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Hacker News (Jul 2024)

  1. The Kimchi Masters of South Korea

    139 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  2. Show HN: Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests

    139 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  3. Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be

    139 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  4. Show HN: Stempad – Fast Online Scientific Writing

    139 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)

    139 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  6. Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game

    139 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  7. A User’s Guide to Statistical Inference and Regression

    139 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  8. Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry

    139 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  9. If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it

    139 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  10. The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road

    139 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  11. After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

    138 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  12. Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

    138 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  13. Training of Physical Neural Networks

    138 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  14. Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand

    138 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  15. The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems

    138 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  16. Show HN: Dropbase AI – A Prompt-Based Python Web App Builder

    138 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  17. Knowledge Graphs in RAG: Hype vs. Ragas Analysis

    138 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  18. A Model of a Mind

    138 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  19. Bone tissue reparation using coral and marine sponges

    138 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  20. Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs

    137 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  21. Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums

    137 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  22. CVE-2024-6409: OpenSSH: Possible remote code execution in privsep child

    137 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  23. Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

    137 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  24. Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are

    137 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  25. How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

    137 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  26. Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021)

    136 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  27. Building the new hypermedia systems

    136 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  28. DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation)

    136 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  29. A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)

    136 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  30. Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)

    136 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  31. NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing

    136 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  32. Taking a Radio Camping

    136 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  33. Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS

    136 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  34. The Seal Failure in the SRB That Doomed Challenger (2021)

    135 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  35. Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models

    135 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  36. Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets

    135 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  37. Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager

    135 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  38. Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be rarest whale

    135 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  39. Back to our roots

    135 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  40. Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers

    135 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  41. Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system

    134 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  42. Sljit: Platform independent low-level JIT compiler

    134 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  43. lldap: Light LDAP Implementation

    134 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  44. Build and train GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch

    134 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  45. JavaScript garbage collection and closures

    134 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  46. Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?

    134 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  47. Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response

    134 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  48. Elephants use namelike calls

    134 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  49. Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner

    133 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  50. Clojure macros continue to surprise me

    133 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  51. Inline previous result in Emacs Lisp

    133 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  52. Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record

    133 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  53. Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web

    133 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  54. A better merge workflow with Jujutsu

    132 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  55. Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities

    132 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  56. 1989 Networking: NetWare 386

    132 points • comment • jul 20, 2024

  57. The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations

    132 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  58. AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers

    131 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  59. Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go

    131 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  60. Ask HN: Vision Pro owners, are you still using it?

    131 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  61. Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer

    130 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  62. Crash course in deep learning for computer graphics

    130 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  63. Godotcaml for Godot 4.2

    130 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  64. Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés

    130 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  65. Show HN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local LLMs

    130 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  66. Summing ASCII encoded integers on Haswell at almost the speed of memcpy

    130 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  67. Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

    130 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  68. Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?

    130 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  69. Micromouse

    130 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  70. Researchers discover a new form of scientific fraud: 'sneaked references'

    130 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  71. Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?

    129 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  72. Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator

    129 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  73. FTC Wins Round Two in Its Non-Compete Ban Defense

    129 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  74. The European Union must keep funding free software

    129 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  75. You Want to Fix Boeing? Prosecute Its Executives

    129 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  76. HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash

    129 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  77. DuckDB Community Extensions

    128 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  78. New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive

    128 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  79. How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards

    128 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  80. Apple poised to get OpenAI board observer role as part of AI pact

    128 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  81. When British Railways deliberately crashed a train

    128 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  82. Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI

    128 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  83. Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD

    127 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  84. The data that powers AI is disappearing fast

    127 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  85. Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

    127 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  86. The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types (2015)

    127 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  87. A relativistic framework to establish coordinate time on the Moon and beyond

    127 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  88. Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade

    126 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  89. Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

    126 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  90. "Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)

    126 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  91. Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq

    126 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  92. Sqlitefs: SQLite as a Filesystem

    126 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  93. How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

    126 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  94. Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?

    126 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  95. All I Know About Certificates – Certificate Authority

    125 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  96. Show HN: NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes

    124 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  97. A hash table by any other name

    124 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  98. Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

    124 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  99. Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

    124 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  100. Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?

    124 points • comment • jul 03, 2024