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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon

    75 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  2. iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount

    75 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  3. Testing the Firefox Alternatives

    75 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  4. iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

    75 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  5. California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it

    75 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  6. Pixhell Attack: Leaking Info from Air-Gap Computers via 'Singing Pixels'

    75 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  7. Why OpenStack and Kata Containers are both seeing a resurgence of adoption

    75 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  8. What was the point of [ "x$var" = "xval" ]? (2021)

    75 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  9. Layoffs at Fly.io

    75 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  10. Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python

    75 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  11. Optimizing your career for happiness

    75 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  12. Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges

    75 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  13. OpenAI as we knew it is dead

    75 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  14. Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights

    75 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  15. Doom in the iPhone photos app (barely)

    74 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  16. New laser could cram GPS alternative into a shoebox

    74 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  17. Show HN: Galaxy Visualization

    74 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  18. Two kinds of LLM responses: Informational vs. Instructional

    74 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  19. Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company

    74 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  20. Ask HN: Resources for GPU Compilers?

    74 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  21. Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more

    74 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  22. Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?

    74 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  23. Apple's homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge

    74 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  24. Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

    74 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  25. A Little History of the Anchovy

    74 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  26. Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file

    74 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  27. Take a closer look at Starbucks CEO's contract, which covers his commute by jet

    74 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  28. Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)

    73 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  29. 5 Years of InfoSec Focused Homelabbing

    73 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  30. GitHub-events-viewer a.k.a. "What did I do yesterday?"

    73 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  31. ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users

    73 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  32. Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

    73 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  33. Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback

    73 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  34. It's Okay to Abandon Things

    73 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  35. Enumerate all the subdomains for a domain name

    73 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  36. Who uses Accept-Language header?

    73 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  37. Deep Learning with Jax

    73 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  38. The Founder Mode Tradeoff – By Kent Beck

    73 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  39. Terence Tao: creative strategies, this aspect of LLM tools is still weak

    73 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  40. Titan Submersible Marine Board of Investigation

    73 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  41. Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy

    73 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  42. What I gave up to become an engineering manager

    73 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  43. Ping Storms at GreyNoise

    73 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  44. Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

    73 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  45. Introduction to Dynamicland (Bret Victor)

    73 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  46. It's Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

    73 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  47. Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

    73 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  48. How to wrap a C compiler and preprocessor, really

    73 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  49. Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  50. Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online

    72 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  51. Tailwind CSS vs. Pico CSS (2022)

    72 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  52. Show HN: Goroutine Monitor Powered by eBPF

    72 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  53. Why do BIC pens have a hole in the lid? (2016)

    72 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  54. Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members

    72 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  55. PHP is the new JavaScript?

    72 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  56. Show HN: Open-Source Software for Designing 3D-Printable Luneburg Lenses for RF

    72 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  57. Show HN: GitHub Repo Visualizer Using D3

    72 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  58. The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry

    72 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  59. Logbookd – SQLite Backed Syslogd

    71 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  60. Meta blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier over election interference concerns

    71 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  61. A Brief History of Microprogramming (2022)

    71 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  62. The Death of the Minivan

    71 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  63. Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom

    71 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  64. How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water

    71 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  65. WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident'

    71 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  66. Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth

    71 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  67. A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees

    71 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  68. Canva Hikes Pices by 300pc as It Readies for IPO

    71 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  69. Learning 101: The untaught basics [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  70. Against Rereading

    71 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  71. Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  72. How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence

    71 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  73. We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  74. When Insurers Exit (2023) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  75. The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)

    71 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  76. Cosy Computing

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  77. Why use metaphors in conflicts? Because understanding is remembering in disguise (2009)

    71 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  78. Malicious SHA-1 (2014)

    71 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  79. EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  80. Is MathAcademy Worth It? Thoughts After 2k Experience Points (XP)

    71 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  81. Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  82. Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

    71 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  83. Reconductoring: Boosting U.S. Grid Capacity Efficiently

    70 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  84. Goodbye, Atomic Habits. The overlooked problems with building healthy habits

    70 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  85. Google Listed as Sponsor, Host of Israeli Military Tech Conference

    70 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  86. A rigid but foldable indoor airship aerial system for cave exploration

    70 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  87. The Story Behind Fenster

    70 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  88. "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  89. Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  90. An interactive core memory electronic kit

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  91. CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out

    70 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  92. Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  93. Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM?

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  94. Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  95. Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive

    70 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  96. Going Buildless

    70 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  97. Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  98. Show HN: Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS

    70 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  99. Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

    70 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  100. Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again

    70 points • comment • sep 18, 2024