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Hacker News (Oct 2024)
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A team paid to break into top-secret bases
55 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster
55 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Sorbet: A neuromorphic hardware-compatible transformer-based spiking model
55 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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What Is Theoretical Computer Science?
54 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona
54 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows
54 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Sysadmins rage over Apple's 'nightmarish' SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts
54 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems
54 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Sausages: An Anthology
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent
53 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta
53 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Functional PHP (2015)
53 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies
53 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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I Don't Have LinkedIn
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Task-Switching Experiment (2015)
52 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Putting the "Person" in "Personal Website"
52 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'
52 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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East and Gulf Coast ports strike
52 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds
52 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand
52 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
51 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Private equity ruins tech companies
51 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Forums Are Still Alive
51 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Teen achieves first NES Tetris "rebirth," proves endless play is possible
50 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Abandoned mines cover the West
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?
50 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Abacus Machines [pdf]
50 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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CS 253 Web Security
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Wikidata Is a Giant Crosswalk File
50 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only
50 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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19th century lions preyed on humans and giraffes
50 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Show HN: Chain Traverser – Fast Ethereum graph explorer
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Discord Rejects Role as 'Anti-Piracy' Partner; will no longer respond to DMCAs
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Partitioning in the Chiplet Era
49 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?
49 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control
49 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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OpenBSD 7.6 Released
49 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Grandmaster expelled from team chess championship after phone found in toilet
49 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store
49 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Lillian Schwartz, pioneer in computer-generated art, dies at 97
49 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Who are AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs for?
49 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet
49 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma
49 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back
48 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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Doom 2 got a Mod, featuring 2 chapters, 36 new tracks and 20 hours of gameplay
48 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Geico car insurance may no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks
48 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old
48 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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A C++ Developer Learns Assembly
48 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Columbus' DNA suggests he was a Sephardic Jew from the western Mediterranean
48 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Llamafile for Meltemi: The First LLM for Greek
48 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Tokyo looks to protect service staff from customers who are not so cool
48 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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The Inevitability of Mixing Open Source and Money
48 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization
48 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Show HN: Reintroducing Cap, the open source Loom alternative
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Show HN: Gmail unsubscribe tool with bulk deletion and personal data removal
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs (2012) [pdf]
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
48 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Mt Rainier Elevation Survey
48 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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The Open Source AI Definition RC1 Is Available for Comments
47 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Zapata AI Ceases Operations
47 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Mesh Shaders – The Future of Rendering [video]
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Holocron is an object storage based leader election library
47 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal
47 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Rodents remotely move matter using sound to enhance their sense of smell: study
47 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Answer any question about your photo albums with OmniQuery
47 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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The World of Electrostatic Ecology
47 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson
46 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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The MANY Alternatives to Scrum
46 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow
46 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Ask HN: How do you add guard rails in LLM response without breaking streaming?
46 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Oura Ring 4
46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service
46 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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OpenBSD 7.6 released
46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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SiteOne Crawler – big tool with no users
46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery
46 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Thank HN: 10 years and $15M ARR later: Thank you
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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Show HN: I made a simple web app to help kids learn a new language
46 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Lotus: Diffusion-Based Visual Foundation Model for High-Quality Dense Prediction
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Show HN: I made a super-simple image CDN
46 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events
45 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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ESPN Faces Proposed Fine for Improper Use of Emergency Alert Tones
45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debugging
45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Rethinking School Design
45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Christopher Columbus' remains found after 500 years as DNA analysis ends mystery
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Wealth Distribution in the United States
45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error
45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Automattic disclosed a vulnerability in ACF but announced it publicly
45 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Today's selfie is tomorrow's biometric profile
45 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Google Ads announces 11-year data retention policy
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Next.js, Just Why?
45 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions
45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Alexei Navalny's Prison Diaries
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity
44 points • comment • oct 01, 2024