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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017)

    179 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  2. Casio has released a ring in the form of its iconic watch

    178 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  3. Is 3D printing being held back by an invalid patent?

    178 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  4. Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

    178 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  5. Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

    178 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  6. Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object

    177 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  7. Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

    177 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  8. Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)

    177 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  9. Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who

    177 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  10. Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

    176 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  11. Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash

    176 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  12. Making Electronic Calipers

    176 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  13. How IBM invented the automated fab

    176 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  14. Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]

    176 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  15. MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

    175 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  16. A transport protocol's view of Starlink

    175 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  17. Revisiting the DOS Memory Models

    175 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  18. SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup

    175 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  19. Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg

    175 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  20. SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties

    175 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  21. The Data Engineering Handbook

    174 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  22. Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally

    174 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  23. Traceroute Isn't Real

    174 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  24. Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

    174 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  25. The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)

    174 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  26. LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step

    173 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  27. SSH Artwork

    173 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  28. ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers

    173 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  29. How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)

    173 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  30. Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcripts

    173 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  31. U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites

    172 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  32. How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows

    172 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  33. Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)

    172 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  34. It's called a dance floor

    172 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  35. TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters

    172 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  36. Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

    171 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  37. Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table

    171 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  38. Float Self-Tagging

    170 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  39. My Notes on Apple Math Notes

    170 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  40. Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

    170 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  41. Noise-canceling single-layer woven silk and cotton fabric

    170 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  42. The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections (2023)

    170 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  43. Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP

    170 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  44. MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

    169 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  45. Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables

    169 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  46. Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

    169 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  47. Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute

    168 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  48. Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022)

    168 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  49. Show HN: I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM

    168 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  50. Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video]

    168 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  51. Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection

    168 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  52. Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?

    168 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  53. Ultraprecise method of aligning 3D semiconductor chips invented

    168 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  54. Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale

    167 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  55. FFmpeg up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten assembly code

    167 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  56. The decline of the working musician

    167 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  57. Rewrite it in Rails

    167 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  58. Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data

    167 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  59. Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

    167 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  60. M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

    167 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  61. We can mine asteroids for space food

    166 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  62. Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps

    166 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  63. Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

    166 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  64. Stop making me memorize the borrow checker

    166 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  65. Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities

    166 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  66. Learn perfect pitch in 15 years

    166 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  67. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

    166 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  68. What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)

    165 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  69. This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats

    165 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  70. Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out

    165 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  71. New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record

    165 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  72. The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko

    164 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  73. Why don't you move abroad?

    164 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  74. OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP

    164 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  75. Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

    164 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  76. Interactive Visual Sorting

    164 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  77. 131M American Buildings

    164 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  78. How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

    163 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  79. Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data

    163 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  80. Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope

    163 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  81. Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died

    163 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  82. From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod

    162 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  83. Buy Nothing Day

    162 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  84. Adventures in Probability

    162 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  85. Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?

    161 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  86. Ink: React for interactive CLI apps

    161 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  87. Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR

    160 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  88. RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that noncoding RNAs are not 'junk'

    160 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  89. Using uv with PyTorch

    160 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  90. NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying

    159 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  91. Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

    159 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  92. Bjorn: A powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for Raspberry Pi

    159 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  93. A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

    159 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  94. What made Dostoevsky's work immortal

    159 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  95. Personality Basins

    159 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  96. Every boring problem found in eBPF (2022)

    159 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  97. AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

    158 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  98. Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode

    157 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  99. RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library

    157 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  100. Looking for a Job Is Tough

    157 points • comment • nov 14, 2024