It's 2024-05-05. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions | comment
Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices | comment
Bollards: Why and What | comment
Social engineering takeovers of open source projects | comment
Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019) | comment
First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 | comment
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana | comment
Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker | comment
Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022) | comment
"Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars" | comment
ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions | comment
Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023) | comment
Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality | comment
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production | comment
As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs | comment
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week | comment
I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension | comment
A Single Div | comment
Online Cryptography Course (2017) | comment
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software | comment
Show HN: BandMatch – "Tinder" but for finding musicians to create bands/collab | comment
Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years | comment
Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool | comment
Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry? | comment
Automated integer hash function discovery | comment
Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition | comment
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns | comment
Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries | comment
A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair | comment
In Praise of Idleness (1932) | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years | comment
Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail | comment
FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules | comment
You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it | comment
New startup sells coffee through SSH | comment
Why SQLite Uses Bytecode | comment
Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe | comment
Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest | comment
Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation | comment
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana | comment
We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services | comment
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024) | comment
Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python | comment
Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality | comment
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself | comment
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production | comment
As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs | comment
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says | comment
Passkeys: A Shattered Dream | comment
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week | comment
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal | comment
SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs | comment
I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension | comment
A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp | comment
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) | comment
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go | comment
Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades | comment
A Single Div | comment
Online Cryptography Course (2017) | comment
Printing Music with CSS Grid | comment
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