April 4, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-04

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

1. Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
   
   
2. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
   
   
3. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone
   
   
4. A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
   
   
5. Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
   
   
6. Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways
   
   
7. Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs
   
   
8. Henry Darger
   
   
9. Show HN: A universal Helm Chart for deploying applications into K8s/OpenShift
   
   
10. Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
    
    
11. Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever
    
    
12. Our tools shape our selves
    
    
13. Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser
    
    
14. The Angry Video Game Model: neural network arch to predict videogame ratings
    
    
15. Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring Principal Engineers (On-Site, India)
    
    
16. Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
    
    
17. Tonal.js: Functional music theory lib
    
    
18. MOnSter 6502: a working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502
    
    
19. Surveilling Alone
    
    
20. Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
    
    
21. The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018)
    
    
22. Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC
    
    
23. The Software Architecture of Palia
    
    
24. Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks
    
    
25. The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job
    
    
26. Ukraine's New Factory-Smashing Drone Is a $90k Sport Plane with a Robot At
    
    
27. Show HN: Logfmtxx – Header only C++23 structured logging library using logfmt
    
    
28. Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
    
    
29. New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go
    
    
30. Making old orchards new again