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Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says

    198 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  2. GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer

    198 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  3. Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

    197 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  4. Steamboat Willie [video]

    197 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  5. First do it, then do it right, then do it better

    197 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  6. Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

    197 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  7. eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues

    197 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  8. Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux

    196 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  9. Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World

    196 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  10. Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures

    196 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  11. The best way to get unstuck

    196 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  12. Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years

    195 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  13. U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums

    195 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  14. Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally

    195 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  15. Doom Released Under GPLv2

    195 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  16. GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense

    195 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  17. Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023

    195 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  18. Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD

    195 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  19. Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings

    194 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  20. Why is everything so ugly?

    194 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  21. Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company

    194 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  22. Git Things

    194 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  23. Scrum Sucks

    194 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  24. FreeTaxUSA

    194 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  25. Nitter.net has disappeared

    194 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  26. Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime

    194 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  27. How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer

    192 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  28. Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines

    192 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  29. How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012)

    192 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  30. BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters

    192 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  31. Writing books remains a tough way to make a living

    192 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  32. DIY Book Scanner

    192 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  33. United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing

    192 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  34. Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

    192 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  35. Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the internet

    191 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  36. Hiew Hex Editor

    191 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  37. In-browser code playgrounds

    191 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  38. A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages

    191 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  39. A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020)

    191 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  40. Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023

    190 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  41. A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light

    190 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  42. Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One

    190 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  43. Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

    189 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  44. Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs

    189 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  45. Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements

    189 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  46. Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?

    189 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  47. What I talk about when I talk about query optimizer (part 1): IR design

    188 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  48. C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding

    188 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  49. Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%

    188 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  50. XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta

    188 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  51. Helio: Libre Music Composition Software

    188 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  52. Teaching C (2016)

    188 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  53. Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu

    187 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  54. TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator

    187 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  55. NERV Disaster Prevention

    187 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  56. The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

    186 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  57. Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered

    185 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  58. Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks

    185 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  59. FedEx launches new e-commerce platform

    185 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  60. Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines

    185 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  61. There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets

    184 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  62. Queues don't fix overload (2014)

    184 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  63. US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar

    184 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  64. Philadelphia Jury Hits Monsanto with $2.25B Roundup Verdict

    184 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  65. Generalized K-Means Clustering

    183 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  66. A tiny hand crafted CPU emulator, C compiler, and Operating System

    183 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  67. Learn Datalog Today

    183 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  68. Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries

    183 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  69. Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics

    182 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  70. Crime rings trafficking sand

    182 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  71. Missing the Point of WebAssembly

    182 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  72. Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors

    182 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  73. Solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025

    182 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  74. Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins

    182 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  75. Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet

    181 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  76. Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off

    181 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  77. What Happened to David Graeber?

    181 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  78. Decker – A HyperCard Replacement

    181 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  79. RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)

    181 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  80. Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

    180 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  81. Open Infrastructure Map

    180 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  82. Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off

    180 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  83. How French was medieval England?

    180 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  84. The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI

    180 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  85. ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023

    180 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  86. Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find

    180 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  87. Notion Calendar

    180 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  88. Using Git Offline

    180 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  89. Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]

    179 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  90. How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video]

    179 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  91. Give Us Something to Look At: Why ornament matters in architecture

    179 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  92. Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?

    179 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  93. The Everything NPM Package

    178 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  94. I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

    178 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  95. A Science of Concurrent Programs [pdf]

    177 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  96. Ultima (2012)

    177 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  97. JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames

    177 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  98. Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

    177 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  99. Minimum Wage Clock

    176 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  100. The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020)

    176 points • comment • jan 29, 2024