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Hacker News (Feb 2024)

  1. The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

    146 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  2. Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry

    146 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  3. The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

    145 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  4. Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

    145 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  5. Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise

    145 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  6. Show HN: I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr

    145 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  7. Porting to GCC 14: C language issues

    145 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  8. FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals

    145 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  9. Extending Rust's Effect System

    145 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  10. Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation

    145 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  11. Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?

    145 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  12. AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California

    145 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  13. Hyrum's Law

    144 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  14. New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe

    144 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  15. The perverse policies that fuel wildfires

    144 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  16. Floats Are Weird

    144 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  17. The Disappointing Tea.xyz

    144 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  18. Extreme video compression with prediction using pre-trainded diffusion models

    143 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  19. Video Game Module for Flipper Zero

    143 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  20. The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen

    143 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  21. Neanderthals' use of complex adhesives shows high cognitive abilities

    143 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  22. "Bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23M

    143 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  23. Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices

    143 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  24. Show HN: Hacker News Outliers

    143 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  25. Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans

    143 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  26. Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking

    143 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  27. How China Built BYD

    143 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  28. Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules

    142 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  29. New Super Secret Surveillance Court Covering Old Super Secret Surveillance Court

    142 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  30. Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay

    142 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  31. Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers

    142 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  32. Lessons from a fountain pen addict

    142 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  33. The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom

    141 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  34. The Brennan self-balancing monorail [video]

    141 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  35. Unreal Engine 5 ported to WebGPU

    141 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  36. Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space

    141 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  37. Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview

    141 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  38. Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget

    141 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  39. How Venus ended up with a mini-moon named Zoozve

    141 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  40. A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

    141 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  41. We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own

    140 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  42. Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002)

    140 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  43. How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)

    140 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  44. WASM Instructions

    140 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  45. Show me the prompt

    139 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  46. Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software

    139 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  47. The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)

    139 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  48. Shell scripting with Elixir

    139 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  49. The case against caffeine

    139 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  50. How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (2016)

    139 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  51. A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics

    139 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  52. Nuclear power saved Armenia

    139 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  53. Nginx Security Advisory

    139 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  54. Clouds vanish during a solar eclipse

    139 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  55. Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance

    139 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  56. NASA Workmanship Guide for wire splicing

    138 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  57. Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests

    138 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  58. FreeBSD 4 Bug may be present in Playstation 4/5

    138 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  59. How the codpiece flopped

    137 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  60. Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series

    137 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  61. Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age

    137 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  62. Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust

    137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  63. Pure Programming Language

    137 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  64. A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)

    137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  65. Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)

    137 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  66. Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?

    137 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  67. Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter

    137 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  68. The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)

    136 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  69. Is Tableau Dead?

    136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  70. JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons

    136 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  71. Researchers use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water

    136 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  72. How does the sky turn dark at night?

    136 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  73. Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died

    136 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  74. A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts

    136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  75. Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin

    136 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  76. New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products

    135 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  77. Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)

    135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  78. Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry

    135 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  79. Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

    135 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  80. NVK is now ready for prime time

    135 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  81. OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf]

    135 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  82. I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup

    135 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  83. LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens

    135 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  84. The power of two random choices

    135 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  85. All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train

    135 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  86. A reasonable configuration language

    135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  87. Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

    134 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  88. Game Font Forensics

    134 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  89. I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine

    134 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  90. How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed

    133 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  91. The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta

    133 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  92. A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes

    133 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  93. Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain

    133 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  94. Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

    133 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  95. Old London Bridge

    133 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  96. Moore's Scofflaws

    133 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  97. Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?

    133 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  98. Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age

    132 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  99. Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones

    132 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  100. Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform

    132 points • comment • feb 23, 2024