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Hacker News (2024)

Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 "to preserve your safety"
47 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Neatroff – a new implementation of the Troff typesetting system (2017) [pdf]
47 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
47 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons
47 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Most to least common 4-digit PIN numbers from an analysis of 3.4M
47 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Alcohol Use and Mortality Among Couples in US: Individual and Partner Effects
47 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Dont have F-You money? Build an F-You Network
47 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN?
47 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
YouTube Music team laid off while workers testified about working conditions
47 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
47 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
ISP's Landmark Piracy Liability Case Doesn't Get a Do-Over in Appeals Court
47 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
47 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Reversing and Tooling a Signed Request Hash in Obfuscated JavaScript
47 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
NASA is working on new clock for the Moon
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Bing Copilot seemingly leaks state between user sessions
47 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
A new solution for the "reverse sprinkler" problem
47 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Regarding Audible
47 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Germany solar power output jumps to record highs
47 points • comment • may 15, 2024
Intel's 14A Magic Bullet: Directed Self-Assembly (DSA)
47 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Replicated by Two Independent Labs
47 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Google/Rulesofthumb
47 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Everything2
47 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature
47 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
47 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
'A landmark moment': scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
47 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged
47 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Oil firms forced to consider climate effects of new drilling, rules Norway court
47 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Stack Overflow: 79% of Developers Considering a Career Move
47 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Birb and Fossil: An RSS Revival?
47 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years
47 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Writing C code in Java/Clojure: GraalVM specific programming (2021)
47 points • comment • may 10, 2024
High Expectations: Observational Study of Programming and Cannabis Intoxication
47 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Mozilla Firefox Manifest V3 and Manifest V2 Update
47 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Breaking Silos
47 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair'
47 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
Large Language Models in Containers Locally with Podman AI Lab
47 points • comment • may 14, 2024
The Angel, Islington
47 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Single SF restaurant may be operating 70 different storefronts on DoorDash
47 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
Why will my device lose access to Libby & OverDrive April 15, 2024?
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Training great LLMs from ground zero in the wilderness as a startup
47 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Gradient Descending Through Brinespace
47 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
The United States of Avocado
47 points • comment • may 15, 2024
The Cult of the Haskell Programmer
47 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Show HN: Metashade – a Pythonic GPU shading/compute EDSL
47 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok
47 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands
47 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Show HN: Wife couldn't find a dev job so I built a tool to automate the search
47 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT
47 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Rethinking my economics
47 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
We are turning into subscription slaves (2023)
47 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
the US is propping up gas while the world moves to renewable energy
47 points • comment • may 09, 2024
The ancient history of 'forgotten crops'
47 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Gemini: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints [pdf]
47 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war
47 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Japanese court rules that AI cannot be issued patents
47 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Ask HN: When will LLMs be able to interrupt or interject?
47 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
I Put 4M Suns in a Black Hole over New York [video]
47 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
FCC to vote on restoring net neutrality
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
The unreasonable effectiveness of i3, or: ten years of a boring desktop env
47 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
We Choose Profit at 37signals
47 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar?
46 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3 Within the Enterprise
46 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging
46 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
46 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Can tin foil hats block anything? (2015)
46 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
Haskell is Useless (2011) [video]
46 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Putting the pieces together: Meet Justin Yu ’25, Tetris world champion
46 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
Trusting Trust: Ken Thompson on supply chain security (1984)
46 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
House committee votes 50-0 to force TikTok to divest from Chinese owner
46 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
"Magic Balls" installed by drones may revolutionize US power grid
46 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Behind the OnlyFans porn boom: allegations of rape, abuse, betrayal
46 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
46 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
If you're in the EU, you can now decide how much data to share with Google
46 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Revisting Madonna-Ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies
46 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments
46 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
The pursuit of cutting-edge JS frameworks resulted in a less accessible web
46 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck
46 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Weird Ruby: Nil Conversions
46 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from China store under pressure from Beijing
46 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)
46 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
My 2024 AI Predictions
46 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Technologist vs. spy: the xz backdoor debate
46 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
AT&T Says Personal Information from 73M Customers Leaked on the Dark Web
46 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Only seven countries in the world breathe safe air. Three of them are in Europe
46 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
Fire for Water: A tribe in California is helping to reshape fire management
46 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
NIST Releases Version 2.0 of Landmark Cybersecurity Framework
46 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
The website vs. web app dichotomy doesn't exist
46 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Bodycams for civilians
46 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Carbon Capture Facility in World Creates 25x More CO2 from Use of Product
46 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Lenovo's concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress
46 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device
46 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
How computers entered the classroom, 1960–2000
46 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Apple Launches All-in-One 'Manuals, Specs, and Downloads' Website
46 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
U.S. podcast listening reach new high: 47% listened one last month, +12% YoY
46 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Law firm that handles data breaches was hit by data breach
46 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
46 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
EU science advisers back call for a 'CERN for AI' to aid research
46 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
An "AI Breakthrough" on Systematic Generalization in Language?
46 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Ask HN: How to re-kindle my interest in computer science?
46 points • comment • jan 29, 2024