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Hacker News (2024)

Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions
138 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
138 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software
138 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
The Acid Test Clause (2017)
138 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
138 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair
138 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
138 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks Against Aligned LLMs
138 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)
138 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests
138 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
GPT-4, without specialized training, beat a GPT-3.5 class model that cost $10M
138 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeed
138 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
138 points • comment • may 09, 2024
NASA Workmanship Guide for wire splicing
138 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
138 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers
138 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Claude is now available in Europe
138 points • comment • may 14, 2024
FreeBSD 4 Bug may be present in Playstation 4/5
138 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)
137 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build
137 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command
137 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
How the codpiece flopped
137 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft
137 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM
137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Pure Programming Language
137 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series
137 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
137 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
BlackCat ransomware group implodes after apparent payment by Change Healthcare
137 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
How a baker survived the Titanic by getting drunk (2022)
137 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Maps that show time instead of space
137 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation
137 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Launch HN: CamelQA (YC W24) – AI that tests mobile apps
137 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention
137 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
137 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter
137 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Timekeeping Before Clocks
137 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure
137 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
137 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
NASA's plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes
137 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C
137 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?
137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust
137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming
137 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
137 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
137 points • comment • may 16, 2024
A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)
137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Emoji History: The Missing Years
137 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows
137 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224
137 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Everything we can't describe in music
136 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
136 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
What Is WebTV?
136 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust
136 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
How to Design an ISA
136 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster
136 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons
136 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Researchers use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water
136 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild
136 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
136 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Cindy Lee might be the future of music
136 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
136 points • comment • may 17, 2024
No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
The Airship to Orbit Project
136 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
136 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
136 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
C++ Safety, in Context
136 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Is Tableau Dead?
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Boy photographer seeks danger as others flee (1968)
136 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
How does the sky turn dark at night?
136 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
136 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Scientists put Jared Diamond's continental axis hypothesis to the test
136 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
136 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away
136 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
136 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
136 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
136 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Self-driving as a case study for AGI
136 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Understanding Google's File System (2020)
136 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died
136 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations
136 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?
136 points • comment • may 13, 2024
I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
135 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf]
135 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
135 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
135 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Dracula Theme for Hacker News
135 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Grace Version Control System
135 points • comment • may 06, 2024
A reasonable configuration language
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
135 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
135 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products
135 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
NVK is now ready for prime time
135 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor whose steel creations awed viewers, has died
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
The power of two random choices
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
135 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
How (and why) to run SQLite in production
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024