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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. Branded types for TypeScript

    157 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  2. Clojure: Managing throughput with virtual threads

    157 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  3. A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  4. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  5. ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  6. Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

    156 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  7. LLMs can't do probability

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  8. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  9. Three.js Shading Language

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  10. Bytehound: Memory Profiler for Linux

    156 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  11. Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice

    155 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  12. Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)

    155 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  13. You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill

    155 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  14. My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)

    155 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  15. Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

    154 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  16. Runtime code generation and execution in Go

    154 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  17. Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms

    154 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  18. Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

    154 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  19. Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

    154 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  20. Common Google XSS

    154 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  21. Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward

    153 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  22. Symbolica Computer Algebra System

    153 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  23. Disappointment

    153 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  24. GCC 14.1

    153 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  25. US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)

    153 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  26. Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes

    153 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  27. Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware

    152 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  28. Vera Rubin's primary mirror gets its first reflective coating

    152 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  29. 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI

    152 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  30. Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

    152 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  31. Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East

    152 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  32. The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]

    151 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  33. Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy

    151 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  34. xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

    151 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  35. Data allegedly stolen from 560M Ticketmaster users

    151 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  36. A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe

    151 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  37. Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

    151 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  38. Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop

    150 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  39. Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi

    150 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  40. The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)

    150 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  41. Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

    150 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  42. X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things

    150 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  43. Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

    149 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  44. Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension

    149 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  45. How to read C type declarations (2003)

    149 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  46. Why use ECC? (2015)

    149 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  47. Researchers accurately dating a 7k-year-old settlement using cosmic rays

    148 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  48. YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]

    148 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  49. It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

    148 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  50. Evolution of the ELF object file format

    148 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  51. What Is Generative Art? (2022)

    148 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  52. Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

    148 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  53. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

    148 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  54. Act on Press

    148 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  55. Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%

    147 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  56. Goodyear Inflatoplane

    147 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  57. I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants

    147 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  58. Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua

    147 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  59. Debian 64-bit-time transition

    147 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  60. Show HN: B-field, a novel probabilistic key-value data structure (`rust-bfield`)

    147 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  61. Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?

    147 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  62. Unprojecting text with ellipses (2016)

    147 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  63. ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#

    146 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  64. Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet

    146 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  65. Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone

    146 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  66. URLhaus: A database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution

    146 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  67. Milk watcher

    146 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  68. Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply

    146 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  69. OpenAI: Model Spec

    145 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  70. A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback

    145 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  71. Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"

    145 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  72. Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps

    145 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  73. Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard

    145 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  74. Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas

    145 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  75. Tensor Puzzles

    145 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  76. Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop

    145 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  77. Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector

    144 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  78. Show HN: I've forked neofetch to keep it alive

    144 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  79. James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy

    144 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  80. The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)

    144 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  81. Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images

    144 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  82. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

    144 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  83. Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution

    144 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  84. Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook

    144 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  85. PaliGemma

    143 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  86. I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett

    143 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  87. Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard

    143 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  88. Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier

    143 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  89. Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison

    143 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  90. How did authorities identify the alleged LockBit boss?

    143 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  91. Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

    143 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  92. Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2

    142 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  93. The Birth of Parquet

    142 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  94. Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware

    142 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  95. Using Postgres for Everything

    142 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  96. Manta Ray UUV prototype completes in-water testing

    142 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  97. A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima reactor

    142 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  98. An air quality model that is evolving with the times

    142 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  99. Mexico's Floating Gardens

    142 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  100. Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021)

    142 points • comment • may 24, 2024