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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org

    369 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  2. Inkscape 1.4 Released

    368 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  3. Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)

    367 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  4. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

    366 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  5. American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

    365 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  6. Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

    363 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  7. Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

    363 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  8. Terminal colours are tricky

    362 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  9. We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

    362 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  10. Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI

    356 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  11. Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

    351 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  12. Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died

    347 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

    347 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  14. On the Nature of Time

    343 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  15. Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring

    340 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  16. Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

    338 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  17. Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting

    334 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  18. Whence '\n'?

    333 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  19. Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon

    330 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  20. Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

    328 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  21. Math from Three to Seven

    326 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  22. Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study

    326 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  23. The Internet Archive is back online

    325 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  24. Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs

    317 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  25. Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)

    317 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  26. Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

    314 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  27. AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched

    314 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  28. Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models

    311 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  29. A modest critique of Htmx

    310 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  30. ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera

    310 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  31. AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

    307 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  32. YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

    307 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  33. Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency

    306 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  34. End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit

    301 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  35. Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

    299 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  36. Gettiers in software engineering (2019)

    299 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  37. Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

    298 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  38. Life, death, and retirement

    296 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  39. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    291 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  40. My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine

    290 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  41. Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines

    290 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  42. Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

    288 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  43. Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

    284 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  44. LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday

    284 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  45. Cats are (almost) liquid

    283 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  46. PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores

    282 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  47. Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

    280 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  48. NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

    279 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  49. The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data

    279 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  50. Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

    279 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  51. Automating processes with software is hard

    278 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  52. Zamba2-7B

    275 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  53. Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)

    275 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  54. Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster

    274 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  55. uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

    273 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  56. Game Programming in Prolog

    272 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  57. Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

    272 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  58. Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator

    270 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  59. Mothbox 4.0

    270 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  60. Turkish language has a gossip tense

    269 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  61. Fast B-Trees

    269 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  62. Fuzzing 101

    268 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  63. European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

    267 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  64. How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

    266 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  65. So thieves broke into your storage unit again

    266 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  66. Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree

    265 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  67. Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan

    264 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  68. AMD GPU Inference

    264 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  69. Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python

    260 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  70. The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

    259 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  71. An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)

    258 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  72. Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

    258 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  73. Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs

    257 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  74. Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

    254 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  75. WASM Is the New CGI

    253 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  76. Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava

    253 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  77. XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support

    252 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  78. HPy – A better C API for Python

    252 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  79. Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts

    251 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  80. Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model

    251 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  81. Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

    251 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  82. Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results

    251 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  83. Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't

    250 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  84. Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output

    248 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  85. FLUX is fast and it's open source

    248 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  86. Tesla Robotaxi

    248 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  87. Don't squander public trust on bullshit

    247 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  88. WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

    246 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  89. Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI

    246 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  90. Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice

    245 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  91. What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

    245 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  92. Building a single-page app with Htmx

    244 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  93. Gleam Is Pragmatic

    244 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  94. Why does FM sound better than AM?

    244 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  95. ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way

    242 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  96. Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)

    242 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  97. How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]

    242 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  98. Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf]

    242 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  99. A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp

    240 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  100. Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

    239 points • comment • oct 07, 2024