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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. Former OpenAI employee quit to avoid 'working for the Titanic of AI'

    9 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  2. Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 12: UART woes

    9 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  3. SQLite vs. PostgreSQL

    9 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  4. Chris Titus' Windows Debloat Tool

    9 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  5. 'Lost' ball located 91 years on (2005)

    9 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  6. EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is 'free'

    9 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  7. Show HN: A simple app to create .gitignore files

    9 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  8. The Cost of JavaScript

    9 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  9. OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy under 12 mths, projections $5B losses

    9 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  10. Tampons as a Source of Exposure to Metal(loid)s

    9 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  11. U.S. National Debt Tops $35T for First Time

    9 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  12. Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU

    9 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  13. Ask HN: Is using Docker worth it or just adds a lot of complexity?

    9 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  14. Why Britain is the worst on homelessness

    9 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  15. A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

    9 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  16. Why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev

    9 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  17. Google advertisement for "Wordle" returns a spam fishing result

    9 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  18. Farm Manager: An all-in-one farm management desktop application created using C

    8 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  19. Xbox console sales continue to crater with 42% revenue drop

    8 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  20. EU gave CrowdStrike keys to Windows kernel, Microsoft claims

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  21. Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 Are Newest Victims of 'Game Boy' Hack

    8 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  22. Kamala Harris gets support of more than 100 VCs and tech execs in online pledge

    8 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  23. The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

    8 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  24. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

    8 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  25. Domain-Aware Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  26. 'RockYou2024': Nearly 10B passwords leaked online

    8 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  27. Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take over Their Company?

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  28. Show HN: Fedv.link – a way to share Mastodon links that can be interacted with

    8 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  29. Vivian Maier, One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century

    8 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  30. Tesla recalls 1.8M cars because their hoods can open while driving

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  31. Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

    8 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  32. Just Use Postgres for Everything

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  33. High-altitude floating PV has energy payback time of 2.8 years

    8 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  34. Computers are an inherently oppressive technology (2022)

    8 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  35. Intel's lunar lake laptops won't let you upgrade your RAM. Here's why thats fine

    8 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  36. Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans

    8 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Making Microsoft Teams Bearable

    8 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  38. Singapore has just approved 16 insects to eat as food

    8 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  39. Tell HN: Blocked by Cloudflare

    8 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  40. Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent

    8 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

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

    8 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  42. Microsoft is mandating its employees in China stop using Android phones for work

    8 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  43. Document Your Architecture Decisions with ADRs

    8 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  44. Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June

    8 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  45. Ask HN: Reasonable reasons to refuse coding assessments

    8 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  46. Motor OS website is now served from Motor OS VMs

    8 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  47. File.haus – Anonymously upload up to 300GB

    8 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  48. Writing Software Engineering Handbook

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  49. Prolog Formulation of the Constitution of Japan

    8 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  50. Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  51. Quarter of mental health cases linked to cannabis (in one medical ward)

    8 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  52. Something Awful GoonCon '04 documentary (2010) [video]

    8 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  53. Where are all the Butterflies?

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  54. BM42 – a new baseline for hybrid search

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Should I learn Awk or Perl? Or is that a bad question?

    8 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  56. ELI5: The CrowdStrike Outage

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  57. ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband

    8 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  58. LibreWolf: A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

    8 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  59. Signature Programs

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  60. Ask HN: What does engineering leadership typically do wrong?

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  61. The Little Tech Agenda

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  62. How we improved search results in 1Password

    8 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  63. Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

    8 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  64. Ask HN: Performance of Apple Sillicon vs. ThinkPads (Or Other Linux Laptops)

    8 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  65. Cubernetes

    8 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  66. CrowdStrike fail and next global IT meltdown

    8 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  67. Hurricane Beryl Tests Jamaica's $1.6B Disaster Safety Net

    8 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  68. Java String.format vs. MessageFormat

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  69. Musk: "EU offered secret censorship deal to X. We didnt accept

    8 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  70. China building two-thirds of world's wind and solar projects

    8 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  71. 1968 Democratic National Convention

    8 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  72. Cigarette sales and lung cancer mortality in the US

    8 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  73. Strace Revisited: Simple Is Beautiful

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  74. What it's like to dissect a cadaver (2022)

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  75. Paramount Agrees to Merge with Skydance

    8 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  76. Kentucky in Africa

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  77. Dockge – Self-hosted – Docker compose.yaml – Stack-oriented Manager

    8 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  78. The full list of 28 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024

    8 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  79. FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  80. Whippet is a garbage collector library for language run-time authors

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  81. NixCon 2024 (Oct. 25th – 27th, 2024) Berlin

    8 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  82. Has Microsoft's AI Chief Just Made Windows Free?

    8 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  83. Show HN: Imageprompt.io – AI-powered and human-curated artworks, logos, photos

    8 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  84. At least 65 pilot whales die in Scottish mass stranding

    8 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  85. Japan is bracing for rage against the vending machine

    8 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  86. Microsoft blames EU rules for allowing biggest IT outage to happen

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  87. Chat with Meta Llama 3.1 405B

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  88. Poor man's job runner with Clojure Agents

    8 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  89. Ask HN: Looking for a cheap hosted BI tool like Metabase for my startup

    8 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  90. JD Vance Wants to Make Silicon Valley Great Again

    8 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  91. Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome

    8 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  92. Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids

    8 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  93. IRL HTML

    8 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  94. Children with Autism Carry Unique Gut Flora, Study Finds

    8 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  95. Ask HN: Fellow neurodivergents, do you pair better with LLMs than neurotypicals?

    8 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  96. Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layer

    8 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  97. BitLocker recovery in Microsoft Azure [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  98. Raspberry Pi and 3D printing brings faux TRS-80 to life

    8 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  99. Ask HN: How did you acquire your first customers for a consumer SaaS?

    8 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  100. Microsoft Confirms New Outage Was Triggered by Cyberattack

    8 points • comment • jul 31, 2024