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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. IMG_0416

    2251 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  2. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

    2067 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  3. The Onion buys Infowars

    1841 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  4. Trump wins presidency for second time

    1728 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  5. Passport Photos

    1484 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  6. How I ship projects at big tech companies

    1353 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  7. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

    1352 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  8. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

    1266 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  9. Apple acquires Pixelmator

    1162 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  10. DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

    1150 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  11. Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

    1041 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  12. No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

    1033 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  13. Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

    1013 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  14. Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

    857 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  15. CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

    852 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  16. Model Context Protocol

    847 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  17. ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

    838 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  18. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

    806 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  19. Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

    800 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  20. RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)

    779 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  21. Frosted glass from games to the web

    772 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  22. I Don't Have Spotify

    742 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  23. IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

    710 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  24. New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

    704 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  25. This website is hosted on Bluesky

    698 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  26. Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

    692 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  27. What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch

    691 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  28. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

    681 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  29. Starlink Direct to Cell

    681 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  30. Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct

    674 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  31. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

    664 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  32. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    646 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  33. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

    646 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  34. Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

    645 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  35. Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

    644 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  36. QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

    640 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  37. Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

    639 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  38. Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

    636 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  39. Make It Yourself

    623 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  40. A change of heart regarding employee metrics

    621 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  41. Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

    617 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  42. Mitochondria Are Alive

    615 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  43. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

    611 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  44. Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

    609 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  45. OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models

    607 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  46. Thomas E. Kurtz has died

    603 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  47. Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough

    598 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  48. SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases

    598 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  49. Phased Array Microphone (2023)

    594 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  50. Leaving and Waving

    593 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  51. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

    581 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  52. Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

    579 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  53. Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos

    578 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  54. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

    578 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  55. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

    575 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  56. Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

    573 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  57. Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities

    572 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  58. All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs

    570 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  59. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

    568 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  60. Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

    563 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  61. Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders

    562 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  62. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

    558 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  63. The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)

    556 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  64. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

    556 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  65. The two factions of C++

    539 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  66. Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

    537 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  67. Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

    533 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  68. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

    532 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  69. Title drops in movies

    529 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  70. Handling cookies is a minefield

    525 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  71. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

    525 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  72. M4 Mac mini's efficiency

    521 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  73. Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)

    513 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  74. Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface

    510 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  75. Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

    509 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  76. OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

    504 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  77. Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

    504 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  78. Diagram as Code

    500 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  79. Notepad++ is 21 years old

    496 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  80. Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981

    494 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  81. Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16

    491 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  82. We're Leaving Kubernetes

    484 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  83. OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

    482 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  84. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

    479 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  85. Biological Miracle – Wood Frog

    477 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  86. Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

    476 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  87. Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)

    476 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  88. AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space

    475 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  89. New images of Jupiter

    466 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  90. You can use C-Reduce for any language

    464 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  91. Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux

    464 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  92. In Memory of Stiver

    462 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  93. Rails is better low code than low code

    459 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  94. PHP 8.4

    456 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  95. Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices

    454 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  96. Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

    454 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  97. Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin

    449 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  98. What I wish someone told me about Postgres

    449 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  99. SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)

    449 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  100. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

    445 points • comment • nov 18, 2024