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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

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

    95 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  2. How fast does Java compile?

    94 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  3. Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy

    94 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  4. Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)

    94 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  5. Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google

    94 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  6. Launch HN: Keep (YC W23) – AIOps and alert management

    93 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  7. A Brief History of Cyrix

    93 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  8. Executing ARM Jazelle (JVM Bytecode) on the Wii's Starlet

    93 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  9. How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day

    93 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  10. Optimizing a Rust GPU matmul kernel

    93 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  11. Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987

    93 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  12. The Crime Messenger

    93 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  13. Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues

    93 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  14. Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production

    93 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  15. Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war

    92 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  16. The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array

    92 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  17. Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones

    92 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  18. Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions

    92 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  19. The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach

    92 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  20. Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

    92 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  21. AI eats the world

    91 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  22. Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

    91 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  23. HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD

    91 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  24. Monitor replacement – using a projector for a home office setup

    91 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  25. Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

    91 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  26. Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

    91 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  27. The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained

    91 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  28. 1B nested loop iterations

    91 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  29. AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel

    90 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  30. Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail

    90 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  31. Show HN: Fireproof – local-first database with Git-like encrypted sync

    90 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  32. Python Logic Simulation Library

    90 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  33. Steam releases new built-in recording feature

    90 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  34. Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam

    90 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  35. Sortledton: A Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure [pdf]

    90 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  36. Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking

    90 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  37. Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked

    90 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  38. AI Progress Stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Hit Roadblocks

    89 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  39. Transactional Object Storage?

    89 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  40. Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg

    89 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  41. Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)

    89 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  42. Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events

    89 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  43. Thoughts on the software industry (2022)

    89 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  44. Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming

    89 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  45. Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

    89 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  46. Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR

    89 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  47. A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor

    89 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  48. The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins and the Results Were Wild

    88 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  49. Programmer in Berlin: Culture

    88 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  50. Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients?

    88 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  51. El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest

    88 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  52. D-Wave achieves calibration of Advantage2 processor

    88 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  53. Libobscura

    88 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  54. I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)

    88 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  55. An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021)

    88 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  56. This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video]

    88 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  57. Large language models in national security applications

    87 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  58. How Blackjack Works (2007)

    87 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  59. The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant

    87 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  60. A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks (2017)

    87 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  61. Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency

    87 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  62. AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey

    87 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  63. Caltrain's electrification project is paying off

    87 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  64. Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org?

    87 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  65. An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages (2021)

    87 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  66. C Compiler to SPIR-V

    87 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  67. Top discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023

    86 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  68. How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)

    86 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  69. Device-detector: Universal Device Detection library from User Agent

    86 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  70. OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others

    86 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  71. Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads

    86 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  72. Recovering from a kidney donation

    85 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  73. The Structure of a Worldview

    85 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  74. Colors of the Court – NBA Uniforms

    85 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  75. Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE

    85 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  76. Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)

    85 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  77. Zig Reproduced Without Binaries

    85 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  78. Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks

    85 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  79. How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test

    85 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  80. Call for Developer Projects

    84 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  81. Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds

    84 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  82. Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra?

    84 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  83. Homage to Alexander Grothendieck

    84 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  84. Float Self-Tagging

    84 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  85. The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800

    84 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  86. Optimize Database Performance in Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord

    83 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  87. Following up "Mother of all Htmx demos"

    83 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  88. It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start

    83 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  89. Show HN: Yami – An Open Source Music Player with Spotdl Integration

    83 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  90. Hetzner - New tariff structure for Cloud servers and Load balancers in the USA

    83 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  91. Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API

    83 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  92. New York Times Tech Workers Strike Ahead of Election

    83 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  93. Show HN: My party game where AI decides if you’re funny

    83 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  94. The GNU make jobserver Implementation (2015)

    83 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  95. ASML Twinscan EXE:5000 Lego Set

    83 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  96. Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear (2017)

    83 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  97. Jank is now running on LLVM IR

    83 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  98. Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

    83 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  99. Scalable self-improvement for compiler optimization

    83 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  100. Bthreads: A Simple and Easy Paradigm for Clojure

    82 points • comment • nov 06, 2024