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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. What could explain the gallium anomaly?

    209 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  2. The Later Years of Douglas Adams

    208 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  3. Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion

    208 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  4. Llama 3.1 in C

    207 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  5. Python with Braces

    207 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  6. Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?

    207 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  7. After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS

    207 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  8. Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

    206 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  9. AI crawlers need to be more respectful

    206 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  10. Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

    205 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  11. Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking

    205 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  12. Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works

    204 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  13. Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective

    204 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  14. Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

    204 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  15. Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows

    204 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  16. LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear

    204 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  17. Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

    203 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  18. Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns to kernel compiler flags (2017)

    203 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  19. Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards

    203 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  20. Disruptor-rs: better latency and throughput than crossbeam

    202 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  21. Git-PR: patch requests over SSH

    202 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  22. Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

    202 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  23. Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)

    201 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  24. Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems

    201 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  25. Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

    201 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  26. James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died

    201 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  27. Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)

    201 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  28. Polychromatic Pixels

    201 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  29. Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default

    201 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  30. The Deadlock Empire: An Interactive Guide to Locks

    200 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  31. The sad state of property-based testing libraries

    200 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  32. Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite

    199 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  33. A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4

    199 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  34. Preliminary Post Incident Review

    198 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  35. Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

    198 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  36. A Mini Monitor for a Pi

    198 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  37. Show HN: Execute JavaScript in a WebAssembly QuickJS sandbox

    198 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  38. Warsaw came close to never being rebuilt (2015)

    198 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  39. Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm

    198 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  40. Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

    197 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  41. Physicists may now have a way to make element 120

    197 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  42. Properly testing concurrent data structures

    196 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  43. Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

    196 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  44. Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools

    196 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  45. LivePortrait: A fast, controllable portrait animation model

    195 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  46. GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence

    195 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  47. Just Be Rich (2021)

    195 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  48. Kompute – Vulkan Alternative to CUDA

    195 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  49. Lewis Lapham has died

    195 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  50. Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance

    194 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  51. A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows

    194 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  52. We created a fake delivery company to get a job

    193 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  53. All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second

    193 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  54. Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction

    192 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

    192 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  56. Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves

    192 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  57. Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry

    192 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  58. Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

    192 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  59. I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)

    191 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  60. Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland

    190 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  61. The rich history of ham radio culture

    190 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  62. How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD

    190 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  63. Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11

    190 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  64. Playing guitar tablatures in Rust

    190 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  65. Beating the Compiler

    189 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  66. Oldest cave art found

    189 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  67. Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces

    188 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  68. The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing

    187 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  69. Scrapscript: A functional, content-addressable programming language

    187 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  70. Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points

    187 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  71. Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb

    186 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  72. Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road

    185 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  73. Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza

    184 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  74. SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models

    184 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  75. Ruby methods are colorless

    184 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  76. STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)

    184 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  77. How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

    184 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  78. Mazeppa: A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages

    183 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  79. Meta Launches AI Studio in US

    183 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  80. Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)

    183 points • comment • jul 31, 2024

  81. Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient

    183 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  82. Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again

    183 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  83. Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust

    183 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  84. Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago

    183 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  85. Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency

    182 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  86. CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there

    182 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  87. Divers discover Roman mosaic

    182 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  88. Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)

    182 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  89. Spot the Drowning Child (2015)

    182 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  90. Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

    182 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  91. Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

    181 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  92. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

    181 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  93. Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others

    181 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  94. Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

    181 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  95. Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months

    180 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  96. Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON

    180 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  97. Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build

    180 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  98. Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]

    180 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  99. CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months

    180 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  100. Building static binaries with Go on Linux

    179 points • comment • jul 30, 2024