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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. Creepy Study Suggests AI Is the Reason We've Never Found Aliens

    10 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  2. Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

    10 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  3. Suno is paying $1M to the top creators

    10 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  4. Big (O)Notation Every Developer Should Know

    10 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  5. Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers

    10 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  6. Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150M neural connections in tiny sample of brain

    10 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  7. Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  8. Price differences booking travel depending on Windows vs. Mac user agents

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  9. The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  10. Intel Arc A770: Arrays larger than 4GB crashes

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  11. Disruptions Loom as 17 Air Traffic Controllers Balk at Job Relocation

    10 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  12. Man tried and failed to steal a cigarette, has spent 18 years in prison for it

    10 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  13. Replacing pyinstaller with 100 lines of code

    10 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  14. Mersenne Twister PRNG for JavaScript

    10 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  15. OpenAI's week of chaos has reopened a festering wound at the $80B startup

    10 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  16. 52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  17. The cosine distance between Shawn and Sean

    10 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  18. Fedora Cleared to Build Python Package with "-O3" Optimizations

    10 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  19. Exch(1) – atomically exchanges paths between two files (2023)

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  20. How the U.S. Backed Kidnapping, Torture and Murder in Afghanistan

    10 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  21. Smoking Is Awesome [video]

    10 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  22. Why People Follow the Leader: The Power of Transference

    10 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  23. Ex-devs who quit programming as a job, what do you do now?

    10 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  24. Vaccination has averted 154M deaths

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  25. Biden hikes US tariffs on of Chinese imports

    10 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  26. Apple made a terrible mistake: it told the truth

    10 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  27. Astrobiology Graphic Novel Series

    10 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  28. Nvidia has published a competitive llama3-70B QA/RAG fine tune

    10 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  29. Building Pinterest's new wide column database using RocksDB

    10 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  30. The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift

    10 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  31. McDonald's and other food giants hit hard by inflation

    10 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  32. California to end "loan out corporations"

    10 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  33. The future of foundation models is closed-source

    10 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  34. Apple changed a lot inside the iPad Pro to get it so thin

    10 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  35. Trump Guilty on All Counts

    10 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  36. Nov 2, 1920: Imprisoned Eugene V. Debs Received 1M Votes for US President

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  37. Cathinone and Psilocybin in Cicada Pathogens (2019)

    10 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  38. GPT-4 Passes Turing Test. Humans Often Mistake Each Other for AI

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  39. The Numeric Tower Fiasco

    10 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  40. Worldcoin is surging in Argentina thanks to 288% inflation

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  41. China's BYD nears deal to supply London's electric double decker buses

    10 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  42. Americans view the economy depends on whether they rent or own

    10 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  43. Farmers must kill 4.2M chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm

    10 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  44. Bringing Project Starline out of the lab

    10 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  45. Faced with RTO mandates, some top tech talent left instead

    10 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  46. Who has time to watch a 4-hour YouTube video? Millions of us, it turns out.

    10 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  47. Overwhelm Yourself with as Many Tools as Possible (Why Not?)

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  48. The AI 'Safety Movement' Is Dead

    10 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  49. Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  50. Putting a Wet Towel on a Tesla Supercharger Handle Gets Faster Charging Speeds

    10 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  51. IndexedDB as a Vector Database

    10 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  52. Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem

    10 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  53. Composition of gut microbiota could influence decision-making

    10 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  54. AZ woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  55. I can see AI genuinely amending or even curing the male loneliness epidemic soon

    10 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  56. PayPal Adds Stablecoin to Memecoin-Favorite Solana Blockchain

    10 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  57. Russia says it isn't bluffing over threats to use nuclear weapons

    10 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  58. Show HN: I got tired of losing great dev resources, so I'm making DevCheatSheets

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  59. Arm says its next-gen mobile GPU will be its most 'performant and efficient'

    10 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  60. Managers have no human rights

    10 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  61. Using DuckDB to seamlessly query a large parquet file over HTTP

    10 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  62. The file_operations structure gets smaller

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  63. Ask HN: People that use jq extensively, I'd like to talk to you

    10 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  64. IEEE FP8 Formats for Machine Learning (Draft) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  65. IBM's Red Hat Sued by Stephen Miller's Legal Group for Anti-White Male Bias

    10 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  66. What even is a pidfd anyway?

    10 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  67. The Costs of the Petrodollar

    10 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  68. Elon Musk encourages consumer adoption of Linux

    10 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  69. Show HN: Weightless CMS for Side Projects

    10 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  70. Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in atmosphere

    10 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  71. Perimeter – Open-Source Real-Time Strategy Game

    10 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  72. Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triumph, Part V: Epilogue

    10 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  73. Scaling Clubhouse From 10K to 10M Users In 6 Months With Postgres

    10 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  74. Meta is using your Instagram and Facebook photos to train its AI models

    10 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  75. New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

    10 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  76. The Ages of Programming Language Creators

    10 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  77. China starts military drills around Taiwan as 'harsh punishment'

    10 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  78. Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents

    10 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  79. AI Startups Are Making Their Home in New York

    10 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  80. Higher RAII, and the Seven Arcane Uses of Linear Types

    10 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  81. Ask HN: How do you find what you're good at and make money?

    10 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  82. Active learning is more effective, but students don't think so

    10 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  83. Destination Amaltheia – Soviet Science Fiction (1962)

    10 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  84. How to Move from Redis to Valkey

    10 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  85. Virtual Boy: the rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console

    9 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  86. Changes from Visa mean Americans will carry fewer physical credit, debit cards

    9 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  87. Llama-2 with 40% of layers removed on par with original

    9 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  88. XLSTM won't replace the Transformer. Two bitter lessons

    9 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  89. New Yorker geo-blocks Lucy Letby story in collision with British courts

    9 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  90. The Y Combinator explained in a runnable Scheme file

    9 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  91. Solar storms are disrupting farmer GPS systems

    9 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  92. Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales

    9 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  93. Jump Seating United Pilot Causes Drama at Southwest

    9 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  94. Neuralink's First Human Brain-Chip Implant Appeared Flawless,There Was a Problem

    9 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  95. Looking Glass 32" Spatial Display – Next-generation holographic technology

    9 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  96. Can tech reduce civilian deaths in conflict? Mark Milley isn't so sure

    9 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  97. SoftRAM95: "False and Misleading" (1996)

    9 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  98. Riot Games' anti-cheat software will require TPM, Secure Boot on Windows 11 (2021)

    9 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  99. Ask HN: Best stack for building a desktop app?

    9 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  100. The Promise of SGLT2 Inhibitors

    9 points • comment • may 05, 2024