April 21, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-21

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

1. Programming Is Mostly Thinking
   
   
2. Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
   
   
3. Tiny World Map
   
   
4. Lunatik: Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua
   
   
5. A hacker's guide to Language Models
   
   
6. Racket Language
   
   
7. The Great British Housing Famine
   
   
8. Bostrom's Deep Utopia
   
   
9. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (2021)
   
   
10. Glibc Buffer Overflow in Iconv
    
    
11. Cindy Lee Might Be the Future of Music
    
    
12. Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
    
    
13. Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans
    
    
14. Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit
    
    
15. How to fix America's aviation system
    
    
16. h5ai – modern HTTP web server index
    
    
17. Dataflow Analyses and Compiler Optimizations That Use Them, for Free
    
    
18. My journey into personal computer software development in 1983
    
    
19. Do You Even Need Antivirus Software in 2024?
    
    
20. N-Wheeled Vehicles
    
    
21. Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch flo
    
    
22. The Humanise Campaign call for an end to boring buildings
    
    
23. Stuart Parkin revolutionized disk drive storage
    
    
24. Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink
    
    
25. Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psychedelia'
    
    
26. Emerge (YC W21) is hiring senior engineers to automate dead code deletion
    
    
27. Alan Kay: principles for funding and organizing breakthrough research
    
    
28. Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
    
    
29. Why I'm Leaving New York City [video]
    
    
30. Drone footage of baby penguins jumping off cliff