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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. YC: Requests for Startups

    500 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  2. I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)

    499 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  3. Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi

    495 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  4. Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021)

    493 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  5. Tailwind color palette generator

    492 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  6. Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

    492 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  7. Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps

    491 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  8. Lapce

    491 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  9. How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)

    491 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  10. Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]

    486 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  11. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

    486 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  12. Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

    483 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  13. Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

    481 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  14. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

    478 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  15. “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

    477 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  16. My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)

    474 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  17. Git tips and tricks

    474 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  18. Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?

    472 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  19. Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token

    470 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  20. Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

    467 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  21. Cloud Egress Costs

    466 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  22. My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)

    457 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  23. If architects had to work like programmers (1995)

    454 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  24. It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]

    451 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  25. Memory and new controls for ChatGPT

    450 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  26. Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

    450 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  27. New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift

    446 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  28. Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical

    445 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  29. Testing the F-35C Tailhook

    443 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  30. How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?

    439 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  31. Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

    437 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  32. Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice

    436 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  33. Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

    435 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  34. Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)

    434 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  35. Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

    433 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  36. Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon

    432 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  37. Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again

    429 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  38. Happy Birthday Lemmings

    428 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  39. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

    425 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  40. Write code for the web

    424 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  41. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

    424 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  42. Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks

    423 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  43. The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances

    422 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  44. 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech

    420 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  45. The Layoff

    420 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  46. ChatGPT went berserk

    420 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  47. Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models

    416 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  48. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

    413 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  49. OpenTTD

    412 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  50. How to center a div in CSS

    411 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  51. AI behavior guardrails should be public

    411 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  52. Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?

    410 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  53. What it was like working for Gitlab

    410 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  54. Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

    406 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)

    405 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  56. The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

    404 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  57. Permutation City (1994)

    404 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  58. How SSH port became 22

    402 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  59. If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly

    401 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  60. Planner programming blows my mind

    401 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  61. Apple releases Pkl – configuration as code language

    400 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  62. Why time seems to pass faster as we age

    399 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  63. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

    399 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  64. Deno in 2023

    398 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  65. FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines

    396 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  66. Popular Git config options

    392 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  67. Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

    392 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  68. More misdrilled holes on 737 MAX in latest setback

    390 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  69. Go 1.22

    388 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  70. The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better

    388 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  71. Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

    388 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  72. Damn Small Linux 2024

    387 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  73. I broke IKEA (2023)

    384 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  74. Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

    381 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  75. Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model

    381 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  76. Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]

    377 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  77. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C

    377 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  78. F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

    374 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  79. You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?

    373 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  80. Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out

    372 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  81. Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play

    371 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  82. Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers

    370 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  83. Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures

    369 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  84. Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

    369 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  85. How to make a better default Firefox UI

    368 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  86. The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US

    368 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  87. Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report

    367 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  88. I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

    365 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  89. Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

    363 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  90. How to hire low experience, high potential people

    363 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  91. Ollama is now available on Windows in preview

    362 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  92. A bad day at the office

    362 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  93. I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device

    362 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  94. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

    361 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  95. PostgreSQL is enough

    360 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  96. Antarctic English

    360 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  97. Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model

    360 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  98. Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

    359 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  99. Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

    359 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  100. Kalman Filter Explained Simply

    356 points • comment • feb 12, 2024