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Hacker News (Mar 2024)

  1. The What, Why and How of Containers

    200 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  2. Show HN: Prompts as WASM Programs

    200 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  3. Show HN: Rotary Phone Project

    200 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  4. Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?

    200 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  5. Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale

    199 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  6. JetZero: Ultra-efficient blended wing body jet

    199 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  7. IBM 360’s are searching for a new home

    199 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  8. So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?

    198 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  9. Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI

    198 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  10. The Mythical Non-Roboticist

    198 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  11. The illusion of being stuck

    198 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  12. Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it

    198 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  13. A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation

    198 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  14. OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera

    196 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  15. The Berkeley Software Distribution

    196 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  16. Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas

    196 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  17. Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading

    196 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  18. Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon

    196 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  19. Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust

    195 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  20. Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go

    195 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  21. Reverse DNS IPv4 Map

    195 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  22. Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

    195 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  23. Mamba Explained

    194 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  24. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)

    194 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  25. Self-Retrieval: Building an information retrieval system with one LLM

    193 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  26. Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant

    193 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  27. Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?

    193 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  28. Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem

    193 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  29. Pack: A new container format for compressed files

    192 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  30. Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob

    192 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  31. Self-control signals and affords power

    192 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  32. Activision QA Workers Vote to Form Largest US Video Game Worker Union to Date

    191 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  33. An all-optical general-purpose CPU and optical computer architecture

    191 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  34. A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down

    191 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  35. Can GPT optimize my taxes? An experiment in letting the LLM be the UX

    190 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  36. Show HN: Predictive text using only 13kb of JavaScript. no LLM

    190 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  37. Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

    190 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  38. Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life

    189 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  39. AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania

    189 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  40. Show HN: An algorithmic audio landscape

    189 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  41. Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get and build cppfront?

    189 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  42. Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)

    188 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  43. Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch

    188 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  44. The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come

    188 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  45. Majority of web apps could just run on a single server

    187 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  46. Apple curl security incident 12604

    187 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  47. On the new Dutch intelligence and security law

    187 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  48. Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect

    187 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  49. Sampling: What Nyquist didn't say, and what to do about it (2018) [pdf]

    186 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  50. Amazon spends another $2.7B on Anthropic

    186 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  51. I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot

    186 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  52. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)

    186 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  53. Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code

    186 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  54. How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work

    186 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  55. Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?

    186 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  56. Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive

    185 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  57. Jan: An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs on the desktop

    185 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  58. Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting

    185 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  59. The New Inflection

    185 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  60. Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]

    184 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  61. A star system 3,000 light-years away is predicted to become visible soon

    184 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  62. Rust for Embedded Systems: Current state, challenges and open problems

    184 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  63. Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners

    183 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  64. TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder

    183 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  65. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)

    183 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  66. The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside

    183 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  67. Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs)

    183 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  68. RP2040 Boot Sequence

    182 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  69. Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)

    182 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  70. New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal

    182 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  71. Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust

    182 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  72. Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration

    182 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  73. After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower

    182 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  74. Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race

    182 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  75. JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards

    182 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  76. Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today

    181 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  77. Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]

    181 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  78. US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

    181 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  79. MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

    181 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  80. I made a bad camera lens from some old glasses [video]

    181 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  81. R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)

    181 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  82. Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset

    180 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  83. Losing Faith on Testing

    180 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  84. Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview

    180 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  85. Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024

    180 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  86. Natural language instructions induce generalization in networks of neurons

    180 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  87. Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired

    180 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  88. Generating the Alphabet

    180 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  89. PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server

    180 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  90. What Extropic is building

    179 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  91. Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth

    179 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  92. Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to train AI

    179 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  93. Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark

    179 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  94. Overlay networks based on WebRTC

    179 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  95. Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0

    178 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  96. Vultr Just Betrayed Us

    178 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  97. Linkers and Loaders (1999) [pdf]

    178 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  98. Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019)

    178 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  99. SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL

    178 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  100. Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16

    178 points • comment • mar 30, 2024