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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]

    329 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

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

    327 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  3. The Intelligence Age

    326 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

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

    325 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

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

    325 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  6. A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

    324 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  7. FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control

    324 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

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

    324 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  9. B-Trees and Database Indexes

    323 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

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

    322 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  11. Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

    321 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  12. I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

    320 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

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

    319 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  14. Show HN: Defrag the Game

    318 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  15. Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

    317 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  16. Our Android app is frozen in carbonite

    316 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  17. Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

    316 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  18. Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization

    314 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  19. A Real Life Off-by-One Error

    314 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  20. DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine

    314 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

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

    313 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  22. The "email is authentication" pattern

    312 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

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

    310 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    306 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    306 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

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

    306 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

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

    305 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  28. Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps

    304 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  29. DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

    304 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  30. Transparenttextures.com

    304 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  31. Pivotal Tracker will shut down

    303 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  32. Contextual Retrieval

    302 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  33. AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research

    302 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  34. How economical is your local Taco Bell?

    300 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  35. Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting

    300 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  36. The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)

    296 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  37. Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales

    296 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

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

    295 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  39. London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids

    295 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  40. SQL Tips and Tricks

    294 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  41. WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic

    294 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  42. Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

    293 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  43. Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone

    292 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  44. The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

    292 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  45. D&D is Anti-Medieval

    292 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  46. AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M

    292 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

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

    291 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  48. How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design

    291 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

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

    291 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  50. The Lego Great Ball Contraption

    290 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  51. Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support

    290 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  52. Lisp implemented in Rust macros

    289 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  53. Llama 3.1 Omni Model

    289 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  54. Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

    289 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  55. Does “building in public” work?

    288 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  56. Just for Fun (2022)

    286 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  57. Linux 6.11 Released

    286 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  58. Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice

    286 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

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

    285 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  60. BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

    285 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  61. If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed

    285 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  62. What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?

    284 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  63. Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

    283 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  64. Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

    282 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  65. A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)

    282 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  66. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

    281 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

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

    281 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

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

    281 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

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

    280 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  70. A Post-Google World?

    280 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  71. Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc

    280 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  72. Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes

    279 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  73. Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

    279 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  74. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

    279 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  75. Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

    277 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  76. Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way

    277 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  77. FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)

    277 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  78. GnuCash 5.9

    275 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

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

    275 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  80. Serialization Is the Secret

    275 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

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

    274 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

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

    274 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  83. Things to know about the Great Wave

    274 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  84. Web components are okay

    274 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  85. Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi

    274 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  86. IPMI

    274 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

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

    273 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

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

    273 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    273 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

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

    273 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

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

    271 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  92. Core: an experimental new way to write videogames

    271 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

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

    271 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  94. Some of us like "interdiff" code review

    270 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  95. Lesser known parts of Python standard library

    270 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  96. Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app

    270 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  97. End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images

    270 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

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

    269 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

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

    269 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  100. The centrality of stupidity in mathematics

    269 points • comment • sep 17, 2024