

https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/

8 months ago

321 upvotes – 62 comments

Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file

https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html

8 months ago

320 upvotes – 120 comments

Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818

8 months ago

304 upvotes – 40 comments

Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far

https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio

8 months ago

287 upvotes – 297 comments

Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/business-booms-depressions-since-1775-145

8 months ago

261 upvotes – 267 comments

Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder

https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski

8 months ago

256 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

https://github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel

8 months ago

244 upvotes – 99 comments

A Road to Common Lisp (2018)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

8 months ago

239 upvotes – 168 comments
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