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Hacker News (2024)

Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?
107 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris
107 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
107 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause
107 points • comment • may 18, 2024
David Hahn, the 'radioactive boy scout' who tried to build a nuclear reactor (2022)
107 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
107 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
107 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM
107 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)
107 points • comment • may 15, 2024
A Theory of Grift
107 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes
107 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Xbox Multiplayer Analysis Tool
107 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
100kHz to 6GHz 2 port USB based VNA
107 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Ways of Seeing: Nicholson Baker learns to draw
107 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
A teen's fatal plunge into the London underworld
107 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
I Built an Ld_preload Worm
107 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs
107 points • comment • may 15, 2024
Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
107 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
107 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Show HN: Deep search of all ML papers
107 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
OpenBSD is a cozy operating system
107 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
Models all the way down
107 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser
107 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
How Shazam Works (2003) [pdf]
107 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time
107 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?
107 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Measuring personal growth
107 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Automate the creation of YouTube Shorts by providing a topic
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom
107 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
The Annotated S4
107 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian
107 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
107 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
YX Problem
106 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
106 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade
106 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
106 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Seiji Ozawa 1935-2024
106 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox
106 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing (2022)
106 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility. (2021)
106 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
106 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
The 37signals Employee Handbook
106 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Genetically engineering koji mold to create a meat alternative
106 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Apprise: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, Push Notifications
106 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Tine Text Editor
106 points • comment • may 10, 2024
British Placename Mapper
106 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
PyPy v7.3.16
106 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
The question of poverty vs. instability
106 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets
106 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
106 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Model Spec
106 points • comment • may 08, 2024
Show HN: Volume rendering 3D data in Three.js and GLSL
106 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas
106 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
I'm going to keep opting out
106 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it
106 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected
106 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
Shittier: Code formatting tool that makes your code look terrible
106 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
106 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance
106 points • comment • may 01, 2024
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
106 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries
106 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Spotify getting into enterprise IT tools
106 points • comment • may 04, 2024
You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
106 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Apple Pkl
106 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)
106 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)
106 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
What's Inside a Linux Kernel Core Dump
106 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
106 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Qwen1.5-110B
106 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
106 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
How does Sidekiq really work?
106 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets
106 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California
106 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
106 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Gnet is the fastest networking framework in Go
106 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Mass Retraction of unethical Chinese Forensic Genetics Papers
106 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video
106 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Building a streaming SQL engine with Arrow and DataFusion
106 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)
106 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
OpenAI launches new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT
106 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Stolen masterpieces that are still missing
106 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
GeneGPT, a tool-augmented LLM for bioinformatics
106 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs
106 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials
106 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
106 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
Elicit – AI Research Assistant
106 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Intel Meteor Lake's NPU
105 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness
105 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists
105 points • comment • may 02, 2024
How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
105 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Universal domain types
105 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
105 points • comment • may 09, 2024
The lithium-ion battery may not be the best bet for EVs
105 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby
105 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent
105 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
105 points • comment • may 09, 2024
'They're knowingly addicting kids': the attorney challenging social media firms
105 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
105 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?
105 points • comment • feb 21, 2024