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Hacker News (Jul 2024)
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Vision language models are blind
434 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
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Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
434 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
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Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
431 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
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Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice
431 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
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Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
429 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
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Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
425 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
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Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
425 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
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SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
424 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
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The joy of reading books you don't understand
423 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
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Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission
413 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
410 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
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Intent to end OCSP service
409 points • comment • jul 23, 2024
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PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
406 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
404 points • comment • jul 01, 2024
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Mistral NeMo
403 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
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SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
400 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
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Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
399 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
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Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
399 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
399 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
398 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
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CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
398 points • comment • jul 29, 2024
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A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker
397 points • comment • jul 20, 2024
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How to think in writing
397 points • comment • jul 06, 2024
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USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
393 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
391 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
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Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
391 points • comment • jul 01, 2024
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rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
389 points • comment • jul 21, 2024
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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
388 points • comment • jul 07, 2024
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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
384 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
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Engineering principles for building financial systems
383 points • comment • jul 11, 2024
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
382 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
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Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
381 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
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Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
381 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
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`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete
380 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
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Minuteman missile communications
378 points • comment • jul 20, 2024
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A reawakening of systems programming meetups
377 points • comment • jul 07, 2024
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Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
376 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
374 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
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Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
370 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
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Let's stop counting centuries
369 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence
369 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
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Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects
369 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
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Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
368 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
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Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)
367 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
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Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
366 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
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A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
360 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Why Bridges Don't Sink
358 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
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My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)
358 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
356 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
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The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
355 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
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AI's $600B Question
355 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
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Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
354 points • comment • jul 14, 2024
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Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text
352 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
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Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)
351 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community
348 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
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Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool
347 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
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How to debug your battery design
346 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
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Robot dentist performs first human procedure
345 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
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Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)
344 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
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Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust
344 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
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I prefer rST to Markdown
341 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
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Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
341 points • comment • jul 13, 2024
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Generating sudokus for fun and no profit
340 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
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First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
339 points • comment • jul 06, 2024
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Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
339 points • comment • jul 15, 2024
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Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
337 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
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Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
337 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
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Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
337 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
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Should this be a map or 500 maps?
331 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
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What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
329 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
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What Is Entropy?
327 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
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Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
326 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
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Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
324 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
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Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
323 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
323 points • comment • jul 11, 2024
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How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood
323 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
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United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
322 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
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The Cheapest NAS
322 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
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My Python code is a neural network
321 points • comment • jul 01, 2024
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Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
319 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
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Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout
318 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
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Physics-Based Deep Learning Book
317 points • comment • jul 11, 2024
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Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
317 points • comment • jul 13, 2024
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Story points are pointless, measure queues
316 points • comment • jul 15, 2024
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July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs
316 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
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Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks
316 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
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Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
314 points • comment • jul 01, 2024
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
314 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
313 points • comment • jul 15, 2024
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Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
313 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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I have no constructor, and I must initialize
313 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
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Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
312 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
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MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader
310 points • comment • jul 29, 2024
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How to Know When It's Time to Go
307 points • comment • jul 14, 2024
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A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization
306 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
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Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
305 points • comment • jul 29, 2024
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Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
305 points • comment • jul 13, 2024
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OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
304 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
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Give people something to link to
304 points • comment • jul 13, 2024
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Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source
304 points • comment • jul 30, 2024