The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2024

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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise openwall.com · rkta · 29 Mar 2024

4.5k pts 1.8k comments

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U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly nytimes.com · jcfrei · 21 Mar 2024

2.5k pts 2.6k comments

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Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) usebruno.com · ulrischa · 9 Mar 2024

1.5k pts 400 comments

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Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable oimo.io · surprisetalk · 23 Mar 2024

1.5k pts 243 comments

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Spreadsheets are all you need spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai · evanmays · 14 Mar 2024

1.5k pts 164 comments

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Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com · modeless · 1 Mar 2024

1.5k pts 1.2k comments

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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US bbc.com · neapolisbeach · 11 Mar 2024

1.3k pts 556 comments

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XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." bsky.app · junon · 30 Mar 2024

1.3k pts 810 comments

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Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS" github.com · ent101 · 4 Mar 2024

1.3k pts 319 comments

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Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) eloquentjavascript.net · vajdagabor · 7 Mar 2024

1.3k pts 231 comments

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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison cnn.com · misiti3780 · 28 Mar 2024

1.3k pts 1.4k comments

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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax difftastic.wilfred.me.uk · frankjr · 21 Mar 2024

1.2k pts 200 comments

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Grok github.com · pierre · 17 Mar 2024

1.2k pts 419 comments

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Vernor Vinge has died file770.com · sohkamyung · 21 Mar 2024

1.2k pts 320 comments

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Akira Toriyama has died noisypixel.net · gaoryrt · 8 Mar 2024

1.1k pts 207 comments

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OpenAI and Elon Musk openai.com · mfiguiere · 6 Mar 2024

1k pts 977 comments

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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls arstechnica.com · mbrubeck · 5 Mar 2024

1k pts 638 comments

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Claude 3 model family anthropic.com · marc__1 · 4 Mar 2024

1k pts 683 comments

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Daniel Kahneman has died washingtonpost.com · mrjaeger · 27 Mar 2024

1k pts 309 comments

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Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map flightradar24.com · mjs · 20 Mar 2024

996 pts 281 comments

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Monodraw monodraw.helftone.com · saikatsg · 9 Mar 2024

996 pts 200 comments

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Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS techcrunch.com · madtrax · 6 Mar 2024

970 pts 1k comments

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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative ente.io · madmax108 · 2 Mar 2024

964 pts 327 comments

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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices danluu.com · jasondavies · 16 Mar 2024

932 pts 597 comments

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French court issues damages award for violation of GPL heathermeeker.com · bookstore-romeo · 4 Mar 2024

927 pts 434 comments

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Fine tune a 70B language model at home answer.ai · jph00 · 7 Mar 2024

909 pts 206 comments

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YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI blog.google · thm · 18 Mar 2024

882 pts 485 comments

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Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing ftc.gov · nabla9 · 2 Mar 2024

878 pts 607 comments

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Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right hugo.blog · wolverine876 · 15 Mar 2024

873 pts 829 comments

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What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane prospect.org · doom2 · 28 Mar 2024

871 pts 532 comments

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DBRX: A new open LLM databricks.com · jasondavies · 27 Mar 2024

866 pts 343 comments

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Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location cellio.dreamwidth.org · throwaway_08932 · 14 Mar 2024

864 pts 311 comments

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Simon Riggs has died m6n.io · ajdude · 29 Mar 2024

841 pts 226 comments

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JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data jsoncanvas.org · nickmain · 11 Mar 2024

841 pts 164 comments

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Kagi and Wolfram blog.kagi.com · cwmartin · 5 Mar 2024

810 pts 332 comments

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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative app.radicle.xyz · aiw1nt3rs · 5 Mar 2024

807 pts 283 comments

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Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance memories.gallery · radialapps · 21 Mar 2024

797 pts 230 comments

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Why are most sofas so bad? dwell.com · jtsnow · 14 Mar 2024

783 pts 739 comments

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FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor fda.gov · bookofjoe · 6 Mar 2024

783 pts 426 comments

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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners github.com · ben_s · 6 Mar 2024

783 pts 285 comments

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Don't fuck with paste github.com · zettabomb · 8 Mar 2024

782 pts 383 comments

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Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU macrumors.com · Hamuko · 12 Mar 2024

781 pts 1.4k comments

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Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU appleinsider.com · astlouis44 · 1 Mar 2024

775 pts 462 comments

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Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file github.com · iscream26 · 24 Mar 2024

772 pts 151 comments

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The race to replace Redis lwn.net · chmaynard · 28 Mar 2024

759 pts 496 comments

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler github.com · notamy · 21 Mar 2024

747 pts 228 comments

47

Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D stability.ai · ed · 18 Mar 2024

742 pts 131 comments

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Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation trangram.com · trangram · 12 Mar 2024

738 pts 247 comments

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How to Start Google paulgraham.com · harscoat · 19 Mar 2024

737 pts 652 comments

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How I keep myself alive using Golang bytesizego.com · ingve · 4 Mar 2024

726 pts 132 comments

51

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed twitter.com · repelsteeltje · 26 Mar 2024

726 pts 2 comments

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Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor the_king · 26 Mar 2024

716 pts 244 comments

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Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses wbaltv.com · QuarterReptile · 26 Mar 2024

712 pts 1.1k comments

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Meta outage metastatus.com · geocrasher · 5 Mar 2024

698 pts 843 comments

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The hunt for the missing data type hillelwayne.com · todsacerdoti · 4 Mar 2024

690 pts 254 comments

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The return of the frame pointers brendangregg.com · mfiguiere · 17 Mar 2024

684 pts 251 comments

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My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023) lisyarus.github.io · atan2 · 8 Mar 2024

675 pts 378 comments

58

Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation lexaloffle.com · celadevra_ · 22 Mar 2024

675 pts 192 comments

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Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate esa.int · thunderbong · 11 Mar 2024

670 pts 356 comments

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Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure engineering.fb.com · mootpt · 12 Mar 2024

664 pts 303 comments