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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

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

    97 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  2. Pelicans on a bicycle

    97 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  3. Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata

    96 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  4. How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain

    96 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  5. Broward Co. to vacate convictions for buying crack made by Sheriff's Office

    96 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  6. Programmers want flow. When programming, light turns red

    96 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  7. Why did clothing become boring?

    96 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  8. Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa

    96 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  9. Ten Years of JMAP

    96 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  10. Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?

    96 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  11. History of rat control in Alberta

    96 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  12. Multilspy: Building a common LSP client handtuned for all Language servers

    95 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  13. Starting a Business at 60: My Father's Story

    95 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  14. Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++

    95 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  15. Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf]

    95 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  16. Stripe V2

    95 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  17. Revisiting Stereotype Threat

    95 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  18. A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) (2023)

    95 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  19. Self-Funding Harberger Taxes

    95 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  20. Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop

    95 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  21. US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix

    95 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  22. Show HN: Map of YC Startups

    95 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  23. Limits to Growth (1972)

    94 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  24. Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?

    94 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  25. Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization

    94 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  26. Show HN: Real-Time YOLO Object Detection in Elixir: Fast, Simple, Extensible

    94 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  27. The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014)

    94 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  28. AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment

    94 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  29. Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?

    94 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  30. Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

    94 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  31. A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017)

    94 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  32. 86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines

    93 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  33. Analysis of supply-chain attack on Ultralytics

    93 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  34. RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith

    93 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  35. Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop

    93 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  36. Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  37. The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly excavating an exploit

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  38. Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques

    93 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  39. Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

    93 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  40. NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station

    93 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  41. Show HN: Lfi – a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library

    93 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  42. Supernovae Evidence for Foundational Change to Cosmological Models

    93 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  43. Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control

    93 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  44. The secret life of DNS packets (2019)

    92 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  45. Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500

    92 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  46. My4th Light – Custom 8-Bit Forth CPU

    92 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  47. Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS

    92 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  48. We know where your car is

    92 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  49. Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions

    92 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  50. Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript

    92 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  51. Show HN: Execute SQL against Bluesky firehose

    92 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  52. Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)

    91 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  53. NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars

    91 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  54. Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite

    91 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  55. 38th Chaos Communication Congress

    91 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  56. Show HN: Org-Supertag

    91 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  57. PixLens: A lens that turns the scenery you see into pixel art

    91 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  58. Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams: study

    91 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  59. Show HN: Prompt Engine – Auto pick LLMs based on your prompts

    91 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  60. The humble for loop in Rust

    90 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  61. Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons

    90 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  62. Should programming languages be safe or powerful?

    90 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  63. AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild

    90 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  64. India's food shortage filled American libraries

    90 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  65. BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff

    90 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  66. The saga of the color brown in the early years of the PC (2023)

    90 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  67. NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun

    90 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  68. Wolfram Notebook Assistant

    89 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  69. Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' court rules

    89 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  70. Noise Filtering Using €1 Filter (2020)

    89 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  71. Complain and Propose (2014)

    89 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  72. No More Adam: Learning Rate Scaling at Initialization Is All You Need

    89 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  73. How to Reverse Engineer a 12 EUR Intel PCIe FPGA Card IBM 98Y2610

    89 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  74. Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG

    89 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  75. RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama

    89 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  76. The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  77. Breaking the Mirror – A Look at Apple's New iPhone Remote Control Feature [video]

    89 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  78. Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag

    88 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  79. Isomorphic Web Components

    88 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  80. Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app

    88 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  81. Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history

    88 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  82. How I got promoted to staff engineer twice

    88 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  83. C++ exception performance three years later

    87 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  84. Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?

    87 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  85. How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes

    87 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  86. Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies

    87 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  87. Why is printer ink so expensive?

    87 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  88. Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)

    87 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  89. What is metformin's secret sauce?

    87 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  90. Explaining Large Language Models Decisions Using Shapley Values

    87 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  91. Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT algorithm)

    87 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  92. Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

    86 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  93. FSharpPacker – compile F# scripts to executables

    86 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  94. Saving Voyager 1 [video]

    86 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  95. Notes on China

    86 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  96. Ascending Mount FujiNet

    86 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  97. A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

    86 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  98. The Smallest Thing in Go

    86 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  99. A better approach to gravity: how we made EGM2008 faster

    86 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  100. A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer

    86 points • comment • dec 25, 2024