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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. Plastic is taking over farms

    54 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

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

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  3. Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

    53 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  4. Synthetic data generation for tabular data

    53 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  5. Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transport

    53 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  6. Six Spongy Sea Creatures Suggest Warming Might Be Worse Than Thought

    53 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  7. Strike at the Knee: Review of the Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

    53 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  8. Scientists aghast at AI rat with genitals in peer-reviewed article

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  9. 90% of tattoo ink contains chemicals that can cause organ damage

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  10. I am the OP of that $104K bill post and I have some follow-up questions

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  11. Two Mindsets That Can Create Rude or Polite Coworkers

    53 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  12. Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US

    53 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  13. Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018)

    53 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  14. On Handwriting and Switching to Cursive

    53 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  15. Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Vibrant World (2017)

    53 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  16. Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  17. Current Software Engineers Have No Deep Knowledge (Jonathan Blow) [video]

    53 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  18. Reconductoring: An easy way to expand the grid

    53 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  19. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  20. Why buying tickets to a game has become so unaffordable

    53 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  21. DNA damage and mutations in cells after irradiation with a nail polish dryer

    53 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  22. NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in the Kuiper Belt

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  23. The True Rate of Unemployment

    53 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  24. Measuring energy usage: regular code vs. SIMD code

    53 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  25. Pgtemp: The easiest way to write tests with Postgres in Rust, without Docker

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  26. Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds

    53 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  27. Treksit – Interstellar puzzle based on Graph Theory

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  28. Apple orders 10 episodes of a Neuromancer TV series

    53 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  29. Welcome to the "neomedieval era": are states becoming obsolete?

    53 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  30. United States White House Report on Memory Safe Programming [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  31. The Eagle Obsession – Space: 1999 documentary

    52 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  32. Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit from Subscribers

    52 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  33. Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison

    52 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  34. A journalist has his account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

    52 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  35. Go can only read 1GiB per Read call

    52 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  36. Tesla driver pulled over after wearing new Apple vision headset on highway

    52 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  37. NTIA Solicits Comments on Open-Weight AI Models

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  38. Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister Says

    52 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  39. Memory Renaming: Fast and Accurate Processing of Memory Communication (1999) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  40. 250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released

    52 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  41. Plex Accounts Getting Disabled

    52 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  42. Orbital's Hartnoll brothers look back

    52 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  43. Kroger's Digital Struggle

    52 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  44. Curl HTTP/3 security audit

    52 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  45. Relationships: Start with Several

    52 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  46. Klarna AI assistant handles two-thirds of customer service chats in first month

    52 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  47. Ask HN: Do LLMs get "better" with more processing power and or time per request?

    52 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  48. Microdot: A Web Framework for Microcontrollers

    52 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  49. The meathead margin: how lifting weights might have saved my life

    52 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  50. Apple reports first quarter results

    52 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  51. Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  52. Show HN: Just Ship, a free and open source SvelteKit SaaS boilerplate

    52 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  53. Jeffrey Katzenberg Says A.I. Will Eliminate 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films

    52 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  54. Drug offers 'breakthrough' in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer

    52 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  55. Mark Zuckerberg on Apple Vision Pro [video]

    52 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  56. Keeler's Theory of Plot

    51 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  57. Global cancer cases will jump 77% by 2050, WHO report estimates

    51 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  58. Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete

    51 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  59. Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools

    51 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  60. Carbon capture tech a 'complete falsehood', says Fortescue Metals chairman

    51 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  61. Indexed types for a statically safe WebAssembly [pdf]

    51 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  62. Hyperbridge: Fast multi-producer, multi-consumer unbounded channel in Rust

    51 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  63. An Apple II emulator on a 6809 Coco3

    51 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  64. Startup Culture Runs on Bullshit

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  65. Ask HN: Anyone left software to study non-STEM subjects?

    51 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  66. Apple's decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU

    51 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  67. Multilingual transformer and BERTopic for topic modeling: The case of Serbian

    51 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  68. 1.5M PDFs in 25 Minutes

    51 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  69. Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a workstation

    51 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  70. A Fuss Budget (1885)

    51 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  71. Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017)

    51 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  72. FBI, British authorities seize infrastructure of LockBit ransomware group

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  73. Mistral Le Chat

    51 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  74. Why the world stopped having sex

    51 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  75. Payroll employment rises by 353K in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%

    51 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  76. The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds

    51 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  77. Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes

    51 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  78. “When you use a Walkman all the memories come back”: In love with old tech

    51 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  79. Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier

    51 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  80. I Regret My $46k Website Redesign (2022)

    51 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  81. Show HN: SlideCross – a combination of a crossword and Rubik's Cube

    51 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  82. Google's once happy offices feel the chill of layoffs

    51 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  83. Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study

    51 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  84. A Social History of Jell-O Salad (2023)

    50 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  85. Curb Cut Effect

    50 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  86. FTC chair Lina Khan takes victory lap on blocking Nvidia-Arm merger

    50 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  87. Nanoplastics in water – surprisingly large amounts discovered and its not good

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  88. Spoutible's Leaky API Spurted Out a Deluge of Personal Data

    50 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  89. Anyone elses company executives losing their shit over GenAI?

    50 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  90. Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  91. AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.

    50 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  92. Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history

    50 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  93. Earth-1217: where every CSV file has two header rows: column names and units

    50 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  94. A case for the preservation of abandoned places

    50 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  95. What makes a language flourish? Or: Why can't I speak Latin? (2021)

    50 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  96. Htmx vs. React: A Complete Comparison – Semaphore

    50 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  97. Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet

    50 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  98. ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage, research suggests

    50 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  99. Htmx deep dive with carson gross [video]

    49 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  100. Polymaths Are Late Bloomers

    49 points • comment • feb 25, 2024