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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. An n-ball Between n-balls

    239 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  2. New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data

    238 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  3. Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format

    236 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  4. Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)

    234 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  5. Grandmaster-level chess without search

    234 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  6. C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

    234 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  7. Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting

    233 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  8. Meta's open AI hardware vision

    232 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  9. Rust needs a web framework

    232 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  10. AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform

    231 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  11. Let's talk about animation quality

    231 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  12. Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims

    230 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  13. Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients

    230 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  14. How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

    230 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  15. Good Retry, Bad Retry

    229 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  16. Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see

    229 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  17. Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?

    228 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  18. Python 3.13.0 Is Released

    228 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  19. Proposal: JavaScript Structs

    227 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  20. Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet

    227 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  21. Hetzner Object Storage

    227 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  22. FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs

    226 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  23. OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

    226 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  24. Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones

    225 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  25. 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

    225 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  26. Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

    225 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  27. Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams

    224 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  28. Practices of Reliable Software Design

    224 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  29. Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

    223 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  30. Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval

    222 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  31. Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?

    222 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  32. Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)

    221 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  33. Why birds do not fall while sleeping

    221 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  34. MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone

    221 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  35. Furilabs Linux Phone

    221 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  36. WordPress retaliation impacts community

    220 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  37. Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably

    220 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  38. AI is an impediment to learning web development

    219 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  39. Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer

    219 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  40. Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

    218 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  41. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction

    216 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  42. FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers

    215 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  43. Restic: Backups done right

    214 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  44. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    213 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  45. Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed

    213 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  46. Cargo Airships Are Happening

    212 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  47. NASA's Europa Clipper Launch

    212 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  48. Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git

    212 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  49. Un Ministral, Des Ministraux

    211 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  50. ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

    210 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  51. An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes

    210 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  52. Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US

    209 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  53. Show HN: I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go

    208 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  54. Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why

    208 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  55. The phone ban has had a big impact on school work

    208 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  56. Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic

    208 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  57. PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework

    208 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  58. Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream

    207 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  59. OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog

    207 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  60. Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense

    207 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  61. I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server

    206 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  62. Introducing Our New Name

    205 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  63. An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs

    204 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  64. Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP

    204 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  65. ACF has been hijacked

    203 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  66. Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake

    202 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  67. You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth

    202 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  68. Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

    202 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  69. California bans sell-by dates

    201 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  70. Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

    201 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  71. A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase

    200 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  72. Embedded Rust in Production?

    200 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  73. Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

    198 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  74. Do U.S. ports need more automation?

    197 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  75. How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]

    196 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  76. Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency

    195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  77. Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

    195 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  78. Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

    195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  79. Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

    195 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  80. Warm Handoffs

    195 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  81. Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"

    193 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  82. Is the attack helicopter dead?

    192 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  83. A Local-First Case Study

    192 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  84. Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]

    191 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  85. Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

    191 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  86. A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)

    191 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  87. The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)

    190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  88. UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  89. France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

    190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  90. I Stayed

    190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  91. The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia

    189 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  92. Don't let dicts spoil your code

    188 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  93. The bunkbed conjecture is false

    187 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  94. The 1/8th Sleep

    186 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  95. Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

    186 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  96. We're excited about our new roundabout

    184 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  97. Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

    184 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  98. In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains

    183 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  99. My negative views on Rust (2023)

    182 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  100. Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair

    182 points • comment • oct 11, 2024