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Hacker News (Oct 2024)
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Is AWS S3 having an outage?
89 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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The survival skills of Helena Valero
89 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake
89 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi's reliability
89 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Diode Matrix
89 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza
89 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July
89 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Grokking at the edge of linear separability
89 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Meta fined $101M for storing passwords in plaintext
88 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
88 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?
88 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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I'm a Professional
88 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
88 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
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The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
88 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016)
88 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Transforming Colors with Matrices
88 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo
87 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Hurricane Milton's Impact: 70 Florida Cities See 50%+ Drop in Internet Traffic
87 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Scrum's “Product Owner” Problem
87 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)
87 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Show HN: Greenmask 0.2 – Database anonymization tool
86 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it (2018)
86 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
86 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Show HN: Detect if an audio file was generated by NotebookLM
86 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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How a Gas Compressor Station Works
86 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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We're building a statue of Aaron Swartz
85 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school
85 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Hacker Typer
85 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Quantum Advantage for NP Approximation
85 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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The Stallman Report
85 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment
85 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust
85 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?
85 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"
84 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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To Be Born in a Bag
84 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Making the Web Boring Again
84 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang?
84 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
84 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Google Will Track Your Location 'Every 15 Minutes'–'Even with GPS Disabled'
84 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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When railroad dining cars were the height of luxury
84 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Canvases versus Documents
84 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Magic isn't real
84 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Unoffice Hours (2020)
84 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Multiversion Python Thoughts
83 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode
83 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Arpeggiator Cube
83 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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AlphaCodium outperforms direct prompting of OpenAI's o1 on coding problems
83 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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Choosing solitude
83 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Archaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatory
83 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Matrix-Libera IRC Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective (2023)
83 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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52 Factorial
82 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers
82 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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What is "founder mode"?
82 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
82 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi
82 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence
82 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41
82 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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We need more zero config tools
82 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD
82 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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I think content is a bad business
81 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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The web I want vs. the one we have
81 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
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Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?
81 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence
81 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Gunter's Space Page
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest
81 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
81 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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The Naming of America (2023)
81 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Show HN: 4B+ DNS Records Dataset
81 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
80 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Io_uring and seccomp (2022)
80 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python
80 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Better privacy can be one click away. Google and Apple won't allow it
80 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
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Weird Nonfiction
80 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation
80 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) Basics
80 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
80 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures
80 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Laziness Death Spirals
79 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
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Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?
79 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
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Ironies of Automation (1983)
79 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
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Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say
79 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
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How London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Analyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8)
79 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
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What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
79 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Personal Names Around the World (2011)
79 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Buildroot
79 points • comment • oct 05, 2024
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Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go
79 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
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Spotify Will Keep Remote Working
78 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
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Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta
78 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
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The new culture war is real vs. bogus
78 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
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Show HN: GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC
78 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
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Please Don't Make Me Download Another App
78 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
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Japan's Cat Island won't survive much longer
78 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
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Update on Reflection-70B
78 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
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Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)
77 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
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Modded-NanoGPT: NanoGPT (124M) quality in 3.25B tokens
77 points • comment • oct 12, 2024