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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Practical Jokes (2007)

    36 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  2. Food Colorants Before Aniline Dyes (1991) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  3. Google Translate Learns Inuktut

    35 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  4. Musicmap: The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres

    35 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  5. Reinventing Core Data Development with SwiftData Principles

    35 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  6. Meta's Israel Policy Chief tried to suppress pro-Palestinian posts

    35 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  7. Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  8. Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole

    35 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  9. Beyond Procedure Calls as Component Glue: Connectors Deserve Metaclass Status

    35 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  10. US Copyright Office "frees the McFlurry," allowing repair of ice cream machines

    35 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  11. Witches around the world

    35 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  12. Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency

    35 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  13. Show HN: OpenBallot, Aggregated SF/California Voter Guides

    35 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  14. Ask HN: How close are we to replace animal models with software?

    35 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  15. The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011)

    35 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  16. Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026

    35 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  17. Making FreeDOS Smaller [video]

    35 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  18. JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch

    35 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  19. Stages of Denial (2020)

    35 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  20. Show HN: G-win – .gcode parser written in Rust with winnow

    35 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  21. "Now What?" by John Hopfield (2018) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  22. "Bush hid the facts" bug

    35 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  23. Flawless is now in public beta

    35 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  24. The Origin of Samples from Mars (2023)

    35 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  25. Liskov's Gun: The Parallel Evolution of React and Web Components

    35 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  26. A Report from the 2024 Image-Based Linux Summit

    35 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  27. Lectron System, the Arduino Precursor

    35 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  28. Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files

    35 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  29. RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture

    35 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  30. Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers

    35 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  31. Pocket-size AMD Ryzen PC in a folding keyboard

    35 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  32. Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  33. Joseph Jastrow and his duck – or is it a rabbit? (2004–2020)

    34 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  34. FriendlyElec NanoPi R5S as PTP Grandmaster Clock with GNSS/GPS Discipline (2022)

    34 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  35. Burning Zero Days: FortiJump FortiManager vulnerability used by nation state

    34 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  36. Microsoft asking us to buy new Windows 11 PCs is wasteful

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  37. Show HN: Desktop app displaying files on a 2D canvas

    34 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  38. Traditionally, init on Unix was not a service manager as such

    34 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  39. Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io

    34 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  40. Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs

    34 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  41. Janus: Decoupling visual encoding for multimodal understanding and generation

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  42. We've entered the AI grift era

    34 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  43. We have an employee whose surname is Null (2014)

    34 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  44. 'Open banking' rules will put your financial data back where it belongs

    34 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  45. Jane Street Probability Guide [pdf]

    34 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  46. Men Stall Waymo Driverless Car to Catcall Female Passenger Inside

    34 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  47. A seven-dimensional analysis of hashing methods [pdf] (2015)

    34 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  48. Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub

    34 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  49. We Just Got More Evidence That Long Covid Is a Brain Injury

    34 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  50. The Battery Revolution Is Finally Here

    34 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  51. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  52. The Vision Pro reportedly suspended because of weak demand

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  53. The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode

    34 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  54. When machines could see you

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  55. Florida mother files lawsuit against AI company over teen son's death

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  56. How we didn't find product market fit

    34 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  57. Redditors Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of Good Restaurants

    34 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  58. Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?

    34 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  59. Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?

    34 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  60. Florida's disaster-proof community withstood yet another hurricane

    34 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  61. Malicious packages in open-source repositories are surging

    34 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  62. The Warlord of Saturn's Moons

    34 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  63. Show HN: I wrote an autodiff in C++ and implemented LeNet with it

    34 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  64. Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  65. The Script Creator

    33 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  66. Stay in the Gap

    33 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  67. Ground beef stimulates more protein synthesis than soy based meat

    33 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  68. Free tiny but useful web products

    33 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  69. On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

    33 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  70. Tim Brooks, Creator of Sora Leaves OpenAI for DeepMind

    33 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  71. The State of the TI Community (1999)

    33 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  72. 79 Percent of CEOs Say Remote Work Will Be Dead in 3 Years or Less

    33 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  73. Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source

    33 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  74. US man jailed for cloning giant sheep for trophy hunting

    33 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  75. Research reveals new clues to the mysteries of long Covid

    33 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  76. FDA Permits Marketing of Digital Game to Improve Attention in ADHD Children (2020)

    33 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  77. Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process

    33 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  78. Electric vehicle safety via crash test

    33 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  79. Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

    33 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  80. The Electoral College was nearly abolished in 1970 (2020)

    33 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  81. Show HN: Zero – DX focused non framework to interact with the DOM

    33 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  82. Method Values

    33 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  83. Automattic turns to weaponizing responsible disclosure against WP Engine

    33 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  84. Show HN: Cerebellum – Open-Source Browser Control with Claude 3.5 Computer Use

    33 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  85. As America's Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms

    33 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  86. A Game Launching a Launcher After I've Launched It in Steam Should Be a Crime

    33 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  87. Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000

    33 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  88. The Plan to Save Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Isn't Going as Planned

    33 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  89. The million-dollar mystery of milk.com

    32 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  90. Fable is winding down

    32 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  91. Google Cloud region in Germany suffers 12 hour outage

    32 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  92. Software freedom isn't about licenses – it's about power (2021)

    32 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  93. Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon

    32 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  94. Apple's macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position

    32 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  95. Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie

    32 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  96. Show HN: Temp.now – A free temporary disposable email generator

    32 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  97. A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards

    32 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  98. Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

    32 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  99. An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  100. OpenAI asks investors not to back rival startups such as Elon Musk's xAI

    32 points • comment • oct 02, 2024