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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

    74 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  2. What if they are all wrong? (2020)

    74 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  3. Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?

    74 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  4. The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic

    74 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  5. Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)

    74 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  6. Kth: High-Performance Selection Algorithms for Go

    74 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  7. Windows 2022 Servers Unexpectedly Upgrading to 2025

    74 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  8. Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web

    74 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  9. NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing

    74 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  10. Unit Testing Numerical Routines

    74 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  11. FreeCAD 1.0.0 Released

    74 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  12. Show HN: Indentation-based syntax for Clojure

    74 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  13. Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

    74 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  14. Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland

    73 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  15. A C++ Mixin System

    73 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  16. Ease of maintenance is a feature

    73 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  17. Linux Asceticism

    73 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  18. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Is the Best Topology of Them All?

    73 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  19. Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions

    73 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  20. Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization

    73 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  21. Bribery is largely subject to circumstance: study

    73 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  22. Go-taskflow: A taskflow-like General-purpose Task-parallel Programming Framework

    73 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  23. Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide

    73 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  24. New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps

    73 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  25. Perhaps Rust Needs "Defer"

    73 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  26. Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming

    73 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  27. Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup?

    73 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  28. Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

    72 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  29. A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

    72 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  30. Continuous Integration Dashboard for Apache NuttX RTOS (Prometheus and Grafana)

    72 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  31. Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?

    72 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  32. Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing

    72 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  33. 19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums

    72 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  34. Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question

    72 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  35. Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?

    72 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  36. Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks

    72 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  37. Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet

    72 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  38. Futel

    72 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  39. VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users

    71 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  40. Understanding privacy risk with k-anonymity and l-diversity

    71 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  41. The Physics of Butterfly Wings

    71 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  42. No More Storage Limits: M.2 Adapter for Apple's M1 MacBooks [video]

    71 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  43. Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat

    71 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  44. Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English

    71 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  45. Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills

    71 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  46. Open-interpreter: A natural language interface for computers

    71 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  47. Show HN: Ratarmount 1.0.0 – Rapid access to large archives via a FUSE filesystem

    71 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  48. Developing a D-20 Watch for Tabletop Roleplaying Games

    71 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  49. A 15-minute intro to involute gears

    71 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  50. Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg

    71 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  51. Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

    71 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  52. Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards

    70 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  53. Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)

    70 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  54. 19th Century Map Shows a Fictional Country Created by a Con Man

    70 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  55. The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg

    70 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  56. Broadwell's EDRAM: VCache Before VCache Was Cool

    70 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  57. Farmers' Suicide in the United States

    70 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  58. How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery

    70 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  59. Large Language Models as Markov Chains

    70 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  60. Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables

    70 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  61. Reasonable Person Principle

    70 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  62. Weak pointers in Go: why they matter now

    70 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  63. Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma

    70 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  64. The Confusing State of RCS

    69 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  65. Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default

    69 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  66. The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996)

    69 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  67. Music as Language (2019) [pdf]

    69 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  68. OpenWrt Community question: What do you want to see in OpenWrt?

    69 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  69. Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

    69 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  70. Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest

    69 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  71. EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)

    69 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  72. Binary vector embeddings are so cool

    69 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  73. Don't return named tuples in new APIs

    69 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  74. Safety in an unsafe world

    69 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  75. Better Auth – Authentication library for TypeScript

    69 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  76. Nvidia Fugatto: "World's Most Flexible Sound Machine"

    69 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  77. Intel reinstates free coffee for employees after mass layoffs

    69 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  78. Go Turns 15

    69 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  79. YouTube Premium Showing Ads

    69 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  80. The bucket brigade device: An analog shift register

    69 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  81. Slouch: Posture panic in modern America

    69 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  82. An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)

    69 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  83. Bluesky just crossed 20M users

    69 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  84. Beating the bookies with their own numbers

    68 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  85. Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth

    68 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  86. Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC

    68 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  87. Dobble (The Mathematics Of) (2018)

    68 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  88. Readme.so – Easy way to create a README

    68 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  89. Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices

    68 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  90. AI PCs make users less productive

    68 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  91. Apple Intelligence notification summaries are pretty bad

    67 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  92. Warp terminal – no more login required

    67 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  93. Time-series forecasting through recurrent topology

    67 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  94. Virality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?

    67 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  95. Can Injection: keyless car theft (2023)

    67 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  96. Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole

    67 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  97. Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado

    67 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  98. Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth

    67 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  99. Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)

    67 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  100. Scientists decipher two-photon vision

    67 points • comment • nov 05, 2024