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Hacker News (2024)

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
582 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
581 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii
578 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill
577 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
576 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
576 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
575 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta
573 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
573 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
573 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Nikon to acquire RED
573 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
572 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
We made an animated movie in 8kB
566 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
566 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications [pdf] (2023)
565 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
562 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
562 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Mistral Large
561 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died
560 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket
560 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games
559 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Intel's Humbling
557 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
554 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
554 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
553 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
553 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
S3 is files, but not a filesystem
551 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]
548 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Beeper acquired by Automattic
548 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
547 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Linux Crisis Tools
546 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
546 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Show HN: Building a GPS receiver
546 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
ESPHome
545 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home
544 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
544 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
542 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
542 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
jQuery v4.0 Beta
541 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
541 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
540 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability
540 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
540 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
539 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
539 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
538 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere
538 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
538 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
Stop Acting Like You're Famous
537 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
537 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Hackintosh is almost dead
536 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
536 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
536 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Every default macOS wallpaper
535 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Think Python, 3rd Edition
532 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Where Have All the Websites Gone?
531 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
531 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
530 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
528 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
528 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
526 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
526 points • comment • may 08, 2024
Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
526 points • comment • may 02, 2024
A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
525 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
525 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
524 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
523 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
523 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
VCs aren’t your friends
523 points • comment • may 16, 2024
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
522 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
522 points • comment • may 07, 2024
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
522 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
522 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
521 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
521 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Suspicious discontinuities (2020)
520 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
519 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
519 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
518 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
518 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
516 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
516 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Tiny World Map
515 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
515 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
515 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Signs that it's time to leave a company
515 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
513 points • comment • may 10, 2024
How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
513 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Mixtral 8x22B
513 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
512 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
512 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
512 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU
512 points • comment • may 03, 2024
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
511 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
511 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
510 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
510 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
VirtualBox KVM Public Release
510 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy
509 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
509 points • comment • feb 29, 2024