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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Tree Calculus

    472 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  2. World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image

    471 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  3. Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

    469 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  4. Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

    466 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  5. Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

    464 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  6. Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

    463 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  7. Review of Mullvad VPN

    462 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  8. Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

    461 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  9. Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

    460 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  10. Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap

    457 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  11. Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

    457 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  12. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

    454 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  13. City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once

    453 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  14. 'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system

    451 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  15. Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

    451 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  16. 38C3: Illegal Instructions

    447 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  17. BlenderGPT

    444 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  18. New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs

    442 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  19. Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

    442 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  20. Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

    442 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  21. WebGL Fluid Simulation

    441 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  22. PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention

    439 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  23. Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law

    439 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  24. Updates to H-1B

    438 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  25. Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios

    438 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  26. Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going

    437 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  27. The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released

    432 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  28. Trellis – 3D mesh generative model

    430 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  29. Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32

    430 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  30. WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction

    427 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  31. Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning

    426 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  32. Clay – UI Layout Library

    421 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  33. Dear OAuth Providers

    418 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  34. Sitters and Standers

    417 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  35. Curl-Impersonate

    415 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  36. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

    411 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  37. OpenAI o1 system card

    411 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  38. Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports

    407 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  39. They see your photos

    407 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  40. Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

    406 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  41. Ruby 3.4.0

    406 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  42. Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel

    405 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  43. More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in

    403 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  44. Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work

    403 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  45. ISO 8583: The language of credit cards

    402 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  46. Software Design Is Knowledge Building

    401 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  47. Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells

    401 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  48. Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

    400 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  49. Java in the Small

    400 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  50. Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

    400 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  51. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway

    397 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  52. "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"

    397 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  53. T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013)

    395 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  54. What will enter the public domain in 2025?

    394 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  55. NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway

    391 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  56. Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time

    390 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  57. We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]

    389 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  58. Kelly Can't Fail

    386 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  59. 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

    385 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  60. Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician

    385 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  61. How to grow professional relationships

    384 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  62. McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis

    379 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  63. GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house

    379 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  64. Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

    376 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  65. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

    375 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  66. How I run LLMs locally

    375 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  67. From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]

    374 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  68. Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

    372 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  69. Fun facts about SQLite

    371 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  70. Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

    370 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  71. Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting

    369 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  72. More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

    368 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  73. Making my first robot as a software engineer

    368 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  74. What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know

    366 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  75. MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

    365 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  76. Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security

    360 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  77. I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source

    359 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  78. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback

    358 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  79. Introducing S2

    357 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  80. Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)

    357 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  81. Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

    357 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  82. JSON5 – JSON for Humans

    356 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  83. 'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images

    356 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  84. A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021)

    353 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  85. Amazon Nova

    350 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  86. Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

    350 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  87. Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?

    349 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  88. Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%

    348 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  89. In Search of a Faster SQLite

    347 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  90. Android XR

    347 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  91. What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)

    347 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  92. OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs

    346 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  93. Firefox removes "do not track" feature support

    346 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  94. Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

    345 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  95. How to lose a fortune with one bad click

    343 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  96. Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs

    343 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  97. U.S. math scores drop on major international test

    342 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  98. TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips

    342 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  99. Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing

    341 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  100. macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

    341 points • comment • dec 14, 2024