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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Buy-it-for-Life E-Bike Battery

    46 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  2. A new semantic chunking approach for RAG

    46 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  3. Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year

    46 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  4. New Mistral AI Weights

    46 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  5. Ask HN: How do you organize work as a solo developer?

    46 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  6. Watch live as SpaceX crew carry out first-ever commercial spacewalk

    46 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  7. Unlock Articles with Paywallskip

    46 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  8. Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before

    46 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  9. The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment (1987)

    46 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  10. BeOS inspired Haiku R1/beta5 is out

    46 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  11. India's third home-built 700 MWe nuclear reactor achieves criticality

    46 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  12. Stop trying to avoid distractions, just get better ones instead

    46 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  13. If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? (2018)

    46 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  14. Remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists

    46 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  15. "Creounity Time Machine", the universal date converter for coin collectors

    46 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  16. Show HN: Universal Logger for Node, Deno, Bun, Browser

    46 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  17. Nintendo has filed a new 24GHz wireless device with the FCC

    45 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  18. What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B?

    45 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  19. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 50 bps

    45 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  20. Amazon tells workers to return to office five days a week

    45 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  21. Working Methods (of a Historian)

    45 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  22. Actual Size Online Ruler (Mm,Cm,Inches) – Screen Measurements

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  23. Home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut

    45 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  24. Creating an up-to-date Distroless Python Image (2022)

    45 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  25. SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  26. Coupled Oscillators for Computing (2020)

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  27. Safety Goggles for Alchemists

    45 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  28. Questions about LLMs in Group Chats

    45 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  29. I spent 5 hours learning how ClickHouse built their internal data warehouse

    45 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  30. FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads

    45 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  31. Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet

    45 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  32. Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?

    45 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  33. Manual 'Till It Hurts

    45 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  34. Room 641A

    45 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  35. Micro: The magazine for TRS-80 owners

    45 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  36. The world knows Wim Hof as "The Iceman", his family suffered domestic violence

    45 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  37. AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

    45 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  38. L.A. pilot guaranteeing families $1k/month shows 'transformative' results: study

    45 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  39. Honey, YouTubers Are Poisoning the Kids

    45 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  40. RGCosm – Reverse Geocode for OpenStreetMap

    45 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  41. Wind Becomes Britain's Largest Electricity Source

    45 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  42. How Local Governments Got Hooked on One Company's Janky Software

    45 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  43. IEEE President's Note: Why Students Should Stay with IEEE

    45 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  44. The quest for a Wiki-less game

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  45. The Art of the Brew: Exploring Hops and Other Plant Ingredients That Define Beer

    45 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  46. A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability

    45 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  47. Ask HN: How To: Internal Documentation?

    45 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  48. Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike

    44 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  49. Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?

    44 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  50. Cups Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available

    44 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  51. Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns with Proof-of-Presence

    44 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  52. HP injects AI into its printers

    44 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  53. Electric DeLorean DMC-12 Conversion Kit

    44 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  54. Super Useful Chrome Plugins for Front-End Developers

    44 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  55. Giant sloth bone pendants suggest humans were in Americas earlier than thought

    44 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  56. Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

    44 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  57. Java 23

    44 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  58. Proplifting, Plant Piracy, and Dumpster Chocolates

    44 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  59. 1.3M Android-Based TV Boxes Backdoored; Researchers Still Don't Know How

    44 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  60. Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server

    44 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  61. Metal-benchmarks: Apple GPU microarchitecture

    44 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  62. Solving the bowling problem with dynamic programming

    44 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  63. NTT All-Photonics Network Activated Between Taiwan and Japan

    44 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  64. Whistleblower who warned about Florida state parks fired by state agency

    44 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  65. 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

    44 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  66. Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank

    44 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  67. Geothermal Energy Could Outperform Nuclear Power

    44 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  68. Waymo driverless vehicle re-routes into oncoming traffic

    44 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  69. Americans lost $5.6B last year in crypto scams, FBI says

    44 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  70. NeRF-Supervised Feature Point Detection and Description

    43 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  71. Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices

    43 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  72. Ask HN: Marketplaces for Embedded/FPGA Developers

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  73. Holy Hell, the Social Web Did Not Begin in 2008

    43 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  74. Boost your development environment with Ubuntu Multipass

    43 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  75. HMD Barbie Phone

    43 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  76. Posting a 5x5 crossword every day

    43 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  77. Ask HN: Is it wrong not wanting career progression beyond senior?

    43 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  78. U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  79. Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?

    43 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  80. Rust error handling

    43 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

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

    43 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  82. OpenAI's new models 'instrumentally faked alignment'

    43 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

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

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  84. AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE?

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  85. Signal's Meredith Whittaker: 'I see AI as born out of surveillance'

    43 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  86. Theattyr: A terminal theater for playing VT100 art and animations

    43 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

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

    43 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  88. Why Is Britain Poor?

    43 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  89. Telegram says it will share phone numbers and IPs of 'bad actors' to authorities

    43 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  90. Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers

    43 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  91. Steve Wozniak Reunites with the Historic Homebrew Computer Club

    42 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

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

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  93. Tim Peters – Dispelling Information Asymmetry

    42 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  94. PSA: Eget That Executable from GitHub

    42 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  95. Dissociating language and thought in large language models

    42 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

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

    42 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  97. Parallel PNG Proposal (2021)

    42 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

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

    42 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

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

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  100. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021)

    42 points • comment • sep 15, 2024