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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Show HN: Rust Web Framework

    467 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  2. Buy payphones and retire

    464 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  3. Character amnesia in China

    461 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  4. Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings

    459 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  5. US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

    458 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  6. Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

    453 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  7. Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

    452 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  8. Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

    448 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  9. Huly – Open-source project management platform

    448 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  10. How I write code using Cursor

    447 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  11. Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

    446 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  12. Linux from Scratch

    443 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  13. Uxn

    443 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  14. Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

    443 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  15. OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it

    441 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  16. New Mac Mini with M4

    441 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  17. Who died and left the US $7B?

    441 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  18. Reflections on Palantir

    440 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  19. Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

    439 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  20. How long til we're all on Ozempic?

    432 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  21. Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

    430 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  22. Care Doesn't Scale

    430 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  23. A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years

    428 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  24. Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

    425 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  25. US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

    424 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  26. Show HN: Kotlin Money

    420 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  27. Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

    420 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  28. COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

    417 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  29. Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees

    417 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  30. Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

    416 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  31. How I Experience Web Today (2021)

    415 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  32. Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

    414 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  33. World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

    408 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  34. Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust

    405 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  35. The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online

    404 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  36. How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me

    404 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  37. CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

    403 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  38. Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game

    403 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  39. Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)

    403 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  40. Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key

    402 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  41. US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

    402 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  42. Wait Until 8th

    401 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  43. Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

    400 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  44. “Bad Apple” in Minecraft

    400 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  45. Bots, so many bots

    399 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  46. Conway's Gradient of Life

    398 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  47. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

    397 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  48. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx

    393 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  49. Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance

    393 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  50. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

    392 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  51. Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]

    392 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  52. An e-waste dumping ground

    391 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  53. Gosub – An open-source browser engine

    391 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  54. Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel

    390 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  55. CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3

    390 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  56. Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine

    390 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  57. MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

    387 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  58. Syncthing Android App Discontinued

    386 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  59. Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support

    381 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  60. You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

    381 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  61. Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components

    380 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  62. Understanding Round Robin DNS

    379 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  63. All political ads running on Google in the US

    378 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  64. $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

    378 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  65. A new JSON data type for ClickHouse

    375 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  66. The motor turns too much

    375 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  67. Svelte 5 Released

    374 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  68. Using static websites for tiny archives

    373 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  69. We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

    370 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  70. Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86

    369 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

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

    369 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  72. RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

    369 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  73. Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

    369 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  74. HTML Form Validation is underused

    368 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

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

    367 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

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

    366 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

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

    365 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  78. MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)

    364 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

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

    363 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  80. Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

    363 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  81. Never Missing the Train Again

    363 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  82. Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse

    363 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  83. Terminal colours are tricky

    362 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  84. Pretty.c

    360 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  85. Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)

    360 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  86. Grandmaster-level chess without search

    359 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  87. Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

    359 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  88. OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition

    358 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

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

    356 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  90. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

    356 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  91. Code that helped end Apartheid

    355 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  92. New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

    354 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  93. Please do not write below the line

    352 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  94. Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

    351 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  95. AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%

    351 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  96. Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

    349 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  97. Crossing the USA by Train

    348 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  98. Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died

    347 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

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

    347 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  100. What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?

    346 points • comment • oct 23, 2024