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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

    440 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  2. 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

    439 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  3. Engineering Sleep

    437 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  4. AI makes tech debt more expensive

    436 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  5. Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

    431 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  6. Hacker Fab

    430 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  7. Visualizing World War II

    425 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  8. A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com

    424 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  9. Weird Lexical Syntax

    424 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  10. I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

    423 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  11. Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git

    420 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  12. Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

    418 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  13. QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM

    416 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  14. Maybe Bluesky has "won"

    415 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  15. Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

    411 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  16. I sent an Ethernet packet

    409 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  17. Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser

    408 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  18. 20 years of Google Scholar

    404 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  19. Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization

    401 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  20. I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

    401 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  21. Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel

    400 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  22. FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

    395 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  23. Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)

    394 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  24. Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs

    394 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  25. Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

    393 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  26. Private Cloud Compute Security Guide

    393 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  27. How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired

    393 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  28. How I configure my Git identities

    392 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  29. Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

    391 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  30. Lessons from my first exit

    390 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  31. California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

    390 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  32. The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”

    389 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  33. HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer

    388 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  34. Quincy Jones has died

    385 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  35. My Time Working at Stripe

    385 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  36. Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal

    383 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  37. Tracker Beeper (2022)

    382 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  38. Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP

    381 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  39. Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

    380 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  40. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows

    379 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  41. Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

    374 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  42. Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

    374 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  43. Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)

    372 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  44. A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)

    370 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  45. Francois Chollet is leaving Google

    368 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  46. Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

    368 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  47. Writing secure Go code

    366 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  48. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

    364 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  49. Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

    363 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

    360 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  51. The deterioration of Google

    360 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  52. I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

    359 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  53. The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury

    359 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  54. Embeddings are underrated

    358 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  55. The size of BYD's factory

    356 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  56. Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city

    354 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  57. Borgo Programming Language

    353 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  58. Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

    353 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  59. Reactive HTML Notebooks

    352 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  60. A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)

    352 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  61. Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems

    351 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  62. Good Software Development Habits

    351 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  63. Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch

    350 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  64. Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

    350 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  65. In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

    350 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  66. Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)

    348 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  67. James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity

    348 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  68. Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier

    347 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  69. If not React, then what?

    345 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  70. Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI

    343 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  71. Don't Fuck with Scroll

    343 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  72. Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre

    341 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  73. A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

    341 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  74. Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

    341 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  75. WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

    340 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  76. A career-ending mistake

    339 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  77. USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating

    337 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  78. Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days

    336 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  79. We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix

    333 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  80. Mushroom Color Atlas

    333 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  81. The EdTech Revolution Has Failed

    332 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  82. Matrix 2.0 Is Here

    331 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  83. Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

    328 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  84. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

    328 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  85. Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

    328 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  86. Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)

    327 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  87. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal

    326 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  88. Starship's Sixth Flight Test

    326 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  89. Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence

    325 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  90. AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer

    323 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  91. Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?

    322 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  92. Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams

    321 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  93. The 'Return to Office' Lies

    320 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  94. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks

    320 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  95. Marshall Brain has died

    320 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  96. Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web

    319 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  97. YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

    317 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  98. I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either

    317 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  99. Yggdrasil Network

    316 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  100. Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200

    316 points • comment • nov 15, 2024