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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly

    356 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  2. The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

    355 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  3. Finding a new software developer job

    354 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  4. Video generation models as world simulators

    353 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  5. Meta's new LLM-based test generator

    352 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  6. Coding in Vision Pro

    351 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  7. Why I use Firefox

    350 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  8. AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer

    350 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  9. Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024

    348 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  10. Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools

    347 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  11. Carl Weathers has died

    347 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  12. Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

    347 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  13. WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering

    347 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  14. So long, and thanks for all the bytes

    346 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  15. How Quora died

    346 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  16. How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days

    345 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  17. Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid

    345 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  18. Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation (2023)

    344 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  19. Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages

    341 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  20. Non-code contributions to open source

    341 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  21. Billions stolen in wage theft from US workers

    340 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  22. Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)

    340 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  23. Stop postponing things by embracing the mess

    340 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  24. Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust

    339 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  25. Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

    338 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  26. Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

    338 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  27. Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

    338 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  28. Pains of building your own billing system

    337 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  29. Three virtues of a great programmer

    336 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  30. Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired

    336 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  31. Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old

    336 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  32. 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

    335 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  33. Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

    334 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  34. It Can Be Done (2003)

    334 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  35. A 2024 plea for lean software

    333 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  36. A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months

    332 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  37. Command line interface guidelines (2021)

    330 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  38. Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page

    329 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  39. Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]

    328 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  40. Concrete.css

    328 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  41. JavaScript Bloat in 2024

    328 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  42. Bluesky signups are now open to the public

    325 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  43. Show HN: Aldi Price Map

    325 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  44. The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed

    324 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  45. Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal

    323 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  46. Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)

    323 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  47. A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings

    322 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  48. Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries

    321 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  49. Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store

    321 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  50. Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?

    321 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  51. Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

    319 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  52. Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed

    319 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  53. Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

    318 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  54. Paying people to work on open source is good

    317 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  55. 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

    316 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  56. HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD

    315 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  57. LilyPond: Music notation for everyone

    314 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  58. Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program

    314 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  59. Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem

    314 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  60. Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google

    313 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  61. Please make your table headings sticky

    313 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  62. Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy

    313 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  63. Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say

    313 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  64. YouTube Oddities

    312 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  65. A distributed systems reading list

    312 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  66. Hetzner switches to new billing model

    310 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  67. Home Screen Advantage

    308 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  68. Deleting and destroying finished movies

    306 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  69. Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?

    306 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  70. Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird

    305 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  71. Doorway effect

    305 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  72. Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence

    305 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  73. Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades

    305 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  74. SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake

    304 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  75. Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers

    304 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  76. The appendix is not, in fact, useless

    303 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  77. Coroutines in C (2000)

    303 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  78. Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust

    302 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  79. Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot

    302 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  80. JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

    300 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  81. Atuin – Magical shell history

    300 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  82. You are not late (2014)

    298 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  83. Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

    297 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  84. The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children

    297 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  85. Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL

    296 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  86. Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models

    295 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  87. Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

    293 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  88. Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)

    293 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  89. The Matrix Trashfire

    292 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  90. I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic

    291 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  91. Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university

    291 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  92. Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta

    291 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  93. AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

    289 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  94. Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com?

    288 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  95. Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

    287 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  96. RoR Debugbar

    287 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  97. Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity

    287 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  98. Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight

    287 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  99. German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

    286 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  100. Systemd by Example (2021)

    286 points • comment • feb 12, 2024