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Hacker News (Oct 2024)
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An n-ball Between n-balls
239 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data
238 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format
236 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)
234 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Grandmaster-level chess without search
234 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
234 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting
233 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Meta's open AI hardware vision
232 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Rust needs a web framework
232 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform
231 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Let's talk about animation quality
231 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
230 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
230 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?
230 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
229 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see
229 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
228 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Python 3.13.0 Is Released
228 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Proposal: JavaScript Structs
227 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
227 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Hetzner Object Storage
227 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs
226 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B
226 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones
225 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space
225 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time
225 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams
224 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Practices of Reliable Software Design
224 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
223 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
222 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
222 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)
221 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Why birds do not fall while sleeping
221 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone
221 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Furilabs Linux Phone
221 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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WordPress retaliation impacts community
220 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably
220 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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AI is an impediment to learning web development
219 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer
219 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer
218 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
216 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers
215 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Restic: Backups done right
214 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
213 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed
213 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Cargo Airships Are Happening
212 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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NASA's Europa Clipper Launch
212 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
212 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
211 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
210 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes
210 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US
209 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Show HN: I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go
208 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
208 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
208 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic
208 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework
208 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream
207 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog
207 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
207 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server
206 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Introducing Our New Name
205 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs
204 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP
204 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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ACF has been hijacked
203 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake
202 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth
202 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI
202 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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California bans sell-by dates
201 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event
201 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase
200 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Embedded Rust in Production?
200 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
198 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Do U.S. ports need more automation?
197 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]
196 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency
195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives
195 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard
195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
195 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Warm Handoffs
195 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
193 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Is the attack helicopter dead?
192 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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A Local-First Case Study
192 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]
191 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away
191 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
191 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)
190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved
190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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I Stayed
190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia
189 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Don't let dicts spoil your code
188 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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The bunkbed conjecture is false
187 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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The 1/8th Sleep
186 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
186 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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We're excited about our new roundabout
184 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR
184 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains
183 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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My negative views on Rust (2023)
182 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair
182 points • comment • oct 11, 2024