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A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) 525 by CommieBobDole | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail 579 by rbanffy | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) 541 by MrVandemar | 205 comments on Hacker News.

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation 480 by alwillis | 262 comments on Hacker News.

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years 503 by darthdeus | 306 comments on Hacker News.

McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting 392 by impish9208 | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Open Sourcing DOS 4 482 by ndiddy | 176 comments on Hacker News.

A useful front-end confetti animation library 435 by blini2077 | 108 comments on Hacker News.

We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services 441 by chadsix | 320 comments on Hacker News.

FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules 437 by throwup238 | 310 comments on Hacker News.

IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal 418 by amateurhuman | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest 439 by vyrotek | 918 comments on Hacker News.

ESPHome 440 by kaycebasques | 146 comments on Hacker News.

Phi-3 Technical Report 392 by varunvummadi | 126 comments on Hacker News.

FTC announces rule banning noncompetes 581 by null0ranje | 221 comments on Hacker News.

The man who killed Google Search 650 by elorant | 307 comments on Hacker News.

NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth 460 by jonathankoren | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Horizon OS 455 by ahiknsr | 401 comments on Hacker News.

Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub 1105 by hashimindie | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges 406 by zdw | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Quill v2 – Rich text editor 443 by ulrischa | 96 comments on Hacker News.

I should have loved biology (2020) 619 by paulgb | 203 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC launches new action to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling Published April 23, 2024 at 01:29AM Read more at unodc.org

Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) 595 by ingve | 230 comments on Hacker News.

Daniel Dennett has died 546 by mellosouls | 258 comments on Hacker News.

How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? 516 by Luc | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Llama 3 744 by bratao | 289 comments on Hacker News.

CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred 554 by Jimmc414 | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things 553 by tobr | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer 501 by bryantwolf | 143 comments on Hacker News.

Stop Acting Like You're Famous 491 by ashleynewman | 233 comments on Hacker News.

The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet 503 by croes | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation 446 by winstonprivacy | 281 comments on Hacker News.

This is a teenager 499 by gmays | 210 comments on Hacker News.

XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis 398 by kryster | 248 comments on Hacker News.

Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video] 526 by rohitpaulk | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens 466 by lordofmoria | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Obituary for a Quiet Life 454 by conanxin | 102 comments on Hacker News.

The darker side of being a doctor 429 by m-ahmed | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator 441 by zaptrem | 231 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec ( https://ift.tt/Z6VaD2M ) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal variational autoencoder bottleneck (along with some other important changes to enable insane compression ratios). This gave us a nice, normally distributed latent space on which to train a diffusion transformer (like Sora). Our diffusion model is also particularly interesting because it is the first audio diffusion model to generate coherent lyrics!...

Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P 562 by nikitml | 258 comments on Hacker News.

I Lost Faith in Kagi 561 by Tomte | 493 comments on Hacker News.

An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data 542 by protontypes | 254 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS 538 by geox | 350 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD 543 by 00702 | 100 comments on Hacker News. Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one will ever read. Thanks to an awesome advisor I think I managed to thread the needle between simplicity and functionality. Looking back, the ideas and methods behind it are pretty straightforward, but getting there took some doing. It’s funny how things seem obviou...

Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem 445 by speckx | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator 422 by goldemerald | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card 475 by ynoxinul | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS 457 by cluo21 | 127 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off. We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality. We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the product without needing to sign in or upgrade. Check it out at https://ift.tt/FyMtucg . Would love to hear any feedback, thank you!

Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness 492 by throwup238 | 500 comments on Hacker News.

Beeper acquired by Automattic 409 by Belphemur | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died 421 by angrygoat | 53 comments on Hacker News.

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics 338 by BirAdam | 358 comments on Hacker News.

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain 451 by olieidel | 713 comments on Hacker News.

Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces 433 by starkparker | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar 424 by henrikf | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? 572 by panqueca | 634 comments on Hacker News. If you're feeling useless, remember that I exist. Let me give you some context. I work in the pipeline automation department of a company. Last month, our team decided to deprecate an internal tool due to several maintenance issues. So we created a pipeline that automates the implementation of this legacy tool, in case other teams needed to use it. (WHAT???) This month, a guy in my team found some improvement scenarios in the automation. So I was chosen to implement this changes in this legacy internal tool. The thing is, after I finished the adjustments, my pull requests are not getting approved due to adjustments meticulously requested by this guy in my team. Adjustments to make the pipeline automation even more resilient in complete unlikely scenarios. But this same week, my TL sent notices to all the other teams informing them that this internal tool has been deprecate...

Mario meets Pareto 532 by superMayo | 61 comments on Hacker News.

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License 512 by amichail | 195 comments on Hacker News.

German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice 484 by buovjaga | 298 comments on Hacker News.

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program 481 by disgruntledphd2 | 303 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone 474 by nilsherzig | 94 comments on Hacker News. The video demo runs a 7b Model on a normal gaming GPU. I think it already works quite well (accounting for the limited hardware power). :)

Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners 533 by chippy | 218 comments on Hacker News.

'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza 498 by contemporary343 | 427 comments on Hacker News.

A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024 342 by xoneill | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Timeline of the xz open source attack 641 by todsacerdoti | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Global efforts needed to combat waste trafficking to Southeast Asia, new research by UNODC and UNEP reveals Published April 02, 2024 at 05:27PM Read more at unodc.org

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining 553 by bonyt | 194 comments on Hacker News.

Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor 516 by q3k | 281 comments on Hacker News.

Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained 511 by ecliptik | 116 comments on Hacker News.

LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs 543 by lawrencechen | 156 comments on Hacker News.