The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2024

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GPT-4o openai.com · Lealen · 13 May 2024

3.1k pts 2.4k comments

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Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet daylightcomputer.com · asadm · 23 May 2024

2.2k pts 858 comments

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TTE: Terminal Text Effects chrisbuilds.github.io · makapuf · 28 May 2024

1.8k pts 266 comments

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Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees vox.com · apengwin · 22 May 2024

1.8k pts 534 comments

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Veo deepmind.google · meetpateltech · 14 May 2024

1.7k pts 488 comments

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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora foto-webcam.eu · luispa · 10 May 2024

1.6k pts 378 comments

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Apple introduces M4 chip apple.com · excsn · 7 May 2024

1.6k pts 2.1k comments

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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com · mjcl · 20 May 2024

1.5k pts 1k comments

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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL bessey.dev · mattbessey · 30 May 2024

1.3k pts 698 comments

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Gordon Bell has died arstechnica.com · dcminter · 21 May 2024

1.3k pts 70 comments

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OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? vox.com · fnbr · 17 May 2024

1.3k pts 961 comments

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Jim Simons has died simonsfoundation.org · fgblanch · 10 May 2024

1.1k pts 320 comments

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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI twitter.com · wavelander · 14 May 2024

1.1k pts 782 comments

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GPUs Go Brrr hazyresearch.stanford.edu · nmstoker · 12 May 2024

1.1k pts 263 comments

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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules blog.google · zerojames · 8 May 2024

1.1k pts 487 comments

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ICQ will stop working from June 26 icq.com · Uncle_Sam · 24 May 2024

1.1k pts 746 comments

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Cloudflare took down our website robindev.substack.com · nolverostae · 26 May 2024

1k pts 466 comments

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Llama3 implemented from scratch github.com · Hadi7546 · 19 May 2024

1k pts 269 comments

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Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) github.com · LightMachine · 17 May 2024

1k pts 253 comments

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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 29 May 2024

1k pts 316 comments

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Engineering for Slow Internet brr.fyi · jader201 · 31 May 2024

1k pts 386 comments

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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count quantamagazine.org · jasondavies · 16 May 2024

993 pts 287 comments

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Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero blog.jgc.org · jgrahamc · 27 May 2024

971 pts 261 comments

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MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions whyevolutionistrue.com · nsoonhui · 5 May 2024

962 pts 720 comments

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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them washington.edu · keploy · 29 May 2024

956 pts 428 comments

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A forged Apple employee badge cabel.com · ecliptik · 16 May 2024

952 pts 348 comments

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Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video] youtube.com · sschueller · 7 May 2024

917 pts 301 comments

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New startup sells coffee through SSH terminal.shop · ethanholt1 · 1 May 2024

904 pts 407 comments

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US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster bloomberg.com · 1986 · 22 May 2024

893 pts 306 comments

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Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years thedg · 10 May 2024

886 pts 233 comments

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It's always TCP_NODELAY brooker.co.za · todsacerdoti · 9 May 2024

884 pts 268 comments

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Immersive Linear Algebra (2015) immersivemath.com · oumua_don17 · 11 May 2024

876 pts 71 comments

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Kino: Pro Video Camera lux.camera · louis-paul · 29 May 2024

866 pts 364 comments

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DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android mullvad.net · ementally · 3 May 2024

835 pts 379 comments

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Coding My Handwriting amygoodchild.com · tobr · 19 May 2024

833 pts 72 comments

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Social engineering takeovers of open source projects openssf.org · mooreds · 5 May 2024

822 pts 361 comments

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This Message Does Not Exist kmjn.org · sebtron · 31 May 2024

818 pts 260 comments

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Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting businessinsider.com · blackmanta · 28 May 2024

785 pts 805 comments

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Slack AI Training with Customer Data slack.com · mlhpdx · 16 May 2024

784 pts 401 comments

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Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices theguardian.com · jjgreen · 5 May 2024

783 pts 1.4k comments

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Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely testing.googleblog.com · thunderbong · 30 May 2024

777 pts 395 comments

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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015) gmunk.com · onhacker · 22 May 2024

773 pts 268 comments

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What UI density means and how to design for it matthewstrom.com · delaugust · 21 May 2024

767 pts 387 comments

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Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes delve.a9.io · maxkrieger · 30 May 2024

766 pts 167 comments

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UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look wiredjs.com · nickca · 31 May 2024

766 pts 116 comments

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Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency github.com · mistercheph · 14 May 2024

756 pts 148 comments

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Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content caniemail.com · fagnerbrack · 6 May 2024

755 pts 250 comments

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Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" chromakode.com · chromakode · 8 May 2024

754 pts 82 comments

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Exercises to Learn Rust rust-exercises.com · sebg · 17 May 2024

752 pts 123 comments

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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software alinpanaitiu.com · imaq · 3 May 2024

730 pts 518 comments

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The Lunacy of Artemis idlewords.com · feross · 19 May 2024

723 pts 513 comments

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I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened twitter.com · hakanderyal · 30 May 2024

720 pts 604 comments

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Pluckable Strings string.spiel.com · bcjordan · 22 May 2024

705 pts 119 comments

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Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial independent.co.uk · belter · 9 May 2024

704 pts 335 comments

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Japan's push to make all research open access nature.com · sohkamyung · 31 May 2024

698 pts 101 comments

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Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt? dinkleberg · 25 May 2024

694 pts 293 comments

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Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) scentofdawn.blogspot.com · ahiknsr · 24 May 2024

691 pts 312 comments

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Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time shademap.app · tppiotrowski · 30 May 2024

685 pts 183 comments

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Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn] hudsonrock.com · zbangrec · 31 May 2024

680 pts 216 comments

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Making a 3D modeler in C in a week danielchasehooper.com · jasim · 2 May 2024

680 pts 187 comments