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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush

    58 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  2. What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)

    58 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  3. 1,800-year-old Roman statue discovered in parking lot

    58 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  4. To Build Muscle, It's the Sets That Count

    58 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  5. Bzip2 Format Specification (2016) [pdf]

    58 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  6. Opt-Models: Intro to Optimization Programming Using LEGOs

    58 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  7. Physical fitness and risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents

    58 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  8. HP 200LX and Related Palmtops

    58 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  9. Asymmetric Routing Around the Firewall

    58 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  10. Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

    58 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  11. Electromigration Concerns Grow in Advanced Packages

    58 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  12. The Bad Trip Detective

    58 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  13. Tesla Profits Drop 55%

    57 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  14. Tesla's biggest retail shareholder is voting against Elon Musk's $55B package

    57 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  15. Challenging software projects some programmers should try

    57 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  16. Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600

    57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  17. Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars

    57 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  18. Neal Stephenson – Announcing Polostan

    57 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  19. Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school

    57 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  20. NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit

    57 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  21. Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)

    57 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  22. LLMs and the Harry Potter problem

    57 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  23. Nix – A One Pager

    57 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  24. Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)

    57 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  25. Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

    57 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  26. Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections

    57 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  27. Paying for it doesn't make it a market

    57 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  28. The Intercept Is Running Out of Cash

    57 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  29. Easy Mode Rust

    57 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  30. Stop Killing Games

    57 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  31. The World of Instruction Manuals (2018)

    57 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  32. Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

    57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  33. House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties

    57 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  34. Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat

    57 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  35. Killing the Messenger: My Final Days Working at a Disaster

    57 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  36. 'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming

    56 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  37. The Pen, Mightier (2011)

    56 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  38. Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk

    56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  39. I fell out of love with academia

    56 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  40. Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids

    56 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  41. Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February

    56 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  42. We need more calm companies

    56 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  43. Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames

    56 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  44. VNC Resolver

    56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  45. Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22

    56 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  46. PicoGK is a compact and robust geometry kernel for computational engineering

    56 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  47. Show HN: Wunderbar – Learn language while working on your Mac

    56 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  48. KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal

    56 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  49. Prototype to production with ComfyUI

    56 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  50. What makes concurrency so hard?

    56 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  51. AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable

    56 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  52. Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster

    56 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  53. Careful with That Lock, Eugene

    56 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  54. MQL – Client and server to query your db in natural language

    55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  55. Swatch Internet Time

    55 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  56. Monkey Management

    55 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  57. Z80 Product Line Z84C00 End of Life / Last Time Buy [pdf]

    55 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  58. Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into police detainees

    55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  59. Male archetypes in fairy tales

    55 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  60. Self-Hosted Is Awesome

    55 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  61. Attackers spread backdoor via eScan antivirus software update process

    55 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  62. Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar

    55 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  63. 'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage

    55 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  64. Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App

    55 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  65. A new community space for discussing free software

    55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  66. Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years

    55 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  67. Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers

    55 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  68. Launch HN: Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics

    55 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  69. Pile-T5

    55 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  70. From Pomona to Oakland, a skater mapped California block by block from his board

    55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  71. A Trivial Llama 3 Jailbreak

    55 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  72. Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model

    55 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  73. Emacs 2011-2023

    55 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  74. People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to

    55 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  75. Show HN: OpenLIT – Open-Source LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry

    55 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  76. House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold

    55 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  77. Textual Healing: iOS Text Editing Minutiae

    55 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  78. MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down

    55 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  79. Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study

    55 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  80. Making a Flute-Controlled Mouse

    55 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  81. The US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability

    54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  82. How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

    54 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  83. Amazon's "Just Walk Out" checkout turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  84. Mysterious Moving Pointers

    54 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  85. Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds

    54 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  86. ByteDance’s web of apps could get tangled up in TikTok ban

    54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  87. Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?

    54 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  88. Rust 101

    54 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  89. Presence and collection of DNA from air and air conditioner units

    54 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  90. Why Doesn't AI Want to Show Me Jesus Washing the Feet of His Disciples?

    54 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  91. Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate

    54 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  92. Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

    54 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  93. October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products

    54 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  94. No One Should Have That Much Power

    54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  95. Perlis's Programming Epigrams

    54 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  96. Tridge returns to rsync

    54 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  97. Amazon Echo Hacking Wiki

    54 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  98. Blink to generate power for smart contact lenses

    54 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  99. The Three Byte Fix

    54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  100. iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules

    54 points • comment • apr 29, 2024