April 28, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-28

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

1. Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone
   
   
2. Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
   
   
3. Flow Field Pathfinding
   
   
4. Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable
   
   
5. Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
   
   
6. The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
   
   
7. Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
   
   
8. How to improve the RISC-V specification
   
   
9. Jimmy Carter UFO Incident
   
   
10. Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU
    
    
11. Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months
    
    
12. Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night
    
    
13. TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
    
    
14. Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
    
    
15. Mise: a polyglot tool version manager
    
    
16. Microsoft at Work
    
    
17. Keep Out – WebGL Game
    
    
18. Google Quantum AI
    
    
19. Burn After Wearing
    
    
20. Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls
    
    
21. 44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers
    
    
22. SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs
    
    
23. RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)
    
    
24. Philosophus Autodidactus
    
    
25. How to Use the Grafana Operator: Managing a Grafana Cloud Stack in Kubernetes
    
    
26. Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX
    
    
27. So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)
    
    
28. Show HN: Sleepsort – Sorting While Sleeping
    
    
29. Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
    
    
30. What can LLMs never do?