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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives

    303 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  2. Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

    302 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  3. Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028

    301 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  4. Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

    301 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  5. Forging signed commits on GitHub

    301 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  6. Appearances of MIT in Anime

    300 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  7. Why you've never been in a plane crash

    299 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  8. Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

    299 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  9. Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?

    299 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  10. German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app

    299 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  11. Kagi search reached 20k paying members

    298 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  12. Thinking in an array language

    296 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  13. Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

    295 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  14. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

    295 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  15. A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note

    294 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  16. Rue de l'Avenir

    293 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  17. Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?

    293 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  18. With revenue and users declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise

    292 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  19. Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'

    291 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  20. Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

    291 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  21. Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?

    291 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  22. On Sleeper Agent LLMs

    290 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  23. Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly

    290 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  24. Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games

    288 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  25. DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces

    288 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  26. Harmonics Explorer

    287 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  27. 23andMe's Fall

    286 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  28. A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)

    286 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  29. AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics

    286 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  30. Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)

    286 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  31. A math professor who objects to diversity statements

    286 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  32. The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)

    286 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  33. Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory

    285 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  34. CNC lasers for cutting and engraving

    285 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  35. Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    284 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  36. Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

    284 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  37. Shoelace: A library of web components

    284 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  38. We need technology that is less immersive, not more

    283 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  39. Conditional Git Configuration

    281 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  40. AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea

    281 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  41. WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home

    281 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  42. Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

    280 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  43. Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG

    280 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  44. I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script

    279 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  45. Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models

    279 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  46. How to Be More Agentic

    279 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  47. I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros

    278 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  48. Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers

    277 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  49. Sieve is simpler than LRU

    277 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  50. 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)

    276 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  51. Sourcehut network outage post-mortem

    276 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  52. Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization

    275 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  53. AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

    275 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  54. Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content

    275 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  55. AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates

    275 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  56. Ruby's exceptional creatures

    274 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  57. Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

    274 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  58. Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative

    274 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  59. Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds

    274 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  60. An overview of distributed Postgres architectures

    273 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  61. Everyone hates the electronic medical record

    273 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  62. The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

    273 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  63. Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud

    273 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  64. Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)

    273 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  65. We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres

    271 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  66. Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?

    269 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  67. The rise of batteries in six charts

    269 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  68. Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder

    268 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  69. Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]

    268 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  70. SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says

    268 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  71. Untranslatable

    267 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  72. What I learned selling my company

    267 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  73. Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite

    267 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  74. What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)

    266 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  75. Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard

    266 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  76. High C Compiler – A C language extension ahead of its time

    266 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  77. Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home

    266 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  78. Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7

    266 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  79. What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)

    265 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  80. Mario Maker 2 API

    265 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  81. We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

    265 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  82. Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

    264 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  83. Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects

    264 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  84. Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa

    263 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  85. Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies

    263 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  86. Why I Like Obsidian

    263 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  87. ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s

    262 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  88. A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing

    261 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  89. Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

    261 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  90. Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot

    259 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  91. I hacked a train toilet

    258 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  92. Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

    258 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  93. The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)

    258 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  94. Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one

    258 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  95. Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs

    256 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  96. MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device

    256 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  97. Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH

    256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  98. Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?

    256 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  99. An RNG that runs in your brain

    256 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  100. How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs

    256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024