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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. NYC Subway Station Layouts

    315 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  2. Show HN: Convert any website into a React component

    314 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  3. Hyrum’s Law in Golang

    313 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  4. Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

    313 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  5. When did estimates turn into deadlines?

    313 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  6. Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?

    313 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  7. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera

    313 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  8. Watermark Anything

    309 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  9. The tech utopia fantasy is over

    309 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  10. We are shutting down Ondsel

    308 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  11. London's 850-year-old food markets to close

    307 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  12. Upcoming Hardening in PHP

    307 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  13. Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

    306 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  14. A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)

    304 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  15. Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails

    304 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  16. Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script

    304 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  17. Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions

    303 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  18. Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments

    302 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  19. $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating

    302 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  20. WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

    302 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  21. Grim Fandango

    301 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  22. The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

    301 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  23. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

    299 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  24. Interview with gwern

    299 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  25. A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

    299 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  26. Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub

    298 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  27. Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI

    298 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  28. Pi Chess Board

    298 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  29. Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea

    297 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  30. OpenID Connect specifications published as ISO standards

    294 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  31. Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

    294 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  32. Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

    294 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  33. ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser

    294 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  34. Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

    293 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  35. A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor

    293 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  36. The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

    293 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  37. FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant

    292 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  38. Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links

    292 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  39. When machine learning tells the wrong story

    292 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  40. MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server

    291 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  41. The success and failure of Ninja (2020)

    290 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  42. SQLite Index Visualization

    288 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  43. Hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio

    287 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  44. Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

    287 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  45. Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution

    286 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  46. After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

    285 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  47. Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US

    285 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  48. Spotify has shut down several API endpoints

    283 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  49. Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown

    283 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  50. Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler

    282 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  51. The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)

    280 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  52. Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

    280 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  53. Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

    279 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  54. Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

    278 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  55. What's New in F# 9

    278 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  56. Student rocket group shatters amateur space record

    277 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  57. Caring for yourself while caring for others

    276 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  58. Rust for tokenising and parsing

    276 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  59. PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure

    275 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  60. Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions

    275 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  61. Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

    274 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  62. Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

    273 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  63. Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll

    273 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  64. A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

    272 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  65. Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming

    272 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  66. AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation

    272 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  67. Charset="WTF-8"

    270 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  68. Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics

    270 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  69. Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment

    270 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  70. Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool

    270 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  71. Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

    270 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  72. It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end

    269 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  73. Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

    269 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  74. Against Best Practices

    268 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  75. Cybertruck's Many Recalls

    267 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  76. Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world

    267 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  77. Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system

    267 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  78. Algorithms We Develop Software By

    267 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  79. The tragedy of running an old Node project

    266 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  80. The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

    266 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  81. Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write

    266 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  82. Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

    265 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  83. Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs

    265 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  84. The death and life of prediction markets at Google

    265 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  85. Unusual Raku Features

    264 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  86. GenChess

    264 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  87. Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Bringing Realistic Metal to Life in Open-Source Art

    264 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  88. Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

    264 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  89. Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens

    264 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  90. Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

    263 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  91. Rewrite It in Rails

    263 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  92. Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning

    263 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  93. Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine

    262 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  94. Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

    262 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  95. Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor

    262 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  96. Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]

    262 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  97. SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing

    260 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  98. All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots

    259 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  99. Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked

    259 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  100. YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware

    258 points • comment • nov 11, 2024