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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. The Pumpkin Eclipse

    350 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  2. Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance

    348 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  3. Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)

    348 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  4. Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool

    347 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  5. Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile

    345 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  6. Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet

    345 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  7. If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video]

    342 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  8. Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

    341 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  9. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    340 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  10. Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants

    339 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  11. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

    338 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  12. PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software

    338 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  13. How to build a $20B semiconductor fab

    337 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  14. Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses

    336 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  15. A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)

    336 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  16. Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right

    335 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  17. Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant

    333 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  18. How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

    332 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  19. Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

    330 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  20. Design docs at Google (2020)

    329 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  21. Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

    327 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  22. Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"

    326 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  23. Number 16 (spider)

    324 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  24. BlackHole: macOS Audio Loopback Driver

    324 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  25. Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore

    323 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  26. VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use

    322 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  27. pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL

    321 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  28. Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

    320 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  29. I run a software book club

    320 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  30. The Worst Website in the Entire World

    320 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  31. Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019)

    316 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  32. Machine Unlearning in 2024

    316 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  33. Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene

    315 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  34. Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file

    315 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  35. Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

    314 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  36. A 100x speedup with unsafe Python

    313 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  37. Hurl, the Exceptional Language

    313 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  38. Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

    313 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  39. New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

    312 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  40. TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting

    312 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  41. Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges

    309 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  42. Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter

    309 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  43. Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures

    307 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  44. 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

    306 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  45. Diffusion Models

    306 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  46. What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

    306 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  47. I don't want to fill out your contact form

    302 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  48. To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

    302 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  49. Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative

    301 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  50. Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS

    300 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  51. Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go

    299 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  52. ChatGPT-4o vs. Math

    299 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  53. BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)

    298 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  54. Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers

    297 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  55. KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features

    297 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  56. Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go

    297 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  57. “Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate

    296 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  58. Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape

    296 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  59. Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024

    296 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  60. Meteor seen in Portugal

    295 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  61. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    295 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  62. Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM

    294 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  63. Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

    293 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  64. Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

    293 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  65. Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

    293 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  66. Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS

    292 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  67. Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

    292 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  68. Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming

    292 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  69. Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review

    292 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  70. Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

    290 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  71. Git cheat sheet [pdf]

    289 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  72. Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction

    288 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  73. The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy

    288 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  74. “Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”

    287 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  75. Secure Randomness in Go 1.22

    287 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  76. A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers

    286 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  77. Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers

    286 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  78. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    286 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  79. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.

    284 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  80. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    284 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  81. NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching

    283 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  82. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

    283 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  83. Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships

    283 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  84. NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul

    281 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  85. Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

    281 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  86. Life-like particle system

    280 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  87. Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

    280 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  88. Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker

    279 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  89. Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far

    278 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  90. The Downfall of DeviantArt

    278 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  91. Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes

    278 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  92. Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

    278 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  93. Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

    277 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  94. Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

    277 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  95. Verified Rust for low-level systems code

    276 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  96. A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans

    275 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  97. Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)

    274 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  98. Google releases smart watch for kids

    274 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  99. AdFlush

    274 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  100. Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira

    272 points • comment • may 13, 2024