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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat

    86 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  2. The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam

    86 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  3. Chime Design and Build

    86 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  4. The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  5. The Software Architecture of Palia

    85 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  6. Linus Torvalds, the famous embroidery file converter developer

    85 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  7. Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++

    85 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  8. First known fractal molecule

    85 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  9. Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

    85 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  10. Show HN: Next-token prediction in JavaScript

    85 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  11. Show HN: I made a multiple runtime version manager that can be used on Windows

    85 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  12. SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'

    85 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  13. The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search

    85 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  14. Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?

    85 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  15. Collection of publicly available IPTV channels

    85 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  16. Bringing back the Somali shilling (2017)

    85 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  17. Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library

    85 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  18. Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

    85 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  19. A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter

    85 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  20. Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its cloud GPU bills

    85 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  21. Ask HN: SQLite in Production?

    85 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  22. Millionaires' Effective Tax Rate Has Been Cut by Half Since Mid-20th Century

    85 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  23. Natural language processing in Bash (2023)

    84 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  24. Minibone: practical end-to-end encryption for web apps

    84 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  25. 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server

    84 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  26. Why AWS Supports Valkey

    84 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  27. The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

    84 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  28. Rejuvenating the blood cell population

    84 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  29. Epigenetic age oscillates during the day

    84 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  30. The DDoS attack of academic bullshit

    84 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  31. A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS

    84 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  32. The Internet Archive just backed up an entire Caribbean island

    84 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  33. Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, We Made a FF Extension to Replace

    84 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  34. Show HN: ZSV (Zip Separated Values) columnar data format

    84 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  35. PHP in 2024

    84 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  36. The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important

    84 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  37. Virtual Colossus

    84 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  38. What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name

    83 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  39. Google’s newly formed 'Platforms and Devices' team is all about AI

    83 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  40. PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging No Longer Sold

    83 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  41. Laws of Software Evolution

    83 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  42. Show HN: I put PubMed in a vector DB

    83 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  43. My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

    83 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  44. Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content

    83 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  45. XZ Utils review notes

    83 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  46. DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G

    83 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  47. Working with Qubes OS at the Guardian

    83 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  48. Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python

    83 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  49. Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95

    83 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  50. The Making of Django Reinhardt

    82 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  51. Electron 30.0.0

    82 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  52. Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix

    82 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  53. Tesla driver arrested for homicide after running over motorcyclist on Autopilot

    82 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  54. Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk

    82 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  55. Andrew Ng Appointed to Amazon's Board of Directors

    82 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  56. Parallel Snapshotting: make pg_dump and pg_restore multi-threaded per table

    81 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  57. Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  58. 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  59. Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?

    81 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  60. Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  61. A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages

    81 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  62. Physically attractive attorneys tend to have greater success in federal court

    81 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  63. Everyone has JavaScript, right?

    81 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  64. The dangers of single line regular expressions

    81 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  65. Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps

    80 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  66. Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix (2019)

    80 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  67. VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble

    80 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  68. Linux fu: getting started with systemd

    80 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  69. Leaving Substack

    80 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  70. Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  71. Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)

    80 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  72. Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering

    80 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  73. Show HN: tu – Convert natural language date/time to UTC

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  74. An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  75. GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art for Visualizing Buffer Overflows

    80 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  76. Konrad Zuse (1994)

    80 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  77. ScanAllFish

    80 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  78. Endless Censorship Demands from Brazil

    79 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  79. Is It Dry Yet?

    79 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  80. Ruby might be faster than you think

    79 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  81. Einsum for Tensor Manipulation

    79 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  82. Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot

    79 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  83. Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance

    79 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  84. Giving Rust a chance for in-kernel codecs

    79 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  85. UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers

    79 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  86. Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?

    79 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  87. Hertz is ditching even more electric cars

    79 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  88. Everything Curl

    79 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  89. Saskatoon freezing deaths

    79 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  90. NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix

    79 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  91. BeeTrove – OpenAI GPTs Open-Source Dataset

    79 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  92. Pulumi AI is poisoning Google search results with AI answers

    79 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  93. Washington State judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence

    79 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  94. Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]

    79 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  95. The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity

    79 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  96. Golang PGO builds using GitHub Actions

    78 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  97. Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)

    78 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  98. RHttp: REPL for HTTP

    78 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  99. Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract

    78 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  100. Getting into way too much detail with the Z80 netlist simulation (2021)

    78 points • comment • apr 14, 2024