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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

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

    352 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  2. Intel Honesty

    352 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    348 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

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

    338 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  5. AppleWatchAmmeter

    337 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

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

    335 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    335 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

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

    331 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  9. My job is to watch dreams die (2011)

    327 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  10. What you can get out of a high-quality font

    325 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  11. g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains

    325 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  12. A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

    324 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  13. B-Trees and Database Indexes

    323 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  14. Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

    322 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  15. Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

    321 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  16. Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers

    319 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  17. Show HN: Defrag the Game

    318 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  18. DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine

    314 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  19. Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization

    314 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  20. A Real Life Off-by-One Error

    314 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  21. GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java

    314 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  22. Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

    313 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  23. The "email is authentication" pattern

    312 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  24. Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows

    310 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  25. Show HN: An open-source implementation of AlphaFold3

    306 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  26. Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code

    306 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  27. Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

    306 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  28. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)

    305 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  29. Transparenttextures.com

    304 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  30. AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research

    302 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  31. How economical is your local Taco Bell?

    300 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  32. NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive

    295 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  33. D&D is Anti-Medieval

    292 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  34. OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

    291 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  35. Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup

    291 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  36. Lisp implemented in Rust macros

    289 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  37. The Lego Great Ball Contraption

    288 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  38. Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone

    287 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  39. Just for Fun (2022)

    286 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  40. Linux 6.11 Released

    286 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  41. Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?

    285 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  42. Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

    282 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  43. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

    281 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  44. LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This

    281 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  45. Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code

    281 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  46. A Post-Google World?

    280 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  47. USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

    280 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  48. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

    279 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  49. Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

    277 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  50. Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way

    277 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  51. FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)

    277 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  52. Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs

    275 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  53. Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

    274 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  54. Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi

    274 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  55. IPMI

    274 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  56. Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end

    274 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  57. Things to know about the Great Wave

    274 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  58. Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable

    273 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  59. The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change

    273 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  60. LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly

    273 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  61. State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant

    273 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  62. Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough

    271 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  63. Core: an experimental new way to write videogames

    271 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  64. Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]

    271 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  65. Some of us like "interdiff" code review

    270 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  66. Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app

    270 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  67. Lesser known parts of Python standard library

    270 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  68. The centrality of stupidity in mathematics

    269 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  69. Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life

    269 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  70. Intel lost the Sony Playstation business to AMD

    267 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  71. Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

    264 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  72. The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

    264 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  73. Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat

    262 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  74. SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance

    262 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  75. Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

    261 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  76. Who Owns Nebula?

    260 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  77. Nginx has moved to GitHub

    260 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  78. Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

    260 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  79. David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way

    260 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  80. Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

    259 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  81. CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)

    258 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  82. Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems

    258 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  83. OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

    258 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  84. Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison

    257 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  85. CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress

    256 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  86. AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature

    256 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  87. Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting

    256 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  88. ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her

    253 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  89. Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question

    253 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  90. Why Not Comments

    253 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  91. A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers

    252 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  92. The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

    252 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  93. Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)

    251 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  94. Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data

    249 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  95. 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

    249 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  96. Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

    249 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  97. Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

    248 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  98. LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

    248 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  99. Why bother with argv[0]?

    247 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  100. Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide

    247 points • comment • sep 09, 2024