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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France

    145 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  2. Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos

    145 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  3. The Orange Pi 5 Plus

    145 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  4. Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  5. Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

    144 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  6. Mariposa – A programming language with time-travel

    144 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  7. Tidy First?

    144 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  8. Organ pipe physics

    144 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  9. Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene

    144 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  10. Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration

    144 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  11. Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element

    144 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  12. Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor

    144 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  13. Nitro: A fast, lightweight inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API

    144 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  14. Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night

    143 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  15. Linear CEO alleges Carta mishandled sensitive cap table data

    143 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  16. Decompilation of Paper Mario for N64

    143 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  17. Teatotaller cafe owner wins Instagram case in court

    143 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  18. Juniper Networks to Combine with HPE

    143 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  19. When America first dropped acid

    143 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  20. Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service

    143 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  21. How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

    142 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  22. Making the Micropipette

    142 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  23. Ruffle: 2023 in Review

    142 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  24. Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today

    142 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  25. SSH-Snake: Automated SSH-Based Network Traversal

    142 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  26. Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

    141 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  27. Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps

    141 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  28. Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?

    141 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  29. Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing

    141 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  30. 'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues

    141 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  31. Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next

    141 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  32. Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding

    141 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  33. Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server

    141 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  34. Understanding the world science fiction convention

    141 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  35. Let's Block It

    141 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  36. OpenAI is working with the US military now

    141 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  37. The man who coined the word "robot" defends himself

    141 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  38. AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library

    141 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  39. The Beirut Port Explosion Forensic Investigation

    141 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  40. Four Magic Words

    141 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  41. Database of artists used to train Midjourney AI garners criticism

    141 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  42. Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)

    141 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  43. Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

    141 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  44. Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-Max suffers window blowout after taking off

    141 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  45. The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)

    140 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  46. A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks

    140 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  47. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

    140 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  48. Coming home from the South Pole

    140 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  49. Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI

    140 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  50. Psst: Paper-Based Secret Sharing Technique

    140 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  51. The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet

    140 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  52. Things engineers believe about Web development

    140 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  53. Crusty, the Indestructible Mac

    139 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  54. Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development

    139 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  55. Paradise Lost (1667)

    139 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  56. Ancient City Found in the Amazon

    139 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  57. k on pdp11

    139 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  58. The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?

    139 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  59. Prediction markets have an elections problem

    139 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  60. Trade-offs between Different CRDTs

    139 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  61. Textfiles

    139 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  62. OpenBSD Workstation Hardening

    139 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  63. Block cookie banners on Firefox

    139 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  64. Show HN: Lumos, a local LLM Chrome extension

    139 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  65. Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu

    139 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  66. First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power

    139 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  67. The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers

    138 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  68. Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline

    138 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  69. Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions

    138 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  70. NASA's plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes

    137 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  71. United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft

    137 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  72. Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224

    137 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  73. Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM

    137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  74. Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention

    137 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  75. Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command

    137 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  76. How a baker survived the Titanic by getting drunk (2022)

    137 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  77. How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

    137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  78. Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

    137 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  79. Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript

    136 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  80. Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser

    136 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  81. Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal

    136 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  82. Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV

    136 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  83. How to Design an ISA

    136 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  84. Self-driving as a case study for AGI

    136 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  85. A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust

    136 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  86. Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

    136 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  87. 30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland

    136 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  88. Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup

    135 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  89. C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  90. Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

    135 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  91. First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval

    135 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  92. Dracula Theme for Hacker News

    135 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  93. John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)

    135 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  94. Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  95. Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

    134 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  96. GitHub having issues today

    134 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  97. Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim

    134 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  98. Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update

    134 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  99. Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling

    134 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  100. Why use strace in 2023? [video]

    134 points • comment • jan 08, 2024