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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge

    107 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  2. Emit-C: A time travelling programming language

    107 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  3. Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report

    107 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  4. LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns

    107 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  5. FLTK 1.4 Released

    107 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  6. Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?

    106 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  7. January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity

    106 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  8. The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

    106 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  9. DOJ proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships with Anthropic

    106 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  10. The online sports gambling experiment

    106 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  11. Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century – Specific Suggestions

    106 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  12. Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection

    106 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  13. Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser

    106 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  14. The Internet Gopher from Minnesota

    105 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  15. A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers

    105 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  16. Voice acting in Space Quest V

    105 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  17. Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs

    105 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  18. New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]

    105 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  19. Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps

    105 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  20. Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle

    105 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  21. I Got an IP Address

    105 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  22. Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

    105 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  23. JSON for Classic C++

    104 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  24. Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

    104 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  25. Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

    104 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  26. A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse

    104 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  27. Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator

    104 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  28. Hetzner raises US cloud prices while lowering included bandwidth by 95%

    104 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  29. Vintage digicams are an artistic statement

    104 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  30. A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals

    104 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  31. /usr/bin/env -S uv run

    104 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  32. Cursed Linear Types in Rust

    104 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  33. Don’t look down on print debugging

    103 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  34. Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help

    103 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  35. ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands

    103 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  36. Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

    103 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  37. Funding restored for man-page maintenance

    103 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  38. High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging

    103 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  39. Thoughts on the Resiliency of Web Projects

    103 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  40. Monocle: Optics Library for Scala

    103 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  41. Making Your Connection Bad

    103 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  42. Make the most of your burl

    103 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  43. Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals

    103 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  44. Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo

    103 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  45. Making Pop Rocks from scratch (is complicated) [video]

    103 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  46. The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction

    103 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  47. Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini

    103 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  48. Powering the Mars Base

    103 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  49. 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day

    103 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  50. Auth Wiki

    103 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  51. An unusual Google Keyboard bug

    102 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  52. Gratitude despite the odds

    102 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  53. Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

    102 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  54. Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)

    102 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  55. The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

    102 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  56. OpenMP 6.0

    102 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  57. An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability

    102 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  58. I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one

    101 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  59. Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs

    101 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  60. Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]

    101 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  61. Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf]

    101 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  62. Apple Macintosh before System 7

    101 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  63. Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films

    101 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  64. My simple knowledge management and time tracking system

    100 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  65. Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

    100 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  66. Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)

    100 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  67. TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash

    100 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  68. Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale

    100 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  69. Wooden satellite heads to space in Mars exploration test

    100 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  70. Ask HN: Has anyone tried adapting a court reporter keyboard for writing code?

    99 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  71. CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US

    99 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  72. Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)

    99 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  73. Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust

    99 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  74. Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

    99 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  75. Ryugu asteroid sample colonized by terrestrial life despite strict control

    99 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  76. William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018)

    99 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  77. Owl Lisp – A functional Scheme for world domination

    99 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  78. Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences

    99 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  79. Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud

    98 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  80. A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit

    98 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  81. 32k context length text embedding models

    98 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  82. History of Hangul

    98 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  83. Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes

    98 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  84. Apple will now be treated like a bank

    98 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  85. ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text

    97 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  86. Implementing Signal's Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)

    97 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  87. Intel might be too big to fail

    97 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  88. ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function

    97 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  89. Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD

    97 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  90. My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally

    96 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  91. Why 4D geometry makes me sad [video]

    96 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  92. The Weeds Are Winning

    96 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  93. PgPDF: Pdf Type and Functions for Postgres

    96 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  94. C++ template macroprogramming versus Lisp macros

    96 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  95. Building Databases over a Weekend

    96 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  96. Delivering actionable feedback

    95 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  97. Chegg is on its last legs after ChatGPT sent its stock down

    95 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  98. C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete

    95 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  99. Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default

    95 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  100. 'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)

    95 points • comment • nov 26, 2024