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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

    113 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  2. The Homa Network Protocol

    112 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  3. Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel

    112 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  4. Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US

    112 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  5. Using Drop for safety in Rust

    112 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  6. Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  7. Collatz’s Ant

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  8. Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again

    112 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  9. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment

    111 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  10. When should we require that firmware be free?

    111 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  11. After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly

    111 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  12. Nordstrom family to take company private

    111 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  13. Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition

    111 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  14. Xylella Fastidiosa: A crisis brewing in Europe's olive groves

    110 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  15. Static IPs for Serverless Containers

    110 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  16. Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway

    110 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  17. DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years

    110 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  18. Turing Machines

    110 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  19. From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler

    110 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  20. A Knife Forged in Fire

    110 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  21. Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs

    109 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  22. FastVideo: a lightweight framework for accelerating large video diffusion models

    109 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  23. The semver trick (2019)

    109 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  24. "All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk

    109 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  25. The dogs of Chernobyl: Populations in the nuclear exclusion zone (2023)

    109 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  26. A new home for Python-build-standalone

    109 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  27. Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS

    108 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  28. Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video]

    108 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  29. New Gemini model significantly outperforms others on Chatbot Arena (LMSYS)

    107 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  30. Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

    107 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  31. Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab

    107 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  32. Elektročas HH3 – the most accurate pendulum clock on the planet

    107 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  33. What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?

    107 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  34. A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects

    107 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  35. Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked

    107 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  36. CRDTs and Collaborative Playground

    106 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  37. Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

    106 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  38. Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)

    106 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  39. AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably

    106 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  40. Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

    106 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  41. Implementing SM-2 in Rust

    106 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  42. South Korea President Yoon declares martial law

    105 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  43. Offline Reinforcement Learning for LLM Multi-Step Reasoning

    105 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  44. Show HN: I made Gyroscopic Gyro Sandwiches

    105 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  45. Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks

    105 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  46. Exploiting McDonald's APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny

    105 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  47. A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)

    105 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  48. Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

    105 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  49. The Most Expensive Eating Disorder

    104 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  50. Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends

    104 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  51. CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer

    104 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  52. How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files

    104 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  53. XFCE 4.20 Released

    103 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  54. My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime

    103 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  55. Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down

    103 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  56. Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022)

    103 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  57. Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell

    103 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  58. Show HN: A remake of my 2004 PDA video game

    103 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  59. Chess: Magnus Carlsen disqualified in N.Y. after refusing to change out of jeans

    103 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  60. Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

    103 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  61. Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up

    103 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  62. Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit

    102 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  63. Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995)

    102 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  64. Spherical Harmonics

    102 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  65. Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)

    102 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  66. Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway

    102 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  67. Show HN: I built an HTML5 RTL-SDR application

    101 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  68. Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents

    101 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  69. The Rules of Programming (2023)

    101 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  70. The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)

    101 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  71. The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011)

    101 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  72. Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon

    100 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  73. U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage

    100 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  74. The marvelous disappearing capacitor

    100 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  75. Reverse engineering the Ravensburger TipToi pen

    100 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  76. 'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost

    100 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  77. Rust’s Incremental Compiler Architecture

    100 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  78. Installing OpenWRT on an Unsupported Router

    100 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  79. Penrose Mazes (2020)

    100 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  80. I don't do Domain Driven Design

    99 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  81. Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel

    99 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  82. Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust

    99 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  83. PLATO: An educational computer system from the '60s shaped the future (2023)

    99 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  84. Jury finds Cognizant discriminated against US workers

    99 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  85. DuPont and “DuPont” connectors, and how to crimp them properly

    99 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  86. When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust

    99 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  87. The Albuquerque "Broken Arrow" Nuclear Accident

    99 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  88. Navtive FlameGraphViewer

    98 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  89. SpiderBasic

    98 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  90. Codenames App, or my biggest project so far

    98 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  91. llms.txt directory

    98 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  92. Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction

    98 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  93. Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing

    98 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  94. Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)

    98 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  95. Northern Ireland police unlawfully put reporters under surveillance

    98 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  96. Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index

    98 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  97. Amiga Games Released in 2024 Index

    98 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  98. Manx – a catalog of manuals for old computers

    97 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  99. Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

    97 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  100. Idiomatic Errors in Clojure

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2024