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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

    2230 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  2. FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

    1636 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  3. 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

    1619 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  4. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public

    1485 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  5. Busy Status Bar

    1319 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  6. Helping wikis move away from Fandom

    1168 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  7. DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

    1064 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  8. Meta Movie Gen

    1060 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  9. Internet Archive: Security breach alert

    1058 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  10. Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

    1028 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  11. Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

    943 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  12. A $1k Wheelchair

    942 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  13. AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

    936 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  14. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

    928 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  15. Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

    879 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  16. How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

    878 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  17. The Fastest Mutexes

    868 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  18. Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

    796 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  19. Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

    795 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  20. The quiet art of attention

    795 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  21. Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

    780 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  22. Dookie Demastered

    769 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  23. Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

    757 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  24. Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

    756 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  25. Web Browser Engineering (2021)

    744 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  26. The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications

    699 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  27. Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

    665 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  28. Show HN: HTML for People

    654 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  29. It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

    642 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  30. ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

    627 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  31. Sqlite3 WebAssembly

    623 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  32. Noise

    620 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  33. Sq.io: jq for databases and more

    599 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  34. Working from home is powering productivity

    586 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  35. Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

    579 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  36. Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

    576 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  37. Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

    575 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  38. Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison

    562 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  39. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

    557 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  40. Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

    557 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  41. Differential Transformer

    550 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  42. John Carmack on inlined code (2014)

    547 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  43. Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]

    544 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  44. Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

    541 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  45. What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

    534 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  46. Crokinole

    528 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  47. Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

    527 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  48. "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

    527 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  49. The Static Site Paradox

    524 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  50. Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver

    515 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  51. Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

    511 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  52. The C23 edition of Modern C

    500 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  53. Were RNNs all we needed?

    498 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  54. Is the world really running out of sand?

    497 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  55. Jazz – Apps with Distributed State

    493 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  56. Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

    488 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  57. 12 Months of Mandarin

    474 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  58. AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

    472 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  59. Diffusion for World Modeling

    469 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  60. US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

    458 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  61. Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

    453 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  62. Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

    452 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  63. Huly – Open-source project management platform

    448 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  64. Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

    446 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  65. Linux from Scratch

    443 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  66. Uxn

    443 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  67. Who died and left the US $7B?

    441 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  68. Reflections on Palantir

    440 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  69. Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

    439 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  70. How long til we're all on Ozempic?

    432 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  71. Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

    430 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  72. Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

    425 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  73. US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

    424 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  74. Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

    420 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  75. Show HN: Kotlin Money

    420 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  76. Inkscape 1.4 Released

    418 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  77. COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

    417 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  78. Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees

    417 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  79. How I Experience Web Today (2021)

    415 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  80. Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

    412 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  81. World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

    408 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  82. Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust

    405 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  83. The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online

    404 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  84. CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

    403 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  85. Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key

    402 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  86. “Bad Apple” in Minecraft

    400 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  87. Bots, so many bots

    399 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  88. Conway's Gradient of Life

    398 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  89. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

    397 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  90. Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)

    395 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  91. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx

    393 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  92. An e-waste dumping ground

    391 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  93. Gosub – An open-source browser engine

    391 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  94. CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3

    390 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  95. Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel

    390 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  96. MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

    387 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  97. Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

    385 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  98. Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support

    381 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  99. Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components

    380 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  100. $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

    378 points • comment • oct 11, 2024