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Hacker News (2024)

Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker
279 points • comment • may 03, 2024
How to Be More Agentic
279 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software to run on other chips
279 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
The Downfall of DeviantArt
278 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
278 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI
278 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
278 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
278 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)
278 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros
278 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
277 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs
277 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
277 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
277 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
277 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
GoboLinux
277 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers
277 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
277 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Sieve is simpler than LRU
277 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
276 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Great ideas in theoretical computer science
276 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Weaveworks is shutting down
276 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards
276 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)
276 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
276 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states
276 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Tonal.js: Functional music theory lib
276 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Verified Rust for low-level systems code
276 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
276 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
World Wide Web (1991)
275 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
275 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Peter principle
275 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content
275 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates
275 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
275 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
274 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days
274 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
274 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
274 points • comment • may 16, 2024
A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters
274 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Ruby's exceptional creatures
274 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Santa Barbara's collective memory, sold for kindling
274 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
274 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds
274 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
273 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Everyone hates the electronic medical record
273 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
273 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
273 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
273 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
273 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
DNS over Wikipedia
273 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
Bottle Plotter
273 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
OKRs Are Bullshit
273 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
273 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
273 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch
272 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]
272 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
272 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
272 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Kdenlive 24.02 open source video editor released
271 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
The simple beauty of XOR floating point compression
271 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
271 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
271 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
The V8 Sandbox
270 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
270 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Mastering Programming (2016)
270 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
270 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Goodbye non-KISS appliances
270 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Mamba: The Easy Way
269 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
269 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
269 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files
269 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
269 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
269 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website
269 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?
269 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
Unison Cloud
269 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
The rise of batteries in six charts
269 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
How Mandelbrot set images are affected by floating point precision
268 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
268 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
268 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
268 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]
268 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says
268 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"
268 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'
268 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
The forgotten war on beepers
268 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
What I learned selling my company
267 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
267 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
267 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
How to Study (2023)
267 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
The Alternative Implementation Problem
267 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite
267 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
ADSL works over wet string (2017)
267 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
267 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
How to become a pirate archivist (2022)
267 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Ant Geopolitics
267 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
The hater's guide to Kubernetes
267 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
267 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Untranslatable
267 points • comment • jan 26, 2024