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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch

    272 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  2. DuckDuckGo was down

    272 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  3. Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

    272 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  4. Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances

    271 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  5. Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online

    269 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  6. ADSL works over wet string (2017)

    267 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  7. The Alternative Implementation Problem

    267 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  8. Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics

    266 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  9. Automated integer hash function discovery

    265 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  10. Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs

    265 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  11. The world has probably passed peak pollution

    265 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  12. The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)

    265 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  13. Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

    265 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  14. Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

    264 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  15. Making EC2 boot time faster

    264 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  16. Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter

    264 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  17. Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

    263 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  18. Figma OSS Alternative

    263 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  19. In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them

    263 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  20. Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video]

    261 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  21. Drone Flying 101 – An interactive tutorial for beginners

    260 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  22. Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

    259 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  23. Students invent quieter leaf blower

    259 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  24. S3 is showing its age

    258 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  25. Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real

    258 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  26. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

    258 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  27. Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

    257 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  28. Gradient descent visualization

    257 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  29. Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyone

    257 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  30. Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.

    257 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  31. Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

    257 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  32. 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio

    257 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  33. In Praise of Idleness (1932)

    256 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  34. Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

    256 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  35. Figma’s Journey to TypeScript

    255 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  36. ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents

    255 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  37. How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)

    254 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  38. How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  39. AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  40. Three Laws of Software Complexity

    252 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  41. Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

    252 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  42. Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder

    251 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  43. Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership

    251 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  44. Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs

    251 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  45. So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)

    251 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  46. Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

    251 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  47. The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue

    251 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  48. Scandal at America's top science fair

    251 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  49. Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?

    250 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  50. Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real

    250 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  51. Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job

    250 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  52. Rethinking Text Resizing on Web

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  53. Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages

    249 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  54. Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD

    249 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  55. What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)

    249 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  56. Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C

    249 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  57. How did Ancient Greek music sound?

    249 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  58. FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)

    248 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  59. First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars

    248 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  60. Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements

    248 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  61. How to Use JSON Path

    247 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  62. The OpenAI board was right

    247 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  63. Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

    245 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  64. Homoiconic Python

    245 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  65. Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun

    245 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  66. Gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub

    245 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  67. The most talented person in the world

    245 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  68. The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls

    245 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  69. Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014)

    244 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  70. A trustworthy, free (libre), Linux capable, self-hosting 64bit RISC-V computer

    244 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  71. Coding interviews are stupid (ish)

    244 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  72. Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs

    244 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  73. IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

    244 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  74. Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness

    243 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  75. Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition

    243 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  76. Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct

    242 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  77. Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant

    242 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  78. Show HN: Neosync – Open-Source Data Anonymization for Postgres and MySQL

    242 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  79. Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search

    241 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  80. Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police

    240 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  81. Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4

    240 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  82. SecureDrop Protocol

    240 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  83. Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

    239 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  84. Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"

    238 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  85. Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

    238 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  86. Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years

    238 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  87. Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

    237 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  88. Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

    236 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  89. What's New in Neovim 0.10

    236 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  90. Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair

    236 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  91. Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners

    236 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  92. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

    236 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  93. I want flexible queries, not RAG

    235 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  94. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024

    235 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  95. Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet

    235 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  96. A Road to Common Lisp (2018)

    235 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  97. Tinygrad 0.9.0

    233 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  98. Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers

    233 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  99. The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible

    233 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  100. F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language

    233 points • comment • may 16, 2024