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Hacker News (May 2024)

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

    103 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  2. Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots

    103 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  3. Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange

    103 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  4. Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel

    102 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  5. TORAX is a differentiable tokamak core transport simulator

    102 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  6. Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)

    102 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  7. Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp

    102 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  8. CBMC: C bounded model checker (2021)

    102 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  9. How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?

    102 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  10. mactop

    102 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  11. I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code

    102 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  12. New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  13. Overbite Project: Why still use Gopher? What makes Gopher relevant?

    102 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  14. Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise

    102 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  15. Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds (2021)

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  16. What's Next for Kagi?

    102 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  17. Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave

    102 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  18. Radius Full Page Display

    102 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  19. Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  20. Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino

    101 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  21. The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree

    101 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  22. Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI

    101 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  23. Laudatio Turiae

    101 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  24. You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019)

    101 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  25. Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

    101 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  26. Productivity Versus Alignment

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  27. Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017)

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  28. Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria

    101 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  29. Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

    101 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  30. “Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby

    101 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  31. Peeking underground with giant flying antennas

    101 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  32. Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam

    101 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  33. 'Satoshi' impersonation 'a serious abuse of court's process' judge concludes

    101 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  34. Worklenz: Open-Source, All in one project management tool

    101 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  35. 2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?

    101 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  36. Ask HN: How can we open-source a 7 year old SaaS codebase and build a community?

    100 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)

    100 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  38. Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

    100 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  39. Apple finalizing deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT features to iOS 18

    100 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  40. I'm Bearish OpenAI

    100 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  41. Rare things become common at scale (2014)

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  42. The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right

    100 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  43. Multi-Array Queue

    100 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  44. Ex-OpenAI board member provides her first detailed account of CEO ouster

    99 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  45. A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics: André Weil's 1940 letter

    99 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  46. Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format

    99 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  47. A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed

    99 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  48. Dune 3D 1.1.0 Released

    99 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  49. Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction

    99 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  50. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb (2019)

    99 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  51. Will better superconductors transform the world?

    99 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  52. OpenAI Dissolves High-Profile Safety Team After Chief Scientist Sutskever's Exit

    99 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  53. Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  54. Gone 10 years, World’s Biggest Bookstore still grips readers

    99 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  55. Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition

    98 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  56. USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux

    98 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  57. Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More

    98 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  58. Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

    98 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  59. Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser

    98 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  60. Why OpenAI CEO was ousted

    98 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  61. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)

    98 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  62. Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules

    98 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  63. Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

    97 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  64. Asqi: A codebase explorer designed to help navigate and understand Git projects

    97 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  65. Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize

    97 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  66. How to destroy your OS with tar

    97 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  67. Key Consciousness Connections Uncovered

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  68. New capacitor with 19-times energy density

    97 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  69. Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content

    97 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  70. Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

    97 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  71. Two B.C. companies ordered to shut down on national security grounds

    97 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  72. Flags Are Not Languages

    97 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  73. Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs

    97 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  74. Project Astra

    97 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  75. Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf]

    97 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  76. Students invent quieter leaf blower

    97 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  77. How to escape Honda's privacy hell

    97 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  78. Show HN: Making GNU Make a better Task Runner

    97 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  79. Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook

    97 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  80. Paying freelancers in equity and dividends

    97 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  81. English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search

    96 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  82. The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States

    96 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  83. 40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching

    96 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  84. The life and times of an Abstract Syntax Tree

    96 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  85. Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)

    96 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  86. Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp

    96 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  87. One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell

    95 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  88. Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup signs major data center contract

    95 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  89. Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mt Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA

    95 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  90. Show HN: I built an interactive cloth solver for Apple Vision Pro

    95 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  91. Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service

    95 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  92. Forebruary

    95 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  93. Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless

    95 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  94. LunarML – Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript

    95 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  95. Building a Waitlist (The Wrong Way)

    95 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  96. Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust

    95 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  97. The user is on their own

    95 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  98. Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support

    95 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  99. Wasp-193B, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy

    95 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  100. Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube

    95 points • comment • may 27, 2024