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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system

    157 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  2. RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library

    157 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  3. Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

    156 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  4. Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    156 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  5. What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?

    156 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  6. DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  7. Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)

    155 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  8. SST: Container Support

    155 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  9. Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

    155 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  10. Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all

    155 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  11. Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform

    155 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  12. Xogot – Godot for iPad

    155 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  13. Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf]

    154 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  14. Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them

    153 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  15. Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer

    153 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  16. Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language

    153 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  17. Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies

    153 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  18. Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

    152 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  19. MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX

    152 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  20. Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model

    152 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  21. WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker

    152 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  22. Argentinian farmer finds family of 20k-year-old armadillos

    152 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  23. A Walk with LuaJIT

    151 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  24. Redis is trying to take over the all of the OSS Redis libraries

    151 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  25. 1-Bit AI Infrastructure

    151 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  26. The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020)

    151 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  27. The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018)

    151 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  28. gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs

    151 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  29. Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player

    151 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  30. The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

    150 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  31. Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1

    150 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  32. The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

    150 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  33. GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

    150 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  34. Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater

    149 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  35. NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens

    148 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  36. Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

    148 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  37. Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

    148 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  38. Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe

    148 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  39. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

    148 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  40. Lush: My favorite small programming language

    147 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  41. Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

    147 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  42. Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds

    147 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  43. Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework

    147 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  44. SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    146 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  45. WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console

    146 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  46. Baby’s Second Garbage Collector

    146 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  47. Desktop icons are surprisingly hard

    146 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  48. Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective

    145 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  49. Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine

    145 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  50. DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13

    144 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  51. Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

    144 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  52. 1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations

    144 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  53. Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

    144 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  54. What Is a Staff Engineer?

    144 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  55. Tencent Hunyuan-Large

    143 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  56. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache

    143 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  57. The industry structure of LLM makers

    143 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  58. Writes large correct programs (2008)

    143 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  59. Nash equilibria in Ballmer's binary-search interview game

    142 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  60. The Battle Line at Louvain

    142 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  61. The Roots of Fear: Understanding the Amygdala

    142 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  62. La Basilica Di San Pietro

    141 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  63. Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

    140 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  64. Wonder is acquiring Grubhub

    140 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  65. GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released

    140 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  66. Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

    140 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  67. Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price

    140 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  68. 80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC

    140 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  69. The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank

    140 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  70. M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film

    140 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  71. Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

    140 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  72. The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor

    140 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  73. PR process killing morale and productivity

    139 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  74. BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners

    139 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  75. The Practical Guide to Scaling Django

    139 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  76. Inferring neural activity before plasticity for learning beyond backpropagation

    139 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  77. From string to AST: parsing (2019)

    139 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  78. Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women

    139 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  79. Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes

    139 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  80. Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt

    138 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  81. Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers

    138 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  82. The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

    138 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  83. Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?

    138 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  84. On Building Git for Lawyers

    138 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  85. Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

    137 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  86. Show HN: Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust

    137 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  87. Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install

    137 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  88. 3D Rotation Design

    137 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  89. Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day

    136 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  90. Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming

    136 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  91. Show HN: rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler

    136 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  92. Nixie Tubes (2015)

    136 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  93. The Slang Shading Language

    136 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  94. Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory

    136 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  95. Linux kernel 6.12 has been released

    136 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  96. Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it

    136 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  97. What is the point of an online conference?

    135 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  98. How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)

    135 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  99. The US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation

    134 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  100. The ‘contain’ CSS property

    134 points • comment • nov 17, 2024