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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. The magic of small engineering teams

    79 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  2. Why Alaska Rivers Are Turning an Eerie Orange

    78 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  3. "Security is our top priority" is meaningless

    78 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  4. OpenRailRouting

    78 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  5. Who Killed the World?

    78 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  6. General Electric HTRE-3 Nuclear Jet Engine

    78 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  7. Improving your Zig language server experience

    78 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  8. Analog GPS: Scrolling Wrist and Car-Mounted Maps of the 20s and 30s (2016)

    78 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  9. The Old Bailey with Britain's last court reporters

    78 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  10. Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model

    78 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  11. How large language models will disrupt data management [pdf]

    78 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  12. Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

    78 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  13. Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now

    77 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  14. Sublime Merge

    77 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  15. CrowdStrike Incident Preliminary Post Incident Review

    77 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  16. Show HN: A fast OSS voice assistant

    77 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  17. Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to 'heroin'

    77 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  18. Where should visual programming go?

    77 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  19. A blast from the past: Disassembling DOS (2020)

    77 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  20. The Threads Creator Paradox

    77 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  21. "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again

    77 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  22. Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions

    77 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  23. SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system

    77 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  24. eBPF Offensive Capabilities – Get Ready for Next-Gen Malware (2023)

    76 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  25. Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?

    76 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  26. Can I? Tools

    76 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  27. Show HN: Burrow is a globally distributed, serverless HTTP proxy

    76 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  28. What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street

    76 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  29. Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

    76 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  30. Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic (2020)

    76 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  31. Tell HN: BuildZoom posts jobs on HN, but no actual openings available

    76 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  32. Nigeria fines Meta $220M for violating consumer, data laws

    76 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  33. Friendship and Social Fitness

    76 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  34. Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (1996)

    76 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  35. What's so hard about constexpr allocation?

    76 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  36. Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess

    76 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  37. Introduction to Program Synthesis

    75 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  38. The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021)

    75 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  39. Deep-Tempest: Using Deep Learning to Eavesdrop on HDMI

    75 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  40. How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)

    75 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  41. Java's Megalithic Mountain

    75 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  42. Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  43. Deno 1.45: Workspace and Monorepo Support

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  44. Microsoft Is Dead[2007]

    75 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  45. DIY RFID Business Card and Badge Holder with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Tools

    75 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  46. Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy (2021)

    75 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  47. Philip Morris International has funded Japanese academics

    75 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  48. How far should a programming language aware diff go?

    75 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  49. Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say

    75 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  50. Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

    75 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  51. Tell HN: Educative.io auto-renews without warning, refuses to provide refunds

    75 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  52. The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey

    75 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  53. Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

    75 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  54. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024

    75 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  55. UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes

    74 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  56. Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage

    74 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  57. New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints

    74 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  58. AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate

    74 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  59. OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model

    74 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  60. The Origin of Ambergris (2012)

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  61. Ready Player Mode

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  62. Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate

    74 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  63. Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  64. Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive

    74 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  65. PowerToys Run: extensible quick launcher for power users

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  66. Show HN: Maelstrom – A Hermetic, Clustered Test Runner for Python and Rust

    74 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  67. Forewarn gives realtors access to buyers' histories with a phone number

    74 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  68. Dolphin Emulator changes to a rolling release model

    74 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  69. New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google

    73 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  70. Virginia Woolf's list-making

    73 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  71. Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?

    73 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  72. Web Crap Has Taken Control

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  73. How to Preserve Physical Photos

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  74. Share of total health spending, by percentile

    73 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  75. "Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)

    73 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  76. A List of companies that use Array Languages (J, K, APL, q)

    73 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  77. Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

    73 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  78. Uncomfortable truth: How close is "positivity culture" to delusion and denial?

    73 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  79. HE.net problem

    73 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  80. Synchronization Is Bad for Scale

    73 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  81. Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image

    73 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  82. Carving ELF Files

    73 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  83. PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC

    73 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  84. G1 AR Glasses

    73 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  85. When objects are not enough (2021)

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  86. Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests

    73 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  87. Show HN: Smelt — an open source test runner for chip developers

    73 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  88. What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)

    72 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  89. Why haven't biologists cured cancer?

    72 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  90. Constantine: modular, high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack

    72 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  91. Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission

    72 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  92. Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar

    72 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  93. Human history in the very long run (2021)

    72 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  94. Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished

    72 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  95. Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads

    72 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  96. Babies babble with acquired accents

    72 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  97. Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit

    72 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  98. New technology could reduce the amount of energy for air conditioning

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  99. Creatine improves physical function and body composition in older adults

    72 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  100. Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)

    72 points • comment • jul 24, 2024