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Hacker News (Mar 2024)

  1. FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose

    159 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  2. Improving cursor rendering on Wayland

    159 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  3. World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip

    159 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  4. Based: Simple linear attention language models

    159 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  5. Lifelong Disadvantage: How Socioeconomics Affect Brain Function

    159 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  6. Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

    158 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  7. Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server

    158 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  8. U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales

    158 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  9. Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound

    158 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  10. Optimize CSS with SAT Solving

    158 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  11. Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python

    158 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  12. Are We Watching the Internet Die?

    158 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  13. Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH

    158 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  14. Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died

    158 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  15. If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?

    158 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  16. MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make

    157 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  17. Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead

    157 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  18. Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed

    157 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  19. The Mongolian Meta

    157 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  20. How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)

    157 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  21. Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

    157 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  22. Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)

    156 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  23. Thoughts on Vision Pro

    156 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  24. SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone

    156 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  25. Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated

    156 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  26. Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python

    155 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  27. The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought

    155 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  28. Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners

    155 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  29. Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components

    155 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  30. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

    154 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  31. Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

    154 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  32. Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

    154 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  33. Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers

    154 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  34. OpenPlotter

    154 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  35. Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)

    153 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  36. Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter

    153 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  37. Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages

    153 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  38. Ethereum Foundation removes their canary

    152 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  39. Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

    152 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  40. Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs

    152 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  41. Improving Network Performance with Linux Flowtables

    152 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  42. Using LLMs to Generate Fuzzers

    152 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  43. Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?

    152 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  44. Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)

    151 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  45. Waffle House's Magic Marker System

    151 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  46. A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics, if it can be built

    151 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  47. Weather Planning for Eclipse Day

    151 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  48. Superiority (1951)

    151 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  49. Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome

    150 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  50. Optimizing the Particle Life: From 400 to 4M particles

    150 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  51. Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi

    150 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  52. Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks

    149 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  53. Telefunken Datenspeicher

    149 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  54. ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet

    149 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  55. Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig

    149 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  56. Nonlinearsolve.jl: Fast and Robust Solvers for Nonlinear Equations in Julia

    149 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  57. There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

    149 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  58. Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns

    149 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  59. Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries

    149 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  60. Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom

    148 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  61. Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)

    148 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  62. JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard

    148 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  63. How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds

    148 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  64. Create More, Consume Less (2021)

    147 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  65. More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

    147 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  66. Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes

    147 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  67. Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

    147 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  68. What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)

    147 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  69. Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills

    147 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  70. Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks

    147 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  71. An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array

    147 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  72. Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?

    147 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  73. Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

    146 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  74. Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)

    146 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  75. Zoomable Circles, a Svelte component for hierarchical data

    146 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  76. RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'

    145 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  77. "She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

    145 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  78. When did dogs become our best friends?

    145 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  79. Passkeys – Under the Hood

    145 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  80. Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America

    145 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  81. Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

    145 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  82. The Myers diff algorithm: part 1

    145 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  83. Reverse engineering a cable modem and turning it into an SDR

    145 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  84. Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

    144 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  85. Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]

    144 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  86. Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom

    144 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  87. Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century

    144 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  88. Atari Falcon030

    144 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  89. Full-scale file system acceleration on GPU [pdf]

    144 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  90. Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab

    144 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  91. Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews

    143 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  92. Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, CEO says

    143 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  93. The No Symbol: The History of the Red Circle-Slash

    143 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  94. The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source

    143 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  95. A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years

    143 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  96. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says

    143 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  97. After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor

    143 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  98. It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites

    143 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  99. European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU

    142 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  100. Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)

    142 points • comment • mar 18, 2024