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Hacker News (Oct 2024)
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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
2230 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
1636 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
1619 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
1485 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Busy Status Bar
1319 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Helping wikis move away from Fandom
1168 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
1064 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Meta Movie Gen
1060 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Internet Archive: Security breach alert
1058 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)
1028 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
943 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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A $1k Wheelchair
942 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
936 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
928 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
879 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
878 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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The Fastest Mutexes
868 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
796 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
795 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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The quiet art of attention
795 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
780 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Dookie Demastered
769 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
757 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
756 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Web Browser Engineering (2021)
744 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
699 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
665 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Show HN: HTML for People
654 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
642 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
627 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Sqlite3 WebAssembly
623 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Noise
620 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Sq.io: jq for databases and more
599 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Working from home is powering productivity
586 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
579 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
576 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
575 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
562 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped
557 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
557 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Differential Transformer
550 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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John Carmack on inlined code (2014)
547 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]
544 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
541 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
534 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Crokinole
528 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
527 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
527 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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The Static Site Paradox
524 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver
515 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
511 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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The C23 edition of Modern C
500 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Were RNNs all we needed?
498 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Is the world really running out of sand?
497 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
493 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first
488 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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12 Months of Mandarin
474 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
472 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Diffusion for World Modeling
469 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
458 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
453 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
452 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Huly – Open-source project management platform
448 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan
446 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Linux from Scratch
443 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Uxn
443 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Who died and left the US $7B?
441 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Reflections on Palantir
440 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
439 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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How long til we're all on Ozempic?
432 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
430 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up
425 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward
424 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
420 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Show HN: Kotlin Money
420 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Inkscape 1.4 Released
418 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
417 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
417 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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How I Experience Web Today (2021)
415 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
412 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
408 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust
405 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online
404 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
403 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
402 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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“Bad Apple” in Minecraft
400 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Bots, so many bots
399 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Conway's Gradient of Life
398 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
397 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
395 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
393 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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An e-waste dumping ground
391 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Gosub – An open-source browser engine
391 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3
390 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
390 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
387 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
385 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support
381 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
380 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
378 points • comment • oct 11, 2024