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Hacker News (2024)

The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop
98 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Vistex CEO Sanjay Shah dies on stage after freak accident
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)
98 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
98 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
98 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Sleeping our way to being productive
98 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?
98 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Natron: Open-source alternative to Adobe After Effects
98 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Serving a website from a Git repo without cloning it
98 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
TextAnalysisTool.NET
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Better adb shell
98 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
98 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
98 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules
98 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Mutt on Windows Without WSL
98 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust
98 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
98 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company
98 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
'Zombie Fires' burning at an alarming rate in Canada
97 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)
97 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Well-Known Secrets of AmigaDOS
97 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
SpaceX forced workers to sign illegal severance agreements, US agency claims
97 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
Discovering the xz backdoor with Andres Freund [audio]
97 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
97 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf]
97 points • comment • may 12, 2024
Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE
97 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)
97 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
97 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)
97 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Xbox has a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
97 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade
97 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
World Backup Day
97 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Key Consciousness Connections Uncovered
97 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
97 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)
97 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Show HN: Making GNU Make a better Task Runner
97 points • comment • may 12, 2024
On "Owning" Software
97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Project Astra
97 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites
97 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?
97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook
97 points • comment • may 11, 2024
RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R
97 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Building unorthodox deep learning GPU machines
97 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly
97 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Flags Are Not Languages
97 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Show HN: You don't need to adopt new tools for LLM observability
97 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
What makes housing so expensive?
97 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
The Secret Life of XY Monitors (2001)
97 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
How to escape Honda's privacy hell
97 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Browser Security Bugs That Aren't: JavaScript in PDF
97 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
Air Force OKs autonomous cargo flights across California after successful test
97 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
97 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined
97 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
America's Last Top Models
97 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Neolithic boats found in the Mediterranean reveal advanced nautical technology
97 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content
97 points • comment • may 15, 2024
Cycloidal marine propellers: Efficient thrust in any direction
97 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
How Radicle Works Under the Hood
97 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
97 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
How much electricity does AI consume?
97 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
97 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Students invent quieter leaf blower
97 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Boulder VC firm Foundry to shutter after 18 years, 200 investments
97 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast
97 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Databases in 2023: A Year in Review
97 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Espressif ESP32: Breaking HW AES with Power Analysis (2023)
97 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in Social Media, by Far
97 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory
97 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility
97 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Git Worktrees and GitButler
97 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional
97 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
97 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
97 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
New capacitor with 19-times energy density
97 points • comment • may 08, 2024
The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain
97 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
How much memory does a graph take?
97 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Plasticity: CAD for Artists
97 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account
97 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers
97 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search
96 points • comment • may 08, 2024
The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
The life and times of an Abstract Syntax Tree
96 points • comment • may 02, 2024
The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
96 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog
96 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out
96 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
How fuzz testing was invented (2008)
96 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough
96 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
165 m private submersible superyacht
96 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
96 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth
96 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince's audio engineer
96 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
AMD's Mild Hybrid Strategy: Ryzen Z1 in Asus's ROG Ally
96 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries
96 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]
96 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Tell the U.S. Senate: Stop Risaa, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion
96 points • comment • apr 17, 2024