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Hacker News (Nov 2024)

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

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  2. Limitations of frame pointer unwinding

    120 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  3. Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganism

    120 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  4. Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)

    120 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

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

    120 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  6. Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video]

    119 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  7. Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

    119 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  8. Study Reveals Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging

    119 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  9. Performance improvement plans are on the rise

    119 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  10. DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]

    119 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  11. OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016)

    119 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  12. NASA aircraft uncover Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet

    119 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  13. Traits are a local maximum

    118 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  14. Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts

    118 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  15. How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

    118 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  16. Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP

    118 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  17. DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration

    118 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  18. Diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms

    118 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  19. Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects

    118 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  20. Docker Compose Isn't Enough

    117 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  21. World’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

    117 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  22. Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse

    117 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  23. With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

    117 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  24. Using Two ReMarkables

    117 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  25. Square roots and maxima

    117 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  26. Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

    117 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  27. Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty

    117 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  28. Conversational Game Theory

    116 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  29. Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'

    116 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  30. I2P Anonymous Network

    116 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  31. Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study

    116 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  32. German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins

    116 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  33. Waiting for many things at once with io_uring

    115 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  34. Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages?

    115 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  35. Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser

    115 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  36. Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library

    115 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  37. SQLite does not do checksums

    115 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  38. Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (or without) Rayon

    115 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  39. We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

    115 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  40. Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)

    114 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  41. Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git

    114 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  42. Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox

    114 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  43. Tsugaru OS – A New Free FM-Towns OS

    114 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  44. Size and albedo of the largest detected Oort-cloud object

    114 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  45. Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

    114 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  46. Against the Dark Forest

    114 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  47. Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists

    114 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  48. Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

    113 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  49. Deprecating outdated issues on the GitHub public roadmap

    113 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  50. Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)

    113 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  51. SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf]

    113 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  52. Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer

    113 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  53. Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal

    113 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  54. Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

    112 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  55. Deegen: A JIT-Capable VM Generator for Dynamic Languages

    112 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  56. Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new James Webb image

    112 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  57. My Social Anxiety Cheatsheet for Mingling

    112 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  58. Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform

    112 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  59. Alibaba releases an 'open' challenger to OpenAI's O1 reasoning model

    112 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  60. Functional Programming Self-Affirmations

    112 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  61. XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging

    112 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  62. Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers

    111 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  63. Are We PEP740 Yet?

    111 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  64. Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout

    111 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  65. DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

    110 points • comment • nov 18, 2024

  66. Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them? (2020)

    110 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  67. The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

    110 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  68. Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image

    109 points • comment • nov 30, 2024

  69. EU opens antitrust investigation into anticompetitive practices by Corning

    109 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  70. Upcoming changes to the DNSSEC root trust anchor

    109 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  71. Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts project maintainer tteck enters hospice care

    109 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  72. Insomnia, but not lack of sleep, may hasten brain shrinkage: study

    109 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  73. The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes

    109 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  74. Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

    109 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  75. Physicists spot quantum tornadoes twirling in a ‘supersolid’

    109 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  76. Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java

    109 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  77. Defibrillation devices save lives using 1k times less electricity

    109 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  78. A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

    109 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  79. Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company

    109 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  80. Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

    109 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  81. Designing a Home Radio Telescope for 21 Cm Emission

    108 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  82. Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects

    108 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  83. Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates

    108 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  84. More Oracle Layoffs Started Nov. 1, Cloud Unit Impacted

    108 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  85. A silly science prize changed my career

    108 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  86. The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future

    108 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  87. Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

    108 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  88. I converted a Macbook into a PC

    108 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  89. Numpyro: Probabilistic programming with NumPy powered by Jax

    108 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  90. Reweb: Visual website builder for Next.js and Tailwind

    108 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  91. Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made

    108 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  92. FLTK 1.4 Released

    107 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  93. A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart

    107 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  94. LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns

    107 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  95. Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf

    107 points • comment • nov 23, 2024

  96. Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

    107 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  97. Code Conversion Language (2019)

    107 points • comment • nov 21, 2024

  98. Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report

    107 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  99. Emit-C: A time travelling programming language

    107 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  100. ML in Go with a Python Sidecar

    107 points • comment • nov 11, 2024