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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

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

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  2. Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore

    47 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  3. Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?

    46 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  4. Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow

    46 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  6. Bulma CSS Framework

    46 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  9. 2-adic numbering for binary tilings

    46 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  10. Oura Ring 4

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  11. What I've learned building with AI

    46 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  12. The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's identity

    46 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  13. UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  14. Rapamycin: One Drug, Many Effects (2014)

    46 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  16. The MANY Alternatives to Scrum

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  18. The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service

    46 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  20. Room temp chirality switching and detection in a helimagnetic MnAu2 thin film

    46 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  21. Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson

    46 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  22. U.S. military makes first confirmed OpenAI purchase for war-fighting forces

    46 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  23. Large French Alpine ski resort to close in face of shrinking snow season

    46 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  24. OpenBSD 7.6 released

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

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

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  26. I built a 20k watt microwave oven [video]

    46 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  27. Show HN: Routing24 – Free route optimization in the browser

    46 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  28. SiteOne Crawler – big tool with no users

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  29. Next.js, Just Why?

    45 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  30. Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  31. The human cost of our AI-driven future

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  32. Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  33. Neural Networks (MNIST inference) on the "3-cent" Microcontroller

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  37. Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debugging

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  38. Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Roberson Still on Death Row?

    45 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  41. Google Ads announces 11-year data retention policy

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  42. Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  43. Geoffrey Hinton said machine learning would outperform radiologists by now

    45 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  45. Wealth Distribution in the United States

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  46. Writer Underwriting Writer

    45 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  47. Apple iPhone 16 Is Now Illegal in Indonesia, Ban Leaves Tourists in the Lurch

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

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

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  49. GenAI is set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  50. Alexei Navalny's Prison Diaries

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  51. Samsung meets MediaTek: The story of a small bug chain [pdf]

    45 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  52. Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – by Cory Doctorow

    44 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  53. $61 kit turns any Hot Wheels into a remote-controlled drift car

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  54. Korean women remove pictures, videos from social media amid deepfake porn crisis

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  55. Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

    44 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  56. Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity over Quality [video]

    44 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  57. National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

    44 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  58. Skymont: Intel’s E-Cores reach for the Sky

    44 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  59. Starship is Still Not Understood (2021)

    44 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  60. Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out

    44 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  61. In a rare disclosure, The Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane

    44 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  62. Show HN: Desktop Sandbox for Secure Cloud Computer Use

    44 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  63. Improving Parquet Dedupe on Hugging Face Hub

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  64. Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome

    44 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  65. Scott Fitzgerald's Last Act

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  66. H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

    44 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  67. Exercise Paradox

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  68. How Excessive Red Meat Consumption Increases Colorectal Cancer Risk

    44 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  69. "Women and Children First"

    44 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  70. Apple II Source Listings

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  71. ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  72. Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  73. Geothermal Power in the North Bay

    44 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  74. One of the Last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II Dies at 107

    44 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  75. LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records

    43 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  76. X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

    43 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  77. US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting

    43 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  78. Show HN: Ryde, a Rust Web Framework

    43 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  79. Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  80. I'm a Luddite (and So Can You)

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  81. A quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

    43 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  82. Drinking alcohol reduces the body's natural GLP-1 activity by 34%

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  83. Recursion, Tidy Stars, and Water Lilies

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  84. Human brain changes after first psilocybin use

    43 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  85. Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  86. Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare

    43 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  87. Hasbro's Trademark for the Smell of Play-Doh (2018)

    43 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  88. Dispelling Myths about Randomisation

    43 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  89. The Wobbly Table Theorem (2022)

    43 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  90. Plutocrat Archipelagos

    43 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  91. Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week

    43 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  92. Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia on the Tibetan Plateau

    43 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  93. Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?

    43 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  94. Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint: Oxfam

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  95. Optimize the Data Layout

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  96. A FLOSS platform for data analysis pipelines that you probably haven't heard of

    43 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  97. I Replied 'Stop' to a Political Text Message. I Got 100 More

    43 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  98. The deconstructed Standard Model equation

    43 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  99. Catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than we thought

    43 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  100. Repeatability: As Difficult as it is Important

    43 points • comment • oct 28, 2024