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Hacker News (2024)

XZ Utils review notes
83 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks
83 points • comment • may 17, 2024
High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM [pdf]
83 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes
83 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Bugs I've filed on browsers
83 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS
83 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
The largest climatized reading space
82 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else
82 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning
82 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
82 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
82 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Fortran vs Python: The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)
82 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
The Making of Django Reinhardt
82 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
New Nvidia driver adds 16bit float support to OpenCL [pdf]
82 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]
82 points • comment • may 13, 2024
US Military notifies 20k of data breach after cloud email leak
82 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
More AR Glasses USB Protocols: The Worse, the Better and the Prettier
82 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
The Snazzy D Compiler
82 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io
82 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?
82 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Allegations of criminality by Boeing in deceased whistleblower complaint
82 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk
82 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Exploring x86-64 Instruction Encoding
82 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format
82 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
Comprehensive Rust: free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google
82 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks
82 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Raspberry Pi Picks Banks for IPO, Choosing London over New York
82 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
What the heck is a homomorphic mapped type?
82 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
82 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Possible to dot your Is with hearts?
82 points • comment • may 01, 2024
What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship? (2023)
82 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Meta Introduces Self-Rewarding Language Model Capable of GPT-4 Level Performance
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
82 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Tesla driver arrested for homicide after running over motorcyclist on Autopilot
82 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance
82 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
A man who collects lost pet posters
82 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005
82 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs
82 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Andrew Ng Appointed to Amazon's Board of Directors
82 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
Tool to statically recompile N64 games into native executables
82 points • comment • may 11, 2024
We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong
82 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
82 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Building a Password Cracker in 2024
82 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytes
82 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?
82 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
Electron 30.0.0
82 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Sony Wearable Thermal Device
82 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
82 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
A Beginner's Companion to Theorem Proving in Lean 4
82 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Exploring Object File Formats
82 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
I don't care about memory safety (2023)
82 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Ambitious but at peace
82 points • comment • may 17, 2024
When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)
82 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
New bill would let defendants inspect algorithms used against them in court
82 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
BMW I3 Owner Confronted with $71,000 Bill to Replace EV Battery
82 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
A walk through Chicago Pedway (2017)
82 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance
82 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
You can't follow me
82 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
82 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Coroutines in JavaScript for web components
82 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Goal: Embeddable array programming language with a bytecode interpreter in Go
81 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
MKUltra
81 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Show HN: My first programming project – userscripts to change forum UIs
81 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data
81 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
The dangers of single line regular expressions
81 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)
81 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Apple's hysterics over new EU antitrust law have led to two climbdowns already
81 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker removes non-enterprise price tiers
81 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
81 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
81 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Google Demands That We Censor Our Content
81 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)
81 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Localization in .NET console and desktop apps
81 points • comment • may 15, 2024
10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Self-Rewarding Language Models
81 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Cosmic: The Road to Alpha
81 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages
81 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
The Failed Saint: On George Orwell's India
81 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision
81 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck
81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer
81 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market
81 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
81 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Measuring GitHub Copilot's impact on productivity
81 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral
81 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core
81 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Are We Modules Yet?
81 points • comment • may 01, 2024
'Britain's Pompeii' reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time
81 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
IEA: 20% of 2023 new car sales globally were EVs, curbing oil demand
81 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
A scientific run-down of coffee blooming
81 points • comment • may 08, 2024
WoWMIPS – MIPS Emulator for Windows, Part 1: Introduction
81 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Physically attractive attorneys tend to have greater success in federal court
81 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress
81 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (2022)
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?
81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Scheme modules vs. whole-program compilation: fight
81 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Aldi: Culture and Operations of a Hard Discounter (2023)
81 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Storybook 8
81 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Parallel Snapshotting: make pg_dump and pg_restore multi-threaded per table
81 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Everyone has JavaScript, right?
81 points • comment • apr 21, 2024