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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

    29 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  2. Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  3. America's Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold

    29 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  4. Smartphone-maker Xiaomi unveils SU7 Ultra, a 1548hp, 4-door electric hypercar

    29 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  5. Increase in Transatlantic Narco Submarines

    29 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  6. Study confirms mammal-to-mammal avian flu spread

    29 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  7. Orcas sink $128K yacht in Mediterranean attack: 'Like watching wolves hunt'

    29 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  8. Bevy 0.14 – Data driven game engine

    29 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  9. Ask HN: What are the most underrated skills in tech?

    29 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  10. Mining Pool Game Theory During Forks

    29 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  11. Former doctor Jeff Kai Fong gave up medical career to become truck driver

    29 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  12. They Thought They Knew Their Hamsters. Then They Put Up Spy Cameras

    29 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  13. Ask HN: Best Tools for Monorepo?

    29 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  14. Canada became a car theft capital of the world

    29 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  15. Estimated Childhood Lead Exposure from Drinking Water in Chicago

    29 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  16. Show HN: Mutahunter – LLMs to support mutating testing for all major languages

    29 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  17. Hiding in plain sight: Modifying process names in Unix-like systems

    29 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  18. Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?

    29 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  19. Google testing facial recognition technology for security near Seattle

    29 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  20. AI models that cost $1B to train are underway, $100B models coming

    29 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  21. China is on track to reach its 2030 clean energy targets already

    29 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  22. Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?

    28 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  23. Show HN: ProgressLine – Track commands progress in a compact one-line format

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  24. The Kingdom of Lydia minted gold, silver coins (2022)

    28 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  25. Microchip Technology Enters 64-Bit Microprocessor Market (RISC-V)

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  26. Costco starts to sell 'apocalypse bucket' with food that lasts 25 years

    28 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  27. Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with 25M donation

    28 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  28. Rust Received the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award 2024

    28 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  29. New release of Gradient-Free-Optimizers with two new evolutionary algorithms

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  30. Supreme Court Ruling Threatens the Framework of Cybersecurity Regulation

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  31. The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the world

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  32. A new approach to error handling

    28 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  33. Temu's email unsubscribe page claims your Wi-Fi is disconnected

    28 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  34. Microsoft Updated Phi-3

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  35. Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files

    28 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  36. Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish for 15M Windows User

    28 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  37. Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  38. Logseq – adding settings for self-hosted sync

    28 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  39. The Stratocaster Turns 70

    28 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  40. Meta Reports Second Quarter 2024 Results [pdf]

    28 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  41. Biden Announces Tariffs on Chinese Metals Routed Through Mexico

    28 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  42. This Month in Ladybird: July 2024

    28 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  43. DJI announces an electric mountain bike drive system

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  44. Ask HN: Those who got layed off. Have you found a job?

    28 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  45. Dell employees used company's corporate survey to tell bosses post-RTO feelings

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  46. How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans

    28 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  47. Show HN: Anyma V, a powerful hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument

    28 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  48. Excalidraw: Open-source "hand-drawn" browser drawing tool

    28 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  49. Boeing-owned Wisk expects to begin carrying passengers 'later in the decade'

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  50. What spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  51. Pinned Places

    28 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  52. Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the New York Times

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  53. Ex-Billionaire Gets 7 1/2-Year Sentence for Defrauding Investors Goldman, Google

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  54. AWS App Studio

    28 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  55. America's War on Theater

    28 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  56. Video Ethnography of "ICARUS" on the Xerox Alto [video] (2017)

    28 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  57. Let's Treat Docs Like Code

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  58. Reasons to use your shell's job control

    28 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  59. A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  60. New Zealand "deeply shocked" after Canada drone-spied on its Olympic practices

    28 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  61. Show HN: I made a porta potty finder for tradesmen

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  62. Forget about the gym Chicken-sizing will keep you fit

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  63. California to impose permanent water restrictions on cities and towns

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  64. Etsy: Company escaping 'race to the bottom', getting back to its artisan roots

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  65. Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple's design

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  66. Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS

    27 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  67. A simple guide to HTML <head> elements

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  68. A rare Stratospheric Warming event has begun over the South Pole

    27 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  69. A.I.-Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  70. John Deere Laying Off 600 Workers in Flagship Dubuque Factory for Mexico

    27 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  71. Don't snipe me in space-intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  72. US PATENT: Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors

    27 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  73. Major Fire Breaks Out on Maersk Containership in Arabian Sea

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  74. People are having trouble following Harris's campaign X Twitter account

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  75. How to Stop Child Marriage? Punish Husbands, Parents and Wedding Guests

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  76. TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  77. US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules

    27 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  78. Google search won't autocomplete searches related to Trump assasination attempt

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  79. Elon Musk Accused of Election Interference by Blocking Kamala Harris Followers

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  80. Fancy a 12 hour movie session? Lord of the Rings extended edition 756 minutes

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  81. Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  82. The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt

    27 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  83. Human reproduction comes at the expense of faster aging and a shorter life

    27 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  84. What's the deal with the blue "robins" in gacha games?

    27 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  85. Introduction to Linear Algebra

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  86. Show HN: Nitrogen Blue Launching from the Forest

    27 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  87. Greece introduces 'growth-oriented' six-day working week

    27 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  88. Microsoft Orders China Staff to Use iPhones for Work and Drop Android

    27 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  89. Golang is evil on shitty networks (2022)

    27 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  90. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  91. Show HN: Foorr – A minimal to-do app with social accountability

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  92. Greece's Six-Day Workweek Is a Recipe for Disaster

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  93. From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth (2015)

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  94. A look at overnight stays at US National Parks

    27 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  95. 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  96. Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit [pdf]

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  97. Tell HN: Copilot For Business forcibly terminates Copilot Personal subscriptions

    27 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  98. Terminal Workspace with Batteries Included

    27 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  99. In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)

    27 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  100. The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2024