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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. It's never been easier for the cops to break into your phone

    45 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  2. Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts

    45 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  3. TUAW Returns as a Gross, Zombie AI-Generated Garbage Site

    45 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  4. NOAA Is in Danger

    45 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  5. Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue

    44 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  6. Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined

    44 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  7. Itsy-gitsy – A static site generator for Git repositories

    44 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  8. Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World

    44 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  9. Ask HN: Should I consolidate my blogs into one?

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  10. New Nano-Tech to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields

    44 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  11. NASA cancels $450M mission to drill for ice on the Moon

    44 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  12. The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

    44 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  13. Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations

    44 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  14. Show HN: I made shopping clothes online easier

    44 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  15. Mercurial is simply too good (2020)

    44 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  16. OpenAI starts rolling out new voice mode

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  17. Gut microbiota markers for autism spectrum disorder

    44 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  18. Bundeskartellamt imposes fine against Fritz brand products manufacturer AVM

    44 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  19. The Teton Pass collapsed in the most economically unequal county in the country

    44 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  20. AT&T Paid a Hacker $370k to Delete Stolen Phone Records

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  21. Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  22. Overexposed

    44 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  23. I love you, HN, but you're toxic (2022)

    44 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  24. Get notified when Nancy Pelosi makes a trade

    44 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  25. The Experience of Deploying Next.js Apps on Cloudflare

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  26. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results [pdf]

    44 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  27. Birds in Space II: Quails in the Cosmos (2011)

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  28. Omm ("on-my-mind") – A keyboard-driven task manager for the command line

    44 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  29. (Opinion) When Firefox jumps the shark, the call to action is Ladybird

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  30. Apple M5 Chip's Dual-Use Design Will Power Future Macs and AI Servers

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  31. Investing in Rust

    44 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  32. Cosmic Desktop Close to Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading

    44 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  33. Understanding Software Dynamics [book review]

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  34. Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores for Rendering HTML Tables

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  35. Show HN: Blitzping – A far faster nping/hping3 SYN-flood alternative with CIDR

    44 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  36. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  37. YouTube now flooding your ad-block with "fake" ads that slow the browser

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  38. Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

    44 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  39. The price of gold – how bad do you want it? (2016)

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  40. US intelligence community is embracing generative AI

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  41. Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

    44 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  42. Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch

    43 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  43. Data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security

    43 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  44. Apple is taking down VPN apps following the Russian censorship agency demands

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  45. 'Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought'

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  46. Tech went from free love to pay-per-click

    43 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  47. The Value of Milk.com

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  48. Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  49. Ask HN: Why are PWA user install stats so hard to find?

    43 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  50. Fake Paper Generator

    43 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  51. FTC Warns Companies to Stop Warranty Practices Harming Consumers Right to Repair

    43 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  52. Gaia-X is a distraction which should be abandoned

    43 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  53. China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week

    43 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  54. Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  55. Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter

    43 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  56. I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative

    43 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  57. Ask HN: Programmable Lasers?

    43 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  58. Heavy resistance training at retirement age induces lasting beneficial effects

    43 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  59. Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions

    43 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  60. We saved $5k a month with a single Grafana query

    43 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  61. iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for hitting servers a million times in 24h

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  62. UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift

    43 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  63. Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division, Laying Off Workers

    43 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  64. US only country where developers' salary cannot be expensed the same year

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  65. Intel's woes with Core i9 CPUs crashing look worse than we thought

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  66. Lots of people in education disagree with the premise of maximizing learning

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  67. Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains to Optimizing the Linux Kernel with Bolt

    43 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  68. Userland rootkits are lame (2022)

    43 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  69. The Ladybird Browser Initiative

    43 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  70. uMap Project

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  71. Court Holds Federal Ban on Home-Distilling Exceeds Congress' Enumerated Powers [pdf]

    43 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  72. Indian airline gives female travelers option to choose seats next to women

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  73. Heat pipe – 250x faster heat transfer than copper

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  74. 12-hour timelapse of US flights hit by CrowdStrike

    43 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  75. the US government's brilliantly boring websites

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  76. Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose an espionage network? (2020)

    43 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  77. PyCon 2024 Videos Released

    42 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  78. Asking an LLM to build a simple web tool

    42 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  79. 'Writing a C Compiler' is a book (2022)

    42 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  80. How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  81. Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads

    42 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  82. Katharine Way, John Wheeler, and the Dawn of Nuclear Fission

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  83. Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased

    42 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  84. 'Goldmine' collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world

    42 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  85. Prusa is now manufacturing 3D printers in USA

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  86. U.S. SEC Wins 'Shadow Insider Trading' Trial

    42 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  87. OpenAI promised to make its AI safe. Employees say it 'failed' its first test

    42 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  88. Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why

    42 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  89. Ask HN: Any way to borrow compute from Apple M1

    42 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  90. Cosmic Updates (Feat. Community)

    42 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  91. Our website is closed on Sundays

    42 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  92. Electric Clouds This Summer

    42 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  93. Tech companies can't find good employees, and it's their own fault

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  94. Startups building balloons to hoist tourists

    42 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  95. Employment increases by 206K in June; unemployment rate changes little at 4.1%

    41 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  96. Concerns about Passkeys

    41 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  97. 'Russia's Google' exits the country

    41 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  98. Schengen ain't what it used to be

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  99. Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)

    41 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  100. Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage

    41 points • comment • jul 23, 2024