May 23, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-23

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

1. Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
   
   
2. OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
   
   
3. Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
   
   
4. The 'Best' Hidden Y Combinator Page.. You never knew..
   
   
5. Number 16 (spider)
   
   
6. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
   
   
7. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
   
   
8. Pluckable Strings
   
   
9. Drone Flying 101 – An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
   
   
10. Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers
    
    
11. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM
    
    
12. It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
    
    
13. How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger
    
    
14. Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Not Returning Results
    
    
15. Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)
    
    
16. Sorry, iPads
    
    
17. Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs
    
    
18. Google's Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth
    
    
19. Show HN: Neosync – Open-Source Data Anonymization for Postgres and MySQL
    
    
20. Why Are Sloths So Slow?
    
    
21. A Faster SuperSplat with PWA Support
    
    
22. Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
    
    
23. Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
    
    
24. Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
    
    
25. Try Clojure
    
    
26. Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C?
    
    
27. What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)
    
    
28. Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
    
    
29. A Theoretical Case Against Education
    
    
30. Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support