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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station (2017)

    57 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  2. Bank of North Dakota

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  3. U2's Larry Mullen Jr: my dyscalculia makes 'counting like climbing Everest'

    57 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  4. Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  5. NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

    57 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  6. OpenRCT2 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in browser using emscripten

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  7. Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  8. Tell HN: Alaska Airlines website exposes passenger data

    57 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  9. The Artist Exposing the Data We Leave Online

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  10. Argentina's economy exits recession in milestone for Javier Milei

    57 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  11. Archibald Low's ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions come true, mostly

    57 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  12. Helsing at Eurorust and the Oxidation of Defense

    57 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  13. The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M

    57 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  14. New Java to WASM GC Transpiler: Run Java in the Browser, No Plugin Required

    56 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  15. Forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases

    56 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  16. What Happened to the Largest Tube TV? [video]

    56 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  17. Data-engineer-handbook: everything to learn about data engineering

    56 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  18. Grok is now free for all X users

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  19. One-Mile-in-Five

    56 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  20. Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87

    56 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  21. A made-up name is better than no name

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  22. Scratch and Sniff Stickers and the Gas Panic of '87

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  23. Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  24. Vulkan Video Now Enabled by Default for Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware on Linux

    56 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  25. Anthem BCBS calls off surgery anesthesia cap after UH CEO murdered

    56 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  26. The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)

    55 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  27. Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

    55 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  28. GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support

    55 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  29. Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

    55 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  30. Design Space for Code Search Query

    55 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  31. Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks

    55 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  32. Collections: On Bread and Circuses

    55 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  33. Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO

    55 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  34. Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer

    55 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  35. Coupling nitrogen-vacancy center spins in diamond to a grape dimer

    55 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  36. 21 Algol 60 Compilers in 1962

    55 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  37. ChatGPT Saved Chats: Save and organize your important conversations in ChatGPT

    55 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  38. Unitree Robot Off-Road

    55 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  39. Pee.ie – Public Toilets Near Me Ireland

    55 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  40. 65% of Employees Bypass Cybersecurity Measures, New Study Finds

    55 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  41. Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x

    54 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  42. The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future

    54 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  43. Assassination Is a Leaky Abstraction

    54 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  44. 'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Suspends Critics, Asks People to Be Nicer

    54 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  45. The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system

    54 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  46. ShredOS – Secure disk erasure/wipe

    54 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  47. HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025

    54 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  48. Will PocketBase Survive?

    54 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  49. TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO

    54 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  50. We fixed our documentation with the Diátaxis framework

    54 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  51. I Built a Figma Plugin That Generates Custom SVG Illustrations with AI

    54 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  52. Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)

    53 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  53. DIY Apple iPad Magic Keyboard Portrait Mode Smart Connector Cable

    53 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  54. Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  55. Apple collaborates with Nvidia to research faster LLM performance

    53 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  56. Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  57. Mixin is a trait/mixin and bytecode weaving framework for Java using ASM

    53 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  58. 87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  59. Squirrels hunting and eating meat

    53 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  60. Bogotá’s open streets program is the oldest and most successful

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  61. Now Boarding: The Story of Airport

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  62. American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop

    53 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  63. The Startup Trap (2013)

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  64. Being a developer in the age of reasoning AI

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  65. Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  66. Astronauts face unique visual challenges at lunar South Pole

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  67. Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends

    53 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  68. Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty

    53 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  69. New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer

    52 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  70. Molecular machines that loop chromosomes also twist DNA

    52 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  71. ByteDance's Recommendation System

    52 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  72. The Red Beads Experiment (2019)

    52 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  73. cli53 – Command line tool for Amazon Route 53

    52 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  74. How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home

    52 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  75. USDA locks barn door after Listeria escapes

    52 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  76. Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help

    52 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  77. Review by Senate Democrats finds more unreported luxury trips by Clarence Thomas

    52 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  78. Show HN: Grow Bluesky – A curated collection of the best tools for Bluesky users

    52 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  79. Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?

    52 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  80. XML: Twig – A Time-Tested Powerhouse for Processing XML

    52 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  81. Libero – A Programmer's Tool and Code Generator (1997)

    52 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  82. Train a Mnist VAE with C and CUDA

    51 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  83. Mozilla: Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

    51 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  84. Show HN: Musoq – Query Anything with SQL Syntax (Git, C#, CSV, Can DBC)

    51 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  85. Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox

    51 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  86. "The Custer Wolf is Dead." (1921) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  87. NY governor signs law making the restaurant reservation black market illegal

    51 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  88. The Booze of Monkey Island is an unofficial fan game

    51 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  89. Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths

    51 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  90. Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use

    51 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  91. Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML

    51 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  92. The case for clinical trial abundance

    51 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  93. Precursors of Copernicus' heliocentric theory

    51 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  94. Show HN: SkunkHTML – Markdown Blog with GitHub Pages

    50 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  95. The California job-killer that wasn't

    50 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  96. Neanderthals cold-adapted? Ribcage reconstruction may hold the answer

    50 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  97. Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming [video]

    50 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  98. Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic

    50 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  99. Intel's Fall from Grace

    50 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  100. Walter Isaacson: My So-Called Writing Life (2014)

    50 points • comment • dec 31, 2024