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Hacker News (May 2024)

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

    203 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  2. Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster

    203 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  3. Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings

    203 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  4. Fast real time fluid simulator based on MPM algorithm

    203 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  5. Tmux is worse-is-better

    203 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  6. 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

    203 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  7. Taking Risk

    202 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  8. The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]

    202 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  9. A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

    202 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  10. Interview with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack Enigma (1974) [video]

    201 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  11. An infinite canvas for code exploration

    201 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  12. How and why to make a /now page on your site

    200 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  13. How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business

    200 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  14. Trial results for new lung cancer drug are 'off the charts'

    200 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  15. Page Dewarping (2016)

    199 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  16. Why you can hear the temperature of water

    199 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  17. Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say

    199 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  18. Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences

    199 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  19. Firefox search update

    199 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  20. Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML

    198 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  21. What We're Working on in Firefox

    198 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  22. Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent

    197 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  23. Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios

    197 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  24. Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

    197 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  25. Android's theft protection features

    197 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  26. New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

    197 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  27. How to get 7th graders to smoke

    197 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  28. Compilers for free with weval

    197 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  29. Growing sodium chloride crystals at home

    196 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  30. Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT

    196 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  31. Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns

    196 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  32. Why Are Sloths So Slow?

    196 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  33. The CompCert C Compiler

    196 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  34. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

    195 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  35. Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard (2014)

    195 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  36. Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)

    194 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  37. Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)

    194 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  38. Show HN: PBT – A property-based testing library for Ruby

    194 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  39. CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js

    193 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  40. Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary

    193 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  41. HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]

    193 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  42. A transport protocol's view of Starlink

    193 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  43. XLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory

    192 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  44. Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?

    192 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  45. PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet

    192 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  46. Raspberry Pi Connect

    192 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  47. Caniwebview.com – Like Caniuse but for Webviews

    191 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  48. Reversing Choplifter

    191 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  49. An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)

    191 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  50. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    190 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  51. The Snapdragon 855's iGPU

    190 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  52. Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

    190 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  53. Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead

    189 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  54. Optimizing your talking points (2018)

    189 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  55. Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial

    188 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  56. Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent

    188 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  57. New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor

    188 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  58. Qlock – A JavaScript Quine Clock

    188 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  59. Last hours of an organ donor

    187 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  60. LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows

    187 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  61. How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math

    187 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  62. Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents

    187 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  63. The new APT 3.0 solver

    187 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  64. Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

    186 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  65. The Emacs Window Management Almanac

    186 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  66. ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions

    186 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  67. Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment

    186 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  68. The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013)

    186 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  69. Project Gameface launches on Android

    185 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  70. EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years

    185 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  71. Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6

    185 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  72. Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device

    185 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  73. Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)

    185 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  74. Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout

    185 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  75. At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down

    184 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  76. The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back

    184 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  77. Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C?

    184 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  78. Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)

    184 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  79. TOTP Authenticator for PalmOS

    183 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  80. Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner

    183 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  81. ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic

    183 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  82. Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates

    183 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  83. Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

    182 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  84. Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model

    182 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  85. Mistral Fine-Tune

    181 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  86. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla

    181 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  87. PyPy has been working for me for several years now

    181 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  88. Stop Using Discord

    181 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  89. Fractal Geometry

    181 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  90. The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf]

    181 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  91. Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005)

    180 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  92. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

    180 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  93. Show HN: Bloom – A shadcn like UI library for Elixir and Phoenix

    180 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  94. My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water

    179 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  95. Fast linked lists

    179 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  96. Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise

    179 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  97. Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader

    179 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  98. SVG Gobbler – Find, optimize, edit, and export SVGs

    179 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  99. Show HN: Tegon: AI-first open source alternative to Jira and Linear

    178 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  100. Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%

    178 points • comment • may 31, 2024