April 17, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-17

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

1. The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search
   
   
2. Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
   
   
3. Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude
   
   
4. ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
   
   
5. Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
   
   
6. Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer
   
   
7. Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
   
   
8. Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1
   
   
9. The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
   
   
10. Amazon Echo Hacking Wiki
    
    
11. NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
    
    
12. Stop Acting Like You're Famous
    
    
13. A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
    
    
14. Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
    
    
15. How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
    
    
16. Raytracing on Meteor Lake's iGPU
    
    
17. Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd
    
    
18. F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
    
    
19. Ur Quan Masters sequel Free Stars: Children of Infinity, by original devs
    
    
20. RubyJS-Vite
    
    
21. Perlis's Programming Epigrams
    
    
22. This is a teenager
    
    
23. The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in source code
    
    
24. Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset
    
    
25. Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing
    
    
26. NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust
    
    
27. Descent 3 Source Code
    
    
28. Spellbrush (YC W18) hiring an anime-loving distributed systems engineer; Tokyo/SF
    
    
29. Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
    
    
30. A quick post on Chen's algorithm