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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]

    196 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

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

    195 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  3. Warm Handoffs

    195 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  4. Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency

    195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

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

    195 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

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

    195 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  7. Wasmer 5.0

    195 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  8. Understanding how bureaucracy develops

    194 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

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

    193 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  10. A Local-First Case Study

    192 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  11. Is the attack helicopter dead?

    192 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

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

    191 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  13. Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

    191 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

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

    191 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  15. OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging

    191 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

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

    191 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  17. UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  18. France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

    190 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  19. Generative AI Scripting

    190 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  20. S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

    190 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  21. I Stayed

    190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

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

    190 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  23. The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia

    189 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  24. The electrostatic world of insects

    189 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  25. A Distributed Systems Reading List (2014)

    188 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  26. Don't let dicts spoil your code

    188 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  27. DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive

    188 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  28. SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

    187 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  29. Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

    187 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  30. The bunkbed conjecture is false

    187 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  31. Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

    186 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  32. The 1/8th Sleep

    186 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  33. Writes and Write-Nots

    186 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  34. My solar-powered and self-hosted website

    185 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  35. Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices

    185 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  36. We're excited about our new roundabout

    184 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  37. Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers

    184 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  38. SELinux bypasses

    184 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  39. Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

    184 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  40. A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

    184 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  41. Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

    183 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

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

    183 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

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

    182 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  44. Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable

    182 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

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

    182 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  46. My negative views on Rust (2023)

    182 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  47. Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)

    181 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  48. The carefulness knob

    181 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  49. TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei

    181 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  50. Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala

    180 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

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

    180 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  52. Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards

    179 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  53. Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

    179 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  54. Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

    179 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  55. Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table

    178 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  56. Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

    178 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  57. Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python

    178 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

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

    177 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  59. VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

    177 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

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

    177 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  61. Research in psychology: are we learning anything?

    177 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  62. Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket

    176 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  63. All possible plots by major authors (2020)

    176 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  64. Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

    176 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  65. Anatomy of an internet argument

    175 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  66. The Physics of Magic Windows (2021)

    175 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  67. A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities

    174 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  68. Sampling with SQL

    174 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

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

    174 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  70. Hobby CAD, CNC machining, and resin casting (2015)

    174 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  71. Brush – A new compatible Gaussian splatting engine

    173 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  72. Democratising publishing

    173 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

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

    173 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  74. Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report

    172 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

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

    172 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

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

    171 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  77. Unit tests as documentation

    171 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  78. Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies

    171 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  79. Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time

    170 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  80. AI Flame Graphs

    170 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  81. Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X (2023)

    169 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  82. Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

    169 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  83. Smart pointers for the kernel

    168 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  84. What P vs. NP is about

    168 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  85. Starbase: SQLite on the Edge

    168 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  86. DuckStation

    168 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

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

    168 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  88. Time is a dimension, but not like space

    167 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  89. Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web

    167 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  90. Scale Ruins Everything

    167 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  91. Bridge to Nowhere

    167 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  92. Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool

    167 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

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

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  94. Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  95. How Gothic architecture became spooky

    167 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  96. James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation

    166 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  97. Kernel optimization with BOLT (binary optimization and layout tool)

    166 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  98. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

    166 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

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

    166 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

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

    165 points • comment • oct 07, 2024