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Hacker News (Jun 2024)

  1. How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?

    320 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  2. Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

    320 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  3. Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]

    318 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  4. Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life

    318 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  5. AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5

    318 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  6. French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy

    316 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  7. Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987

    315 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  8. Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]

    315 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  9. Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"

    314 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  10. Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)

    313 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  11. Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not

    312 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  12. FUTO Keyboard

    312 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  13. If English was written like Chinese (1999)

    311 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  14. H.264 Is Magic (2016)

    310 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  15. Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative

    310 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  16. Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm

    310 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  17. Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal

    310 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  18. Experts vs. Imitators

    307 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  19. NumPy 2.0

    307 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  20. ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack

    307 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  21. Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

    306 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  22. Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)

    304 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  23. Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

    302 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  24. How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed

    302 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  25. AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson

    302 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  26. Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    301 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  27. Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space

    301 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  28. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

    300 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  29. AirPods fast connect security vulnerability

    299 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  30. Show HN: 2d web paddle game

    298 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  31. LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

    298 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  32. I kind of like rebasing

    298 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  33. Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell

    297 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  34. EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday

    296 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  35. Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'

    296 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  36. MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes

    295 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  37. Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers

    295 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  38. Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F

    294 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  39. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

    294 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  40. Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm

    294 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  41. Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s

    293 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  42. L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer

    292 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  43. Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns

    292 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  44. 23words.com

    291 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  45. An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs

    291 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  46. The case for not sanitising fairy tales

    291 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  47. I learned Haskell in just 15 years

    289 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  48. A Revolution in Biology?

    288 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  49. Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images

    288 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  50. How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins

    286 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  51. The economics of writing technical books

    286 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  52. NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode

    285 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  53. HyperCard Simulator

    285 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  54. Are animals conscious? New research

    284 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  55. The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU

    282 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  56. Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep

    281 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  57. What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll

    281 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  58. Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

    280 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  59. U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years

    279 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  60. Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)

    278 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  61. My thoughts on Python in Excel

    277 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  62. σ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models

    277 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  63. Arvind has died

    277 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  64. Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

    277 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  65. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    276 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  66. Python toolkit for quantitative finance

    273 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  67. Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news

    272 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  68. FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't

    271 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  69. Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

    270 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  70. Entrust Certificate Distrust

    269 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  71. How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

    267 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  72. EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution

    267 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  73. EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links

    267 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  74. The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data

    266 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  75. AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference

    266 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  76. How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings

    265 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  77. Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted

    265 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  78. Keylogger discovered in image generator extension

    265 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  79. Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)

    264 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  80. The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)

    264 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  81. Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing

    264 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  82. Scratchapixel 4.0, Learn Computer Graphics Programming

    262 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  83. Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

    262 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  84. Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client

    262 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  85. Fungus breaks down ocean plastic

    261 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  86. Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm

    261 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  87. Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed

    260 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  88. Why YC went to DC

    260 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  89. Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

    259 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  90. Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel

    259 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  91. Group chats rule the world

    259 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  92. The Moral Economy of the Shire

    258 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  93. Fuzz Map

    258 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  94. Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

    258 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  95. Hypermedia Systems

    257 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  96. Some notes on influenceering

    256 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  97. Simple sabotage for software (2023)

    256 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  98. Claude's Character

    254 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  99. Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)

    253 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  100. Lindroid

    252 points • comment • jun 17, 2024