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Hacker News (Sep 2024)

  1. Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  2. Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  3. Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  4. Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM?

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  5. Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  6. The Story Behind Fenster

    70 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  7. Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive

    70 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  8. Show HN: Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS

    70 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  9. Going Buildless

    70 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  10. CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out

    70 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  11. "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  12. Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  13. An interactive core memory electronic kit

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  14. I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me

    69 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  15. Debugging a memory leak in a Clojure service

    69 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  16. We verify the correctness of a spreadsheet engine

    69 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  17. Show HN: Claude Memory – Long-term memory for Claude

    69 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  18. Fed Cuts Rates by a Half Percentage Point

    69 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  19. SAMA – open-source Chat server

    69 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  20. Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee

    69 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  21. We fine-tuned an LLM to triage and fix insecure code

    69 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  22. Writing a Lisp compiler (Lisp to assembly) from scratch in JavaScript (2018)

    69 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  23. I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't

    69 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  24. A More Modern CSS Reset (2019)

    68 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  25. What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?

    68 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  26. The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legendary Wandering Magician

    68 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  27. Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page

    68 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  28. DraftKings fined for online slot incapable of generating a win

    68 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  29. Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive

    67 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  30. Scrolling Text Display

    67 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  31. Compression Dictionary Transport

    67 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  32. Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)

    67 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  33. Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos

    67 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  34. My Homelab Setup

    67 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  35. Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)

    67 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  36. Product Psychology

    67 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  37. C Course Online

    67 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  38. IBM acquires Kubecost

    67 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  39. Rɐbbit Dynamic Datascapes

    67 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  40. Iron Gall Ink

    67 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  41. Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (PDF: ACM HT'24)

    66 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  42. How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods

    66 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  43. GitHub taught me to micromanage

    66 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  44. Snapshottable Stores

    66 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  45. Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services

    66 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  46. Python in Excel – Available Now

    66 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  47. Mecanum Wheel

    66 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  48. Backlash over Amazon's return to office comes as workers demand higher wages

    66 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  49. Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase

    66 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  50. Generalized Carlos Scales

    66 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  51. Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming

    65 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  52. Advice on Reading Homer in Translation

    65 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  53. Playstation 5 Pro

    65 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  54. Show HN: Clace – Application Server with support for scaling down to zero

    65 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  55. Rediscovering Turbo Pascal

    64 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  56. Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar

    64 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  57. Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD

    64 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  58. Unix history and the `dc` calculator

    64 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  59. Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?

    64 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  60. Amazon tells staff to return to office 5 days a week

    64 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  61. Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox

    64 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  62. Show HN: HypergraphZ – A Hypergraph Implementation in Zig

    64 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  63. Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard for LLM coding workflows

    63 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  64. Dickens: The Map

    63 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  65. Rethinking addiction as a chronic brain disease

    63 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  66. Passive damping – Bathroom scales

    63 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  67. Frustrations with the OCaml ecosystem while developing a synthesizer library

    63 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  68. How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers

    63 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  69. Hacker trap: Fake OnlyFans tool backstabs cybercriminals, steals passwords

    63 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  70. The theft of a Churchill portrait

    63 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  71. Arduino PLC IDE

    63 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  72. Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers

    63 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  73. Facebook uses Australian adults public photos/posts to train AI, without opt-out

    62 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  74. European Consumer Organization goes after publishers for their in-game currency

    62 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  75. EU competitiveness: Looking ahead [pdf]

    62 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  76. A Word, Please: Coffee-shop prompt stirs ChatGPT to brew up bland copy

    62 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  77. Lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects

    62 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  78. “Golden Lettuce” is genetically engineered to have higher beta-carotene levels

    62 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  79. When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?

    62 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  80. AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture – bringing RDNA and CDNA together

    61 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  81. How to Read Deep Learning Paper as a Software Engineer

    61 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  82. Adding algebraic data types to Nickel

    61 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  83. Diesel shop fined $10M for making and selling Emissions Defeat Devices

    61 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  84. Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

    61 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  85. People who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters

    61 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  86. Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear

    61 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  87. Strtod Is Wild

    61 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  88. Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500

    61 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  89. Dave: Discord's New End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video

    61 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  90. Analysis of adversarial binary search game

    61 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  91. Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

    60 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  92. Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users

    60 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  93. Casio FW-91 replaced with smart internals

    60 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  94. Steam Families Is Here

    60 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  95. Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico

    60 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  96. Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated

    60 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  97. ZX Spectrum Documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' Gets London Premiere

    60 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  98. Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

    60 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  99. Google and Apple Face Billions in Penalties After Losing E.U. Appeals

    60 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  100. Ncomm – A node-based robotics framework written in Rust

    60 points • comment • sep 13, 2024