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Hacker News (Jun 2024)

  1. What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?

    106 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  2. Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering

    105 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  3. Designing a website without 404s

    105 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  4. Apple Debuts VisionOS 2

    105 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  5. How to make a great government website

    105 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  6. Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation

    105 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  7. How GCC and Clang handle statically known undefined behaviour

    105 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  8. Protecting Children's Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption

    105 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  9. NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTs

    105 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  10. FPGA-Based Disk Controller for the Apple II (2017)

    105 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  11. Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

    105 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  12. Coup Attempt in Bolivia

    104 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  13. Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails

    104 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  14. The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015)

    104 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  15. Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?

    104 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  16. The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

    104 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  17. Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game

    104 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  18. Implementing the Goodfellow GANs paper

    104 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  19. Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible

    104 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  20. Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)

    104 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  21. Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'

    104 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  22. Show HN: Scipress.io – a Markdown writing platform like Notion Medium MkDocs

    104 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  23. Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan

    104 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  24. Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free

    104 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  25. SquirrelFS: Using the Rust compiler to check file-system crash consistency

    104 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  26. My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey

    104 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  27. An Overview of the Starlark Language

    104 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  28. Turning the Tables on AI

    104 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  29. Show HN: ESP32S3 ZXSpectrum

    104 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  30. AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It

    103 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  31. The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies

    103 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  32. Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords

    103 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  33. Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits (2018)

    103 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  34. How to make colored fire at home (2020)

    103 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  35. Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale

    103 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  36. Rotation curves: still flat after a million light-years

    102 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  37. cuDF – GPU DataFrame Library

    102 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  38. Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video]

    102 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  39. Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta

    102 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  40. Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law

    102 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  41. Fifty Years of Diff

    102 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  42. Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024

    102 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  43. Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, parts monopoly

    102 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  44. Italian streets that don't exist on any map (2022)

    102 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  45. CSS written in pure Go

    102 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  46. What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?

    102 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  47. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters

    102 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  48. US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports

    102 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  49. TeamViewer Security Breach

    101 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  50. NodeSwift: Bridge Node.js and Swift

    101 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  51. Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong

    101 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  52. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)

    101 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  53. Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual descent into madness

    101 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  54. Moving objects precisely with sound

    100 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  55. A new world of DIY medical testing

    100 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  56. Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool

    100 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  57. XScreenSaver is available on Android. Google requires a privacy policy

    100 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  58. SpaceX's fourth Starship launch approved for Thursday

    100 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  59. How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux)

    100 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  60. A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing

    100 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  61. Kiosk mode bypass for an Ariane Allegro Scenario Player based hotel check-in te

    100 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  62. Does anybody know this fractal? (2012)

    100 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  63. Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure

    100 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  64. Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

    99 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  65. Can men live without war? (1956)

    99 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  66. Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye

    99 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  67. Pyrophone

    99 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  68. If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

    99 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  69. OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game

    99 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  70. PaperTapeReader: A DIY reader for vintage 8-bit paper tapes

    99 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  71. Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file

    99 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  72. Ganjifa

    99 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  73. ASML Aims for Hyper-NA EUV, Shrinking Chip Limits

    99 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  74. Driving forward in Android drivers

    98 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  75. Show HN: Web Development with Htmx, Type-Guided Components, Pure Python

    98 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  76. What's up Python? Django get background tasks, a new REPL, bye bye gunicorn

    98 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  77. Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace

    98 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  78. Faxes From the Far Side (2015)

    98 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  79. Calm Company Fund Is Taking a Break

    98 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  80. If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – remove it immediately

    98 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  81. Why camera calibration is so important in computer vision

    98 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  82. Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes

    98 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  83. Artificial needles to real haystacks: Improving retrieval capabilities in LLMs

    98 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  84. Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings

    98 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  85. DuckDB Isn't Just Fast

    98 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  86. Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)

    98 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  87. Elixir Gotchas

    98 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  88. How many High Streets are there in London?

    97 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  89. Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers, small businesses

    97 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  90. The shape of information

    97 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  91. The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane

    97 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  92. Django SQLite Production Config

    97 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  93. How I overcame my addiction to sugar

    97 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  94. A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba

    97 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  95. Teams of LLM Agents Can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

    97 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  96. Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean

    96 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  97. Sarepta. Why?

    96 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  98. The Functional Programming Hiring Problem

    96 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  99. Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed

    96 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  100. Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers

    96 points • comment • jun 10, 2024