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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

    79 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  2. Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates

    79 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  3. Windows Copilot Runtime

    79 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  4. Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source

    79 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  5. Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account

    79 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  6. Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)

    79 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  7. Truffle ISLISP

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  8. Mesh Spreadsheet: A data and code editor that feels like a spreadsheet

    78 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  9. AI regulations are crony capitalism

    78 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  10. Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023)

    78 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  11. Recently increased prevalence of human forearm median artery: Microevolution

    78 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  12. Unbearable hours, threats of being fired: The abuse of migrant interns in Japan

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  13. Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap

    78 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  14. Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  15. I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022)

    78 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  16. When Is a Counter-Strike Player Good?

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  17. Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users

    78 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  18. AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  19. Show HN: Jacinda, a functional Awk (text stream processing on the comamnd-line)

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  20. Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is new single-core performance champ

    77 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  21. Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash

    77 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  22. Color Concepts 101 (2001) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  23. Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception

    77 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  24. Civil society to YouTube: stop helping Russia suppress free speech

    77 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  25. CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239

    77 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  26. Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database

    77 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  27. How much time should you spend sitting versus standing?

    77 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  28. Essays on programming I think about a lot

    77 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  29. A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows

    77 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  30. StructLM: Towards Building Generalist Models for Structured Knowledge Grounding

    76 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  31. Beware of fake beaches (Pokémon Go)

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  32. iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin

    76 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  33. What We're Working on in Firefox

    76 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  34. Pet parrots prefer live video-calls

    76 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  35. Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA

    76 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  36. Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  37. ENIAC Simulator

    76 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  38. New blood test for stroke combines blood-based biomarkers with a clinical score

    76 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  39. Trip C++Now 2024 – think-cell

    76 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  40. Bringing psql’s \d to your web browser

    76 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  41. System Analysis and Programming (1966)

    76 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  42. Project AZORIAN

    75 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  43. Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editor

    75 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  44. Nalanda: The university that changed the world (2023)

    75 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  45. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law with union comments, NLRB rules

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  46. Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban

    75 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  47. Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

    75 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  48. Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix

    75 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  49. First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  50. Show HN: Offline sketch to image geneartor in a whiteboard

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  51. Show HN: MuscleWiki Workout Generator – Generate unique workouts

    75 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  52. Claude Team plan and iOS app

    75 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  53. Show HN: Adblock for Podcasts

    75 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  54. Let insects eat your plants

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  55. FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users

    75 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  56. How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field (2019)

    75 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  57. How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in a running inter (2017)

    74 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  58. Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine

    74 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  59. Konrad Zuse's Homepage

    74 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  60. Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic

    74 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  61. What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?

    74 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  62. Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

    74 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  63. GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings

    74 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  64. Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns

    74 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  65. Meta String: A more space-efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury

    74 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  66. Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (1987) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  67. Linear Clock (2021)

    74 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  68. 00Key a 75% Keyboard

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  69. A knight's tale

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  70. A slightly more fun way to disable Windows Defender (through the WSC API)

    73 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  71. SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language (1974)

    73 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  72. US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt

    73 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  73. Meteor Lake's E-Cores: Crestmont Makes Incremental Progress

    73 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  74. Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization

    73 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  75. Where are the builders?

    73 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  76. Dieter Rams turns 92 – Stream "Rams" for free May 20 and 21

    73 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  77. Auckland: A city with a labyrinth of underground caves

    73 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  78. The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)

    73 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  79. Rewriting the Technical Interview (2020)

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  80. Show HN: I generated API documentation for all Java packages

    73 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  81. You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings

    72 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  82. Tasmota: Open-source firmware for ESP devices

    72 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  83. Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people

    72 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  84. Johnny Cash – Strawberry Cake

    72 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  85. Evaluating bias and noise induced by the U.S. Census Bureau's privacy protection

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  86. CO2 removal 'gap' shows countries 'lack progress' for 1.5C warming limit

    72 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  87. Defending the city: An overview of defensive tactics

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  88. Verilator: Open-Source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system

    72 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  89. Guide to Haskell strings

    72 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  90. Faster XML Stream Processing in Go (2019)

    72 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  91. How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security

    72 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  92. RISC vs. CISC by John R. Mashey (1995)

    72 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  93. He Lost $36B in a Week. Now Bill Hwang Is Fighting to Avoid Prison

    71 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  94. Convolutional-KANs

    71 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  95. Show HN: es6_maps, new Elixir syntax feature via runtime compiler hacking

    71 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  96. How many holes does the universe have?

    71 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  97. Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  98. Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air

    71 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  99. An adjustable filter that can prevent interference in the range 600 MHz to 6 GHz

    71 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  100. Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics due to blobs left by collision

    71 points • comment • may 08, 2024