Hacker News on Monday, 3 April 2023

The Mullvad Browser(mullvad.net)

1125 points by Foxboron 3 years ago | 384 comments

Product page for the Mullvad Browser, a privacy-focused web browser developed by Mullvad VPN in collaboration with the Tor Project.

Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL(pouria.dev)

597 points by poeti8 3 years ago | 111 comments

A small interactive WebGL experiment recreating the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures album cover visualization; the capture shows only a loading spinner.

Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption

507 points by jmoorebeek 3 years ago | 240 comments

Launch HN post where OutSail (YC W23) founders introduce containerized wingsails that reduce cargo ship fuel consumption by up to 20%.

Saying Goodbye to GitHub(ersei.net)

421 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 330 comments

Personal blog post in which the author explains why they are leaving GitHub after using it since age eleven.

Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping(techdirt.com)

388 points by remote_phone 3 years ago | 261 comments

Techdirt article criticizing Midjourney CEO David Holz for blocking satirical images of Xi Jinping to keep the AI image generator available in China.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

381 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 416 comments

Monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for April 2023 where company employees post job openings with location and remote/visa details.

Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible(carexpert.com.au)

374 points by belter 3 years ago | 426 comments

CarExpert news article reporting on Tesla removing ultrasonic parking sensors to cut costs and the poor performance of its camera-based replacement.

System76 Open Firmware(github.com)

367 points by doener 3 years ago | 67 comments

GitHub repository for System76 Open Firmware, a coreboot-based open-source firmware distribution for System76 computers.

How to do hard things(every.to)

364 points by tacon 3 years ago | 119 comments

Essay on Every's No Small Plans column in which a founder describes his experience using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to do hard things.

Alibaba breaks itself up in six(economist.com)

360 points by ShaurAsar 3 years ago | 282 comments

Economist business article on Alibaba splitting into six separate businesses, which investors read as a sign that China's tech crackdown is ending.

Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales(macrumors.com)

360 points by tosh 3 years ago | 800 comments

MacRumors article reporting that Apple halted M2 chip production in early 2023 amid a slump in global MacBook demand, citing a Korean report.

Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy(petapixel.com)

358 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 72 comments

PetaPixel article about a photographer in Italy capturing a rare red ring of light (an ELVE atmospheric phenomenon) in the night sky.

Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

267 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 630 comments

Show HN: Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker(github.com)

267 points by hugodutka 3 years ago | 47 comments

Pandas 2.0(github.com)

265 points by calpaterson 3 years ago | 90 comments

Safari releases are development hell(construct.net)

244 points by AshleysBrain 3 years ago | 210 comments

State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights(twitter.com)

241 points by weichiang 3 years ago | 113 comments

Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data(csvbase.com)

240 points by calpaterson 3 years ago | 147 comments

AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will(cmte.ieee.org)

235 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 308 comments

Rational Dress Society(en.wikipedia.org)

218 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 140 comments

If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys?(english.elpais.com)

217 points by belter 3 years ago | 179 comments

Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm(salon.com)

209 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 195 comments

Proton’s mass radius is apparently shorter than its charge radius(arstechnica.com)

181 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 102 comments

Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs(richg42.blogspot.com)

178 points by ingve 3 years ago | 94 comments

Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks(haystack.deepset.ai)

166 points by vishesh92 3 years ago | 86 comments

Was there a U.S. nuclear weapons accident at a Dutch air base?(fas.org)

166 points by Someone 3 years ago | 80 comments

We're Knot Friends(jeremykun.com)

159 points by edo-codes 3 years ago | 12 comments

$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive(utilitydive.com)

156 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 267 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

155 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 358 comments

How HyperCard got its color back(orangejuiceliberationfront.com)

140 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 30 comments

Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality(english.elpais.com)

137 points by belter 3 years ago | 201 comments

Wronger Than Wrong(en.wikipedia.org)

119 points by Agraillo 3 years ago | 60 comments

Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April(presidentti.fi)

115 points by terramex 3 years ago | 71 comments

Django 4.2 Released(djangoproject.com)

109 points by petr25102018 3 years ago | 47 comments

Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits(bloomberg.com)

105 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 100 comments

Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation(twitter.com)

99 points by redox99 3 years ago | 50 comments

Why MMAP in llama.cpp hides true memory usage(twitter.com)

95 points by flurly 3 years ago | 69 comments

A Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging [video](youtube.com)

93 points by zdw 3 years ago | 17 comments

What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?(niemanlab.org)

91 points by hhs 3 years ago | 81 comments

The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich(vox.com)

85 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 72 comments

Animated Unknown Pleasures in 3 lines of K (2015)(johnearnest.github.io)

85 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 28 comments

Framework’s computers aren’t perfect, but they are exciting(theverge.com)

85 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 31 comments

Stop-Motion Movies Are Animated at Aardman [video](youtube.com)

83 points by zdw 3 years ago | 13 comments

An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)(publicdomainreview.org)

81 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 44 comments

WWE Agrees to Merge with UFC(cnbc.com)

78 points by geox 3 years ago | 54 comments

C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by nikbackm 3 years ago | 21 comments

Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap(wsj.com)

77 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 74 comments

SpaceX based 4G/5G coverage coming to New Zealand(one.nz)

74 points by Titan2189 3 years ago | 43 comments

The Nine Billion Names Of God (2021) [video](youtube.com)

73 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 20 comments

PDF ChatBot – Upload, chat and interact with any PDF document(askyourpdf.com)

72 points by armcat 3 years ago | 53 comments

Hacking the Samsung NX300 'Smart' Camera(op-co.de)

72 points by jnord 3 years ago | 34 comments

‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along(nytimes.com)

68 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 35 comments

Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI(arstechnica.com)

68 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 96 comments

Chemist Rafael Luque suspended without pay for thirteen years(english.elpais.com)

67 points by belter 3 years ago | 90 comments

Pop_OS has a complicated name but it makes using Linux so easy(zdnet.com)

64 points by AndroidKitKat 3 years ago | 51 comments

Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?

61 points by akmarinov 3 years ago | 38 comments

Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic(theguardian.com)

61 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 43 comments

Life expectancy in the U.S. varies greatly by region(twitter.com)

60 points by binarynate 3 years ago | 45 comments

Desktop 3.8: End-to-End Encryption levels up with sharing and file-drop(nextcloud.com)

60 points by doener 3 years ago | 14 comments

Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections(ft.com)

60 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 32 comments