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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

  1. TinyTroupe, a new LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation Python library

    134 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  2. Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)

    134 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  3. The ‘contain’ CSS property

    134 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  4. Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

    134 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

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

    134 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  6. Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub

    133 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  7. Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test

    133 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  8. Emacs arbitrary code execution and how to avoid it

    133 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

    133 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  10. Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable

    132 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  11. DELETEs Are Difficult

    132 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  12. Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX

    132 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  13. Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates

    132 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  14. Interview gone wrong

    132 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  15. Low-cost, portable device can detect colorectal and prostate cancer in an hour

    132 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  16. Accidentally writing a SAT solver

    132 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  17. Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs

    132 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  18. Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines

    132 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  19. AlphaFold 3 Code

    132 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  20. Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores

    132 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  21. Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing

    131 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  22. BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product

    131 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  23. How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail

    131 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  24. Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New

    131 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  25. Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life

    131 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  26. Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

    130 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  27. Revealing causal links in complex systems: New algorithm shows hidden influences

    130 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  28. DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model

    130 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  29. SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)

    130 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  30. The rise of the U.S., the rise of China

    130 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  31. Defensive Communication (1961)

    130 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  32. Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

    129 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  33. Show HN: Midnight Reminders via Morse Code

    129 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  34. Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program

    129 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  35. A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

    129 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  36. A CC-By Open-Source TTS Model with Voice Cloning

    129 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  37. Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

    129 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  38. Micron launches 60TB PCIe gen5 SSD with 12GB/s read speeds

    129 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  39. DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text

    128 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  40. Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013)

    128 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  41. FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business

    128 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  42. Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing

    128 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  43. PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc

    128 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  44. Haunted by my own projects

    127 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  45. Guild Builds

    127 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  46. How to print your Guild Wars 2 character

    127 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  47. Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

    127 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  48. Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games

    127 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  49. Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction

    127 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  50. An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

    127 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  51. TrunkVer

    127 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  52. Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall

    126 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  53. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision

    126 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  54. Those correction notices, in full

    126 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  55. OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest

    126 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  56. Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction

    126 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  57. Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti

    126 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  58. US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation

    126 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  59. Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks

    125 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  60. The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010)

    125 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  61. Security Is a Useless Controls Problem

    125 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  62. You Exist in the Long Context

    125 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  63. Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal

    125 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  64. Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials

    125 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  65. URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars

    125 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  66. Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

    125 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  67. Firefox DevTools Network Tab: How to filter requests by properties

    124 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  68. School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

    124 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  69. Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions

    124 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  70. The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor

    124 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  71. Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas

    124 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  72. Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux

    124 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  73. Prayer, Placement, and Absolution: Peter Hristoff on Islamic Prayer Rugs (2015)

    124 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  74. The Curse of Markdown

    124 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  75. Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

    124 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  76. Prioritize work at the task level

    123 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  77. A Mathematician in a School of Art

    123 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  78. Org Mode Syntax Cheat Sheet (2017)

    123 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  79. A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years

    123 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  80. Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)

    123 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  81. Fleng 22 (concurrent logic programming)

    123 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  82. Neomacs: Structural Lisp IDE/browser/computing environment

    123 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  83. Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should

    123 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  84. Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python

    123 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  85. Ping Rate Clock

    123 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  86. An alternative construction of Shannon entropy

    123 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  87. Linux 6.13 will report the number of hung tasks since boot

    122 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  88. Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years

    122 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  89. Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder

    122 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  90. How Chordcat works – a chord naming algorithm

    122 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  91. WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

    122 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  92. ChatGPT now on chat.com

    122 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  93. Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck

    122 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  94. Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands

    121 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  95. Hynix launches 321-layer NAND

    121 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  96. Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)

    121 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  97. Show HN: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework

    121 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  98. Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  99. Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

    120 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  100. Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life

    120 points • comment • nov 12, 2024