woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jan 2024)

  1. Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year

    176 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  2. Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal

    175 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  3. Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim

    175 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  4. Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier

    175 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  5. Cancer Alley

    175 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  6. Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun

    175 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  7. The Case for Rust in the base system

    174 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  8. CLI user experience case study

    174 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  9. We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)

    174 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  10. Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

    174 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  11. Airtable acquires Airplane

    174 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  12. Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph

    174 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  13. The failure of self-checkout technology

    174 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  14. The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust

    174 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  15. OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi

    174 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  16. Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing

    173 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  17. How to delete your data from data brokers

    173 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  18. Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world

    173 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  19. Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal

    173 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  20. Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system

    173 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  21. PinePhone review after a month of daily driving

    173 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  22. US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle

    173 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  23. Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

    172 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  24. Svelte Native

    172 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  25. Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders

    172 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  26. Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie

    172 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  27. AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux

    172 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  28. Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks

    171 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  29. Rabbit R1, Designed by Teenage Engineering

    171 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  30. Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance

    171 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  31. On the dimensionality of spacetime (1997) [pdf]

    171 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  32. Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter

    171 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  33. RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs

    171 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  34. Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)

    171 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  35. Canon aims to ship low-cost 'stamp' machine this year to disrupt chipmaking

    171 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  36. Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT

    170 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  37. Whistleblower Aid

    170 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  38. Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music

    170 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  39. Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams

    170 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  40. Cars suck, man

    169 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  41. "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans

    169 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  42. Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land bridge for Oceania cargo

    169 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  43. Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)

    169 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  44. Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study

    168 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  45. Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100

    168 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  46. Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))

    168 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  47. Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online

    168 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  48. Retro on Viberary

    168 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  49. Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)

    168 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  50. FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout

    168 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  51. Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing

    167 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  52. Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies

    167 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  53. The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk

    167 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  54. Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine

    167 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  55. Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]

    166 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  56. GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power

    166 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  57. iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

    166 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  58. Audio2Photoreal

    166 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  59. Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)

    166 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  60. Money pours into new fabs and facilities

    166 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  61. It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing

    166 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  62. Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?

    166 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  63. Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right

    166 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  64. Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult

    165 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  65. Let's talk about joins

    165 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  66. 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%

    165 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  67. Trilinear point splatting for real-time radiance field rendering

    165 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  68. Making the web fun again (2013)

    165 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  69. Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older

    165 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  70. He spent his life building a $1M stereo

    165 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  71. Fossil is quitting smartwatches

    165 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  72. DeepFlow – open-source eBPF Distributed Tracing

    164 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  73. What Was ISDN?

    164 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  74. Introduction to Plan 9

    164 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  75. Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death

    164 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  76. An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)

    164 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  77. Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)

    164 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  78. Dorf Fort (2020)

    164 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  79. Mode7 Graphics Library for Playdate

    164 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  80. Looo.lol – a binary math site

    164 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  81. Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone

    163 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  82. Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

    163 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  83. Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

    163 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  84. Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space

    163 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  85. CSS3D Clouds

    163 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  86. YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

    163 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  87. Venice's Secret Service

    162 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  88. Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle

    162 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  89. Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

    162 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  90. Happy Public Domain Day

    162 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  91. Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB

    162 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  92. Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them

    162 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  93. Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)

    161 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  94. Best 7B LLM on leaderboards made by an amateur following a medium tutorial

    161 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  95. Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids

    161 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  96. Immediate Mode GUI Programming

    161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  97. The M2 is more advanced that it seemed

    161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  98. Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication

    160 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  99. Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

    160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  100. Glucoboy

    160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024