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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. Vision language models are blind

    434 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  2. Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

    434 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  3. Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

    431 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  4. Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice

    431 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  5. Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices

    429 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  6. Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

    425 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  7. Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header

    425 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  8. SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

    424 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  9. The joy of reading books you don't understand

    423 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  10. Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission

    413 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  11. Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

    410 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  12. Intent to end OCSP service

    409 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  13. PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key

    406 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  14. My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4

    404 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  15. Mistral NeMo

    403 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  16. SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet

    400 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  17. Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]

    399 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  18. Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

    399 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  19. Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)

    399 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  20. DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)

    398 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  21. CrowdStrike's impact on aviation

    398 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  22. A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker

    397 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  23. How to think in writing

    397 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  24. USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

    393 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  25. In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

    391 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  26. Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line

    391 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  27. rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++

    389 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  28. YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable

    388 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  29. Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident

    384 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  30. Engineering principles for building financial systems

    383 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  31. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    382 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  32. Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator

    381 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  33. Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C

    381 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  34. `find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete

    380 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  35. Minuteman missile communications

    378 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  36. A reawakening of systems programming meetups

    377 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  37. Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA

    376 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  38. C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

    374 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  39. Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage

    370 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  40. Let's stop counting centuries

    369 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  41. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

    369 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  42. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

    369 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  43. Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux

    368 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  44. Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)

    367 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  45. Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

    366 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  46. A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

    360 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  47. Why Bridges Don't Sink

    358 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  48. My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

    358 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  49. The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

    356 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  50. The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time

    355 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  51. AI's $600B Question

    355 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  52. Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim

    354 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  53. Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text

    352 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  54. Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

    351 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  55. Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community

    348 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  56. Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool

    347 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  57. How to debug your battery design

    346 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  58. Robot dentist performs first human procedure

    345 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  59. Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)

    344 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  60. Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust

    344 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  61. I prefer rST to Markdown

    341 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  62. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

    341 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  63. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

    340 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  64. First anode-free sodium solid-state battery

    339 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  65. Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

    339 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  66. Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage

    337 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  67. Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool

    337 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  68. Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

    337 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  69. Should this be a map or 500 maps?

    331 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  70. What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?

    329 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  71. What Is Entropy?

    327 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  72. Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob

    326 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  73. Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

    324 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  74. Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?

    323 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  75. Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation

    323 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  76. How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood

    323 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  77. United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency

    322 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  78. The Cheapest NAS

    322 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  79. My Python code is a neural network

    321 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  80. Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app

    319 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  81. Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout

    318 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  82. Physics-Based Deep Learning Book

    317 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  83. Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data

    317 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  84. Story points are pointless, measure queues

    316 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  85. July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs

    316 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  86. Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks

    316 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  87. Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

    314 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  88. Swift Homomorphic Encryption

    314 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  89. Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever

    313 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  90. Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)

    313 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  91. I have no constructor, and I must initialize

    313 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  92. Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less

    312 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  93. MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

    310 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  94. How to Know When It's Time to Go

    307 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  95. A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization

    306 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  96. Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU

    305 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  97. Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

    305 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  98. OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

    304 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  99. Give people something to link to

    304 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  100. Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source

    304 points • comment • jul 30, 2024