woid

top stories

Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Tangled Physics: Knots Strain Intuitive Physical Reasoning

    39 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  2. Germany Government Collapses at a Perilous Time for Europe

    39 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  3. Troy Hunt's "Pwned", the Book, Is Now Available for Free

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  4. How life goes on after an earthquake: The ‘Lego schools’ of Lombok

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  5. Geometry clipmaps: simple terrain rendering with level of detail (2017)

    39 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  6. Max GPU: A new GenAI native serving stac

    39 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  7. Vanir: Open-Source Security Search and Patch Validation Tool

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  8. An EPYC Exclusive for Azure: AMD's MI300C – By George Cozma

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  9. Debugging a Superblock Percpu_rw_semaphore Deadlock

    39 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  10. Efficient German Language Learning: Is Anki the Answer?

    39 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  11. San Francisco House Prices Drop Back to 2019 as Tech Jobs Evaporate

    39 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  12. High housing prices are caused by government's zoning laws

    38 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  13. Missile Strike Confirmed as Cause of Azerbaijan E190 Crash – Aeroxplorer.com

    38 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  14. Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol

    38 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  15. Show HN: Cli.club – Command Line Interface Tools and Alternatives

    38 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  16. Early Improvements with Atogepant for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine

    38 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  17. My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher

    38 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  18. Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  19. Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  20. Mass psychogenic illness and the social network (2012)

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  21. Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super [video]

    38 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  22. Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls

    38 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  23. Dolphin Progress Release 2412

    38 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  24. The Closely Guarded Secrets of Manhattan Doormen

    38 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  25. Introducing Mailroom: An open-source internal notification framework

    38 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  26. Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans

    38 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  27. Do Adults Have the Skills They Need to Thrive in a Changing World?

    38 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  28. Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics

    38 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  29. Board game from Mexican prisons brings together people from all walks of life

    38 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  30. Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  31. Appeal for British oak to recreate Sutton Hoo ship

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  32. ChatGPT Is Down

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  33. OKRs for Evil and Good

    37 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  34. Ask HN: How do you maintain personal annotations for code you don't control?

    37 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  35. Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism

    37 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  36. The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  37. AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience

    37 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  38. Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022)

    37 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  39. Show HN: Autonomous AI agents that monitor the stock market for you

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  40. Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain's Electric Fields

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  41. Lead exposure in last century shrank IQ scores of half of Americans

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  42. Pocket 4 with 8.8″ High-Refresh LTPS Screen, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, and 45Wh Battery

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  43. DOOM ported to run atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  44. Suchir's Essay on Fair Use

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  45. The Onion's Purchase of Alex Jones' Infowars Stopped by US Judge

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  46. Peephole optimizations: adding `opt_respond_to` to the Ruby VM, part 4

    37 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  47. When the future arrived, it felt ordinary

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  48. UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Treatment for Kids with Autism

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

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

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  50. AI Stole the Joy of Programming

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  51. Show HN: Resizer2 – i3/KDE window movement on Windows

    37 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  52. Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100

    37 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  53. Through-the-Earth Mine Communications

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  54. Hertz Desperate to Unload Tesla Inventory, Asking Customers to Buy Rentals

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  55. Deciphering C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration

    37 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  56. Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?

    37 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  57. O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  58. Geoengineering (Wrong 2)

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  59. If you've got it, don't flaunt it in Sweden

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  60. Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: 'So Much Sympathy'

    36 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  61. I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  62. Show HN: Visualizing website carbon footprints using steam and robotics [video]

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  63. The deadliest tsunami set off work to be ready for the next big wave

    36 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  64. Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety

    36 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  65. Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?

    36 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  66. Confession: I Barely Use Web3

    36 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  67. Parsing Millions of DNS Records Per Second

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  68. Show HN: NCompass Technologies – yet another AI Inference API, but hear us out

    36 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  69. Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought

    36 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  70. First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years

    36 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  71. Controlling AI's Growing Energy Needs

    36 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  72. Why GCC 1.42 on the Tektronix 4404 – with a C compiler from 1979

    35 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  73. Research of RAM data remanence times

    35 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  74. Physicists find particle that only has mass when moving in one direction

    35 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  75. Economics and Homemakers

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  76. Why overplanning makes projects fail?

    35 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  77. News for Ruby 3.4.0

    35 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  78. US egg industry kills 350M chicks a year. New tech offers an alternative

    35 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  79. Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel

    35 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  80. Adding a Fully-Bootstrapped Mono

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  81. Exploring Alternatives to UUIDv4; Enter ULIDs

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  82. Show HN: SQL Simulator – Create Subsetted Databases in Docker or K8s

    35 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  83. Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system

    35 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  84. WXT: Next-Gen Web Extension Framework

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  85. Mike the Headless Chicken

    35 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  86. Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?

    35 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  87. US LLCs must file new report with Treasury FinCEN or risk prison

    35 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  88. Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware?

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  89. ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode adds Santa Mode, Live Video, Screensharing

    35 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  90. Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020)

    34 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  91. France's most powerful nuclear reactor connected to grid after 17-year build

    34 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  92. Native Swift on Android, Part 2: Your First Swift Android App

    34 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  93. 'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

    34 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  94. Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]

    34 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  95. Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform

    34 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  96. Ken Shirriff Tracks Down Intel's Infamous Pentium FDIV Bug in the Silicon Itself

    34 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  97. Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles

    34 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  98. Show HN: Savvy – Capture and Share CLI Workflows in Seconds

    34 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  99. How can you represent inheritance in a database? (2010)

    34 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  100. Performance (On an HP48GX Graphing Calculator)

    34 points • comment • dec 31, 2024