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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Cancer Incidence by Country

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  2. About the browser choice screen in the EU

    47 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  3. The Far-Reaching Ripple Effects of a Discredited Cancer Study

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  4. Firefly III: An Open-Source Personal Finance Manager for Budgeting and Beyond

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  5. Rails Is Good Enough

    47 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  6. The historical distinction between coder and programmer

    47 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  7. LLMs struggle to explain themselves

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  8. Nationalpublicdata.com hack exposes a nation's data

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  9. Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  10. Two months of feed reader behavior analysis

    46 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  11. Scpptool – a tool to enforce a memory and data race safe subset of C++

    46 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  12. Transaction models are programming paradigms

    46 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  13. Critical vulnerabilities in 6 AWS services disclosed at Black Hat USA

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  14. Why the international experimental nuclear fusion reactor is in 'big trouble'

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  15. The Generational Transition to Programmable Cryptography

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  16. Engineers develop new two-dimensional, low-power- field-effect transistor

    46 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  17. How to Use React Compiler

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  18. Contempt for the Glue People

    46 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  19. It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  20. Everyone's Life Is Weird

    46 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  21. Making earthly paradise: The art and crafts of William Morris

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  22. I Quit Spotify

    46 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  23. What Is Analog Computing?

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  24. Show HN: Anycast+ – An AI-powered podcast app

    46 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  25. Google's real monopoly is on the user data

    46 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  26. PUBG developer Krafton make a life simulation game inzoi

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  27. End of an era: Apple's SuperDrive has sold out after 16 years

    46 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  28. Pineboards AI HAT enables Hailo-8L and NVMe boot storage on a Pi 5

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  29. SWE-Bench Verified

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  30. X is partly funded by sanctioned oligarchs

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  31. Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race, challenging GPT-4o

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  32. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) podcast on technology, finance, and systems thinking

    45 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  33. Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  34. Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries [video]

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  35. ANTSDR: Low-cost SDR Alternatives for Ettus Research and Lime Microsystems

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  36. Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months

    45 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  37. Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  38. Show HN: RoundtableJS – Open-source programmatic survey library

    45 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  39. Robot Dog with Gun Turret for Hunting Aerial Drones Being Tested by Army

    45 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  40. WHO Declares Mpox Global Health Emergency

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  41. Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  42. Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction?

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  43. Rust Just Failed an Important Test

    45 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  44. Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand

    45 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  45. Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'overhyped'

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  46. Against Names

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  47. Immutable Data Structures in Qdrant

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  48. 3 in 10 Companies Currently Have Fake Job Postings Listed

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  49. Trailer Faces HQ Dataset

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  50. The Social Recession Is Accelerating

    45 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  51. Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  52. Neon Postgres vs. Supabase

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  53. Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  54. The formatting of Oracle-branded HGST SSDs (2021)

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  55. Gemlite: Towards Building Custom Low-Bit Fused CUDA Kernels

    45 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  56. Vacant pharmacies are holding back NYC retail

    45 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  57. Every time you take a screenshot with Win+Shift+S, a zombie process is created

    45 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  58. Sanitarium

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  59. Intel Clear Linux: 16% more Ryzen 9 9950X performance

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  60. Tell HN: Steinberg shut down their eLicenser service, breaking older software

    44 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  61. The Tic-Tac-Toe Mysteries of Xerloc O'Xolmes

    44 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  62. Warner Bros. Scrubs Cartoon Network Website, Erasing Years of History

    44 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  63. Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  64. Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  65. Pierre Cartier Has Died

    44 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  66. The Chancellor's Excellent Questions

    44 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  67. Spray-foam insulation makes homes unable to be mortgaged

    44 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  68. Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  69. AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver proposal has been rejected by The HDMI Forum

    44 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  70. Duck typing (horror) in Go

    44 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  71. New Win11 insider build blocks install on older hardware, prevents TPM bypass

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  72. OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception

    44 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  73. MiniTorch – a DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers

    44 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  74. Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

    44 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  75. Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled, patch now

    44 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  76. Show HN: AI-Powered Stock Market Analyst with Global Coverage

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  77. Immovable Ladder

    44 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  78. The Dying Web

    44 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  79. CrowdStrike's outage should not have happened

    44 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  80. Rust GPU Transitions to Community Ownership

    44 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  81. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

    44 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  82. What Is Post-Quantum Cryptography? – NIST

    44 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  83. Move Slow and Fix Things

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  84. Japan's Real First Console? Bandai's TV Jack 5000

    43 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  85. In "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," Feeding Your Family Comes First

    43 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  86. Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web

    43 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  87. Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasitism (2021)

    43 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  88. Raspberry Pi Pico 2

    43 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  89. Summary of the USA federal government's zero-trust memo

    43 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  90. Build an Infinite Canvas

    43 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  91. NASA's problems with launch tower for SLS are getting worse

    43 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  92. SNES Graphics: 186.2ns or Bust

    43 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  93. We have discovered antibiotics in the global microbiome with AI

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  94. In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon

    43 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  95. What I learned about a plastic-free life

    43 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  96. Myocarditis complications more common after Covid infection than vaccination

    43 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  97. Why do people believe true things?

    43 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  98. Forbes 30 under 30 inductee charged with fraud in the same week

    43 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  99. Online trading platforms down for users

    43 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  100. Intel's Thunderbolt Share is a speedy sneakernet replacement and more

    43 points • comment • aug 17, 2024