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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea

    115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  2. Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance

    115 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  3. Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades

    115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  4. Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  5. LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)

    115 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  6. Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]

    115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  7. Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  8. 70% of meteorites from 3 collisions in asteroid belt within past 40M years

    114 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  9. The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp

    114 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  10. AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

    114 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  11. Go library for in-process vector search and embeddings with llama.cpp

    114 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  12. 50 Years of Queries

    114 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  13. Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

    114 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  14. Make Pottery at Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) [video]

    114 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

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

    114 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  16. One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island

    113 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  17. Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models

    113 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  18. How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet

    113 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  19. Deep dive: the instability of op-amps

    113 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  20. New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively

    113 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  21. OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition

    113 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  22. Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line

    113 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  23. All asteroids in Solar System, visualized

    113 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  24. U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers

    113 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  25. Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)

    113 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  26. My WordPress Slack Ban

    113 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  27. Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

    112 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  28. Router Security

    112 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  29. Federal investigators probe Tether

    111 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  30. Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga

    111 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  31. Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing

    111 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  32. 'Smart' insulin prevents diabetic highs – and deadly lows

    111 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  33. New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship

    111 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  34. Wired's Attack on Privacy

    111 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  35. One Plus One Equals Two (2006)

    111 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  36. Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices

    111 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  37. Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets

    110 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  38. Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

    110 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  39. Parks on the Air

    110 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  40. Streaming joins are hard

    110 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  41. WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

    110 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  42. RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws

    110 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  43. Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade

    110 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  44. Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock

    109 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  45. Miqt: MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go

    109 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  46. The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture

    109 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  47. A new artificial intelligence tool for cancer

    109 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  48. Show HN: Self-Hostable Algolia DocSearch Replacement

    109 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  49. They want your ethics for $105

    109 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  50. Claude Computer Use – Is Vision the Ultimate API?

    109 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  51. What do you visualize while programming?

    109 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  52. DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)

    108 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  53. Piracy

    108 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  54. Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)

    108 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  55. Remains of an ancient Greek structure found in Croatia

    108 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  56. Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser

    108 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  57. Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL

    108 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  58. INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model

    108 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  59. Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

    108 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  60. Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)

    108 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  61. Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

    108 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  62. The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  63. Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  64. RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector

    107 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  65. A dictionary of single-letter variable names

    107 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  66. Evolving GitHub Issues

    107 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  67. Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician

    106 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  68. Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years

    106 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  69. Gustav Klimt's Obsession with Gold

    106 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  70. Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD-adapted body doubling

    106 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  71. Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer

    106 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  72. Show HN: A Demo for a Strategy Game

    106 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  73. Sets, types and type checking

    106 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  74. For the strongest disc golf throws, it's all in the thumbs

    106 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  75. Brain endurance training improves older adults' cognitive, physical performance

    105 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  76. Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  77. Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024)

    105 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  78. GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoying

    105 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  79. Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go

    105 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  80. Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server

    105 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  81. FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance over time

    105 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  82. Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox

    105 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  83. The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  84. NixOS is not reproducible

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  85. Platform Strategy and Its Discontents

    105 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  86. A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT

    104 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  87. Live imaging of ovulation in action reveals three distinct phases in mice

    104 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  88. FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?

    104 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  89. Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy

    104 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  90. A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube

    104 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  91. Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging

    104 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  92. Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision

    104 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  93. Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation

    104 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  94. Show HN: Kasama – an IntelliJ plugin to keep track of your coding practices

    104 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  95. LLMs don't do formal reasoning

    104 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  96. Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo

    104 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  97. The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)

    103 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  98. Antibody Drug Conjugates: A frontier in cancer treatment

    103 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  99. Show HN: A macOS Client for HuggingFace Chat

    103 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  100. Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him

    103 points • comment • oct 04, 2024