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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. Websites Every Aspiring Programmer Should Visit at Least Once

    95 points • comment • may 04, 2024

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

    95 points • comment • may 14, 2024

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

    95 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  4. The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success

    95 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  5. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

    94 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  6. Arduino FDX-B (animal ID chip) reader built from discrete components

    94 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  7. Linux 6.10 Will Print the Number of Populated Memory Slots at Boot Time

    94 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  8. Porting HPC Applications to AMD Instinct MI300A Using Unified Memory and OpenMP

    94 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  9. A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today

    94 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  10. Fort Worth's tallest building sells for $12.3M, bought for $137.5M in 2021

    94 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  11. Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)

    94 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  12. The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA

    94 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  13. Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console

    94 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  14. Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

    94 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  15. Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux

    94 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  16. State of the Terminal

    94 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  17. US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR

    94 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  18. Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it

    94 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  19. Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?

    94 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  20. Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?

    94 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  21. Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types

    94 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  22. Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse [pdf]

    93 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  23. Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured

    93 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  24. Counted B-Trees (2017)

    93 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  25. New Windows AI feature records everything you've done on your PC

    93 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  26. Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics (2017)

    93 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  27. Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

    93 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  28. Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)

    93 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  29. Garbage Collectors Are Scary

    93 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  30. The rise of the disposable car

    93 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  31. Roger Corman Dead: King of B Movies was 98

    93 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  32. Micron Ships Crucial-Branded LPCAMM2 Memory Modules: 64GB of LPDDR5X for $330

    93 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  33. World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

    93 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  34. MSX Elite

    93 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  35. Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin

    93 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  36. The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints

    92 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  37. Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

    92 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  38. Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color

    92 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  39. Show HN: Serverless collaborative notion-level note editor using CRDT in GO

    92 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  40. I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources

    92 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  41. A designer's guide to documenting accessibility and user interactions (2022)

    92 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  42. Tell HN: A note of gratitude to the people providing answers over here

    92 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  43. Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

    92 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  44. Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis

    92 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  45. Merging Remix and React Router

    91 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  46. Backblaze Scales Storage Cloud

    91 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  47. vu128: Efficient variable-length integers

    91 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  48. I Miss BSD/Linux

    91 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  49. Ore Energy unveils battery based on only iron, water and air

    91 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  50. Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

    91 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  51. LZW and GIF explained

    91 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  52. Hacking on PostgreSQL Is Hard

    91 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  53. Proposal to change default annotation processing policy in JDK 23

    91 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  54. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally

    91 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  55. Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

    90 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  56. What Is in a Rust Allocator?

    90 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  57. How not to change PostgreSQL column type

    90 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  58. Response Filter Denial of Service: shut down a website by triggering WAF rule

    90 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  59. Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation

    90 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  60. Speedup of deletes on PostgreSQL

    90 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  61. Aboriginal Linux

    90 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  62. Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'

    90 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  63. DuckDuckGo broken: "Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results"

    90 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  64. Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team

    90 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  65. How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?

    90 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  66. Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement

    90 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  67. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

    90 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  68. Underwater acoustic analysis reveals unique pressure signals – Revisiting MH370

    90 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  69. Show HN: Drivr – VR with real vehicles [video]

    90 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  70. The Strangeness of Grief (2019)

    89 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  71. My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop (2022)

    89 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  72. Zimtohrli: A New Psychoacoustic Perceptual Metric for Audio Compression

    89 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  73. Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated

    89 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  74. Fly.io Infra log: week-by-week record of what the team does

    89 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  75. D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf]

    89 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  76. How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online

    89 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  77. Restoring an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit "DTK" Mac Mini [video]

    89 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  78. Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  79. Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexity, but for HN comments

    88 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  80. LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email

    88 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  81. Show HN: Browser-based web design platform with code import and CSS filters

    88 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  82. Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations

    88 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  83. Show HN: Open-source real time data framework for LLM applications

    88 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  84. Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy

    88 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  85. NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code

    88 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  86. Thunderbird.net Has a New Look

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  87. HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  88. Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work?

    87 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  89. Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (2016)

    87 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  90. How we enabled ARM64 VMs

    87 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  91. QBE – Compiler Back End

    87 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  92. The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps

    87 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  93. Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton

    87 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  94. One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  95. DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear

    87 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  96. Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]

    87 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  97. Logarithmic Scales

    87 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  98. Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

    87 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  99. More than 100 arrested in Spain in $900k WhatsApp scheme

    87 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  100. I can fix this PC, boss, but I'll need to play games for hours to do it

    87 points • comment • may 03, 2024