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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars

    380 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  2. A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

    380 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  3. The Bun Shell

    380 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  4. Disney's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US copyright expires

    378 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  5. Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64

    378 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  6. Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop

    376 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  7. Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

    374 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  8. Platform Tilt

    373 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  9. Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024

    373 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  10. Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)

    373 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  11. How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives

    372 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  12. Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip

    371 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  13. Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

    371 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  14. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

    370 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  15. DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser

    368 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  16. A decade-old Steam bug

    367 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  17. Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers

    367 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  18. Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

    367 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  19. Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

    365 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  20. FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm

    365 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  21. When Random Isn't

    365 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  22. Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage

    364 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  23. Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

    362 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  24. Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier

    361 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  25. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought

    360 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  26. TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning

    359 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  27. Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs

    359 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  28. Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine

    359 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  29. Chromium bug bounty money tree browser

    355 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  30. Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

    354 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  31. What PWA Can Do Today

    354 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  32. Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones

    353 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  33. 27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process

    351 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  34. A Tour of the Lisps

    349 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  35. Visualizing Ext4

    348 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  36. Czech republic sets IPv4 end date

    346 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  37. High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98

    346 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  38. Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

    346 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  39. The case for single-stair multifamily

    344 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  40. How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python

    342 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  41. Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)

    341 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  42. Fewer people are buying electric cars

    340 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  43. Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi

    340 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  44. New Renderers for GTK

    339 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  45. LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning

    338 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  46. Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative

    338 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  47. Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]

    338 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  48. Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary

    336 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  49. OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"

    336 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  50. OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon

    334 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  51. Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model

    333 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  52. Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass

    333 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  53. Should I open source my company? (2022)

    330 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  54. Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

    330 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  55. Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

    329 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  56. Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?

    329 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  57. Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

    327 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  58. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

    326 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  59. ML Engineering Online Book

    326 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  60. Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app

    325 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  61. Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance

    325 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  62. Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

    325 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  63. How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent

    324 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  64. A Canadian payroll dependency chart

    324 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  65. MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs

    323 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  66. 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa

    322 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  67. I moved my blog from IPFS to a server

    321 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  68. I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

    318 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  69. Inside the Steam Deck's APU

    317 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  70. OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop

    317 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  71. SEC's X Account Hacked, Bitcoin Spot ETFs Not yet Approved

    317 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  72. Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network

    317 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  73. The Hacker News Top books of 2023

    315 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  74. Modeless Vim

    315 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  75. Fixing annoying blue standby lights

    314 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  76. Lumiere: A space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation

    314 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  77. scrapscript.py

    313 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  78. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

    313 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  79. Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

    313 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  80. Bluesky has launched RSS feeds

    312 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  81. ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess

    311 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  82. Sega AI

    310 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  83. Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center

    310 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  84. Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies

    310 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  85. LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day

    309 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  86. Writing a TrueType font renderer

    309 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  87. How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

    307 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  88. Building a USB SNES Controller

    307 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  89. Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge

    307 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  90. Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

    306 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  91. AI generated security reports about curl

    306 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  92. SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support

    306 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  93. Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency

    306 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  94. Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords

    305 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  95. Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees

    305 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  96. Iggy.rs – building message streaming in Rust

    305 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  97. Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"

    305 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  98. Postgres Incremental Backup

    305 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  99. .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

    303 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  100. YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

    303 points • comment • jan 05, 2024