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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

    303 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  2. Why doesn't advice work?

    302 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  3. Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight

    302 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  4. The Illustrated AlphaFold

    302 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  5. CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

    301 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  6. Using S3 as a Container Registry

    301 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  7. Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

    301 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  8. Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters

    300 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  9. C Macro Reflection in Zig

    299 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  10. The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)

    299 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  11. Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper

    298 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  12. Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows

    297 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  13. Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs

    297 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  14. Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

    296 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  15. Making my own wedding rings

    296 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  16. Windows NT for Power Macintosh

    296 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  17. The Delusion of the Polygraph

    295 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  18. Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

    294 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  19. So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide

    294 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  20. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

    294 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  21. Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction

    293 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  22. Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

    293 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  23. Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs

    293 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  24. Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery

    293 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  25. Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits

    292 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  26. Engine Sound Simulator

    291 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  27. Entering text in the terminal is complicated

    291 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  28. Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes

    291 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  29. Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission

    290 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  30. The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?

    290 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  31. Fake job interviews are securities fraud

    289 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  32. Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

    288 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  33. Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning

    285 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  34. Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)

    285 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  35. Batteries: How cheap can they get?

    284 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  36. Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2

    283 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  37. Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

    283 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  38. Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City

    283 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  39. Movable tree CRDTs and Loro's implementation

    283 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  40. Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

    282 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  41. Radio Garden

    281 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  42. Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

    281 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  43. 10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]

    281 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  44. Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control

    281 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  45. AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point

    281 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  46. Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

    280 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  47. The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s

    279 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  48. The effect of CRTs on pixel art

    279 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  49. FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision

    279 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  50. The Objects of Our Life (1983)

    278 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  51. Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

    278 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  52. Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling

    278 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  53. Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern

    277 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  54. Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)

    277 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  55. Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)

    277 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  56. Analyzing my electricity consumption

    276 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  57. The Elegance of the ASCII Table

    275 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  58. Foobar2000

    275 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  59. Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support

    275 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  60. The Mafia of Pharma Pricing

    274 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  61. Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

    273 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  62. CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

    273 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  63. CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries

    272 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  64. Llama 3.1

    271 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  65. Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back

    271 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  66. An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming

    270 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  67. Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python

    270 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  68. Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing

    269 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  69. Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system

    269 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  70. Rust for Filesystems

    269 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  71. Cities need more trees

    268 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  72. Welcome to Ladybird

    268 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  73. Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?

    268 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  74. tolower() with AVX-512

    267 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  75. Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications

    266 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  76. AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

    266 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  77. Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)

    266 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  78. SVG Triangle of Compromise

    265 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  79. Microjs

    265 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  80. Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial

    264 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  81. Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

    262 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  82. TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

    261 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  83. Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs

    260 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  84. Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks

    260 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  85. Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG

    259 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  86. You can opt out of airport face scans

    258 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  87. The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

    258 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  88. Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2

    257 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  89. The Unix Pipe Card Game

    257 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  90. The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)

    257 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  91. Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact

    256 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  92. The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)

    256 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  93. GraphRAG is now on GitHub

    256 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  94. Making a Linux-managed network switch

    255 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  95. Button Stealer

    254 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  96. Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator

    254 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  97. Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch

    254 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  98. CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago

    254 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  99. MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use

    254 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  100. Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

    253 points • comment • jul 05, 2024