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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished

    72 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

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

    72 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  3. Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma

    71 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  4. How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom

    71 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  5. DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges

    71 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  6. Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang (2020)

    71 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  7. Tlsd: Generate (message) sequence diagrams from TLA+ state traces

    71 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  8. Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'

    71 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  9. Health industry company sues to prevent certificate revocation

    71 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  10. What Materials Are Magnetic?

    71 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  11. OpenAI may lose $5B this year and may run out of cash in 12 months

    71 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  12. Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?

    71 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  13. Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble

    71 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  14. A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste

    71 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  15. Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up

    71 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  16. OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs

    71 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  17. The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

    70 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  18. Axiomatic by Greg Egan

    70 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  19. Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

    70 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  20. Functional programming languages should be better at mutation than they are

    70 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  21. Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents Towards General Computer Control

    70 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  22. Show HN: Create Music with R

    70 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  23. The Basics of How Engines Work (2021) [video]

    70 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  24. U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate

    70 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  25. How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race

    70 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  26. Richat Structure (2011)

    70 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  27. Show HN: Parallel DOM – Upgrade your DOM to be multithreaded

    70 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  28. USB and the Myth of 500 Milliamps

    70 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  29. GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome

    70 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  30. Surprising gender biases in GPT

    70 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  31. How I Computer in 2024

    70 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  32. Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit?

    70 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  33. 'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

    69 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  34. GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)

    69 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  35. A personal music streaming server that works

    69 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  36. Hydrothermal environment discovered deep beneath the ocean

    69 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  37. How do you find a good manager?

    69 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  38. Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon [2022]

    69 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  39. Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers' identities

    69 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  40. Convex Architecture Handbook 1984 [pdf]

    69 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  41. Authelia and Lldap: Authentication, SSO, User Management... for Home Networks

    69 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  42. Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

    69 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  43. End Poem by Julian Gough

    69 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  44. Azure DevOps is down globally

    69 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  45. Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England

    69 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  46. Dondurma: The Turkish ice cream eaten with a knife and fork

    69 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  47. Over 900 artifacts recovered from Ming dynasty shipwreck

    68 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  48. Seam Carving (2018)

    68 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  49. Ask HN: Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?

    68 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  50. Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Results

    68 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  51. Bhutan's first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm

    68 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  52. Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)

    68 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  53. Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018)

    68 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  54. Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Featuring RISC-V

    68 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  55. Solving a math problem with planner programming

    68 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  56. Why Use Onion Layering?

    68 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  57. Lessons from a Private Equity Earn Out: How I Lost £550K Due to a Lowercase 'C'

    68 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  58. Satellite Drag Analysis During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm

    68 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  59. Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines (2005) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  60. Programmable Matter – 3D Catoms

    67 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  61. JSBen.ch – Performance benchmarking playground for JavaScript

    67 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  62. Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes

    67 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  63. Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue

    67 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  64. How I swapped my ivory tower for the world of science fiction

    67 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  65. OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom

    67 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  66. Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells in the 1980s: Vaults

    67 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  67. Clouds in Video Games

    67 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  68. Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]

    67 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  69. A word about private attribution in Firefox

    67 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  70. CSC ServiceWorks laundry machine coin bypass (2023)

    67 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  71. Ask HN: Is there a way to get notified when my cat has seizures?

    66 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  72. Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

    66 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  73. The Infinity Machine

    66 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  74. Show HN: Non SaaS – Directory of Non SaaS Apps

    66 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  75. Racket Plot Cookbook

    66 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  76. Show HN: SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications

    66 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  77. Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes

    66 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  78. Developing Inside a Container

    66 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  79. Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps

    66 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  80. Parametric Matrix Models

    66 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  81. Scientists uncover the ancient origins of baobab trees

    66 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  82. A hard look at AWS GuardDuty shortcomings

    66 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  83. Company offers unofficial security patches for Windows 10 until 2030

    66 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  84. FAA orders inspection of 2,600 Boeing 737s over oxygen mask issue

    66 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  85. “Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept

    66 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  86. One-dose nasal spray clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins to improve memory

    66 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  87. Why Navajo is one of the most difficult languages (2023)

    66 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  88. The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?

    66 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  89. Engage, don't show

    66 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  90. Russia Leverages AI-enhanced "Meliorator" software for foreign malign influence

    66 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  91. Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality

    66 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  92. How to Run Llama 3 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster

    66 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  93. Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games

    66 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  94. Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? (2022)

    66 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  95. Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X's Policies

    65 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  96. The President Ordered Board to Probe Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did

    65 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  97. Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess

    65 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  98. A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor

    65 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  99. Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)

    65 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  100. Syscall.sh

    65 points • comment • jul 21, 2024