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Hacker News (Jan 2024)
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Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year
176 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
175 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim
175 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
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Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier
175 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Cancer Alley
175 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun
175 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
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The Case for Rust in the base system
174 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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CLI user experience case study
174 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)
174 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
174 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Airtable acquires Airplane
174 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph
174 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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The failure of self-checkout technology
174 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
174 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi
174 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing
173 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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How to delete your data from data brokers
173 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world
173 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
173 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
173 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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PinePhone review after a month of daily driving
173 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
173 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
172 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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Svelte Native
172 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
172 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
172 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux
172 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks
171 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Rabbit R1, Designed by Teenage Engineering
171 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance
171 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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On the dimensionality of spacetime (1997) [pdf]
171 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter
171 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs
171 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
171 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
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Canon aims to ship low-cost 'stamp' machine this year to disrupt chipmaking
171 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT
170 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Whistleblower Aid
170 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
170 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams
170 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Cars suck, man
169 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
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"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
169 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land bridge for Oceania cargo
169 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
169 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study
168 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100
168 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))
168 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online
168 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
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Retro on Viberary
168 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)
168 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
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FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout
168 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
167 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies
167 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
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The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk
167 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
167 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]
166 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
166 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more
166 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
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Audio2Photoreal
166 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)
166 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Money pours into new fabs and facilities
166 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
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It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
166 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?
166 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
166 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult
165 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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Let's talk about joins
165 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
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93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%
165 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Trilinear point splatting for real-time radiance field rendering
165 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
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Making the web fun again (2013)
165 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older
165 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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He spent his life building a $1M stereo
165 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Fossil is quitting smartwatches
165 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
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DeepFlow – open-source eBPF Distributed Tracing
164 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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What Was ISDN?
164 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Introduction to Plan 9
164 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death
164 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
164 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
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Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)
164 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
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Dorf Fort (2020)
164 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
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Mode7 Graphics Library for Playdate
164 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
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Looo.lol – a binary math site
164 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone
163 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
163 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
163 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
163 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
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CSS3D Clouds
163 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution
163 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
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Venice's Secret Service
162 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
162 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
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Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse
162 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
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Happy Public Domain Day
162 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
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Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB
162 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
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Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
162 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
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Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
161 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
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Best 7B LLM on leaderboards made by an amateur following a medium tutorial
161 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
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Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids
161 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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The M2 is more advanced that it seemed
161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
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Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
160 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
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Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
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Glucoboy
160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024