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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. An RNG that runs in your brain

    256 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  2. Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech

    255 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  3. Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)

    255 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  4. What I've learned about flow fields so far

    254 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  5. Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%

    254 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  6. German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

    253 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  7. My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4

    253 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  8. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    253 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  9. eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

    253 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  10. What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

    252 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  11. Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant

    252 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  12. Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?

    252 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  13. Macaroons Escalated Quickly

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  14. From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story

    251 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  15. Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

    251 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  16. Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0

    251 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  17. Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think

    251 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  18. SIMD in Pure Python

    251 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  19. CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers

    250 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  20. Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews

    250 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  21. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

    250 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  22. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

    250 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  23. French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity

    249 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  24. New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy

    248 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  25. Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

    248 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  26. U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple

    247 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  27. Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor

    246 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  28. Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

    246 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  29. We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

    246 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  30. IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023

    245 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  31. Textart.sh

    245 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  32. Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf]

    245 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  33. Teachable Machine (2017)

    244 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  34. Cloudflare lays off new hires

    243 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  35. Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira

    243 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  36. Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England

    242 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  37. Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework

    242 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  38. Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match

    241 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  39. Think more about what to focus on

    240 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  40. A hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

    239 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  41. Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content

    239 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  42. Super Mario 64 on the Web

    238 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  43. The NSA Furby Documents

    238 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  44. Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

    238 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  45. Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs

    237 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  46. Fly through your shell history

    237 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  47. Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2

    235 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  48. Updates on Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft

    235 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  49. Lego Mechanical Computer

    234 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  50. Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars

    234 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  51. Making Rust binaries smaller by default

    234 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  52. Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate

    233 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  53. Cells across the body talk to each other about aging

    233 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  54. A million ways to die on the web

    233 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  55. Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead

    233 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  56. OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker

    233 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  57. Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features

    232 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  58. Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

    232 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  59. epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)

    232 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  60. Vint Cerf is accumulating Dave Mills stories

    232 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  61. TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones

    232 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  62. RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

    230 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  63. Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes

    230 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  64. General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

    230 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  65. How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer

    230 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  66. Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]

    230 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  67. Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues

    230 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  68. IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

    229 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  69. WebGPU is now available on Android

    229 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  70. K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney

    229 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  71. Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

    229 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  72. Are we at peak vector database?

    229 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  73. Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack

    229 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  74. Jobs you're applying to might not be real

    228 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  75. Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed

    228 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  76. Memory leak proof every C program

    228 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  77. First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)

    228 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  78. Tachiyomi – It's Joever

    228 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  79. NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach

    227 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  80. Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

    227 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  81. Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT

    227 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  82. Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

    227 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  83. uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

    226 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  84. Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build

    226 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  85. Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint

    225 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  86. Responses to unicycling

    225 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  87. Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

    225 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  88. Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

    225 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  89. Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time

    225 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  90. Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

    224 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  91. Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)

    224 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  92. ZX Spectrum Raytracer

    223 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  93. Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service

    223 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  94. OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions

    223 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  95. Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse

    223 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  96. A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software

    223 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  97. Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar

    223 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  98. Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data

    223 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  99. The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened

    222 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  100. Generating SVG for the prime knots

    222 points • comment • jan 11, 2024