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Hacker News (May 2024)

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

    115 points • comment • may 05, 2024

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

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  3. Turning psychiatric labels into identities

    115 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  4. How to Make More Money Renting a GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It

    115 points • comment • may 03, 2024

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

    115 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  6. Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source

    115 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  7. Rust: Box Is a Unique Type

    114 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  8. Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way

    114 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  9. What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers

    114 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  10. Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders

    114 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  11. More info about synonyms at Google (2010)

    114 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  12. Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?

    114 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  13. Zig's new CLI progress bar explained

    114 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  14. An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string

    113 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  15. Jolie, the service-oriented programming language

    113 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  16. Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?

    113 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  17. The Scully Effect

    113 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  18. Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season

    113 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  19. Us revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei

    113 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  20. Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created

    113 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  21. When Kodak and Polaroid went to war

    113 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  22. So many feed readers, so many behaviors

    113 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  23. Nvidia is about to pass Apple in market cap

    112 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  24. Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012)

    112 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  25. Recursion, continuations and trampolines (2017)

    112 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  26. Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare

    112 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  27. Good, Kind, Caring People Became the Bad Guys

    112 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  28. Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings

    112 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  29. Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell control-room simulator

    112 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  30. SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework

    111 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  31. Citi Missed a Fat Finger

    111 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  32. The C++ Iceberg

    111 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  33. The Engineering of Duct Tape [video]

    111 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  34. Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners

    110 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  35. The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)

    110 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  36. With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone's a WiiN-Er

    110 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  37. Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion Using Efficient Row-Wise Attention

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  38. The Bloody History of 'Deadline'

    110 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  39. Show HN: I've build a stupidly simple invoicing for freelancers and contractors

    110 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  40. Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

    110 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  41. PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google

    110 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  42. Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract

    109 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  43. Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

    109 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  44. Largest model railway launches inductive Formula 1 circuit [video]

    109 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  45. Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp

    109 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  46. Needle: A DFA Based Regex Library That Compiles to JVM ByteCode

    109 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  47. I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript

    109 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  48. All the remedial classes in one place

    108 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  49. Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

    108 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  50. Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

    108 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  51. YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign

    108 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  52. HBase Deprecation at Pinterest

    108 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  53. Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange

    108 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  54. New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro

    108 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  55. Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024

    108 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  56. What factors explain the nature of software?

    108 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  57. Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly

    107 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  58. Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause

    107 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  59. Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)

    107 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  60. "Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds

    107 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  61. Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs

    107 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  62. Tine Text Editor

    106 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  63. Spotify getting into enterprise IT tools

    106 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  64. OpenAI launches new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT

    106 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  65. Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

    106 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  66. What's New in Kotlin 2.0.0

    106 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  67. Model Spec

    106 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  68. Elicit – AI Research Assistant

    106 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  69. Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance

    106 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  70. You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank

    106 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  71. DataFusion Comet: Apache Spark Accelerator

    105 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  72. Ideas and Creativity (2019)

    105 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  73. The Fall of the House of Etsy

    105 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  74. Revealed: Israeli spy chief 'threatened' ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  75. Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  76. LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core

    105 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  77. VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding

    105 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  78. A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  79. They Live

    105 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  80. An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  81. How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?

    105 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  82. Tegelwippen

    105 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  83. Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  84. Feynman Symbolic Regression Database

    105 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  85. Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)

    105 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  86. Physicists Puzzle over Emergence of Electron Aggregates

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  87. The history of 'OK' (2023)

    104 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  88. Steam's Last Stand

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  89. Folding and One Straight Cut Suffice [pdf] (1999)

    104 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  90. Sorry, wrong number

    104 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  91. Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku

    104 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  92. Webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++

    103 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  93. 'Smart' antibiotic can kill deadly bacteria while sparing the microbiome

    103 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  94. The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare

    103 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  95. Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner

    103 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  96. Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange

    103 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  97. Ultrasonic Coffee

    103 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  98. The business of wallets

    103 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  99. What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?

    103 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  100. Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulator

    103 points • comment • may 18, 2024