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Hacker News (Jan 2024)
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HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
98 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)
98 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?
97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Boulder VC firm Foundry to shutter after 18 years, 200 investments
97 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Databases in 2023: A Year in Review
97 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast
97 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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On "Owning" Software
97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
97 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
97 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
97 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
96 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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NASA's Webb depicts structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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Dumping Firmware for fun and learning [pdf]
96 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]
96 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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The Aha Stack
96 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)
96 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
96 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident
96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)
96 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out
96 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War
96 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages
96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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165 m private submersible superyacht
96 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Starlite
96 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces
96 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving
95 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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The Tensor Network
95 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Rich People Don't Talk to Robots
95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Taito's Mini-Vaders: Why Should Dottori Have All the Fun?
95 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death
95 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
95 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]
95 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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On knowing who he was
95 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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'Do not drive': Toyota recalls some 50k older vehicles
95 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections
95 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Orange Site Hit
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn
95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Displaying Content as a Graph
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US
94 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Chemists tie a trefoil knot using only 54 atoms
94 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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OpenAI and journalism
94 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Efficient LLM Inference (2023)
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
94 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics [pdf] (2020)
94 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"
94 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
94 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller
93 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites
93 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)
93 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming Performance
93 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser
93 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Microdot: Yet another Python web framework
93 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff
93 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless
93 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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The Founder: A dystopian business simulator (2015)
93 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Google has no visionary leaders and a pervasive sense of nihilism
93 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
93 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)
93 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea
93 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Lolwut: A piece of art inside a database command (2018)
92 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism
92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI
92 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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The One Billion Row Challenge – .NET Edition
92 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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LoMA: Lossless Compressed Memory Attention
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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A tale of two teenagers (2023)
92 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Comparing Performance of Julia on CPUs vs. GPUs and Julia-MPI vs. Fortran-MPI
92 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Get Out of Jail Cards, 2
92 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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30% of Portuguese people between the ages of 15 and 39 have left the country
92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]
92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Solar is a market for (financial) lemons
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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Framework: We don't want to have to make a printer, but wow
92 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here
92 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Show HN: Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development
92 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds
91 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Lee Kuan Yew on Malta
91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]
91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Show HN: Pfuzz, a web fuzzer following the Unix philosophy
91 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list
91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Tracking and mapping the data broker ecosystem
91 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Show HN: 12-colored visual interactive music theory for pop/rock MIDI (+Github)
91 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
91 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared
91 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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Two physicists who correctly predicted the mass of Higgs boson [video]
90 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Fail2ban Sucks (2020)
90 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Gleam's New Interactive Language Tour
90 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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AWS Libcrypto for Rust
90 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels
90 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether
90 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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An introduction to temporal logic and how it can be used to analyze concurrency
90 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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The Procrastination Matrix (2015)
90 points • comment • jan 01, 2024