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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

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

    103 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  2. A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas

    103 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  3. Cheap solar panels are changing the world

    103 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  4. Emit

    103 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  5. LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest

    102 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  6. Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio

    102 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  7. The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes

    102 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  8. DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub

    102 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  9. Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

    102 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  10. Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people

    102 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  11. Eliza in SNOBOL4

    102 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  12. Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it

    102 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  13. Don't use "click here" for link text

    102 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  14. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

    102 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  15. Exploiting DRAM bitflips to get a root shell

    102 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  16. Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?

    101 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  17. SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS

    101 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  18. Comparing our Rust-based indexing and querying pipeline to Langchain

    101 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  19. Wazuh – Open-source security platform

    101 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  20. Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator

    101 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  21. Unsafe Rust is harder than C

    101 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  22. RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs

    101 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  23. The science of "Zoom fatigue"

    101 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  24. Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment

    101 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  25. Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG (2022)

    101 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  26. Ziggy: Data serialization language for expressing API messages, config files

    101 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  27. Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments

    100 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  28. Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $

    100 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  29. TLA from First Principles

    100 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  30. Show HN: MynaUI Icons – 1180 Beautifully Crafted Open Source Icons

    100 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  31. Rama on Clojure's terms, and the magic of continuation-passing style

    100 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  32. Biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed

    100 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  33. AI won't replace human devs anytime soon

    99 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  34. Every change breaks someone's workflow (2013)

    99 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  35. Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence

    99 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  36. How to grip Bronze Age swords

    99 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  37. A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions

    99 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  38. The missing middle: firms in developing countries

    99 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  39. Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo

    98 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  40. RTP: One protocol to rule them all?

    98 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  41. Crux, a Precise Verifier for Rust and Other Languages

    98 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  42. Cheap light transformed civilization

    98 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  43. Canvas Fingerprinting

    98 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  44. In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased (2023)

    98 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  45. How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters

    98 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  46. Did Automattic commit open source theft?

    98 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  47. Should we be thinking about luck differently?

    98 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  48. Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"

    98 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  49. Lessons from Plain Text

    97 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  50. Sinusoidal Sunlight

    97 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  51. Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

    97 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  52. Node.js, Pipes, and Disappearing Bytes

    97 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  53. TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$

    96 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  54. Medley Loops: The Basic System (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  55. The human internet is dying. AI images are taking over Google top results

    96 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  56. David Lynch Interview Project

    96 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  57. Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

    96 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  58. Show HN: LlamaPReview – AI GitHub PR reviewer that learns your codebase

    96 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  59. Even a single bacterial cell can sense the seasons changing

    96 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  60. Memory safety without lifetime parameters

    96 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  61. PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

    96 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  62. IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers more tax situations in 2025

    96 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  63. MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy

    95 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  64. ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model

    95 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  65. Interview with Yann LeCun on AI

    95 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  66. Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base

    95 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  67. What docs-as-code means

    95 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  68. Kernighan's Lever (2012)

    95 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  69. Exploring 120 years of timezones (2021)

    95 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  70. The history of Monokai

    95 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  71. Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store

    95 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  72. Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

    95 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  73. Sears Homes 1915-1920

    95 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  74. Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try

    95 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  75. Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser

    95 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  76. Your brain changes based on what you did two weeks ago

    95 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  77. A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy

    94 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  78. DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support

    94 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  79. A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support

    94 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  80. Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command

    94 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  81. Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]

    94 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  82. GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English

    94 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  83. Plankton balloon to six times size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel

    94 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  84. My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing

    94 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  85. Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes

    94 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  86. Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs

    94 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  87. FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy

    94 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  88. Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?

    93 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  89. The weak science behind psychedelics

    93 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  90. Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer

    93 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  91. Trap – Transformers in APL

    93 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  92. Gboard Double Sided Version

    93 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  93. Show HN: Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  94. Coreboot port for 486 motherboard (UM8881/6)

    93 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  95. Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

    93 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  96. Inside the Transport for London cyberattack

    93 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  97. Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup

    93 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  98. A Photo of the Moon

    92 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  99. Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

    92 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  100. You Can't Opt-Out of A.I. Online

    92 points • comment • oct 03, 2024