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Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs 399 by cbracketdash | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam 420 by tomwas54 | 74 comments on Hacker News.

Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere 609 by FridayoLeary | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen 622 by ruph123 | 206 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? 594 by l2silver | 805 comments on Hacker News. Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.

Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index 626 by twapi | 403 comments on Hacker News.

As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling 610 by sprawl_ | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Datomic is Free 559 by xmlblog | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens 495 by NN88 | 325 comments on Hacker News.

Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative 409 by cheeseblubber | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS 386 by david_elson | 48 comments on Hacker News. (This was previously submitted as https://ift.tt/VtO27RQ ) The Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle is a backyard rocketship treehouse nestled in the Seattle neighborhood of Ravenna. Click the link to see a demo video ( http://rocket.jonh.net ). The hexagonal treehouse is about 6.5 feet (2 meters) across at its widest point. The frame is welded mild steel with riveted aluminum siding. It contains nearly 800 LEDs forming dozens of numeric displays spread across 14 control panels, each with an acrylic face laser-cut and etched with labels such as "Lunar Distance" and "Hydraulic Pressure". The pilot controls the rocket using a joystick and panels full of working switches, knobs and buttons. Underneath the capsule are three "thrusters" that shoot plumes of water and compressed air under the control of the pilot's joystick, simulating real positi...

Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing 496 by FabHK | 645 comments on Hacker News.

Transformers from Scratch 467 by jasim | 34 comments on Hacker News.

UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal 453 by jmsflknr | 411 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing 417 by sphars | 286 comments on Hacker News.

Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility 427 by thunderbong | 291 comments on Hacker News.

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm 594 by h1x | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL 519 by philbo | 175 comments on Hacker News.

MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad 467 by MasterYoda | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see 456 by moose_man | 346 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Eid Mubarak 765 by asim | 314 comments on Hacker News. To the Muslims on HN, Eid Mubarak! And to everyone else, Eid Mubarak! For those who don't know. Eid is a day of celebration after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water. It's something 2B people around the world celebrate to today or tomorrow (moon sighting permitted). A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I'm still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we've created for ourselves as a society through abundance. Hope you all have a great day!

The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos 742 by glitcher | 288 comments on Hacker News.

CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg 756 by rippercushions | 581 comments on Hacker News.

Spinning Diagrams with CSS 674 by kilovoltaire | 31 comments on Hacker News.

Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years 632 by en3r0 | 319 comments on Hacker News. I ran Legit Torrents for ~17 years and shut it down recently. The homepage is now a nostalgic look back at that time.

Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?” 629 by snitzr | 604 comments on Hacker News.

Space Elevator 651 by nivethan | 107 comments on Hacker News.

User: Junnn11 626 by oboes | 84 comments on Hacker News.

StableLM: A new open-source language model 621 by davidbarker | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Clock 569 by notmysql_ | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival 554 by mjwhansen | 560 comments on Hacker News.

Astral 491 by hasheddan | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Load Balancing 533 by kiyanwang | 127 comments on Hacker News.

Making friends as an adult is hard (2021) 506 by neom | 289 comments on Hacker News.

The Windows 11 Trash Party 520 by Amorymeltzer | 409 comments on Hacker News.

RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License 472 by tim_sw | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful 652 by rurban | 367 comments on Hacker News.

De-Stressing Booking.com 785 by robin_reala | 301 comments on Hacker News.

The early days of Linux 764 by Paul-Craft | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Animated Drawings 737 by jonbaer | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech 718 by cemerick | 868 comments on Hacker News.

