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Hacker News (Oct 2024)

  1. Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?

    67 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  2. What Ticketmaster doesn't want you to know: tickets were cheaper for decades

    67 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  3. How Waffle House helps Southerners and FEMA judge a storm's severity

    67 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  4. Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"

    66 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  5. Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

    66 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  6. Shrinking augmented reality displays into eyeglasses to expand their use

    66 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  7. Knowledge Growth and Specialization: Evidence from Oncologists

    66 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  8. Skip Hash: A fast ordered map via software transactional memory

    66 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  9. Response to DHH

    66 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  10. Why "founder mode" is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders

    66 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  11. Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete

    65 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  12. A single cloud compromise can feed an army of AI sex bots

    65 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  13. South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize

    65 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  14. TikTok Live became 'a strip club filled with 15-year-olds' (2022)

    65 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  15. Removing PGP from PyPI (2023)

    65 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  16. A protocol for reliable notifications over a 1 bit fallible connection

    65 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  17. The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

    64 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  18. FAA grants SpaceX Starship Flight 5 license

    64 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  19. What Your Job Ad Says About You

    64 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  20. Show HN: I built Bazaari.io to make launching online stores simple and fast

    64 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  21. PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study

    64 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  22. Seeing Faces in Things: A model and dataset for pareidolia

    64 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  23. Engineering Geology of the BART System (2000)

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  24. Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

    63 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  25. Show HN: My microkernel-based OS built from scratch now has basic Unix commands

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  26. Python and SysV Shared Memory

    63 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  27. Cwal: Scripting Engine Without a Language

    63 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  28. Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro

    63 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  29. Show HN: Weird Books to Read

    63 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  30. Show HN: Squey, an open-source GPU-accelerated data visualization software

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  31. NSO Should Lose Spyware Case for Discovery Violations, Meta Says

    62 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  32. DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)

    62 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  33. Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?

    62 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  34. UEVR: An Exploration of Advanced Game Hacking Techniques (2023)

    62 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  35. Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated

    62 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  36. Turn your old laptop into low-end gaming machine

    62 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  37. Nintendo Kills Ryujinx After Yuzu

    61 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  38. Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

    61 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  39. Meissonic, High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis on consumer graphics cards

    61 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  40. Alternatives to cosine similarity

    61 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  41. Memory: the forgotten history

    61 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  42. Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork

    61 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  43. Improving Accessibility Using Vision Models

    61 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  44. Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)

    61 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  45. FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem

    60 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  46. Seeing God and Burning Plastic

    60 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  47. Wordpress.org login now requires a WPE non-affiliation declaration

    60 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  48. QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  49. The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline

    60 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  50. Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

    60 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  51. Show HN: Quilt – Powerful RAG UI for Document QA

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  52. Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix

    60 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  53. "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  54. Tailscale HTTPS Certificate on Synology NAS

    60 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  55. Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  56. TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users

    60 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  57. A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide

    59 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  58. AP5 - Declarative Programming Library For Common Lisp (1995)

    59 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  59. A not so fast implementation of cosine similarity in C++ and SIMD

    59 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  60. SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027

    59 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  61. Compiling and running sqlite3-rsync from a branch

    59 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  62. Migrating from Create React App to Vite

    59 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  63. Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games

    59 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  64. Why Google search is falling apart [video]

    59 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  65. Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

    58 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  66. Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  67. Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming

    58 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  68. Show HN: I have published a mobile HN client to have coffee chat with HN users

    58 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  69. Google threatened with being broken up by US

    58 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  70. C64 OS Programmer's Guide

    58 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  71. Tesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled by a Human the Whole Time

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  72. The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports

    58 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  73. My search for the mysterious missing secretary who shaped chatbot history

    58 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  74. MP3 to EXE (1999)

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  75. Multilayer microhydraulic actuators with speed and force configurations (2021)

    57 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  76. Sustaphones Tablets – Database of repairable Android devices with community ROMs

    57 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  77. Show HN: Bolt.new – dev sandbox with AI from StackBlitz

    57 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  78. AI Winter Is Coming

    57 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  79. G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed

    57 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  80. King vs. Kubrick: The Origins of Evil (2020)

    57 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  81. Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost "stamp" machine

    57 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  82. Unicode shenanigans: Martine écrit en UTF-8

    57 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  83. T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches

    57 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  84. Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today

    56 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  85. All We Have in This World Is Ourselves

    56 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  86. 3Blue1Brown: Animated Math

    56 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  87. The Brutalist Programming Manifesto

    56 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  88. Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Conspiracy Theories Thrive

    56 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  89. The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles

    56 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  90. Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping

    56 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  91. Ptxdist – "Professional Embedded Linux Made Easy"

    56 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  92. iPhone Mirroring at work may expose employees’ personal information

    56 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  93. Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD's strategic move toward broader adoption

    56 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  94. Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?

    56 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  95. Making CRC calculations in Mojo 18x faster than Python and 3x slower than Python

    56 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  96. History Of Hacking The Nintendo 3DS (2019) [pdf]

    56 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  97. SQLitebrowser: First update in three years (July 2024)

    56 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  98. NumPy QuadDType: Quadruple Precision for Everyone

    56 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  99. Build systems, not heroes

    56 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  100. A team paid to break into top-secret bases

    55 points • comment • oct 11, 2024