Hacker News recap for week 17/2024

From 22/4/2024 to 28/4/2024

Articles #

• Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest 10076 comments in 3 discussions

• Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years 1932 comments in 9 discussions

• The man who killed Google Search? 1224 comments in 4 discussions

• Passkeys: A shattered dream 831 comments in 2 discussions

• Meta Horizon OS 664 comments in 2 discussions

• No one buys books 635 comments in 1 discussion

• FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules 823 comments in 2 discussions

• When do we stop finding new music? 560 comments in 1 discussion

• Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) 566 comments in 2 discussions

• Apple's risky bet on CarPlay 749 comments in 2 discussions

• Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation 600 comments in 2 discussions

• FTC announces rule banning noncompetes 681 comments in 7 discussions

• Did we lose our way in making efficient software? 494 comments in 1 discussion

• You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it 444 comments in 1 discussion

• Google lays off its Python team 440 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently? 380 comments

• Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents? 370 comments

• Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware 151 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains 100 comments

• Tell HN: Google search no longer has a link to maps in Europe 6 comments

Releases #

• Node.js 22 released, adding native WebSocket client and more

• TypeScript 5.5 Beta Release

Projects #

• Rabbit R1 source code [part 1] 189 comments in 1 discussion

• I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs 189 comments in 1 discussion

• CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks 131 comments in 1 discussion

• A useful front-end confetti animation library 145 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility 100 comments in 1 discussion

• Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows 138 comments in 4 discussions

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library 74 comments in 1 discussion

• Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog 73 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates 84 comments in 2 discussions

• Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone 71 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video] 79 comments in 1 discussion

• iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video] 132 comments in 2 discussions

• A Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use (2019) 63 comments in 1 discussion

• The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video] 26 comments in 2 discussions

• Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?) [video] 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat [video] 8 comments in 1 discussion