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Hacker News (Oct 2024)
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Vial with nerve agent that killed woman contained enough to kill thousands
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Nursing Homes Overuse 'Chemical Restraints' on Dementia Patients
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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OnlyFans is Finally Dead. And I'm happy about it
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Show HN: Zero – A no-framework approach to modern front end development
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal'
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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ComfyUI Custom Node for OpenAI
5 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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"Hey Elon, can I have my designs back?" – I, Robot Director
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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BinSym: Symbolic execution for RISC-V machine code based on LibRISCV ISA model
5 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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RemotePulse – Boost your remote work productivity with effortless tracking
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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US dockworkers suspend ports strike until January
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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No One Prepared for How Much Man Eats at Olive Garden's Never-Ending Buffet
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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FTX Clear to Repay Customers as Firms Seek Slice of $1B
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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US ports start 100-day countdown: automation is poised to be the dealbreaker
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Why do we have near-equal numbers of male, female babies, unlike other animals?
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Komodo: A tool to build and deploy software across many servers
5 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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What happens when shipping containers get lost at sea and burst?
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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The problems with China's space program
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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AI helps farmers target weeds, livestock illnesses and pests
5 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Who Supplies Israel with Weapons?
5 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Scientists who solved ~ all proteins with AI
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Alaska utilities pursue renewables as costs escalate for fossil fuel electricity
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Modern Path Environment Variable
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Google LLC vs. Oracle America, Inc
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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2 years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Helene victims await help, but FEMA spent the money on migrants
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Germany: Spy chiefs warn of increasing Russian threat
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Perks of Being a Python Core Developer
5 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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China to hit cognac in response to European tariffs on electric cars
5 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Apple's Chief People Officer Leaves Company After 20 Months
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Months Before Ethiopian 737 Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier's Questions
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Tattoo Artist's Trial Win Is a Loss for Bodily Autonomy, Free Speech (2022)
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Systemic proteome adaptions to 7-day complete caloric restriction in humans
5 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Kessler Syndrome
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Efficient and Effective Model Extraction
5 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
5 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Ask HN: Any Modern, Serverless Alternatives to Lobste.rs?
5 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Local Mail Server for Testing
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Open-Source Java DSA and Interview Prep Bootcamp by WeMakeDevs
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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In Good Health: Weight Loss Drugs and the Falling Obesity Rate
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Striking Dockworkers Are Top Earners–When They Work
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Opinion letter about Robert Roberson, about to be executed in Texas
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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A student built a fusion reactor at home in just 4 weeks using $2k and AI
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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The Internet Archive is under attack
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Null Is Not the Billion Dollar Mistake. A Counter-Rant (2015)
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Parallax Scrolling on the Gameboy Color
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Maximum best compression for binary data: xz (LZMA) vs. ZSTD vs. 7z vs. bzip2
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Manim: A Python Framework for Crafting Beautiful Mathematical Animations
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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I just signed up for Twilio Sendgrid, and got instantly permabanned
5 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Teeth
5 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Ask HN: How can the elderly tell if the AirPods Pro 2 can correct their hearing?
5 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Foreign operators may be using Boeing 737s with suspect rudder control parts
5 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Neural manifolds: Latest buzzword or pathway to understand the brain?
5 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Coding without braces: An alternate C Syntax
5 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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OpenAI's bankruptcy flames linger on as Apple wiggles out of $6.5B funding round
5 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Automattic is doing open source dirty
5 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Early Praise Kills Projects
5 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Confessions of a Hinge Power User
4 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Amazon wins partial dismissal of US antitrust lawsuit
4 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
4 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Google's Dominant Search Business Is Under Attack from TikTok to AI
4 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
4 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Nvidia's planned 12GB RTX 5070 plan is a mistake
4 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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KDE Plasma 6.2.1, Bugfix Release for October
4 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Australian court upholds order for X f/k/a Twitter fine over child abuse probe
4 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Russia is banning Discord, an app its military uses
4 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Brain Initiative Launches Major Data Release to Map Brain Cells
4 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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China Holds War Games in a Warning to Taiwan's Leader
4 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Beehive – LLM Agentic Framework
4 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Facing the Facts to Keep Our Biometrics Secure
4 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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OpenAI's $157B Valuation and Why Altman Is One of the Last Founders Left
4 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Rising incomes do not always mean fewer births
4 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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An interstellar instrument takes a final bow
4 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Automattic offered employees 9 months pay to quit over WordPress drama
4 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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Workday Billionaire 'Bored Silly' of Retirement Chases a Third IPO
4 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release [video]
4 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Riots and the far right: the global network behind the violence
4 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
4 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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New Gmail Security Alert for 2.5B Users as AI Hack Confirmed
4 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Nobel Economics 2024: why some countries are rich and others poor
4 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Redot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
4 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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A Staggering Amount of Wealth Creation
4 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening
4 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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How Did the Vulcan Rocket Survive This Booster Failure?[video]
4 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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The Origins of PostScript [pdf]
4 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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HN in Your Language with Real-Time Generated Highlights
4 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Proven Risks of Refillable Soap Dispensers
4 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Italy and Switzerland have agreed to shift their shared border in the Alps
4 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Russia and Turkey Block Discord
4 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Amid hurricanes, the chemtrail conspiracy theory has its moment in the sun
4 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Ask HN: AWS registering MFA will be required in 29 days
4 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Earth's 'vital signs' show humanity's future in balance, say climate experts
4 points • comment • oct 08, 2024