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Hacker News (Jan 2024)
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An RNG that runs in your brain
256 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
255 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
255 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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What I've learned about flow fields so far
254 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%
254 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator
253 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
253 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
253 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case
253 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
252 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant
252 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
252 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Macaroons Escalated Quickly
251 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
251 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
251 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
251 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think
251 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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SIMD in Pure Python
251 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
250 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
250 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
250 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management
250 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
249 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
248 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs
248 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
247 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor
246 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
246 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't
246 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
245 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Textart.sh
245 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf]
245 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Teachable Machine (2017)
244 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Cloudflare lays off new hires
243 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira
243 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
242 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
242 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
241 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Think more about what to focus on
240 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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A hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
239 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
239 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Super Mario 64 on the Web
238 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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The NSA Furby Documents
238 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
238 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
237 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Fly through your shell history
237 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
235 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Updates on Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft
235 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Lego Mechanical Computer
234 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
234 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Making Rust binaries smaller by default
234 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate
233 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Cells across the body talk to each other about aging
233 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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A million ways to die on the web
233 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
233 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
233 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
232 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported
232 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)
232 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Vint Cerf is accumulating Dave Mills stories
232 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
232 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
230 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes
230 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker
230 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
230 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
230 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues
230 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
229 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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WebGPU is now available on Android
229 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
229 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
229 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Are we at peak vector database?
229 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack
229 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Jobs you're applying to might not be real
228 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
228 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Memory leak proof every C program
228 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)
228 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Tachiyomi – It's Joever
228 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
227 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
227 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT
227 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
227 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
226 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
226 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint
225 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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Responses to unicycling
225 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
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Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python
225 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures
225 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
225 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Asus Zenbook Duo 2024
224 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
224 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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ZX Spectrum Raytracer
223 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service
223 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
223 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
223 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
223 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar
223 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
223 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
222 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Generating SVG for the prime knots
222 points • comment • jan 11, 2024