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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. GPT-4o

    3095 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  2. Veo

    1720 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  3. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

    1618 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  4. Apple introduces M4 chip

    1582 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  5. OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?

    1185 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  6. Jim Simons has died

    1119 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  7. Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

    1096 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  8. GPUs Go Brrr

    1085 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  9. AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

    1066 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  10. Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)

    969 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  11. Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count

    950 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  12. A forged Apple employee badge

    931 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  13. Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]

    882 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  14. Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

    880 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  15. MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions

    879 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  16. It's always TCP_NODELAY

    878 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  17. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    874 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  18. Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

    849 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  19. DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

    813 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  20. Social engineering takeovers of open source projects

    776 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  21. Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"

    745 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  22. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

    739 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  23. Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

    734 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  24. Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency

    731 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  25. Exercises to Learn Rust

    711 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  26. Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

    704 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  27. Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

    699 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  28. Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial

    685 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  29. Making a 3D modeler in C in a week

    666 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  30. Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

    659 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  31. Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)

    625 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  32. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]

    580 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  33. Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App

    576 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  34. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    536 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  35. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

    530 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  36. Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures

    526 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  37. 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

    526 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  38. VCs aren’t your friends

    523 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  39. Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

    522 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  40. Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution

    515 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  41. Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs

    513 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  42. Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

    512 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  43. I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

    510 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  44. Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero

    507 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  45. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

    502 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  46. Static Chess

    495 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  47. Steve Albini has died

    493 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  48. Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

    492 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  49. Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

    488 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  50. Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android

    484 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  51. Bollards: Why and What

    483 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  52. The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

    483 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  53. The best way to have complex discussions?

    474 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  54. GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

    472 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  55. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy

    467 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  56. U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers

    462 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  57. Every map of China is wrong

    460 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  58. The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

    457 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  59. Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension

    456 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  60. Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

    454 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  61. Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

    454 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  62. Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x

    453 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  63. Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head

    450 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  64. Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check

    448 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  65. Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

    444 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  66. Gemini Flash

    441 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  67. Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality

    438 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  68. The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)

    438 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  69. Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs

    430 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  70. It’s an age of marvels

    425 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  71. Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

    425 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  72. Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

    424 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  73. A Single Div

    421 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  74. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

    419 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  75. Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

    411 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  76. Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames

    411 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  77. Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants

    410 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  78. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

    409 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  79. Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective

    404 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  80. Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

    403 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  81. Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?

    396 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  82. Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075

    388 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  83. Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

    382 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  84. New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy

    381 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  85. Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)

    379 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  86. mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours

    378 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  87. Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers

    375 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  88. Popover API

    374 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  89. 100k Stars

    371 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  90. D3 in Depth

    370 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  91. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

    369 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  92. Algebraic Data Types for C99

    369 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  93. Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

    368 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  94. Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

    367 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  95. Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email

    366 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  96. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting

    360 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  97. LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops

    359 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  98. Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

    356 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  99. A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it

    355 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  100. Building a rocket engine from scratch

    354 points • comment • may 02, 2024