The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2024
We track 1,230 stories from April 2024, averaging 250 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 127 stories. Together they drew 169,420 comments, 138 per story on average.
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The man who killed Google Search?
wheresyoured.at · elorant · 23 Apr 2024
1.9k pts
878 comments
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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
loglog.games · darthdeus · 26 Apr 2024
1.5k pts
972 comments
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Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
tonsky.me · tobr · 17 Apr 2024
1.4k pts
455 comments
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'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
972mag.com · contemporary343 · 3 Apr 2024
1.4k pts
1.4k comments
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Obituary for a quiet life (2023)
bittersoutherner.com · conanxin · 14 Apr 2024
1.4k pts
293 comments
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LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
justine.lol · lawrencechen · 1 Apr 2024
1.4k pts
451 comments
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
bitsaboutmoney.com · disgruntledphd2 · 4 Apr 2024
1.3k pts
733 comments
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FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
ftc.gov · null0ranje · 23 Apr 2024
1.2k pts
500 comments
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Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
afterbabel.com · throwup238 · 9 Apr 2024
1.2k pts
1.2k comments
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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
predr.ag · bonyt · 1 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
324 comments
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Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
theluddite.org · MrVandemar · 27 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
529 comments
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Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
esa.int · rbanffy · 29 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
301 comments
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Timeline of the xz open source attack
research.swtch.com · todsacerdoti · 2 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
459 comments
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Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
gijn.org · chippy · 3 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
496 comments
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Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA
github.com · tosh · 8 Apr 2024
1.1k pts
168 comments
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FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
nytimes.com · throwup238 · 25 Apr 2024
1k pts
564 comments
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Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
3blue1brown.com · rohitpaulk · 14 Apr 2024
999 pts
172 comments
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A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
maphappenings.com · MBCook · 16 Apr 2024
982 pts
207 comments
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Passkeys: A shattered dream
fy.blackhats.net.au · nmjenkins · 26 Apr 2024
969 pts
773 comments
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Daniel Dennett has died
dailynous.com · mellosouls · 19 Apr 2024
952 pts
630 comments
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Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
theguardian.com · grahameb · 9 Apr 2024
945 pts
104 comments
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Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
agileotter.blogspot.com · ingve · 21 Apr 2024
891 pts
322 comments
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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
blog.jim-nielsen.com · herbertl · 25 Apr 2024
887 pts
444 comments
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Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
paulbupejr.com · 00702 · 11 Apr 2024
886 pts
130 comments
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Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
github.com · q3k · 1 Apr 2024
849 pts
469 comments
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Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
github.com · nikitml · 12 Apr 2024
829 pts
336 comments
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Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
theverge.com · vyrotek · 24 Apr 2024
819 pts
1.7k comments
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Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
sqlite.org · todsacerdoti · 30 Apr 2024
790 pts
221 comments
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NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
blogs.nasa.gov · jonathankoren · 22 Apr 2024
780 pts
206 comments
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CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
consumerfinance.gov · Jimmc414 · 17 Apr 2024
762 pts
343 comments
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Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
panqueca · 5 Apr 2024
760 pts
767 comments
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AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
twitter.com · amichail · 4 Apr 2024
748 pts
273 comments
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Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
mailman.nanog.org · speckx · 11 Apr 2024
743 pts
375 comments
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Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
9to5mac.com · alwillis · 27 Apr 2024
732 pts
516 comments
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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
play.google.com · stormqueen · 29 Apr 2024
732 pts
196 comments
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Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
abcnews.go.com · vyrotek · 24 Apr 2024
725 pts
348 comments
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The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
twitter.com · croes · 17 Apr 2024
718 pts
389 comments
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Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
theins.ru · dralley · 29 Apr 2024
708 pts
468 comments
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An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
heatpumpmonitor.org · protontypes · 12 Apr 2024
708 pts
340 comments
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Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
wsj.com · winstonprivacy · 16 Apr 2024
693 pts
378 comments
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I should have loved biology (2020)
jsomers.net · paulgb · 21 Apr 2024
685 pts
253 comments
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Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
bawolf.substack.com · bryantwolf · 17 Apr 2024
675 pts
174 comments
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Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone
github.com · nilsherzig · 3 Apr 2024
669 pts
133 comments
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Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
github.com · manx · 30 Apr 2024
666 pts
545 comments
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AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
suno.com · hongsy · 11 Apr 2024
666 pts
368 comments
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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
apnews.com · JacobHenner · 30 Apr 2024
662 pts
863 comments
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Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
pyinfra.com · InitEnabler · 30 Apr 2024
644 pts
217 comments
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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
eidel.io · olieidel · 7 Apr 2024
633 pts
998 comments
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