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Hacker News (Jun 2024)

  1. Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget

    437 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  2. Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)

    436 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  3. Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

    435 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  4. Own a weather station? We want your data

    430 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  5. Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us

    430 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  6. The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC

    429 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  7. South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

    428 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  8. Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine

    427 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  9. Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

    427 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  10. Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

    426 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  11. Start presentations on the second slide

    424 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  12. Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

    421 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  13. Round Rects Are Everywhere

    419 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  14. Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide

    418 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  15. Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

    417 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  16. Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)

    417 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  17. Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest

    414 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  18. US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing

    414 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  19. More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work

    413 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  20. I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game

    412 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  21. DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

    411 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  22. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

    410 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  23. Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

    408 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  24. 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

    405 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  25. ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses

    401 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  26. LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

    399 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  27. 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

    398 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  28. Extracting concepts from GPT-4

    398 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  29. Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis

    397 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  30. OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership

    396 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  31. Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood

    395 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  32. A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves

    394 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  33. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]

    390 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  34. Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections

    389 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  35. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

    385 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  36. Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

    384 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  37. “Attention assault” on Fandom

    383 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  38. OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior

    381 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  39. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

    381 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  40. Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed

    380 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  41. What Is PID 0?

    379 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  42. Draw an iceberg and see how it will float

    379 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  43. Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

    379 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  44. How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court

    379 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  45. How Meta trains large language models at scale

    378 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  46. Ladybird browser spreads its wings

    378 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  47. Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o

    376 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  48. Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

    376 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  49. Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

    375 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  50. The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]

    373 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  51. 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch

    372 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  52. Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

    371 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  53. Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

    368 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  54. Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

    367 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  55. Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website

    364 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  56. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

    364 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  57. Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce

    364 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  58. Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship

    361 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  59. Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs

    360 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  60. I've stopped using box plots (2021)

    360 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  61. The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

    359 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  62. Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

    359 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  63. Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?

    359 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  64. Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)

    358 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  65. Cosmopolitan v3.5

    356 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  66. NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice

    355 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  67. Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

    355 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  68. I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

    353 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  69. Notes on Tajikistan

    351 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  70. Donald Sutherland has died

    350 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  71. Learn CSS Grid with a virtual garden game

    349 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  72. ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically

    349 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  73. Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

    348 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  74. Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)

    348 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  75. Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

    347 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  76. ESASky

    347 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  77. Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design

    346 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  78. Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

    345 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  79. Feynman’s Razor

    343 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  80. More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs

    341 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  81. I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app

    341 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  82. lsix: Like "ls", but for images

    341 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  83. Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)

    341 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  84. Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

    340 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  85. AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

    339 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  86. Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management

    339 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  87. Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization

    335 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  88. Swift Static Linux SDK

    333 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  89. A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k

    332 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  90. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

    332 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  91. Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

    331 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  92. Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs

    327 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  93. The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

    326 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  94. Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?

    325 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  95. POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)

    323 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  96. Managing my motivation as a solo dev

    323 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  97. Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot

    322 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  98. X debut 40 years ago (1984)

    322 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  99. Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships

    321 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  100. macOS Sequoia Preview

    321 points • comment • jun 10, 2024