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Hacker News (2024)

The Alternative Implementation Problem
267 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Martin Scorsese's secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist
266 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Home Assistant: Three years later
266 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)
266 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
266 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
266 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
266 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs
266 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics
266 points • comment • may 07, 2024
New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go
266 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time
266 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
A quick post on Chen's algorithm
266 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
265 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Marginalia: 3 Years
265 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs
265 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features
265 points • comment • may 15, 2024
FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream machines from DMCA repair rules
265 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
265 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
265 points • comment • may 17, 2024
The world has probably passed peak pollution
265 points • comment • may 09, 2024
We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
265 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Automated integer hash function discovery
265 points • comment • may 05, 2024
What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)
265 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
265 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Mario Maker 2 API
265 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations
265 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
264 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
264 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
264 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Reflections on Distrusting xz
264 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter
264 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Show HN: Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day
264 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects
264 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
264 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Google Axion Processors – Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center
264 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
264 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)
263 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
263 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Dallol
263 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial
263 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
263 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa
263 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Why I Like Obsidian
263 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Show HN: GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code
263 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Figma OSS Alternative
263 points • comment • may 01, 2024
The underground world of hobby tunneling
263 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
263 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
262 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
Useful Uses of cat
262 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
262 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial
262 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
262 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)
262 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
262 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
261 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing
261 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
261 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]
261 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
261 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
We hacked Google A.I.
261 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
261 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
261 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks
260 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
260 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Why can't my mom email me?
260 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL
260 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022)
260 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
How Microchips Work
260 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
Show HN: Tracecat – Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative
260 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
"Volkswagen" detects when your tests are being run in a CI server
259 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
259 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Care
259 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
259 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
OpenCat: Open-source robotic pet quadruped framework
259 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Students invent quieter leaf blower
259 points • comment • may 16, 2024
See a Fish? Ring the Bell
259 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
258 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Vala Programming Language
258 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
258 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
258 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
ScreenAI: A visual LLM for UI and visually-situated language understanding
258 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
258 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets
258 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one
258 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
258 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed
258 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
258 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
I hacked a train toilet
258 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
257 points • comment • may 08, 2024
SuperTux
257 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Show HN: Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable
257 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official
257 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet
257 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files
257 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
The web just gets better with Interop 2024
257 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
257 points • comment • may 06, 2024
The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
257 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Cheyenne Super Computer Auction
257 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
We are moving to General Availability
257 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Gradient descent visualization
257 points • comment • may 07, 2024