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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement

    53 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  2. Reproducibility in Disguise

    53 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  3. You are probably sitting down for too long

    53 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  4. How I've Learned to Live with a Nonexistent Working Memory

    53 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  5. HTML5 Differences from HTML4 (2014)

    53 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  6. Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?

    53 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  7. GM indefinitely halts work on driverless car at Cruise unit

    52 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  8. Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet Mondrian

    52 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  9. Ask HN: What are your favorite index ETFs for Investing?

    52 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  10. GPUs can now use PCIe-attached memory or SSDs to boost VRAM capacity

    52 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  11. MDN tool that tells you of security gaps in your website

    52 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  12. Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV

    52 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  13. SF's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record

    52 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  14. Non-Obvious Prompt Engineering Guide

    52 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  15. Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come

    52 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  16. IRS Collects $1B in Back Taxes from Millionaires

    52 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  17. The Myth of the Noble Savage

    52 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  18. Website Themes with uBlock Origin

    52 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  19. The science behind an iPhone dumb phone

    52 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  20. Sam Altman's basic-income study is out. Here's what it found

    52 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  21. Doodling with the Mac's command icon

    52 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  22. Deep Learning Interviews (2021)

    52 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  23. Lacking official sources, some Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages

    52 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  24. WTF Happened to Blogs

    52 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  25. How Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program

    52 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  26. Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid national curfew

    52 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  27. Windows 95, 20 July 1992 build

    52 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  28. The Queen's Doll's House

    52 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  29. Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel [video]

    52 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  30. Rapid extraction of europium from spent fluorescent lamps

    51 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  31. Where Did RFID Come From? [video]

    51 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  32. Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on Human Sleep?

    51 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  33. Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide

    51 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  34. Scientists find desert moss 'that can survive on Mars'

    51 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  35. The most, and least, walkable cities

    51 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  36. Complex systems emerge from simple rules

    51 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  37. Azure Central US region is currently down

    51 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  38. Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

    51 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  39. A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand

    51 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  40. The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer

    51 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  41. Why Michigan Still Uses a Ford Model T for Official Government Business

    51 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  42. Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

    51 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  43. Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches

    51 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  44. New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

    51 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  45. Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean

    51 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  46. What we would've done differently in the first year of bootstrapping our company

    51 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  47. Cloudflare billing incident since 35 days including wrong invoice

    51 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  48. Tracing the hidden hand of magnetism in the galaxy

    51 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  49. Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes

    51 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  50. Gardeners can grow a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA

    51 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  51. Vertical-Align: All You Need to Know (CSS) (2014)

    51 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  52. RE2 maintainer Paul Wankadia died

    51 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  53. CheriBSD

    50 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  54. PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from Any Postgres Database

    50 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  55. ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American

    50 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  56. Shoplifters Love Lego

    50 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  57. The Effects of Meaningless Work

    50 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  58. Leap – Chemistry Through a Computational Lens

    50 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  59. Constantine: Nim lang high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack

    50 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  60. C# almost has implicit interfaces

    50 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  61. Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales

    50 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  62. Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?

    50 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  63. The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland

    50 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  64. X suspends account that leaked info about protected user TOS bypass

    50 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  65. Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?

    50 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  66. $1T Rout Hits Nasdaq 100 over AI Jitters in Worst Day Since 2022

    50 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  67. Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge

    50 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  68. The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron

    50 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  69. Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

    50 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  70. Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

    50 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  71. Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating

    50 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  72. Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed from the Web Platform

    50 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  73. Kagi LLM Benchmarking Project

    50 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  74. Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business

    50 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  75. It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet

    50 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  76. Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All

    50 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  77. The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors (2006)

    50 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  78. Another Silicon Valley institution died spring of 2019: Halted/HSC

    50 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  79. What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds

    50 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  80. Of Analog Signal Filtering

    50 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  81. Prelude – a tiny CLI tool building context prompts from your code

    50 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  82. Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury

    49 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  83. Why Llama 3.1 is Important

    49 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  84. Unverified NPM Account Takeover Vulnerability for Sale on Dark Web Forum

    49 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  85. Microsoft is banning Palestinians in the US for life for calling Gaza relatives

    49 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  86. Enums in Go

    49 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  87. Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens

    49 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  88. Ask HN: Do you have home solar?

    49 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  89. Ask HN: How to finish last 30% of a side project?

    49 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  90. Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets

    49 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  91. Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

    49 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  92. Ask HN: How to go about reverse engineering and deformulating a beverage at home

    49 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  93. Adderall Shortage Caused by DEA Quotas on Controlled Substances

    49 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  94. Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service

    49 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  95. Ask HN: Trouble learning things I view as solutions looking for a problem

    49 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  96. Bob Newhart has died

    49 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  97. Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals

    49 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  98. OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging

    49 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  99. How to Get Remote Code Execution in Kafka UI

    49 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  100. Show HN: TargetJ – New JavaScript framework that can animate anything

    49 points • comment • jul 15, 2024