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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Should JavaScript be split into two languages?

    131 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  2. The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)

    131 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  3. The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes

    130 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  4. OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers

    130 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  5. Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways

    130 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  6. Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024

    130 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  7. WordPress Alternatives

    129 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  8. How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA

    129 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  9. OOP is not that bad

    129 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  10. Who Pays for the Arts?

    129 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  11. Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry

    129 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  12. Lingo: A Go micro language framework for building Domain Specific Languages

    128 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  13. Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud Ilya Sutskever 'fired Sam Altman'

    128 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  14. You Too Could Have Made Curl

    128 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  15. TypedDicts are better than you think

    128 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  16. We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam

    128 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  17. Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

    128 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  18. The PlanetScale vectors public beta

    128 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  19. Astronomers discover complex carbon molecules in interstellar space

    128 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  20. Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections

    127 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  21. ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping

    127 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  22. Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends

    127 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  23. Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language

    126 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  24. HTTrack Website Copier

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  25. Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

    126 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  26. Solving methane mysteries with satellite imagery

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  27. Insiders Stealing Instagram Usernames?

    126 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  28. LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations

    126 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  29. US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars after fatal crash

    126 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  30. Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning

    125 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  31. Show HN: I made an Ollama summarizer for Firefox

    125 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  32. Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia

    125 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  33. Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making

    124 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  34. The Nazi of Oak Park

    124 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  35. The Anvil Text Editor

    124 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  36. (Re)Using rustc components in gccrs

    124 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  37. WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe

    124 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  38. Try to fix it one level deeper

    124 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  39. The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a (2017)

    124 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  40. U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken

    123 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  41. A deep history of Halloween

    123 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  42. Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

    123 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  43. Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results

    123 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  44. Show HN: Brisa Framework – Unifying server and client using the Web Platform

    122 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  45. The Fifth Generation Project in Japan (1992)

    122 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  46. Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly

    122 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  47. Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)

    122 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  48. In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone

    122 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  49. Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go

    122 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  50. Idiomatic Awk (2010)

    122 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  51. Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet

    122 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  52. Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why

    121 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  53. Life is not a story

    121 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  54. Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

    121 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  55. Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare

    121 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  56. 300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto

    121 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  57. Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial

    121 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  58. A Mathematica interpreter in Typescript

    121 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  59. Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution

    121 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  60. Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine

    121 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  61. Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid belt

    121 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  62. How to leverage Claude's capabilities with interactive visualization

    121 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  63. When Earth had rings

    120 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  64. It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons

    120 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  65. Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia

    120 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  66. One of Florida's most lethal python hunters

    120 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  67. High-resolution postmortem human brain MRI at 7 tesla

    120 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  68. The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US

    120 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  69. Psychological safety vs. high standards: A misunderstood dynamic

    120 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  70. Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer

    120 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  71. Is it better to fail spectacularly?

    119 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  72. First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument

    119 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  73. 'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem

    118 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  74. Zero or Sign Extend

    118 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  75. Show HN: Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui)

    117 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  76. Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018)

    117 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  77. Gokapi: Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative with AWS S3 support

    117 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  78. Hyprland 0.44

    117 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  79. The Retreat to Muskworld

    117 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  80. NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade

    117 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  81. ADHD and managing your professional reputation

    117 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  82. On Good Software Engineers

    117 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  83. C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets

    117 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  84. Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals

    117 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  85. An indie studio created a game based on Stanislaw Lem's novel

    117 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  86. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)

    117 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  87. OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown

    116 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  88. Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

    116 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  89. The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)

    116 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  90. ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST

    116 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  91. Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13

    116 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  92. Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  93. Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  94. A History of Microwave Ovens

    115 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  95. Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer

    115 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  96. Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos

    115 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  97. Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  98. Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  99. Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better

    115 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  100. SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea

    115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024