Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Donating forks to the dining hall
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DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
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Gov. Polis Signs Bill Mandating That Consumers Have Options to Fix Electronics
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FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server
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How actors remember their lines
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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
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I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
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I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)
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Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
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Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
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Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative
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Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars
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Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
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Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
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Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
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Kino: Pro Video Camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers
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Resume Tip: Hacking \"AI\" screening of resumes
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Priced out of home ownership
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Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems
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Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
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WP21
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Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
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Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
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TTE: Terminal Text Effects
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API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
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What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
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The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy
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The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
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Big data is dead (2023)
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Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
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Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
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Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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&udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search
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So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)
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Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
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Diffusion Models
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Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
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How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
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Braid: Synchronization for HTTP
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Hurl, the Exceptional Language
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Cloudflare took down our website
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Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product
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Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
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Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
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Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
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Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering
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Writing a Unix clone in about a month
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Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
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Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go
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Abusing Go's Infrastructure
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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)
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BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
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300k airplanes in five years
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Making EC2 boot time faster
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Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS
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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges
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Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative
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2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution
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ICQ will stop working from June 26
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Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Number 16 (spider)
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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
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Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
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Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM
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US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
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OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
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WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
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The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
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We're ending our Samsung collaboration
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Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures
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Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
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Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
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The curious case of the missing period
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Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file
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'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public
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Pluckable Strings
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One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid
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Try Clojure
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Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System
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pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
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Enlightenmentware
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Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM
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Shipbreaking
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NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
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What UI density means and how to design for it
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CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
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Gordon Bell has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances
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Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg
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Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube \"seems\" to do it for free. How?
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Meteor seen in Portugal
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The Lunacy of Artemis
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Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
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3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
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Introducing Copilot+ PCs
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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI \"Sky\" voice
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A trustworthy, free (libre), Linux capable, self-hosting 64bit RISC-V computer
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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
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Floor796
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Calculus with Julia
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Riven
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Big Tech to EU: \"Drop Dead\"
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Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages
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Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
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Coding My Handwriting
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Llama3 implemented from scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
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The Downfall of DeviantArt
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ADSL works over wet string (2017)
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Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
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Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
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OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
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Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity
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Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check
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If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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D3 in Depth
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
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Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
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Slack AI Training with Customer Data
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A forged Apple employee badge
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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
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Exercises to Learn Rust
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Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]
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Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
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Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
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Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
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Starting emails with \"BEGIN PGP MESSAGE\" will fool the filter
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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
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New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy
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Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
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Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
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Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
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VCs aren’t your friends
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Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
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Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
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A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
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Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
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Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
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Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
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Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'
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The Worst Website in the Entire World
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Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
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Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
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Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
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Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
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VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
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Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs
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Veo
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Gemini Flash
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Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Alternative Implementation Problem
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GPUs Go Brrr
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Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
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Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
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Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
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It’s an age of marvels
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The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
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Static Chess
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Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
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GPT-4o
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
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So We've Got a Memory Leak
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100k Stars
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Why you can hear the temperature of water
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Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
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Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)
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The Emacs Window Management Almanac
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PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
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Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
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Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
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Life-like particle system
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Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
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Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
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KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
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Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
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Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
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Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
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Immersive Math
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
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Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
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Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
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The world has probably passed peak pollution
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Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
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Popover API
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Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
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Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
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Jim Simons has died
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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body
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TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
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Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
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Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x
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The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
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Algebraic Data Types for C99
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Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
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Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
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Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
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It's always TCP_NODELAY
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
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Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
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Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
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LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops
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Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics
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U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
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'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
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Steve Albini has died
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Development Notes from xkcd's \"Machine\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
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Design docs at Google (2020)
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Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
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The best way to have complex discussions?
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Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
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Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
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Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
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Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
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Apple introduces M4 chip
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Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
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Machine Unlearning in 2024
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Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
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Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
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BlackHole: macOS Audio Loopback Driver
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Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames
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Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
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A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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In Praise of Idleness (1932)
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How to build a $20B semiconductor fab
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Verified Rust for low-level systems code
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Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years
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Atari's Mike Jang
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Show HN: gpudeploy.com – \"Airbnb\" for GPUs
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Automated integer hash function discovery
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MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
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Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
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Bollards: Why and What
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]
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The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
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Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
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Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
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Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
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AI copilots are changing how coding is taught
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How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?
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Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
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Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU
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I don't want to fill out your contact form
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Every map of China is wrong
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Building a rocket engine from scratch
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A Single Div
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I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
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Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
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Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
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DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
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Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
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As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team
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Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
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New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
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Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
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mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
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Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming
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Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
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Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
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Online Cryptography Course (2017)
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Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
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Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
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Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
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The File Filesystem (2021)
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Printing Music with CSS Grid
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Figma OSS Alternative
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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
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Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
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New startup sells coffee through SSH
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
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GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
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Show HN: 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js
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TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
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Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
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Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
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Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration
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Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
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Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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