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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Why I still blog after 15 years

    468 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  2. Reclaim the Stack

    468 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  3. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates

    466 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  4. Kagi Assistant

    465 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  5. Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)

    460 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  6. Tell HN: DanBC has died

    457 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  7. Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

    456 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  8. Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak

    456 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  9. GitHub notification emails used to send malware

    454 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  10. Move Fast and Abandon Things

    451 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  11. Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

    450 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  12. Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS

    447 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  13. It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans

    447 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  14. OAuth from First Principles

    445 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  15. Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval

    445 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  16. Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python

    442 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  17. TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'

    441 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  18. Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II

    440 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  19. Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic

    439 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  20. Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

    438 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  21. Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS

    435 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  22. Why Scrum is stressing you out

    434 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  23. What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

    434 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  24. Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

    430 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  25. FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software

    430 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  26. The best $4 ever spent

    426 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  27. Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

    425 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  28. Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS

    424 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  29. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

    424 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  30. Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'

    423 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  31. Google Cache is fully dead

    422 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  32. MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

    421 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  33. HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?

    420 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  34. Why Haskell?

    415 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  35. Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch

    412 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  36. U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction

    411 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  37. How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)

    411 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  38. Comic Mono

    411 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  39. My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures

    409 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  40. Uber charges more if you have credits in your account

    409 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  41. Writing an OS in Rust

    406 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  42. FCC wants all phones unlocked in sixty days, AT&T and T-Mobile aren't so keen

    404 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  43. Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

    403 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  44. One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

    398 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  45. Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

    398 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  46. How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works

    395 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  47. Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

    394 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  48. Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project

    392 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  49. Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

    391 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  50. Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code

    389 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  51. Maggie Smith has died

    389 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  52. Do AI companies work?

    386 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  53. Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB

    386 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  54. How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire

    385 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  55. The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023)

    385 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  56. Show HN: Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks

    385 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  57. iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]

    384 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  58. Show HN: Time Flies

    384 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  59. LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

    382 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  60. UE5 Nanite in WebGPU

    382 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  61. Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)

    380 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  62. What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower

    379 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  63. Tcl 9.0

    378 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  64. Swift 6

    376 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  65. NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean

    376 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  66. Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill

    374 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  67. CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU

    374 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  68. Clojure 1.12.0 is now available

    373 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  69. macOS Sequoia is available today

    372 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  70. Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

    371 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  71. SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS

    371 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  72. Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

    370 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  73. Some Go web dev notes

    370 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  74. Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

    365 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  75. Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive

    363 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  76. Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

    360 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  77. Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue

    359 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  78. Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM

    359 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  79. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods

    359 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  80. Sitina1 Open-Source Camera

    358 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  81. The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out

    357 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  82. Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

    353 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  83. Intel Honesty

    352 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  84. Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

    352 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  85. Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

    352 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  86. Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make

    351 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  87. I Like Makefiles

    349 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  88. Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?

    348 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  89. Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

    348 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  90. Map with public fruit trees

    348 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  91. GPU Puzzles

    347 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  92. Octopuses seen hunting together with fish

    344 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  93. Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite

    342 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  94. Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

    340 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  95. Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps

    338 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  96. AppleWatchAmmeter

    337 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  97. Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth

    337 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  98. Rewriting Rust

    335 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  99. Show HN: Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris

    335 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  100. Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

    331 points • comment • sep 08, 2024