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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language

    233 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  2. Tinygrad 0.9.0

    233 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  3. Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic

    232 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  4. A useful productivity measure?

    232 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  5. Time-Based CSS Animations

    231 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  6. Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing

    231 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  7. Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger

    231 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  8. Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf]

    231 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  9. IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server

    230 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  10. Braid: Synchronization for HTTP

    230 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  11. They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups

    229 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  12. New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention

    229 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  13. Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

    228 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  14. Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

    228 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  15. Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal

    228 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  16. Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web

    227 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  17. Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad

    227 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  18. I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

    227 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  19. Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died

    226 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  20. Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective

    226 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  21. Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

    225 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  22. Show HN: Slipshow – A presentation tool not based on slides

    225 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  23. Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)

    225 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  24. Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?

    225 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  25. Falcon 2

    223 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  26. Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

    223 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  27. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

    223 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  28. Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users

    223 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  29. ESP32 Drum Synth Machine

    223 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  30. Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API

    223 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  31. Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time

    222 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  32. Context caching guide

    221 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  33. Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats

    221 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  34. Libyear

    221 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  35. How I think about debt

    221 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  36. DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories

    220 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  37. Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

    220 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  38. Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

    220 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  39. Linux When?

    219 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  40. Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens

    219 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  41. Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

    219 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  42. Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

    218 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  43. How Might We Learn?

    218 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  44. Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food

    218 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  45. A Slower Speed of Light (2012)

    218 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  46. CSS Text Box Trim

    218 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  47. So We've Got a Memory Leak

    217 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  48. Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

    217 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  49. Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)

    217 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  50. StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation

    216 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  51. LO – simple WASM native language

    215 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  52. How a 64k intro is made (2017)

    215 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  53. Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)

    215 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  54. Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma

    215 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  55. World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients

    214 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  56. Psion 5mx Emulator

    214 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  57. Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

    214 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  58. Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images

    213 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  59. Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone

    213 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  60. C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)

    213 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  61. I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)

    212 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  62. How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)

    211 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  63. Making a Postgres query 1k times faster

    211 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  64. AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training

    211 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  65. One Minute Park

    211 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  66. Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries

    211 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  67. Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos

    210 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  68. Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs

    210 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  69. A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption

    210 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  70. Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims

    210 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  71. Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

    210 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  72. Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident

    209 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  73. Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

    209 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  74. German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms

    209 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  75. Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?

    209 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  76. PiFex: JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi

    209 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  77. How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)

    208 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  78. Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS

    208 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  79. Rete algorithm

    208 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  80. Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

    208 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  81. 25 Years of Krita

    207 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  82. First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024

    207 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  83. A Pattern Language

    207 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  84. Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights

    207 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  85. Bluesky adds direct messages

    207 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  86. Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora

    207 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  87. How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries

    206 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  88. llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3

    206 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  89. A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign

    206 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  90. Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps

    206 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  91. AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing

    206 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  92. Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering

    205 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  93. &udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search

    205 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  94. Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust

    205 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  95. A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair

    205 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  96. Glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

    205 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  97. Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings

    203 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  98. 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

    203 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  99. Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?

    203 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  100. More Itertools

    203 points • comment • may 27, 2024