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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Losing my son

    2415 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  2. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

    2100 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  3. In loving memory of square checkbox

    1921 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  4. Niklaus Wirth has died

    1880 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  5. What's that touchscreen in my room?

    1865 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  6. 1D Pac-Man

    1744 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  7. Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

    1560 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  8. I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

    1273 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  9. Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

    1188 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  10. Infinite Craft

    1152 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  11. Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

    1048 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  12. An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

    1039 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  13. Fixing Macs door to door

    1020 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  14. I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously

    1019 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  15. Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC

    997 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  16. Polars

    977 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  17. Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

    949 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  18. Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

    941 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  19. US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

    906 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  20. Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

    841 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  21. Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

    837 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  22. FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s

    833 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  23. FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising

    824 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  24. Pandoc

    817 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  25. Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds

    813 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  26. Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

    795 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  27. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

    791 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  28. I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions

    766 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  29. Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

    762 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  30. Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

    759 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  31. Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

    741 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  32. Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

    733 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  33. On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

    730 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  34. 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

    724 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  35. Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite

    723 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  36. Dave Mills has died

    720 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  37. The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

    697 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  38. Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

    695 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  39. Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step

    689 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  40. Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home

    688 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  41. Standard Ebooks

    677 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  42. Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

    672 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  43. Sit.

    668 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  44. A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

    660 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  45. Apple Vision Pro review

    659 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  46. After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

    658 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  47. IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system

    658 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  48. Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

    653 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  49. --libcurl

    653 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  50. US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes

    646 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  51. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

    645 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  52. Portable EPUBs

    645 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  53. Reading QR codes without a computer

    642 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  54. Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service

    617 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  55. Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

    609 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  56. Do It Yourself Blind Repair

    601 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  57. Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries

    601 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  58. I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

    600 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  59. Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?

    599 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  60. OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

    592 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  61. Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

    585 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  62. Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators

    585 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  63. Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

    583 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  64. We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime

    581 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  65. Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds

    576 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  66. Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras

    575 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  67. Go: What we got right, what we got wrong

    573 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  68. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

    573 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  69. We made an animated movie in 8kB

    566 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  70. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

    559 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  71. Intel's Humbling

    557 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  72. Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

    554 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  73. Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]

    548 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  74. Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B

    547 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  75. Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models

    541 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  76. Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database

    540 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  77. Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

    531 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  78. Where Have All the Websites Gone?

    531 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  79. Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"

    528 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  80. Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

    526 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  81. Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure

    525 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  82. Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system

    524 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  83. AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

    522 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  84. Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets

    521 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  85. My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar

    518 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  86. Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day

    516 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  87. Signs that it's time to leave a company

    515 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  88. How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech

    513 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  89. iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

    512 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  90. I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals

    512 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  91. Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air

    511 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  92. Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6

    510 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  93. I looked through attacks in my access logs

    502 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  94. Mourning Google

    500 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  95. Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

    500 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  96. Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

    500 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  97. Drawing.garden

    499 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  98. The quiet death of Ello's big dreams

    496 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  99. Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

    496 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  100. Culture Change at Google

    493 points • comment • jan 19, 2024