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Hacker News (Jan 2024)
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Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
303 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple
302 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028
301 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
301 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Forging signed commits on GitHub
301 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Appearances of MIT in Anime
300 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Why you've never been in a plane crash
299 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
299 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?
299 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app
299 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Kagi search reached 20k paying members
298 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Thinking in an array language
296 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
295 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition
295 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note
294 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Rue de l'Avenir
293 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
293 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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With revenue and users declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
292 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
291 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission
291 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
291 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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On Sleeper Agent LLMs
290 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
290 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games
288 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces
288 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Harmonics Explorer
287 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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23andMe's Fall
286 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
286 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics
286 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)
286 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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A math professor who objects to diversity statements
286 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)
286 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory
285 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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CNC lasers for cutting and engraving
285 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
284 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux
284 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Shoelace: A library of web components
284 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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We need technology that is less immersive, not more
283 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Conditional Git Configuration
281 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
281 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home
281 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
280 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG
280 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script
279 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models
279 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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How to Be More Agentic
279 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros
278 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers
277 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Sieve is simpler than LRU
277 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)
276 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
276 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
275 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
275 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content
275 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates
275 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Ruby's exceptional creatures
274 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
274 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
274 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds
274 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
273 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Everyone hates the electronic medical record
273 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
273 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
273 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
273 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
271 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
269 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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The rise of batteries in six charts
269 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
268 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]
268 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says
268 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Untranslatable
267 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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What I learned selling my company
267 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite
267 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)
266 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
266 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time
266 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
266 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
266 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)
265 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Mario Maker 2 API
265 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
265 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
264 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects
264 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa
263 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
263 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Why I Like Obsidian
263 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
262 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing
261 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
261 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
259 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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I hacked a train toilet
258 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
258 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
258 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one
258 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs
256 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
256 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH
256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?
256 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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An RNG that runs in your brain
256 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024