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Hacker News (Sep 2024)
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  Connecting TinyBase to PGlite and PostgreSQL
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, trial finds
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1945)
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
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  Meta pays the price for storing passwords in plaintext
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 15, 2024
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  The 30-Year-Old Problem Still Haunting Developers
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  The Texas Billionaire Who Has Greenpeace USA on the Verge of Bankruptcy
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
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  Study reveals secret of 190-day Crystal Palace build
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Puberty Hasn't Changed Since the Ice Age
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
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  The self awareness of the conscious mind
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
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  Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT so bad at electronics?
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  US Government interagency sea level rise website is live
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  SaaSavant – SaaS Boilerplate
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
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  Convert textbook to online course with AI expert
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
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  Does anyone integrate with their customers' DB directly?
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  How to Learn Nix
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  Move over BMI .Welcome BRI
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Landslides are destroying multimillion-dollar homes in CA, and are getting worse
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  The little-known life of the scarfing tool (2003)
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Hyunh on New Strategy vs. Nvidia
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
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  KubeVision a new Kubernetes dashboard powered by Argo CD
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  Galilean Moons and Determination of Longitude
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  New defib placement more than doubles odds of surviving cardiac arrest
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  The First Idiot Principle
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  Taxes on everyday Europeans bring in 13 times more revenue than taxes on wealth
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Show HN: WebJSX – A tiny Web Components and JSX library
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  Steven Hawking's time traveller party
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Sea robins are fish with 'the wings of a bird and multiple legs like a crab'
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  The Simpsons: Tapped Out is powering off servers after 12 years
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  Why US Nightlife Sucks
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Lando Norris driving a 1:1-scale Lego McLaren P1 at Silverstone
  
  
17 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  AI craze distorting VC market, as tech giants pour in billions of dollars
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  Ask HN: What's the best documentation site you've come across?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 14, 2024
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  DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right-wing social media
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  Show HN: Waulog – A digital companion for dog owners
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  Warning: macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  ASIO warning big tech companies they may be forced to unlock encrypted chats
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  Apple patent describes using AirPods to detect heart disease
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  Some pterosaurs would flap, others would soar
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  I watched 135 time loop movies
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
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  Enhancing the GitHub Copilot ecosystem with Copilot Extensions, public beta
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
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  Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  Possibly Useful Tools for the Internet
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  Bitcoin Mining Shutdown Cause 20% Surge in Electricity Bills
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
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  XTP: Make Squishy Software
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer (2017)
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensored
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
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  DOJ subpoenas Nvidia in deepening AI antitrust probe, report says
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  Table Extraction Using LLMs
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
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  Show HN: High-performance Location tracking server built with PHP, Swoole
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  The Open Source Project Maintainer's Guide
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
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  Does red light therapy work? These are the benefits and drawbacks
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  Jeremy Clarkson Says All Modern Cars 'Are Shit'
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Electricity That Costs Nothing–Or Even Less? It's Happening More and More
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
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  New York City's Biggest Taxi Insurer Is Insolvent, Risking Transit Meltdown
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 05, 2024
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  Why good developers should use bad computers
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Florida Gov't Sending Cops to Intimidate Ballot Initiative Petition Supporters
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Public Suffix List
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
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  (Fixing) Determinism in Robotics Testing
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support for More Games on Linux, Many Fixes
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  Apple, These Macs Aren't 'Obsolete'
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  The Jackpot Generation
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 14, 2024
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  What performance should you get from different types of storage?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Neurodivergence and Accountability in Free Software
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
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  Show HN: Visahacks.in – you don't always need a visa
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
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  Black hole jets discovered that are 140 times larger than the Milky Way
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  Amazon, Tesla and Meta among top companies undermining democracy
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
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  Fiber optics to keep elephants and trains safe across Indian Railways East Coast
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
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  Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  Why COBOL Isn't the Problem
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Have we stopped to think about what LLMs model?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
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  Largest wind-powered cargo ship made first delivery across the Atlantic
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
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  Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for Trespassing on Texas Land
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  Elixir Macros Demystified: defmacro and require
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
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  Young women are starting to leave men behind
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
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  Marijuana Is Too Strong Now
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  Numbers Go Up
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
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  Man charged for selling forged license keys for network switches
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
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  TSMC's Arizona Trials Put Plant Productivity on Par with Taiwan
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
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  Some men tend to jump straight to innuendoes: dating app users on why they quit
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
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  OpenAPI 3.1 Cheat Sheet
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
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  Quick guide to web typography for developers
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
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  Nvidia Launches AI Reference Workflow for Drug Discoverers
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  Show HN: FastIndex, an open-source search engine indexation tool
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2024
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  Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  A World’s Fair Could Be Just What We Need
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out?
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
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  Neither Elon Musk nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
  
  
16 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
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  IBM Pushing Apache2 License onto all qiskit repositories on GitHub
  
  
15 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
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  The Race for Lambeth Palace
  
  
15 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
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  Dead Internet Theory
  
  
15 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
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  Assistant-UI: A set of React components for AI chat
  
  
15 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
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  Chatbot Pulls People Away from Conspiracy Theories
  
  
15 points • comment • sep 13, 2024