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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Digital signatures and how to avoid them

    267 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

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

    267 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  3. Intel lost the Sony Playstation business to AMD

    267 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  4. Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

    265 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  5. The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

    264 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  6. Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

    264 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

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

    264 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

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

    262 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  9. Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?

    262 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

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

    262 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

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

    261 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  12. Nginx has moved to GitHub

    260 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

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

    260 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  14. Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders

    260 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  15. Who Owns Nebula?

    260 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  16. Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

    260 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  17. Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

    259 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

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

    258 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

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

    258 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

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

    257 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

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

    256 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

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

    256 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  23. 0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced

    256 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  24. Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB

    256 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  25. A Bendy RISC-V Processor

    254 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  26. Critical Exploit in MediaTek Wi-Fi Chipsets: Zero-Click Vulnerability

    254 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  27. Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question

    253 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  28. Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone

    253 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

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

    253 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  30. Why Not Comments

    253 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

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

    252 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  33. Zb: An Early-Stage Build System

    251 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  34. The best browser bookmarking system is files

    250 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  35. 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

    249 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  36. Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

    249 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

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

    249 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  38. Working Turing Machine

    249 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  39. Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram

    249 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  40. Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

    248 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  41. LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

    248 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  42. On Impactful AI Research

    247 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  43. Why bother with argv[0]?

    247 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  44. Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide

    247 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  45. Mondragon as the new city-state

    246 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  46. Comedy Theory (2022)

    246 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  47. Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus

    246 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  48. Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs

    246 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  49. Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller

    245 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  50. Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents first increases lifespan by 50%

    245 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  51. Chromatone – Visual Music Language

    242 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  52. Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you

    242 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  53. Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned

    242 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  54. RabbitMQ 4.0

    240 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  55. Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

    240 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  56. NKRYPT Sculpture

    240 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  57. CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it

    240 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  58. Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math

    240 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  59. Learn Git Branching

    239 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  60. DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial

    239 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  61. WP Engine is not WordPress

    239 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  62. What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

    238 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  63. A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM

    238 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  64. Why to Not Write a Book

    237 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  65. OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code

    237 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  66. When To Do What You Love

    237 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  67. Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime

    237 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  68. Kris Kristofferson has died

    236 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  69. The Dune Shell

    235 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  70. Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments

    234 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  71. Why TCP needs 3 handshakes

    234 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  72. The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy

    234 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  73. Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Dork

    233 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  74. The Insecurity of Debian

    233 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  75. Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

    233 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  76. A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff

    232 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  77. John Wheeler saw the tear in reality

    232 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  78. Openpilot – Operating system for robotics

    232 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  79. Your Name in Landsat

    231 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  80. Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder

    231 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  81. Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

    231 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  82. Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years

    230 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  83. Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene

    230 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  84. Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships

    229 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  85. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

    228 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  86. Satellites Spotting Aircraft

    228 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  87. Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf]

    228 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  88. FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia

    228 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  89. Sublime text started adding a “.s” to new files

    228 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  90. The Fennel Programming Language

    228 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  91. Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living

    227 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  92. Show HN: Bullshit Remover

    226 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  93. Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy

    226 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  94. The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity

    226 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  95. Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning

    225 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  96. Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies

    225 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  97. Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry

    224 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  98. Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR

    224 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  99. Why Oxide Chose Illumos

    223 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  100. I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet

    223 points • comment • sep 11, 2024