The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2024

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Meta Llama 3 llama.meta.com · bratao · 18 Apr 2024

2.2k pts 923 comments

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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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Equinox.space equinox.space · fragmede · 22 Apr 2024

1.6k pts 326 comments

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Mario meets Pareto mayerowitz.io · superMayo · 4 Apr 2024

1.6k pts 177 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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This is a teenager pudding.cool · gmays · 16 Apr 2024

1.4k pts 813 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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Descent 3 Source Code github.com · kevin42 · 16 Apr 2024

1.3k pts 324 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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Printing Music with CSS Grid cruncher.ch · speckx · 30 Apr 2024

996 pts 82 comments

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A curious phenomenon called 'Etak' maphappenings.com · MBCook · 16 Apr 2024

982 pts 207 comments

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Krazam OS krazam.tv · zdgeier · 22 Apr 2024

975 pts 185 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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Open Sourcing DOS 4 hanselman.com · ndiddy · 25 Apr 2024

809 pts 368 comments

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Meta Horizon OS meta.com · ahiknsr · 22 Apr 2024

790 pts 649 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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Calculus Made Easy calculusmadeeasy.org · susam · 18 Apr 2024

698 pts 217 comments

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I Lost Faith in Kagi d-shoot.net · Tomte · 12 Apr 2024

695 pts 607 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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No one buys books elysian.press · AlbertCory · 22 Apr 2024

662 pts 635 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