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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

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

    182 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  2. DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data

    182 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  3. Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards

    179 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  4. Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table

    178 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  5. Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated

    177 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  6. Six transplant patients in Brazil contract HIV from infected organs

    177 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  7. Research in psychology: are we learning anything?

    177 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  8. All possible plots by major authors (2020)

    176 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  9. Anatomy of an internet argument

    175 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  10. The Physics of Magic Windows (2021)

    175 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  11. Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go

    174 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  12. America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

    173 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  13. The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire

    172 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  14. Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

    172 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  15. The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive

    171 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  16. Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

    169 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  17. Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic

    168 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  18. What P vs. NP is about

    168 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  19. Starbase: SQLite on the Edge

    168 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  20. DuckStation

    168 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  21. Bridge to Nowhere

    167 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  22. Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  23. Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies

    167 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  24. Scale Ruins Everything

    167 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  25. Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  26. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

    166 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  27. Omni SenseVoice: High-Speed Speech Recognition with Words Timestamps

    166 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  28. Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly

    165 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  29. Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says

    164 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  30. The magic (image resampling) kernel

    164 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  31. VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak

    164 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  32. NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

    163 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  33. Run Llama locally with only PyTorch on CPU

    163 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  34. Project Euler #912: Where are the Odds?

    162 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  35. Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks

    161 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  36. Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers

    161 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  37. Playing with BOLT and Postgres

    161 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  38. On 17th century "cocaine"

    161 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  39. OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

    160 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  40. Optimizing the Ion compiler back end

    160 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  41. Kagi Snaps

    160 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  42. Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

    159 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  43. Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera

    159 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  44. PEP 760: No more bare excepts

    159 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  45. SlateDB – An embedded database built on object storage

    159 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  46. Initial CUDA Performance Lessons

    159 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  47. Fun with Go Iterators

    158 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  48. Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms

    158 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  49. How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal

    158 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  50. The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden University

    158 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  51. We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem

    157 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  52. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One

    156 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  53. What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)

    156 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  54. Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)

    156 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

    155 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  56. Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second

    154 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  57. Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

    154 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  58. How ham radio endures

    154 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  59. Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words

    154 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  60. A Trail Gone Cold

    153 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  61. The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

    153 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  62. ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)

    152 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  63. Most gamers prefer single-player games

    152 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  64. How to delete your 23andMe data amid the company's turmoil

    152 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  65. A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project

    152 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  66. The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking

    151 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  67. CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)

    150 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  68. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

    150 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  69. US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements

    149 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  70. Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)

    149 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  71. John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf]

    149 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  72. What Is LibreDrive (2019)

    149 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  73. Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  74. Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

    148 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  75. Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  76. Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app

    147 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  77. Sailfish Mobile OS

    147 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  78. Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder

    147 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  79. Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

    147 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  80. Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

    147 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  81. Show HN: FinetuneDB – AI fine-tuning platform to create custom LLMs

    147 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  82. Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page

    147 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  83. Fundamental physics is dying? [video]

    146 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  84. Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go

    146 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  85. Insider trader had all the answers

    146 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  86. Let Google decide

    146 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  87. The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms

    145 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  88. Day Rates (2023)

    145 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  89. The Heart of Unix (2018)

    145 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  90. Why pay for a search engine

    145 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  91. Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

    144 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  92. Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel

    144 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  93. Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?

    144 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  94. DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves

    143 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  95. Putting a full power search engine in Ecto

    143 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  96. Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

    143 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  97. Faster convergence for diffusion models

    143 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  98. Show HN: Automated smooth Nth order derivatives of noisy data

    143 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  99. Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body

    142 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  100. Quake runs in just 276 kB RAM on the Arduino Nano Matter board

    142 points • comment • oct 01, 2024