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Hacker News (Apr 2024)
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The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush
58 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)
58 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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1,800-year-old Roman statue discovered in parking lot
58 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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To Build Muscle, It's the Sets That Count
58 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Bzip2 Format Specification (2016) [pdf]
58 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Opt-Models: Intro to Optimization Programming Using LEGOs
58 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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Physical fitness and risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents
58 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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HP 200LX and Related Palmtops
58 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Asymmetric Routing Around the Firewall
58 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
58 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Electromigration Concerns Grow in Advanced Packages
58 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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The Bad Trip Detective
58 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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Tesla Profits Drop 55%
57 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
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Tesla's biggest retail shareholder is voting against Elon Musk's $55B package
57 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
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Challenging software projects some programmers should try
57 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600
57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
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Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars
57 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
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Neal Stephenson – Announcing Polostan
57 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school
57 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit
57 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
57 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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LLMs and the Harry Potter problem
57 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
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Nix – A One Pager
57 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
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Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)
57 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
57 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections
57 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Paying for it doesn't make it a market
57 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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The Intercept Is Running Out of Cash
57 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Easy Mode Rust
57 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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Stop Killing Games
57 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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The World of Instruction Manuals (2018)
57 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
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Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
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House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
57 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat
57 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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Killing the Messenger: My Final Days Working at a Disaster
57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
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'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
56 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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The Pen, Mightier (2011)
56 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk
56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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I fell out of love with academia
56 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
56 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
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Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February
56 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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We need more calm companies
56 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames
56 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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VNC Resolver
56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22
56 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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PicoGK is a compact and robust geometry kernel for computational engineering
56 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Show HN: Wunderbar – Learn language while working on your Mac
56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal
56 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Prototype to production with ComfyUI
56 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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What makes concurrency so hard?
56 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable
56 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster
56 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Careful with That Lock, Eugene
56 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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MQL – Client and server to query your db in natural language
55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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Swatch Internet Time
55 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Monkey Management
55 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Z80 Product Line Z84C00 End of Life / Last Time Buy [pdf]
55 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into police detainees
55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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Male archetypes in fairy tales
55 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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Self-Hosted Is Awesome
55 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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Attackers spread backdoor via eScan antivirus software update process
55 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
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Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar
55 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage
55 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
55 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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A new community space for discussing free software
55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years
55 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
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Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers
55 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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Launch HN: Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics
55 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
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Pile-T5
55 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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From Pomona to Oakland, a skater mapped California block by block from his board
55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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A Trivial Llama 3 Jailbreak
55 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model
55 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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Emacs 2011-2023
55 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to
55 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Show HN: OpenLIT – Open-Source LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry
55 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
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House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold
55 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
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Textual Healing: iOS Text Editing Minutiae
55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down
55 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study
55 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
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Making a Flute-Controlled Mouse
55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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The US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability
54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)
54 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
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Amazon's "Just Walk Out" checkout turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop
54 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
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Mysterious Moving Pointers
54 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds
54 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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ByteDance’s web of apps could get tangled up in TikTok ban
54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
54 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Rust 101
54 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Presence and collection of DNA from air and air conditioner units
54 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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Why Doesn't AI Want to Show Me Jesus Washing the Feet of His Disciples?
54 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate
54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
54 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products
54 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
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No One Should Have That Much Power
54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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Perlis's Programming Epigrams
54 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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Tridge returns to rsync
54 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
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Amazon Echo Hacking Wiki
54 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Blink to generate power for smart contact lenses
54 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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The Three Byte Fix
54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024