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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. NandGame – Build a computer from scratch

    345 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  2. On the Nature of Time

    343 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

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

    340 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

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

    338 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  5. Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques

    337 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  6. Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

    336 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

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

    334 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  8. Whence '\n'?

    333 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

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

    330 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  10. NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

    329 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  11. Cats are (almost) liquid

    329 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

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

    328 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  13. A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#

    328 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  14. USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

    327 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

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

    326 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  16. Math from Three to Seven

    326 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  17. WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

    326 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  18. The Internet Archive is back online

    325 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  19. Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

    324 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  20. Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

    322 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

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

    320 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  22. So long WordPress

    320 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  23. Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations

    319 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  24. Claude for Desktop

    317 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

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

    317 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  26. An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

    317 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

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

    317 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  28. Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

    314 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

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

    314 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  30. Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

    314 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  31. A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

    313 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  32. A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance

    313 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  33. AI Flame Graphs

    312 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  34. We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size

    312 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

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

    311 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

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

    310 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  37. A modest critique of Htmx

    310 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  38. NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

    308 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  39. AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

    307 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

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

    307 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  41. QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

    306 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

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

    306 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  43. End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit

    301 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  44. Probably pay attention to tokenizers

    300 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

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

    299 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  46. Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

    299 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  47. Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging

    299 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  48. Gettiers in software engineering (2019)

    299 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  49. NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM

    298 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  50. Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

    298 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

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

    298 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  52. Learning to Learn

    298 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  53. Life, death, and retirement

    296 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  54. The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time

    295 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  55. JSON Patch

    294 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  56. New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs

    294 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  57. Security research on Private Cloud Compute

    294 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  58. Our First Generalist Policy

    293 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  59. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    291 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  60. In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice

    291 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  61. Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature

    291 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  62. Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines

    290 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  63. My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine

    290 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  64. Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

    289 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  65. Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

    289 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  66. Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

    288 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  67. MQTT turns 25

    286 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  68. Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

    285 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  69. Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

    285 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  70. Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free

    284 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

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

    284 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  72. Focus on decisions, not tasks

    282 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  73. Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels

    282 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

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

    282 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  75. Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

    281 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  76. Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

    281 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  77. Jaywalking legalized in New York City

    280 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  78. Yes, we did discover the Higgs

    280 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

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

    279 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  80. Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

    279 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  81. 555 Timer Circuits

    279 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

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

    279 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  83. Automating processes with software is hard

    278 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

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

    278 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  85. Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

    278 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  86. Detecting when LLMs are uncertain

    276 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

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

    275 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  88. Zamba2-7B

    275 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  89. Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster

    274 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

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

    273 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  91. Post World War II Food

    273 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  92. Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

    272 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  93. How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? (2021) [video]

    272 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  94. Game Programming in Prolog

    272 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  95. The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data

    272 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  96. NASA freezes Starliner missions

    271 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  97. Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

    271 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  98. Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator

    270 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  99. Mothbox 4.0

    270 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  100. Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

    269 points • comment • oct 22, 2024