April 13, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-13

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

1. Ray Tracer in a Boot Sector
   
   
2. How to Send an SMS in Haskell (2017)
   
   
3. Self-Hosted Is Awesome
   
   
4. It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu
   
   
5. XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
   
   
6. Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
   
   
7. Browser Security Bugs That Aren't: JavaScript in PDF
   
   
8. Backyard Birding (2023)
   
   
9. Running DOS Apps on Windows from 1.0 to 95 (2020)
   
   
10. DES/3DES Algorithm Illustration
    
    
11. Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)
    
    
12. Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
    
    
13. Green's Dictionary of Slang
    
    
14. Commercial wing in ground effect plane (2018)
    
    
15. Open Source, Supply Chains, and Bears
    
    
16. Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
    
    
17. Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
    
    
18. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    
    
19. I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
    
    
20. OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models
    
    
21. DIY Wi-Fi thermostat from scratch with ESPHome and Home Assistant
    
    
22. There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
    
    
23. Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems
    
    
24. HP 200LX and Related Palmtops
    
    
25. What is Webb observing now?
    
    
26. Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
    
    
27. Show HN: ClassroomIO – an in-browser programming environment for education
    
    
28. Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
    
    
29. Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
    
    
30. Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas