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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. A team paid to break into top-secret bases

    55 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  2. Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji

    55 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  3. Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster

    55 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  4. Sorbet: A neuromorphic hardware-compatible transformer-based spiking model

    55 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  5. What Is Theoretical Computer Science?

    54 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  6. Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona

    54 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  7. Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows

    54 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  8. Sysadmins rage over Apple's 'nightmarish' SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

    54 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  9. No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

    54 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  10. Sausages: An Anthology

    53 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  11. Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

    53 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  12. EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta

    53 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  13. Functional PHP (2015)

    53 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  14. For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies

    53 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  15. I Don't Have LinkedIn

    53 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  16. Task-Switching Experiment (2015)

    52 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  17. Putting the "Person" in "Personal Website"

    52 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  18. Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'

    52 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  19. East and Gulf Coast ports strike

    52 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  20. Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds

    52 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  21. 'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand

    52 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  22. The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

    51 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  23. Private equity ruins tech companies

    51 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  24. Forums Are Still Alive

    51 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  25. Teen achieves first NES Tetris "rebirth," proves endless play is possible

    50 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  26. Abandoned mines cover the West

    50 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  27. Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?

    50 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  28. Abacus Machines [pdf]

    50 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  29. CS 253 Web Security

    50 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  30. Wikidata Is a Giant Crosswalk File

    50 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  31. Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only

    50 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  32. US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

    50 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  33. 19th century lions preyed on humans and giraffes

    50 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  34. Show HN: Chain Traverser – Fast Ethereum graph explorer

    50 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  35. Discord Rejects Role as 'Anti-Piracy' Partner; will no longer respond to DMCAs

    49 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  36. Partitioning in the Chiplet Era

    49 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?

    49 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  38. Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

    49 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  39. OpenBSD 7.6 Released

    49 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  40. Grandmaster expelled from team chess championship after phone found in toilet

    49 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  41. After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store

    49 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  42. Lillian Schwartz, pioneer in computer-generated art, dies at 97

    49 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  43. Who are AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs for?

    49 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  44. Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

    49 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  45. Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet

    49 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  46. The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma

    49 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  47. Life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back

    48 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  48. Doom 2 got a Mod, featuring 2 chapters, 36 new tracks and 20 hours of gameplay

    48 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  49. Geico car insurance may no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks

    48 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  50. Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old

    48 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  51. A C++ Developer Learns Assembly

    48 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  52. Columbus' DNA suggests he was a Sephardic Jew from the western Mediterranean

    48 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  53. Llamafile for Meltemi: The First LLM for Greek

    48 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  54. Tokyo looks to protect service staff from customers who are not so cool

    48 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  55. The Inevitability of Mixing Open Source and Money

    48 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  56. Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization

    48 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  57. Show HN: Reintroducing Cap, the open source Loom alternative

    48 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  58. Show HN: Gmail unsubscribe tool with bulk deletion and personal data removal

    48 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  59. The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs (2012) [pdf]

    48 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  60. The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade

    48 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  61. Mt Rainier Elevation Survey

    48 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  62. The Open Source AI Definition RC1 Is Available for Comments

    47 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  63. Zapata AI Ceases Operations

    47 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  64. Mesh Shaders – The Future of Rendering [video]

    47 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  65. Holocron is an object storage based leader election library

    47 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  66. The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  67. Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal

    47 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  68. Rodents remotely move matter using sound to enhance their sense of smell: study

    47 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  69. Answer any question about your photo albums with OmniQuery

    47 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  70. The World of Electrostatic Ecology

    47 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  71. Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  72. Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson

    46 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  73. The MANY Alternatives to Scrum

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  74. UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  75. Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow

    46 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  76. Ask HN: How do you add guard rails in LLM response without breaking streaming?

    46 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  77. Oura Ring 4

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  78. The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service

    46 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  79. OpenBSD 7.6 released

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  80. SiteOne Crawler – big tool with no users

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  81. Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery

    46 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  82. Thank HN: 10 years and $15M ARR later: Thank you

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  83. Show HN: I made a simple web app to help kids learn a new language

    46 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  84. Lotus: Diffusion-Based Visual Foundation Model for High-Quality Dense Prediction

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  85. Show HN: I made a super-simple image CDN

    46 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  86. Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  87. Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  88. ESPN Faces Proposed Fine for Improper Use of Emergency Alert Tones

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  89. Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debugging

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  90. Rethinking School Design

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  91. Christopher Columbus' remains found after 500 years as DNA analysis ends mystery

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  92. Wealth Distribution in the United States

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  93. Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  94. Automattic disclosed a vulnerability in ACF but announced it publicly

    45 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  95. Today's selfie is tomorrow's biometric profile

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  96. Google Ads announces 11-year data retention policy

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  97. Next.js, Just Why?

    45 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  98. Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  99. Alexei Navalny's Prison Diaries

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  100. ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2024