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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. GitHub having issues today

    134 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  2. Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection

    133 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  3. Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training

    133 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  4. A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus

    133 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  5. Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act

    133 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  6. Z – Jump around

    133 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  7. A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal

    132 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  8. The things nobody wants to pay for

    132 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  9. Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud

    132 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  10. NetSurf Web Browser

    132 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  11. How to forget what you read

    132 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  12. The Biggest Smallest PNG

    131 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  13. Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes

    131 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  14. How Gyms Make Money (2015)

    131 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  15. Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician

    131 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  16. The Secret Life of Machines (1988)

    131 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  17. Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering

    131 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  18. TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model

    131 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  19. Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group

    131 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  20. LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory

    131 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  21. Card Game Rules

    131 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  22. The browser's biggest TLS mistake

    131 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  23. Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell"

    130 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  24. Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)

    130 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  25. HTML Spirograph (2021)

    130 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  26. Show HN: Page Replica – Tool for Web Scraping, Prerendering, and SEO Boost

    130 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  27. Epic Games' "The RAD Debugger"

    130 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  28. Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)

    130 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  29. Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]

    130 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  30. Cracking the code of Linear B

    129 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  31. The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands

    129 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  32. 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective

    129 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  33. Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round

    129 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  34. Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"

    129 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  35. When random numbers are too random: Low discrepancy sequences (2017)

    129 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  36. The origins of the Guinness stout yeast

    129 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  37. Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically (2023)

    129 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  38. Launch HN: Talc AI (YC S23) – Test Sets for AI

    129 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  39. A rocket a day keeps the high costs away (1993)

    129 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  40. Take the Road Most Documented

    129 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  41. There has never been a better time to game on Linux

    129 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  42. EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone

    129 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  43. Watch Free Online Documentaries

    129 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  44. Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training

    129 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  45. Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

    129 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  46. Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators

    129 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  47. How to build a submarine and survive [video]

    129 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  48. SaberVM

    128 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  49. MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts

    128 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  50. Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 MAX 9 blowout

    128 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  51. TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, One Awaiting Government Approval

    128 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  52. Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads

    128 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  53. Tex-Oberon: Make Project Oberon Pretty Again

    128 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  54. Choosing what to read

    128 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  55. The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions

    128 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  56. Linux for Playstation 2

    128 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  57. Learning Regular Languages with L* Algorithm

    128 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  58. Listening with LLM

    128 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  59. CRT Manufacturing

    128 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  60. A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code

    128 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  61. Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones

    128 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  62. How different languages laugh online

    128 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  63. Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat

    128 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  64. Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?

    127 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  65. Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use

    127 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  66. Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app

    127 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  67. Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself

    127 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  68. Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)

    127 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  69. Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

    127 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  70. Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers

    127 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  71. An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM

    127 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  72. Harnessing heat from wastewater

    127 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  73. Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes

    127 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  74. Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week

    126 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  75. Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required

    126 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  76. Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer

    126 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  77. Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)

    126 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  78. Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News

    126 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  79. Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019

    126 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  80. The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday

    126 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  81. Ruby on Rails load testing habits

    126 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  82. Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer

    126 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  83. Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector

    126 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  84. Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?

    125 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  85. Show HN: A Who is Hiring app with AI filters

    125 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  86. Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard

    125 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  87. 'Magical' Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient

    125 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  88. The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator

    125 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  89. Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)

    125 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  90. A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)

    125 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  91. QMK and Keyboards

    125 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  92. The math exams of my life

    125 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  93. IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points

    125 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  94. The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019)

    124 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  95. Topaz Unicode

    124 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  96. New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again

    124 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  97. M3 CPU cores have become more versatile

    124 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  98. Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State

    124 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  99. Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  100. The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2024