woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jun 2024)

  1. gRPC: The Bad Parts

    222 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  2. FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

    221 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  3. Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC

    221 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  4. Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"

    221 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  5. Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

    220 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  6. Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting

    220 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  7. New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

    220 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  8. Monitoring marine litter from space

    220 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  9. LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer

    219 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  10. Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain

    219 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  11. Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

    219 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  12. How babies and young children learn to understand language

    219 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  13. TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough

    219 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  14. Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

    219 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  15. Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language

    218 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  16. A Eulogy for DevOps

    218 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  17. Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video]

    217 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  18. FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets

    217 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  19. Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records

    217 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  20. New branding, same scanning: Upload moderation undermines end-to-end encryption [pdf]

    217 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  21. Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011

    217 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  22. British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower

    217 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  23. Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code

    216 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  24. A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research

    216 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  25. Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines

    215 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  26. The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling

    215 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  27. Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history

    214 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  28. So you want to build a browser engine

    214 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  29. A brief introduction to interval arithmetic

    214 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  30. Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind

    213 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  31. Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip

    213 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  32. They make USB-C cables with displays now

    212 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  33. Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer

    212 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  34. Making the Kinopio source code public

    212 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  35. Mexican Computers: A Brief Technical and Historical Overview

    212 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  36. Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI product factory

    212 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  37. WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing

    212 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  38. How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)

    212 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  39. Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity

    211 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  40. HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client

    211 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  41. Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California

    211 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  42. Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather

    209 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  43. Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming

    209 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  44. Map of forest sounds from around the world

    209 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  45. Testing AMD's Giant MI300X

    208 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  46. Why Triplebyte Failed

    207 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  47. Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider

    206 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  48. My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes

    206 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  49. Luma AI Dream Machine

    205 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  50. The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

    205 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  51. Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

    205 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  52. Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader

    204 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  53. Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks

    203 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  54. Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle

    203 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  55. Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

    202 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  56. That Editor

    202 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  57. Nobody knows what's going on

    202 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  58. Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction

    201 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  59. Author Clock: a novel way to tell time

    201 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  60. CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux

    199 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  61. Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide

    199 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  62. Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser

    199 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  63. Apple is launching its own password manager app

    199 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  64. Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

    198 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  65. Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive

    198 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  66. DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)

    198 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  67. You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality

    198 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  68. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

    198 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  69. Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth

    198 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  70. Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

    197 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  71. The Pre-Scheme Restoration

    197 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  72. London–Calcutta Bus Service

    197 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  73. Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

    197 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  74. Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem

    197 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  75. First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini

    197 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  76. ht: Headless Terminal

    196 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  77. From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

    196 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  78. Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety

    195 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  79. Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s

    195 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  80. Sending emails to my three-year-old

    195 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  81. The borrow checker within

    194 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  82. London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS

    193 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  83. Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

    193 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  84. Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech

    193 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  85. FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes

    192 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  86. Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub

    192 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  87. Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js

    192 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  88. Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

    192 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  89. 6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex

    192 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  90. Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)

    192 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  91. Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags

    192 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  92. The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD

    190 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  93. Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

    190 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  94. Space secrets leak disclosure

    190 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  95. SPI Flash

    190 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  96. Zero Tolerance for Bias

    189 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  97. Reflection for C++26

    189 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  98. T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next

    189 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  99. Leveraging Zig's Allocators

    188 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  100. Controversial pesticide research all but vanished from a major conference

    188 points • comment • jun 10, 2024