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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

    502 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  2. Static Chess

    495 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  3. Steve Albini has died

    493 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  4. Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

    492 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  5. The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

    490 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  6. Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

    488 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  7. Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android

    484 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  8. IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season

    484 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  9. The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

    483 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  10. Bollards: Why and What

    483 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  11. 2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution

    475 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  12. The best way to have complex discussions?

    474 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  13. GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

    472 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  14. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy

    467 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  15. U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers

    462 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  16. Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product

    460 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  17. Every map of China is wrong

    460 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  18. The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

    457 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  19. Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension

    456 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  20. Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

    454 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  21. Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

    454 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  22. Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x

    453 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  23. Codestral: Mistral's Code Model

    452 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  24. Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head

    450 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  25. Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

    447 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  26. Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars

    447 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  27. Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

    444 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  28. Gemini Flash

    441 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  29. Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems

    440 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  30. Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song

    439 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  31. Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality

    438 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  32. The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)

    438 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  33. I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)

    436 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  34. Gov. Polis Signs Bill Mandating That Consumers Have Options to Fix Electronics

    434 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  35. Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

    433 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  36. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

    430 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  37. Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs

    430 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  38. Enlightenmentware

    425 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  39. It’s an age of marvels

    425 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  40. Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

    425 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  41. Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

    424 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  42. A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence

    423 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  43. Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again

    421 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  44. A Single Div

    421 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  45. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

    419 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  46. Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

    417 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  47. WP21

    417 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  48. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    417 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  49. 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe

    413 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  50. The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery

    411 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  51. Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

    411 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  52. Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames

    411 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  53. Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants

    410 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  54. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

    409 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  55. Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective

    409 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  56. Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC

    408 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  57. Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

    403 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  58. FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server

    402 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  59. Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?

    396 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  60. DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database

    395 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  61. Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075

    388 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  62. Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor

    386 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  63. Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

    386 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  64. What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

    384 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  65. Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email

    384 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  66. Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

    382 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  67. New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy

    381 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  68. Abusing Go's Infrastructure

    379 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  69. Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)

    379 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  70. Introducing Copilot+ PCs

    379 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  71. Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)

    378 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  72. mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours

    378 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  73. Calculus with Julia

    377 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  74. Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers

    375 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  75. One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid

    374 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  76. Popover API

    374 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  77. 100k Stars

    371 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  78. Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative

    371 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  79. Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time

    370 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  80. D3 in Depth

    370 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  81. Algebraic Data Types for C99

    369 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  82. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

    369 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  83. Writing a Unix clone in about a month

    369 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  84. Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

    368 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  85. Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

    367 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  86. Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

    367 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  87. 300k airplanes in five years

    365 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  88. Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders

    360 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  89. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting

    360 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  90. LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops

    359 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  91. Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

    356 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  92. A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it

    355 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  93. Building a rocket engine from scratch

    354 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  94. Shipbreaking

    353 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  95. Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification

    353 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  96. Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes

    353 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  97. Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'

    352 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  98. Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification

    352 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  99. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

    352 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  100. City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

    351 points • comment • may 20, 2024