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Hacker News (May 2024)

  1. The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)

    141 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  2. “Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband

    141 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  3. Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?

    141 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  4. We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM

    141 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  5. Swift's native Clocks are inefficient

    141 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  6. The Rise of the Forever Renter Class

    140 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  7. CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense

    140 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  8. Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

    140 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  9. Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure

    140 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  10. Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' [video]

    140 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  11. What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]

    140 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  12. Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onion

    140 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  13. Smart Pointers in (GNU) C

    140 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  14. Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)

    140 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  15. YOLOv5 on FPGA with Hailo-8 and 4 Pi Cameras

    139 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  16. Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?

    139 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  17. OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT

    139 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  18. Swift sucks at web serving or does it?

    139 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  19. Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture

    139 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  20. Becoming an Amateur Polyglot

    139 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  21. Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors

    138 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  22. Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair

    138 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  23. A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial

    138 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  24. Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior

    138 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  25. Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  26. Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control

    138 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  27. Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers

    138 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  28. Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens

    138 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  29. Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  30. Claude is now available in Europe

    138 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  31. UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  32. Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build

    137 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  33. Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller

    137 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  34. First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids

    137 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  35. Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress

    137 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  36. Emoji History: The Missing Years

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  37. Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than ever

    137 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  38. Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  39. Timekeeping Before Clocks

    137 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  40. Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?

    136 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  41. Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

    136 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  42. A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  43. DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside

    136 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  44. 'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  45. The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)

    135 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  46. Low-latency scripting for game engines

    135 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  47. EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  48. Grace Version Control System

    135 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  49. What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)

    134 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  50. The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs

    134 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  51. A review on protein language models

    134 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  52. Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)

    134 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  53. British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed

    134 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  54. OpenBSD Desktop

    134 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  55. A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)

    134 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  56. The Star Destroyer and Imperial Military Doctrine

    133 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  57. Show NH: "data-to-paper" - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research

    133 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  58. EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design

    133 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  59. Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts

    133 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  60. Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology

    133 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  61. Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software

    133 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  62. California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects

    133 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  63. Google won’t comment on a leak of its search algorithm documentation

    132 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  64. I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

    132 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  65. The Waning Reign of the Muskrat

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  66. Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  67. Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons

    132 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  68. Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL

    132 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  69. The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)

    132 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  70. Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]

    131 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  71. OpenProject – open-source project management software

    131 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  72. My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity

    131 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  73. Arena-based parsers

    131 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  74. Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat

    131 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  75. New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink

    131 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  76. The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story

    131 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  77. Golden Gate Claude

    130 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  78. Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)

    130 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  79. YARA is dead, long live YARA-X

    130 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  80. I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine

    130 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  81. GTFL – A Graphical Terminal for Common Lisp

    130 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  82. Unix and Multics (2019)

    129 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  83. Show HN: Visual debugger for Rails system tests

    129 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  84. Whistle­blow­er who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies

    129 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  85. Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)

    129 points • comment • may 17, 2024

  86. A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10

    129 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  87. Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology

    129 points • comment • may 18, 2024

  88. You are lucky, full moon tonight

    129 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  89. Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

    129 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  90. Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

    128 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  91. History of the Italian electrical system

    128 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  92. Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components

    128 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  93. Building a Reactor

    128 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  94. The derivative of a number (2014)

    128 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  95. Show HN: Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)

    128 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  96. Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim

    128 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  97. BASIC turns 60

    127 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  98. Port 666 is officially registered to Doom

    127 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  99. TheDesk desktop environment

    127 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  100. Using a LLM to compress text

    127 points • comment • may 03, 2024