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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age

    132 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  2. GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform

    132 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  3. Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones

    132 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  4. Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform

    132 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  5. Show HN: Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React

    132 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  6. Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos

    131 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  7. Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers

    131 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  8. DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit

    131 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  9. Show HN: NeuralFlow – Visualize the intermediate output of Mistral 7B

    131 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  10. Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery

    131 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  11. The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service

    131 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  12. Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms

    131 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  13. Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?

    131 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  14. Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

    131 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  15. "PayPal took $80k from me and banned me"

    131 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  16. Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire

    131 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  17. Slint GUI Toolkit

    131 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  18. Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

    131 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  19. A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  20. Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls

    130 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  21. Working in the Vision Pro [video]

    130 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  22. Bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization

    130 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  23. Neat Parallel Output in Python

    130 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  24. MAME Debugging

    130 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  25. Pure Bash Web Server

    130 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  26. New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)

    130 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  27. Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

    130 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  28. Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  29. Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement

    130 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  30. FTC Obtains $195M Judgment and Ban on Simple Health for Sham Insurance Offering

    129 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  31. Ancient Rome's failed building projects

    129 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  32. Will satellite megaconstellations weaken earth's magnetic field?

    129 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  33. Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits

    129 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  34. Managing mutable data in Elixir with Rust

    129 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  35. Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality

    129 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  36. Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails

    129 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  37. Most people with addiction simply grow out of it (2014)

    129 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  38. The creator economy can't rely on Patreon

    128 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  39. Show HN: Emacs minor mode for connecting assembly and assembled code buffers

    128 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  40. Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]

    128 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  41. Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets

    128 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  42. Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

    128 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  43. YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video]

    128 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  44. Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl

    128 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  45. Apple Vision Pro users reporting cracked outer surfaces

    128 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  46. Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street

    128 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  47. Niagara Launcher

    128 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  48. The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade

    127 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  49. Should error messages apologize? (2013)

    127 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  50. Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data

    127 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  51. Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python

    127 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  52. In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

    127 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  53. Tacit programming

    127 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  54. Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

    127 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  55. The AI bullshit singularity

    127 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  56. UUID Benchmark War

    127 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  57. The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking

    127 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  58. Show HN: Faster LLM evaluation with Bayesian optimization

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  59. Basic proxy implementation using io_uring

    126 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  60. The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)

    126 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  61. An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad

    126 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  62. Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS

    126 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  63. Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1

    126 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  64. Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python

    126 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  65. Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster

    126 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  66. Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit

    126 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  67. Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen

    126 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  68. OpenBSD System-Call Pinning

    125 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  69. Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements

    125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  70. Show HN: An open source performance monitoring tool

    125 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  71. The Fossil Sync Protocol

    125 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  72. Windsor Typeface (2018)

    125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  73. Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?

    125 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  74. Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi

    124 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  75. Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

    124 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  76. A retrospective on Requests

    124 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  77. How do transformers work?

    124 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  78. SPAD: Spatially Aware Multiview Diffusers

    124 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  79. Build your own 3D printed Hexapod

    123 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  80. ViHN: Vim for Hacker News

    123 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  81. jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu

    123 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  82. Bevy 0.13: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  83. Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction (2023)

    123 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  84. The decline of hardware knowledge in the era of cloud native compute

    123 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  85. Boeing ousts 737 MAX chief

    123 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  86. A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi

    123 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  87. Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

    123 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  88. SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled

    123 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  89. Kremlin runs disinformation campaign to undermine Zelensky, documents show

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  90. How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)

    122 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  91. Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?

    122 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  92. Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

    122 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  93. AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3

    122 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  94. Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election

    122 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  95. The Tears of a Clown: Probing the comedian's psyche (2008)

    122 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  96. Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed

    122 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  97. VueJS turns 10 years old

    122 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  98. A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure

    121 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  99. Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990

    121 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  100. An interactive guide to Fourier series (2022)

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2024