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Hacker News (2024)

Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes
127 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use
127 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
127 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX
127 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing
127 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Apple Buys DarwinAI Ahead of Major Generative AI Updates Coming in iOS 18
127 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
The Cell Programming Language
127 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
XZ: Repo maintainer Lasse Collin responding on LKML
127 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
127 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train
127 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Using a LLM to compress text
127 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
127 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Google lays off entire team while they are testifying to the city council
127 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Show HN: Faster LLM evaluation with Bayesian optimization
127 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
127 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
BASIC turns 60
127 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says
126 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
VLC vs. the App Stores
126 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way of life
126 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week
126 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Banner blindness
126 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces
126 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
126 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
126 points • comment • may 09, 2024
The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday
126 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Ruby on Rails load testing habits
126 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Basic proxy implementation using io_uring
126 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
The Elements of Differentiable Programming
126 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)
126 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
The Magic of Bird Brains
126 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit
126 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist
126 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News
126 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster
126 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit
126 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer
126 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
126 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
126 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
126 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
126 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)
126 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
A podcast about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it
126 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)
126 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting
126 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Thoughts on Seed Oil
126 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
126 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS
126 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars
126 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)
126 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
126 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer
126 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector
126 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
126 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required
126 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
The Physics of Karate (2021)
126 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Science fiction and the death of the sun
126 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019
126 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores
126 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen
126 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
126 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos
126 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck
126 points • comment • may 14, 2024
My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
126 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Soupault: A static website management tool
125 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
125 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
125 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
125 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
'Magical' Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient
125 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust
125 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself
125 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions
125 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline
125 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)
125 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
125 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
125 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements
125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard
125 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Show HN: An open source performance monitoring tool
125 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests
125 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina
125 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
The Fossil Sync Protocol
125 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
EFF: Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents
125 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
125 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
QMK and Keyboards
125 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
125 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule
125 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Lemonade Stand
125 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Janky Apple ID Security
125 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
125 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Windsor Typeface (2018)
125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Show HN: A Who is Hiring app with AI filters
125 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow disease through Dutch bulb fields
125 points • comment • mar 26, 2024
Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser
125 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
125 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
NetBSD 10.0 Released
125 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
125 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
125 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
125 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
OpenBSD System-Call Pinning
125 points • comment • feb 02, 2024