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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  2. Rust error handling

    43 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  3. Provable Security of Linux-DRBG in the Seedless Robustness Model [pdf]

    43 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  4. Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women?

    43 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  5. Boost your development environment with Ubuntu Multipass

    43 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  6. Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

    42 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  7. Steve Wozniak Reunites with the Historic Homebrew Computer Club

    42 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  8. "Hire People Smarter Than You" is bad advice (2018)

    42 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  9. Videogame firms hit with EU complaint over 'tricking consumers'

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  10. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021)

    42 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  11. Manipulating large language models to increase product visibility

    42 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  12. AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  13. Computers are bad: private lines

    42 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  14. Installing Windows XP on a modern unsupported (Haswell) system in 2016

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  15. Microsoft Says Apple's 30% Fee Makes Xbox Cloud Gaming iOS App 'Impossible'

    42 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  16. PSA: Eget That Executable from GitHub

    42 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  17. A Lot of 'Unskilled' Workers Aren't

    42 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  18. How to Make Windows XP Safe (and Fast) (2020)

    42 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  19. Japan gives $2.4B in incentives to Toyota and more for EV battery making

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  20. Brazil to Fine Anyone Using a VPN to Access X $8,874 per Day; Elon Musk Responds

    42 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  21. You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  22. Flower Machine

    42 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  23. The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here?

    42 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  24. US Postal Service delays threaten to disrupt election voting, officials say

    42 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  25. Show HN: Will I run Boston 2025?

    42 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  26. Gallery of Graffti Removals

    41 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  27. Music Industry's 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying

    41 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  28. Redox OS 0.9.0 – new release of a Rust based OS

    41 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  29. A list of awesome CLI apps

    41 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  30. Handling complexity without abstraction: Algebraic Bricklaying C

    41 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  31. Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse

    41 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  32. Ask HN: Any hope for removable, rechargable battery standards?

    41 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  33. Finding and optimizing N+1 queries on a relational database

    41 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  34. Uvtrick

    41 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  35. Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman

    41 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  36. Show HN: Build Your WSL Distro in Docker

    41 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  37. Layman's Guide to Python Built-in Functions

    41 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  38. Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack

    41 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  39. Gdi.js: JavaScript Runtime Written in Object Pascal

    41 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  40. Summing Blue Noise Octaves Like Perlin Noise

    40 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  41. Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

    40 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  42. Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All Covid-19 Variants

    40 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  43. How Foundries Calculate Die Yield

    40 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  44. Netanyahu Asks Court to Block Airing of His Interrogation in Upcoming Film

    40 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  45. Show HN: I built a free tool for breaking down tasks into manageable subtasks

    40 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  46. Cough or sneeze? How the brain knows what to unleash

    40 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  47. The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought

    40 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  48. OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company

    40 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  49. The big Baltic bomb cleanup

    40 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  50. CSAM content on Bluesky has risen ten times in just a week

    40 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  51. Sweden to pay immigrants $34,000 for voluntary return home

    40 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  52. Open Source is not a Business Model

    40 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  53. Tcl under fire: report suggests its QLED TVs might not have any quantum dots

    40 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  54. Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab

    39 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  55. CSS-only infinite scrolling carousel animation

    39 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  56. Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, According to Finnish Study (2023)

    39 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  57. Oprah will screw up the AI story

    39 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  58. ExpressJS 5.0

    39 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  59. Zen and the Art of Writer Decks (Using the Pomera DM250)

    39 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  60. Mastering Null Semantics: Translating SQL Expressions to OpenSearch DSL

    39 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  61. Great Barrier Reef already been dealt its death blow – scientist

    39 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  62. Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all

    39 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  63. Show HN: Xnapper Studio – Web tool for creating attention-grabbing screenshots

    39 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  64. Show HN: Assertly – scriptable monitoring for infosec, IT, compliance, DevOps

    39 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  65. Heavy Construction of a Sewage Pump Station – Ep 3 [video]

    39 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  66. Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt

    39 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  67. AWS AI Stack – Ready-to-Deploy Serverless AI App on AWS and Bedrock

    39 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  68. Creating invariant floating-point accumulators

    39 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  69. China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries

    39 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  70. The AI Hype Fraud of Reflection-Llama-70B

    39 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  71. SpaceX can't fly Starship until November at least

    39 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  72. Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits

    39 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  73. US Government Sets Out to Improve Internet Routing Security

    39 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  74. Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colorful containers lose relevance

    39 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  75. Unicode 16 now includes retro video game sprites [pdf]

    38 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  76. Tell HN: Vimeo's free trial is predatory

    38 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  77. Bank of America raises minimum hourly pay

    38 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  78. New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet

    38 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  79. Monolith First (2015)

    38 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  80. WHAM: Wisconsin High-Temperature Superconducting Axisymmetric Mirror

    38 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  81. Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30

    38 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  82. Why Login Security Sucks

    38 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  83. iPhone 16 Pro lets users capture ProRAW photos in JPEG-XL format

    38 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  84. Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team

    38 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  85. Fibonacci Partial Sums Tricks

    38 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  86. ReMamba: Equip Mamba with Effective Long-Sequence Modeling

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  87. Launch HN: Cerebrium (YC W22) – Serverless Infrastructure Platform for ML/AI

    38 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  88. Talaria: Interactively Optimizing Machine Learning Models for Efficient Inferenc

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  89. Pizza in North Korea

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  90. Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values

    38 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  91. Ask HN: Should I open source my licensing server?

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  92. The thrill of AI is fading – and Wall Street is getting clear-eyed about value

    38 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  93. Show HN: I removed politics from Twitter with AI

    37 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  94. Hetzner Connectivity Issues Due to Sanction Busting Activities

    37 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  95. Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients run thin

    37 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  96. Amazon CEO orders 5-day office return, announces cuts to management

    37 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  97. Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time

    37 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  98. Basic Skills vs. Conceptual Understanding: A Bogus Dichotomy in Math Education [pdf]

    37 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  99. Finetune, Eval, Deploy 60 LLMs in a single Colab notebook

    37 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  100. Cobb Tuning Hit with $2.9M Fine over Emissions Defeat Devices

    37 points • comment • sep 18, 2024