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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. The Laying of the American Trans-Pacific Cable (1903)

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  2. Interview with Inventor of Neural Nets Warren McCulloch () [video]

    36 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  3. Abstract Debuggers: Exploring Program Behaviors Using Static Analysis Results [pdf]

    36 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  4. Why Britain Drives on the Left

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  5. Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

    35 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  6. US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs

    35 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  7. Rust for the small things? but what about Python?

    35 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  8. Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically

    35 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  9. CP/M forty years on – what it was, and why it still matters (2021)

    35 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  10. The Many Lives of James Lovelock

    35 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  11. Elon Musk and Larry Ellison Begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at Dinner

    35 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  12. Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks

    35 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  13. Missouri executes a man despite prosecutors' push to overturn conviction

    35 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  14. Godot 3.6 Released

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  15. Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

    35 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  16. Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust

    35 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  17. Show HN: Open-source Railway, Render alternative running on Kubernetes clusters

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  18. To avoid strike, Boeing promises 25% pay hike–and to build next jet in Seattle

    35 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  19. Production-ready Docker Containers with uv

    35 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  20. Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent and Behaviour

    35 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  21. The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country

    35 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  22. Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?

    35 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  23. Soft cells and the geometry of seashells

    35 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  24. Apple owes billions in Irish back taxes

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  25. Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel

    35 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  26. The Subprime AI Crisis

    35 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  27. Paul Harrell – I'm Dead [video]

    35 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  28. F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win the Azerbaijan GP

    35 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  29. Starliner astronaut: We found things that we just could not get comfortable with

    35 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  30. The future of Boeing's crewed spaceflight program muddy after Starliner's return

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  31. Kalmia: A documentation CMS written in Go. Open-source alternative to Gitbook

    35 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  32. 2026 Kia EV3 First Drive Review: More Like This, Please

    34 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  33. Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf]

    34 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  34. Judge Rejects yet Another Attempt by Texas to Police Online Speech

    34 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  35. A word about systemd (2016)

    34 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  36. Kopia: Open-Source Backup Tool with E2E Encryption and Deduplication

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  37. Distroless: Language focused Docker images, minus the operating system

    34 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  38. America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing

    34 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  39. Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

    34 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  40. Ask HN: What do you do when you're stuck in a job and overworked?

    34 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  41. Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block

    34 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  42. NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools

    34 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  43. NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

    34 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  44. Intel's Core Ultra 2 Chip Posts Nearly 24-Hour Battery Life in Lunar Lake

    34 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  45. OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator

    34 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  46. Workers Uncover Underground Chamber Sealed for over a Century Near National Mall

    34 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  47. OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off To Reveal What It Really Is

    34 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  48. Full-stack RAG app built on Cloudflare

    34 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  49. Reflections on Founder Mode

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  50. Linux Horror Stories and Protection Spells (Volume I) (2021)

    34 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  51. Software development for the DMT headspace

    34 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  52. Intel aims to turn foundry business into subsidiary to allow for outside funding

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  53. At 35, 'Patlabor' now looks awfully prescient

    34 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  54. Sam Altman tells staff there’s no plan for him to receive ‘giant equity stake’

    34 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  55. Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license

    34 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  56. Thoughts on Debugging

    34 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  57. European Satellite Burns Up for Science

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  58. Pico-ASHA: USB audio to ASHA adapter

    34 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  59. Ask HN: Help me restore the LCD displays on classic samplers so I can use them

    34 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  60. Another Reason Why You Should Sleep on It Before Making an Important Decision

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  61. Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust on the RP2350 Microcontroller

    34 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  62. How to Monetize a Blog (Satire)

    34 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  63. Tech Jobs Have Dried Up–-and Aren't Coming Back Soon

    34 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  64. Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Austin and Atlanta

    34 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  65. Vampires and Arithmomania

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  66. RT running covert military supply operation for Russian forces, State Dept. says

    34 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  67. Jailbreak Your Enemies with a Link: Remote Execution on iOS

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  68. ChartEye: A Deep Learning Framework for Chart Information Extraction

    34 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  69. Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  70. ASCII cam – I made this using replit agent

    34 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  71. Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the "thoughts" of OpenAI's latest model

    34 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  72. Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space

    34 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  73. Guile 3.0.10 now ships with support for parens-optional syntax (wisp)

    34 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  74. Taildrop lets you send files between your personal devices on Tailscale network

    34 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  75. Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own

    34 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  76. SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  77. Apple's new AI is magically mediocre

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  78. Cuis Smalltalk

    34 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  79. Filtered for home robots, fast and slow

    34 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  80. Telemetry in Go 1.23 and Beyond

    33 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  81. Electrified thermochemical systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors

    33 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  82. Glue and Coprocessor Architectures

    33 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  83. Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP

    33 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  84. Nginx/njs: A subset of JavaScript language to use in Nginx

    33 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  85. ThunderScope – open hardware PC oscilloscope

    33 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  86. Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

    33 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  87. Florida lawmakers stay quiet as corporations buy homes

    33 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  88. Fighting back against proper noun feature names (2021)

    33 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  89. House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas

    33 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  90. Solving 100 Bushels Using Matrix Factorization

    33 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  91. Show HN: RelayBeam – A new way of messaging using Ports

    33 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  92. Correlating Ownership of Sites Protected by Cloudflare

    33 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  93. Make Your Own Read-Only Device with NetBSD

    33 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  94. Paper microfluidic sensors for rapid on-site wastewater surveillance

    33 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  95. Paperless-ngx: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

    33 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  96. Official documents confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison

    33 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  97. Flipper Zero Firmware 1.0 Release

    33 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  98. How to Make $6k a Month by Moving Citi Bikes Around the Block

    33 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  99. China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s

    33 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  100. Hotwire Native

    33 points • comment • sep 27, 2024