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Hacker News (2024)

Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
135 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
135 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
135 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
135 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
FTC challenges 'junk' patents held by 10 drugmakers, incl Novo Nordisk's Ozempic
135 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
TCP connection timeout mystery
135 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
NVK is now ready for prime time
135 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf]
135 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
The power of two random choices
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
135 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
How to send progress updates
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
135 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Verified curl
135 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
135 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
135 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding
134 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
134 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
134 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
134 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
134 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
LCD displays still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens (2019)
134 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Why use strace in 2023? [video]
134 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
OpenBSD Desktop
134 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
134 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
A review on protein language models
134 points • comment • may 14, 2024
The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs
134 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
134 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
134 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock
134 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Binary vector search is better than FP32 vectors
134 points • comment • mar 26, 2024
Origins of J
134 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
134 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Bertie – A minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in hacspec
134 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine
134 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
GitHub having issues today
134 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Game Font Forensics
134 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software
133 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act
133 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes
133 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Old London Bridge
133 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design
133 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection
133 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Moore's Scofflaws
133 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
133 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology
133 points • comment • may 07, 2024
A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus
133 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
133 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
133 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
133 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain
133 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
The Star Destroyer and Imperial Military Doctrine
133 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
133 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Show HN: Podlite - a lightweight markup language for organizing knowledge
133 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed
133 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team
133 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
133 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
133 points • comment • may 15, 2024
Show NH: "data-to-paper" - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research
133 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
133 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable
133 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Z – Jump around
133 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
133 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
133 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
The Mechanics of Proof
133 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling
133 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming
133 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
Show HN: Cognita – open-source RAG framework for modular applications
132 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
An ALS drug fails, again
132 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)
132 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
Single vendor is the new proprietary
132 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL
132 points • comment • may 08, 2024
Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis
132 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
132 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany
132 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
132 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide
132 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI
132 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
132 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
InternLM2
132 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud
132 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal
132 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform
132 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
The things nobody wants to pay for
132 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones
132 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
How to forget what you read
132 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Show HN: Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React
132 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
132 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
NetSurf Web Browser
132 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Remix Vite Is Now Stable
132 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
132 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age
132 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Revy – proof-of-concept time-travel debugger for the Bevy game engine
132 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
The Waning Reign of the Muskrat
132 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs
132 points • comment • apr 25, 2024