March 29, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-03-29

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash
   
   
2. SSPL Is Bad
   
   
3. OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
   
   
4. Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit
   
   
5. Doom Captcha (2021)
   
   
6. Arraymancer – Deep Learning Nim Library
   
   
7. The race to replace Redis
   
   
8. Chocolate and the Hawaiian Dream Comes True
   
   
9. The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
   
   
10. The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped
    
    
11. The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
    
    
12. Deep Learning in JavaScript
    
    
13. Vultr Just Betrayed Us
    
    
14. Capi Money (YC S23) Is Hiring
    
    
15. Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study
    
    
16. Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab
    
    
17. Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go
    
    
18. Two hundred reasons to not use Azure
    
    
19. Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]
    
    
20. Takis Veliotis - A Lavish Lifestyle Strains Credibility (1985)
    
    
21. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
    
    
22. Thirty Seven
    
    
23. Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension
    
    
24. The CIA's Cold War plan to use stray cats as spies
    
    
25. You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it
    
    
26. The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series
    
    
27. Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters
    
    
28. Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data
    
    
29. Sunken Ships of the Second World War
    
    
30. Maersk names first vessel of its large methanol-enabled fleet "Ane Maersk"