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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Games don't need venture capitalism

    62 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  2. The Early History of the Channel Tunnel

    62 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  3. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Working on a Secret Military Drone Project

    62 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  4. BlockTube, a YouTube Content Blocker

    62 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  5. Understanding bridge-based ranking

    62 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  6. Google's Tensor Processing Units could have been developed using stolen designs

    62 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  7. Five cryptologic giants to be inducted into NSA's Cryptologic Hall of Honor

    62 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  8. Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled

    62 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  9. JEP draft: String Templates (Final)

    62 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  10. Sentry new TOS to use data to train AI with no opt-out

    62 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  11. Margaret Cavendish: A Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London

    62 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  12. South Sudan's first female gynaecologist, Dr Idyoro Ojukwu

    62 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  13. Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  14. JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.unsafe for removal

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  15. Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?

    61 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  16. Midjourney developers caught discussing laundering, creating database of Artists

    61 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  17. Paper Sizes and Formats

    61 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  18. Russian TLD .RU fails DNSSEC validation

    61 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  19. Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)

    61 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  20. AI and satellite imagery used to create clearest map of human activity at sea

    61 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  21. Austin takes a bet on tiny homes to ease homelessness

    61 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  22. Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working'

    61 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  23. Gnome Mess Is Not an Accident

    61 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  24. Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups

    61 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  25. The Design Principles of the Elixir Type System

    61 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  26. Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  27. How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane

    61 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  28. History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse [video]

    61 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  29. American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  30. German Court Fines Security Researcher for Reporting Company's Vulnerabilities

    60 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  31. Firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors

    60 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  32. Which Airlines Are Not Flying the Boeing 737 Max?

    60 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  33. Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)

    60 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  34. The two cultures of mathematics and biology (2014)

    60 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  35. Google significantly reduces recaptcha free tier, introduces new pricing models

    60 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  36. The Spread of European Printing Activity (1450-1650)

    60 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  37. Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  38. Google marked this vulnerability as "Won't Fix" but I disagree. Care to comment?

    60 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  39. LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  40. Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022)

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  41. Farnborough airport's biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue

    60 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  42. Molly White: Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

    60 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  43. TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

    60 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  44. Office Landlords Use Cash Gifts, Loans to Inflate Building Values

    60 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  45. You're Too Old for That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech

    60 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  46. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns

    60 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  47. Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software

    60 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  48. Asking people to "do the research" on fake news makes it more believable

    60 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  49. Differences Between miniKanren and Prolog

    60 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  50. LTSE shutters cap table management business (formerly captable.io)

    59 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  51. Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down game

    59 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  52. Alan Turing – The Delilah Project

    59 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  53. Edge Detection for Image Processing

    59 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  54. Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

    59 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  55. Benchmarking Postgres Vector Search Approaches: Pgvector vs. Lantern

    59 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  56. Hopes for Finding Mars Life After Rover's Ground-Penetrating Radar Discovery

    59 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  57. Two sides of software testing: Checking and exploring (2011)

    59 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  58. Private equity piling on debt like never before

    59 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  59. The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  60. Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains, flesh->leather (2023)

    59 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  61. Estimating your memory bandwidth

    59 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  62. Taiwan election: William Lai, who China sees as 'troublemaker', wins election

    59 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  63. How to mod any lens for anamorphic bokeh

    59 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  64. The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering

    59 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  65. OpenAI suspends bot developer for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips

    59 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  66. Ask HN: How to deal with constant interruptions at work (with ADHD)

    59 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  67. The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

    59 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  68. Is Objective-C BOOL a boolean type? It depends

    59 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  69. Netscape 1.x

    59 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  70. My Experiences Attending NeurIPS 2023

    59 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  71. Dimensional Analysis and Black Holes (2019) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  72. Hollywood keeps reminding us why we need physical media

    59 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  73. What are elliptic curve pairings?

    59 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  74. Jeremy Howard: CUDA for Python Programmers [video]

    59 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  75. The Needless Bullshit of Having a 'Mission'

    59 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  76. Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM

    58 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  77. How much of the world is it possible to model?

    58 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  78. How to Build an Origami Computer

    58 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  79. Wine 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit EXEsc on 64-bit-only xNix (& Wayland)

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  80. Closing word at Zürich Colloquium (1968)

    58 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  81. I miss human curation

    58 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  82. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone

    58 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  83. An Easy to Build Real Homemade Computer: Z80-MBC2

    58 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  84. The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  85. X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre

    58 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  86. The case for better watch typography (2021)

    58 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  87. iPhone seemingly sends iOS keyboard data to an iCloud server

    58 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  88. AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming

    58 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  89. Llama2-shepherd a CLI tool to install multiple implementations of the llama2

    58 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  90. 'Iranian cyber army' blamed as Wikipedia deletes atrocities

    58 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  91. All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far

    58 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  92. Terse: A language with hi-level look-and-feel, low-level control (1995) [pdf]

    58 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  93. Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M

    58 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  94. The Unhinged Nature of GTA V Source Code [video]

    58 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  95. Open table formats are inevitable for analytical datasets

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  96. Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

    58 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  97. Stuck in a downturn, startups ghost investors

    58 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  98. OpenAI says it's "impossible" to create AI models without copyrighted material

    58 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  99. Nobody Cares About Your Git History

    57 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  100. Some mathematical aspects of cryptography (1941)

    57 points • comment • jan 28, 2024