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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. The Kew Herbarium (2019)

    14 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  2. Goodbye to an old spreadsheet

    14 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  3. An Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices

    14 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  4. Turkish Journalists Are Now 'Telling the Xinjiang Story Well' for Beijing

    14 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  5. The Math Says It's Getting Harder to Break into the American Middle Class

    14 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  6. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without over consuming?

    13 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  7. Ventilation and Temperature Control (1999) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  8. The Yearlong Wait to Transfer Bonds Out of TreasuryDirect

    13 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  9. Engineers are not fans of technologies

    13 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  10. In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4"

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  11. Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent:I Am a Software Girl

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  12. Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications

    13 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  13. Apple lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  14. Show HN: Teletxt (Vercel App)

    13 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  15. Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined

    13 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  16. Show HN: I made a football/soccer formation and squad app

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  17. Directional system and spatial deix in Manam language

    13 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  18. Cardiac Crisis: Covid-19 Doubles Risk of Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Death

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  19. Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo

    13 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  20. Secure Custom Fields

    13 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  21. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  22. Ask HN: Recommendation for LLM-based "documentation interaction"

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  23. Our trashy domain killed our reach โ€“ don't make the same mistake

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  24. 'That's a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  25. Orban moving fast: Endorsement of ChatControl on the agenda for Wednesday

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  26. Transmutation of Uranium and Thorium by Neutrons (1939)

    13 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  27. U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  28. Google's AI search summaries officially have ads

    13 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  29. How to Tax the Rich: Piketty

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  30. A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  31. Vector math library codegen in Debug

    13 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  32. Should I Use My State's Digital Driver's License?

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  33. TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege

    13 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  34. What the (2021)

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  35. Caveman Debugging in the Modern Age

    13 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  36. I quit Amazon after being assigned 21 direct reports

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  37. Student loan forgiveness plan can move forward, federal judge allows

    13 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  38. Kgrep: small search engine, no fluff

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  39. Can Brown Noise Turn Off Your Brain?

    13 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  40. Hot Take: Don'T provide incident resolution estimates

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  41. Every Scientific Field

    13 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  42. The Boo Programming Language

    13 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  43. Chinese researchers claim they have broken AES encryption using quantum computer

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  44. Airborne plastic chemical levels shock researchers

    13 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  45. Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

    13 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  46. Python 3.13.0

    13 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  47. Apple's naming conventions are a mess

    13 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  48. Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do?

    13 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  49. Tesla's prototype Optimus robots were controlled by humans

    13 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  50. SLS is still a national disgrace

    13 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  51. Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away

    13 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  52. Regular exercise could reduce the severity of hangovers

    12 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  53. New, unique fusion reactor comes together due to global research collaboration

    12 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  54. Bhutan's Prime Minister: 'We have to ask ourselves why we want economic growth'

    12 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  55. Ion and Molecular Sieving with Ultrathin Polydopamine Nanomembranes

    12 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  56. Porch Pirates Are Stealing AT&T iPhones Delivered by FedEx

    12 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  57. Show HN: Hexabot, Open-source AI Chatbot/Agent Tool

    12 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  58. HTML Whitespace Is Broken

    12 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  59. You can run Linux on the RISC-V cores of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350

    12 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  60. Ask HN: What does the recruiting process look like for VPs at FAANGs?

    12 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  61. Tailoring amorphous boron nitride for high-performance 2d electronics

    12 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  62. California officials reject SpaceX rocket launches, citing Musk's X posts

    12 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  63. Secure CGI Applications in C on BSD (2016)

    12 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  64. Ask HN: For those who can choose to go to the office, and go, why do you go?

    12 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  65. Automattic is doing open source dirty

    12 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  66. Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan (2020)

    12 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  67. Walgreens to close 1,200 stores as US pharmacies struggle to define a new role

    12 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  68. 4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [through external GPU card] [video]

    12 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  69. The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

    12 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  70. This is my dead grandmother's Special Day

    12 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  71. OpenBSD 7.6 Released

    12 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  72. Understanding the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF)

    12 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  73. Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

    12 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  74. Show HN: Kloudlite โ€“ Open-Source Dev Environments That Just Works

    12 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  75. Casio confirms customer data stolen in a ransomware attack

    12 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  76. India Is Now Russia's No. 2 Supplier of Restricted Technology

    12 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  77. Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1B

    12 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  78. Inkscape 1.4 Release

    12 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  79. Effective Fuzzing: A Dav1d Case Study

    12 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  80. Port strikes end with deal on wages

    12 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  81. Court documents reveal TikTok knew app's impact on children's mental health

    12 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  82. Factory Workers Are Dying Because Machines Aren't Being Turned Off

    12 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  83. U.S. Army aims for final draft of software mega-contract

    12 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  84. Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell

    12 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  85. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour: the wealthy have siphoned off music industry money

    12 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  86. The Realtime API

    12 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  87. the US stirs up the hornet's nest of drug trafficking in Mexico

    12 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  88. US officials quietly backed Israel's military push against Lebanon

    12 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  89. Writing an animated 3-star popup with .NET MAUI and Lottie (2022)

    12 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  90. An Uber, Lyft Loophole Denys NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

    12 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  91. The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science

    12 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  92. Microsoft and OpenAI's Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying

    12 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  93. A hidden microphone on a SF street pole is spotting 'bops' in the wild

    12 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  94. "The Siege of Caffa" โ€“ The earliest known use of Biological Warfare

    11 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  95. Generation Never-Called-in-Sick

    11 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  96. Broadcom offers AT&T a 1050% increase to renew VMware contract

    11 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  97. 'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem

    11 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  98. Diet can change your immune system

    11 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  99. Kamala Harris proposes 1M forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs

    11 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  100. Megalopolis: See It Three Times

    11 points • comment • oct 15, 2024