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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting

    126 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  2. Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck

    126 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  3. The Physics of Karate (2021)

    126 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  4. Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program

    126 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  5. Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies

    126 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  6. Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games

    126 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  7. GRC SpinRite

    126 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  8. Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

    125 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  9. Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed

    125 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  10. The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon

    125 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  11. The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum

    125 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  12. Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

    125 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  13. Google Search's Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked

    125 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  14. 26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models

    125 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  15. Morgan Spurlock has died

    125 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  16. Don't microservice, do module

    125 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  17. Regular expression functions in Excel

    124 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  18. Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server

    124 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  19. I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces

    124 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  20. AI Photo Geolocation

    124 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  21. The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that

    124 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  22. Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle

    124 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  23. British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim

    124 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  24. Johnson & Johnson announces $6.5B settlement over ovarian cancer allegations

    123 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  25. Unix version control lore: what, ident

    123 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  26. .NET for NES Game Console on 6502 Microprocessors

    123 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  27. Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us

    123 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  28. Pair Your Compilers at the ABI Café

    123 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  29. Ointers: A library for representing pointers where bits have been stolen (2021)

    123 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  30. The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards

    123 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  31. Guys what is wrong with ACATS

    122 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  32. What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready

    122 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  33. Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha

    122 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  34. How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches (2016)

    122 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  35. Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)

    122 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  36. The LaserDisc

    122 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  37. The Great Flattening

    122 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  38. Third Time: a better way to work (2022)

    122 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  39. SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency

    122 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  40. What happens in the brain to cause depression?

    121 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  41. FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf]

    121 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  42. Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

    121 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  43. Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used

    121 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  44. The drinking fountain button

    120 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  45. Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

    120 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  46. A simple core.async job system in Clojure

    120 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  47. Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects

    120 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  48. Online censorship's institutional power

    120 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  49. Gleam 1.2.0 release – Fault tolerant Gleam

    120 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  50. Is regulated BGP security coming?

    120 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  51. 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report [pdf]

    120 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  52. Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

    119 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  53. Logicola 3

    119 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  54. Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth

    119 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  55. Chickens in Trees

    119 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  56. Fast Shadow Stacks for Go

    119 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  57. The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years

    119 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  58. A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016)

    119 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  59. Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds

    119 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  60. Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing

    119 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  61. Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

    118 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  62. J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

    118 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  63. Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20

    118 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  64. Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)

    118 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  65. The fishy death of Red Lobster

    118 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  66. Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext

    118 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  67. The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

    118 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  68. Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights

    118 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  69. Lumina's legal threats and my about-face

    118 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  70. What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)

    118 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  71. Feynman's Garden

    118 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  72. Theory of Constraints

    118 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  73. Tillywork: Open-Source Work Management

    118 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  74. Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009

    118 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  75. Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'

    117 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  76. NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data

    117 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  77. BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit

    117 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  78. Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?

    117 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  79. Insects and other animals have consciousness

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  80. Most common PIN codes (2012)

    117 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  81. 500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

    117 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  82. Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code

    117 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  83. Paul Auster has died

    117 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  84. The People Deliberately Killing Facebook

    116 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  85. Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden

    116 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  86. Compiler Explorer

    116 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  87. Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook

    116 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  88. Amber: A code search and replace tool

    116 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  89. Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

    116 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  90. On the trail of my identity thief

    116 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  91. Blue field entoptic phenomenon

    116 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  92. Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative

    116 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  93. The government is making it more difficult to track private aircraft travel

    116 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  94. Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes

    116 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  95. A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile

    116 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  96. llm.c: multi-GPU, bfloat16, flash attention, ~7% faster than PyTorch

    115 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  97. Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?

    115 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  98. When children become caregivers, who cares for them?

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  99. Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes

    115 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  100. Dick Rutan, pilot of the first nonstop around-the-world flight, has died

    115 points • comment • may 05, 2024