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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences

    241 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  2. German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization

    241 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  3. Clean your codebase with basic information theory

    241 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  4. Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

    241 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  5. I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind

    240 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  6. Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

    240 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  7. A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)

    240 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  8. The dating app paradox

    240 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  9. Headphone and Amp Impedance (2011)

    238 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  10. A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715

    238 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  11. OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation

    238 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  12. How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets

    238 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  13. Hetzner GPU Server

    237 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  14. How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)

    237 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  15. Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world

    237 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  16. Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect

    237 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  17. A beginner's guide to making beautiful slides for talks

    237 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  18. Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database

    235 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  19. Things I don't know about AI

    235 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  20. I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)

    235 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  21. USGS Historical Topographic Maps

    235 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  22. Markov Chains are the Original Language Models

    235 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  23. Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)

    234 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  24. Frugly vs. Freemium

    232 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  25. Making steel without emitting CO2

    231 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  26. Only real people can patent inventions – not AI, US Government says

    230 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  27. Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

    230 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  28. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

    229 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  29. Show HN: RAM Prices

    229 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  30. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)

    229 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  31. We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres

    229 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  32. Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform

    228 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  33. The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl

    228 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  34. Physics for Mathematicians – Introduction

    227 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  35. Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV

    227 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  36. Visual calculus

    226 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  37. FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods

    226 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  38. Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry

    225 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  39. $5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study

    224 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  40. Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems

    224 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  41. The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid

    223 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  42. Losing two jobs in one year

    223 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  43. Financial systems take a holiday

    223 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  44. Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware

    222 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  45. We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is

    222 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  46. A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card (2019)

    222 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  47. Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data

    222 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  48. UUID v7

    221 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  49. How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork

    221 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  50. How Does Bluesky Work?

    220 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  51. Not all TLDs are Created Equal

    220 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  52. DJI – The ART of obfuscation

    220 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  53. Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API

    219 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  54. Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

    219 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  55. Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

    218 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  56. Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)

    218 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  57. RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python

    218 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  58. Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol

    218 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  59. Microsoft Security-101: Open-Source curriculum

    218 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  60. LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices

    218 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  61. Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027

    218 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  62. OpenFPGA

    217 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  63. Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle

    217 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  64. New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency

    217 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  65. Machine Assisted Proof [video]

    217 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  66. Postgres as queue

    216 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  67. Everything is a linear model

    216 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  68. Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]

    216 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  69. Bard's latest updates: Access Gemini Pro globally and generate images

    216 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  70. Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis in new study

    216 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  71. Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (2004) [pdf]

    216 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  72. Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

    215 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  73. Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns

    215 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  74. A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)

    215 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  75. Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history

    215 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  76. What happened with the Web Monetization API?

    215 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  77. The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

    214 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  78. Write a Letter to Your Future Self

    214 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  79. Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound [video]

    214 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  80. Shave and a Haircut

    214 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  81. Neural Network Diffusion

    214 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  82. How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

    214 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  83. I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

    213 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  84. Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx

    213 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  85. Console.delight

    213 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  86. Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta

    212 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  87. NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network

    212 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  88. Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea 'may be Europe’s oldest megastructure'

    212 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  89. End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App

    212 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  90. Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production

    211 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  91. Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power

    211 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  92. React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good

    211 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  93. How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?

    210 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  94. PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

    209 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  95. A practical guide to quitting your smartphone

    209 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  96. Show HN: macOS-cross-compiler – Compile binaries for macOS on Linux

    209 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  97. "Stolen" radio tower missing for at least a year

    209 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  98. My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life

    208 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  99. A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts

    208 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  100. Stonelifting Etiquette

    207 points • comment • feb 20, 2024