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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. Drinking with Agatha Christie

    58 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  2. Computer scientist had bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop

    58 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  3. I Know What Your Password Was Last Summer

    58 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  4. HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

    58 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  5. Nevada Looks to Temporarily Restrain Meta from Using End-to-End Encryption

    58 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  6. Handful of Apple Vision Pro units develop identical crack in cover glass

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  7. The leadership myth in replicated databases (2023)

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  8. Security Program Is Shit

    58 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  9. Keeping an ice cream factory cool

    58 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  10. Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

    58 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  11. Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  12. Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian

    58 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  13. When Apple takes the European Commission for fools: An initial overview

    58 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  14. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules are a 'farce'

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  15. Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic

    58 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  16. US judge says FTX can sell its Anthropic shares; FTX invested $500M in 2021

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  17. UK Ruling Has Potential to Free Up Public Domain; Museums Might Still Block It

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  18. Breakdown products of niacin may spur vascular inflammation

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  19. Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi network

    57 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  20. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed (2022)

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  21. France uncovers a Russian disinformation campaign in Europe

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  22. The mystery of the garage

    57 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  23. Oink: An API for PHP in a single file

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  24. A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel

    57 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  25. California's fast food law exempts Panera Gov. Newsom's relationship

    57 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  26. Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series

    57 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  27. Out of Control (1994)

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  28. Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  29. Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?

    57 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  30. Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple's App Store

    57 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  31. Code Verify: An open source browser extension for verifying code authenticity

    57 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  32. The first email from space [video]

    57 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  33. The cruel Thames: the job of pulling bodies from a dark, dangerous river

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  34. What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt?

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  35. The internet used to be fun

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  36. Half Earth: A Planetary Crisis Planning Game

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  37. Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs

    56 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  38. Why We Can't Have Nice Software

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  39. Remote user impersonation and takeover via cache poisoning in Mastodon

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  40. United Biscuits Network

    56 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  41. Immich is changing its license from MIT to AGPLv3

    56 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  42. FAA says 737 MAX operator discovered loose bolts in rudder system in December

    56 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  43. A decades-long art forgery scheme

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  44. Show HN: Searchbase – Plug-n-play semantic/fuzzy search for your data

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  45. Qualcomm hardware support increasingly in good shape with Linux kernel

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  46. Crowd Attacks Waymo, Sets It on Fire

    56 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  47. Falls are a leading cause of bone breaks, brain injuries for U.S. seniors

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  48. Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java

    56 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  49. Are We Transitioning from Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?

    56 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  50. US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

    56 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  51. Show HN: Building an End-to-End Encrypted Shazam with Homomorphic Encryption

    56 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  52. Before he was George Orwell, he was Eric Blair, police officer

    56 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  53. Apple Vision Nope: Why I returned mine

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  54. 9 Charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize

    56 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  55. US Military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

    55 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  56. "The incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration"

    55 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  57. The fifth epoch of distributed computing

    55 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  58. Compiling Rust is testing

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  59. CAP-X and COMP-X: How the Tandy pocket computers got a sucky Japanese assembler

    55 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  60. Pydantic-resolve, a hierarchical solution for data fetching and processing

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  61. Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software"

    55 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  62. Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

    55 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  63. Chromecast Google TV now has full-screen auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  64. OpenAI completes deal that values the company at $80B

    55 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  65. Alabama health system pauses IVF treatments after court embryo ruling

    55 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  66. Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?

    55 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  67. Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. They Did It Anyway

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  68. Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave

    55 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  69. RFC: Rust Has Provenance

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  70. Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users' machines

    55 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  71. Maze proof establishes a 'backbone' for statistical mechanics

    55 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  72. ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 includes SODIMM slots and user-replaceable batteries

    55 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  73. The pain points of building a copilot

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  74. Endatabas: An open source immutable, Document Database with Full History

    55 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  75. New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  76. AI Restaurant Menu with RAG

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  77. Ask HN: Fighting back against Roku's forced arbitration?

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  78. Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

    55 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  79. Top workers more likely to want to quit when companies have strict RTO mandates

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  80. The Average New Yorker Spends $10,454 in Upfront Costs for a Rental

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  81. Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your Slack teams

    54 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  82. Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  83. Fixed-point combinator

    54 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  84. Sex differences in human functional brain organization

    54 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  85. You Sound Like a Bot

    54 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  86. The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax

    54 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  87. Snap lays off over 500 workers 'to promote in-person collaboration'

    54 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  88. O'Reilly Auto Part 121G

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  89. Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years

    54 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  90. IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

    54 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  91. Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  92. Duncan Campbell – Investigative journalist and forensic expert

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  93. AI needs so much power that old coal plants are sticking around

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  94. How Programming Languages Got Their Names

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  95. Opening /proc/self/fd/1 is not the same as dup(1)

    54 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  96. The economics of fertility: a new era (2023) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  97. AMD Ryzen Master Utility for Overclocking Control

    54 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  98. The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections

    54 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  99. Why the serverless revolution has stalled (2020)

    54 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  100. Plastic is taking over farms

    54 points • comment • feb 22, 2024