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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries

    99 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  2. Launch HN: Traceloop (YC W23) – Detecting LLM Hallucinations with OpenTelemetry

    99 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  3. ULID: Like UUID but Sortable (2019)

    98 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  4. Follow the Crypto

    98 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  5. Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids

    98 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  6. Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum

    98 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  7. When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort

    98 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  8. Stop Destroying Videogames – European Citizens' Initiative

    97 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  9. Making Machines Move

    97 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  10. Automated Test-Case Reduction

    97 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  11. From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

    97 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  12. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be)

    97 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  13. Volcanoes can affect climate

    97 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  14. Complex life forms existed 1.5B years earlier than believed, study finds

    97 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  15. Python Has Too Many Package Managers

    96 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  16. StreamVC: Real-Time Low-Latency Voice Conversion

    96 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  17. A cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

    96 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  18. Well, it's just an AWS Account ID

    96 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  19. Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb

    96 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  20. What makes e natural? (2004)

    96 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  21. Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86

    96 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  22. Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change

    96 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  23. Julia for Economists (2022)

    96 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  24. Transformer Layers as Painters

    96 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf] (2023)

    96 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  26. Show HN: Mandala – Automatically save, query and version Python computations

    96 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  27. Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)

    96 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  28. Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?

    96 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  29. Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles

    96 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  30. All the existential risk, none of the economic impact

    96 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  31. Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  32. TreeSeg: Hierarchical Topic Segmentation of Large Transcripts

    95 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  33. The Tech of Planetary Annihilation: ChronoCam (2013)

    95 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  34. Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?

    95 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  35. Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  36. Tell HN: I am going to host "Real Analysis" book club meetings

    95 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  37. Programming in Unison

    95 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  38. Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions

    95 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  39. CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars

    95 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  40. SDcard wear leveling and translation layers (2014)

    95 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  41. Goldman Sachs: AI Is overhyped, expensive, and unreliable

    95 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  42. Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules

    95 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  43. Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)

    94 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  44. Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL (1993)

    94 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  45. Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development

    94 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  46. Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?

    94 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  47. VDEv2: Virtual Distributed Ethernet

    94 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  48. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

    94 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  49. A British clergyman who predicted black holes in 1783

    93 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  50. Why I left Google

    93 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  51. Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds

    93 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  52. CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library

    93 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  53. SQLite-jiff: SQLite extension for timezones and complex durations

    93 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  54. The Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes [pdf]

    93 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  55. Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts

    93 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  56. YouTube lets you request removal of AI content that simulates your face or voice

    93 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  57. Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013)

    93 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  58. Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)

    93 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  59. Why Levittown didn't revolutionize homebuilding

    92 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  60. IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers

    92 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  61. Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars

    92 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  62. Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  63. Ask HN: How do you find a "boring" tech job?

    92 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  64. Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology

    92 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  65. PostmarketOS updates: new homepage, pmbootstrap v3, sensors, libcamera

    92 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  66. Exercise: Minesweeper in 100 lines of Ruby

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  67. CSS Classes Considered Harmful

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  68. Giving Life to Æthelstan

    92 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  69. Early Bookcases, Cupboards and Carousels

    91 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  70. Median filtering (2022)

    91 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  71. Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030

    91 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  72. Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows

    91 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  73. Quaternions in Signal and Image Processing

    91 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  74. Chinese AI stirs panic at European geoscience society

    91 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  75. The Forth Methodology of Charles Moore (2001)

    91 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  76. Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts

    91 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  77. The Many Lives of Null Island

    90 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  78. Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star

    90 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  79. Researchers build a solar-powered hovering drone that weighs only 9 mg

    90 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  80. The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism

    90 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  81. Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv

    90 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  82. "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software

    90 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  83. "Superintelligence" 10 years later

    90 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  84. Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement

    90 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  85. Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source

    89 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  86. A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel

    89 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  87. The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)

    89 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  88. First Contact with SQLite

    89 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  89. Tiny robots with a big impact: microrobots for single-cell handling

    89 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  90. Eight Years of GraphQL

    89 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  91. Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?

    89 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  92. Show HN: AI assisted image editing with audio instructions

    89 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  93. Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server

    89 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  94. Python Modern Practices

    89 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  95. Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete (2012)

    89 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  96. Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card (1981) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  97. Trackmania Nightmares

    88 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  98. 'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021)

    88 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  99. Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg

    88 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  100. Spending too much time optimizing for loops

    88 points • comment • jul 01, 2024