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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Silk – Interactive Generative Art (2011)

    85 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  2. Htmhail

    85 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  3. Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

    85 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  4. A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."

    85 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  5. Day Zero – Build Good Web Apps with the Zero Sync Engine

    85 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  6. The CD Pipeline Manifesto

    84 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  7. AT&T Won't Upgrade Millions Of DSL Users To Fiber Despite Billions In Subsidies

    84 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  8. A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events

    84 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  9. Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)

    84 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  10. Why housing shortages cause homelessness

    84 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  11. Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States

    84 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  12. I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    84 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  13. Behind the Scenes: Alien Worlds – Jumpship over a tidally locked planet

    84 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  14. A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)

    83 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  15. Hello World on z/OS (2018)

    83 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  16. YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours

    83 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  17. Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity

    83 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  18. He Built Apple's 1980s iPad Concept [video]

    83 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  19. S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US

    83 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  20. Test Driven Development (TDD) for your LLMs? Yes please, more of that please

    83 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  21. Mystery 'Disease X' outbreak widens as WHO sends rapid response team to DR Congo

    83 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  22. The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager

    83 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  23. What's happening with founders over 40?

    83 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  24. Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)

    83 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  25. Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires

    83 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  26. Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages

    83 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  27. The Hoare Cube

    83 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  28. MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations

    82 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  29. Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace

    82 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  30. Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera

    82 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  31. Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade

    82 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  32. Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer

    82 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  33. How do I pay the publisher of a web page?

    82 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  34. Genesis: A generative and universal physics engine for robotics and beyond

    82 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  35. Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

    82 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  36. Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)

    82 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?

    81 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  38. My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

    81 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  39. Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability

    81 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  40. I made a tiny library for switches and sum types in Lua

    81 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  41. 2D Racket Syntax

    81 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  42. Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month

    81 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  43. How did human butts evolve to look that way?

    81 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  44. Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog

    81 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  45. The tale of two Shanghais

    81 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  46. Show HN: Vekos – a Rust OS with Built-In Cryptographic Verification

    81 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  47. Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  48. Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies

    80 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  49. Problems with Python dependency management

    80 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  50. Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)

    80 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  51. Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__

    80 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  52. Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions

    80 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  53. Jury Nullification

    80 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  54. Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests

    80 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  55. If I Could Wave a Magic Wand

    80 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  56. Show HN: Brisk – Cross-Platform C++ GUI Framework: Declarative, Reactive, Fast

    80 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  57. AI Product Management

    80 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  58. Show HN: Ephemeral VMs in 1 Microsecond

    80 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  59. Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama

    80 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  60. Misinformation fuels outrage and mindless social-media shares – study

    80 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  61. When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland?

    80 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  62. The Unicon Programming Language

    79 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  63. .NET Support on Heroku

    79 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  64. Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)

    79 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  65. SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM

    79 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  66. 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas

    79 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  67. ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement

    79 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  68. Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982)

    79 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  69. Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit'

    79 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  70. Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage

    79 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  71. The Color of Noise (2014)

    79 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  72. Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  73. Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor

    78 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  74. Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'

    78 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  75. Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history

    78 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  76. Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage

    78 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  77. Principles of Educational Programming Language Design

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  78. US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash

    77 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  79. How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains?

    77 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  80. In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline

    77 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  81. It's okay to code on nights and weekends

    77 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  82. The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers

    77 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  83. Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cyberattacks

    77 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  84. Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  85. DVST Graphic Terminals

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  86. Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes

    76 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  87. Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident

    76 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  88. Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  89. The Age of Chiplets Is Upon Us

    76 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  90. I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video]

    76 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  91. Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring

    76 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  92. Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf]

    76 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  93. Two decades after Enron's bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?

    76 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  94. Vercel/fun: ƒun – Local serverless function λ development runtime

    76 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  95. Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  96. Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables

    75 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  97. Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes

    75 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  98. OpenLoco: An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

    75 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  99. Bench.co acquired after informing staff company was insolvent

    75 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  100. Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage

    75 points • comment • dec 26, 2024