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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

    98 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  2. Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)

    98 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  3. Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?

    97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  4. Boulder VC firm Foundry to shutter after 18 years, 200 investments

    97 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  5. The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)

    97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  6. Databases in 2023: A Year in Review

    97 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  7. DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast

    97 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  8. Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display

    97 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  9. On "Owning" Software

    97 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  10. Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal

    97 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  11. Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

    97 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  12. Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days

    97 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  13. The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)

    96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  14. The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  15. Reasons to grow and keep big muscles

    96 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  16. NASA's Webb depicts structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies

    96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  17. Dumping Firmware for fun and learning [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  18. Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  19. The Aha Stack

    96 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  20. Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)

    96 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  21. George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

    96 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  22. Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident

    96 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  23. Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)

    96 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  24. Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out

    96 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  25. US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War

    96 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  26. Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  27. 165 m private submersible superyacht

    96 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  28. Starlite

    96 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  29. Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces

    96 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  30. ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving

    95 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  31. How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background

    95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  32. Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  33. The Tensor Network

    95 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  34. Rich People Don't Talk to Robots

    95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  35. Taito's Mini-Vaders: Why Should Dottori Have All the Fun?

    95 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  36. Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death

    95 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  37. Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why

    95 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  38. PRQL as a DuckDB Extension

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  39. Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly

    95 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  40. I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]

    95 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  41. Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]

    95 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  42. On knowing who he was

    95 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  43. 'Do not drive': Toyota recalls some 50k older vehicles

    95 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  44. Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  45. Orange Site Hit

    95 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  46. 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn

    95 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  47. Displaying Content as a Graph

    95 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  48. Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US

    94 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  49. Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims

    94 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  50. Chemists tie a trefoil knot using only 54 atoms

    94 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  51. OpenAI and journalism

    94 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  52. Efficient LLM Inference (2023)

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  53. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

    94 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  54. Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics [pdf] (2020)

    94 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  55. (Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"

    94 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  56. Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust

    94 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  57. Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller

    93 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  58. Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites

    93 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  59. Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)

    93 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  60. Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming Performance

    93 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  61. EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser

    93 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  62. Microdot: Yet another Python web framework

    93 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  63. NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff

    93 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  64. There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless

    93 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  65. The Founder: A dystopian business simulator (2015)

    93 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  66. Google has no visionary leaders and a pervasive sense of nihilism

    93 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  67. NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments

    93 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  68. Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)

    93 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  69. The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea

    93 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  70. Lolwut: A piece of art inside a database command (2018)

    92 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  71. Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism

    92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  72. YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI

    92 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  73. The One Billion Row Challenge – .NET Edition

    92 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  74. LoMA: Lossless Compressed Memory Attention

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  75. A tale of two teenagers (2023)

    92 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  76. Comparing Performance of Julia on CPUs vs. GPUs and Julia-MPI vs. Fortran-MPI

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  77. Get Out of Jail Cards, 2

    92 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  78. 30% of Portuguese people between the ages of 15 and 39 have left the country

    92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  79. Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]

    92 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  80. Solar is a market for (financial) lemons

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  81. Framework: We don't want to have to make a printer, but wow

    92 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  82. Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here

    92 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  83. Show HN: Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development

    92 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  84. One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds

    91 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  85. Lee Kuan Yew on Malta

    91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  86. Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]

    91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  87. Show HN: Pfuzz, a web fuzzer following the Unix philosophy

    91 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  88. Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

    91 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  89. Tracking and mapping the data broker ecosystem

    91 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  90. Show HN: 12-colored visual interactive music theory for pop/rock MIDI (+Github)

    91 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  91. Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?

    91 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  92. Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared

    91 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  93. Two physicists who correctly predicted the mass of Higgs boson [video]

    90 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  94. Fail2ban Sucks (2020)

    90 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  95. Gleam's New Interactive Language Tour

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  96. AWS Libcrypto for Rust

    90 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  97. Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  98. Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether

    90 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  99. An introduction to temporal logic and how it can be used to analyze concurrency

    90 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  100. The Procrastination Matrix (2015)

    90 points • comment • jan 01, 2024