The Container Control Programme highlights success in preventing the exploitation of the global trade supply chain Published April 13, 2023 at 09:16PM Read more at unodc.org

Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers 613 by rushingcreek | 242 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Today we’re launching GPT-4 answers on Phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses generative AI to browse the web and answer technical questions, complete with code examples and detailed explanations. Unlike vanilla GPT-4, Phind feeds in relevant websites and technical documentation, reducing the model’s hallucination and keeping it up-to-date. To use it, simply enable the “Expert” toggle before doing a search. GPT-4 is making a night-and-day difference in terms of answer quality. For a question like “How can I RLHF a LLaMa model”, Phind in Expert mode delivers a step-by-step guide complete with citations ( https://ift.tt/u8SmRir... ) while Phind in default mode meanders a bit and answers the question very generally ( https://ift.tt/I6mokdS... ). GPT-4 is significantly more concise and “systematic” in its answers than our default model. It generates step-by-step i...

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages 560 by izzymiller | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard 611 by kieto | 101 comments on Hacker News.

Deck.of.cards 497 by edent | 65 comments on Hacker News.

SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue 487 by ctc24 | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Substack Notes Launched 500 by theolivenbaum | 519 comments on Hacker News.

I worked at Google for -10 days 536 by vanburen | 319 comments on Hacker News.

The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business 464 by orangebanana1 | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Effective Spaced Repetition 451 by g0xA52A2A | 215 comments on Hacker News.

EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany 456 by mfiguiere | 278 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% 507 by ylere | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station 490 by justsomehnguy | 50 comments on Hacker News.

The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT 425 by gardenfelder | 257 comments on Hacker News.

System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013) 454 by damethos | 164 comments on Hacker News.

New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem 643 by malshe | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? 602 by deeg | 723 comments on Hacker News.

Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails 590 by Lukas_Skywalker | 276 comments on Hacker News.

Grid World 604 by tobr | 89 comments on Hacker News.

WebGPU is available in Chrome 113 605 by itsuka | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero 557 by whereistimbo | 64 comments on Hacker News.

Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon 529 by codetrotter | 323 comments on Hacker News.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS 446 by waxpancake | 203 comments on Hacker News.

CAN Injection: Keyless car theft 433 by kotaKat | 251 comments on Hacker News.

How to do hard things 428 by tacon | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 536 by noob_eng | 100 comments on Hacker News.

Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco 549 by rdl | 606 comments on Hacker News.

Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died 504 by miiiiiike | 120 comments on Hacker News.

iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t remove or stop from joining 504 by newZWhoDis | 180 comments on Hacker News. Well this was a major surprise so I figured I’d share it here to get some eyeballs on it. Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device. These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal priority with your real, personal networks. So guess what happens when your neighbors get a wifi/modem combo that blasts a free hotspot SSID? Not only does it pollute the already crowded 2.4ghz band, your iPhone will often prefer this connection over your real /local wifi (despite said wifi being at 1 bar). As of post-time, there is no way to remove these networks short of completely disabling cell service/removing the eSIM and resetting all network settings. You can see this for yourself by going to WiFi/“edit” and scrolling down. Edit: to ...

How to be a -10x Engineer 485 by surprisetalk | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption 449 by jmoorebeek | 211 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I’m Joseph, and along with Arpan and Bailey we are the founders of OutSail Shipping ( https://ift.tt/HOMXPNu ). We’re building a sail the size of a 747 that rolls up into a shipping container. When deployed, it will generate thrust from the wind to reduce the fuel consumption of a cargo ship. An array of these devices will reduce fuel consumption on ships by up to 20%. These sails are easily stowed and removed to cause no interference with cargo operations. Here’s a short video showing our prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpVqzpym54 . Sails powered ships for millennia; but then the convenience of energy-dense fuels displaced sails. As ship speeds eventually exceeded wind speeds, the consensus became that sails had no place in shipping and were relegated to hobbyists and sport. Fast forward a century and a half, and maritime shipping, like a...

Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible 426 by belter | 522 comments on Hacker News.

Saying Goodbye to GitHub 455 by donutshop | 374 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL 491 by poeti8 | 95 comments on Hacker News.

The Mullvad Browser 490 by Foxboron | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT 506 by sarusso | 677 comments on Hacker News.

The day Windows died 609 by alexzeitler | 464 comments on Hacker News.

Postgres as a graph database 500 by elorant | 109 comments on Hacker News.