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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Ghost Engineers and Proof or a Lack Thereof

    19 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  2. Health Insurance is a Racket. What value do these companies add, really?

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  3. Storing 3D scans in a grain of wheat

    19 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  4. AI Advent of Code: Implementing Papers

    19 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  5. Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout in Bid to Outdo Qualcomm

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  6. A Note from Our Executive Director

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  7. Shutting down nuclear plants is "total madness"

    19 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  8. How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  9. Ask HN: Is there an Anti-EU sentiment from big tech?

    19 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  10. The science of routing print orders

    19 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  11. Getty Images CEO: Respecting fair use rules won't prevent AI from curing cancer

    19 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  12. A Decade Without a Drink

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  13. Standard Ebooks: Browse U.S. public domain artwork

    19 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  14. Solving Advent of Code at compile time with Rust macros

    19 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  15. Mysterious, mathematical origins of world’s most unusually shaped national flag

    19 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  16. Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA6 Released

    19 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  17. Show HN: Open-source security user analytics

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  18. Tiny Arcades [video]

    19 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  19. Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of torment and sexual servitude

    19 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  20. Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  21. End of Hachette vs. Internet Archive

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  22. Microsoft gives Alt+Space shortcut over to Copilot

    19 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  23. Day after nuclear power vow Meta announces largest-ever fossil fueled datacenter

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  24. Your Impact on FreeBSD: 2024 Milestones and What’s Next | FreeBSD Foundation

    19 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  25. Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost

    19 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  26. Towards a new kind of science and technology

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  27. Family of Deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Disputes Suicide Ruling

    19 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  28. Circular dependencies for socket activation and WireGuard

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  29. Devin AI security vulnerability discovered live on stream [video]

    19 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  30. Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns

    19 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  31. The report for the 2024 security audit of the Mullvad app is now available

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  32. High-Speed Sequential DNA Computing Using a Solid-State DNA Origami Register

    19 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  33. With venerable ship's retirement, U.S.-led ocean-drilling program ends

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  34. The DOJ Finally Scrutinizes the DEA's Cash Grabs at Airports

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  35. Luigi Mangione indicted on terrorism charges

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  36. Unidentified Drones Light Up New Jersey's Skies, Baffling Residents

    19 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink?

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  38. Ask HN: Why can't Mozilla offer a paid privacy tier?

    18 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  39. Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won't hear challenge to $15 broadband law

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  40. The exact moment that I decided to go off-grid in Portugal

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  41. Apple is working on AI chip with Broadcom

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  42. Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI'

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  43. The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is a Dangerous Criminal

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  44. How Networks of Competence Are Crushing Hierarchies of Authority

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  45. SpaceX Seeks Approval to Turn Texas Starbase Site into New City

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  46. Greg Kroah-Hartman Sees 'Tipping Point' for Rust Drivers in Linux Kernel

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  47. Visualization of cities with similar road networks

    18 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  48. It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content – that could be a problem

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  49. Giga Is ITU and UNICEF's School Connectivity Project

    18 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  50. AI helps ID paint chemistry of Berlin Wall murals

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  51. Heat disproportionately kills young people (study in Mexico)

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  52. The security model of dark web marketplaces

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  53. Russia uses civilians as 'target practice' for killer drones

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  54. Microsoft debuts Phi-4, new generative AI model

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  55. Ask HN: How do you cover healthcare as a founder? (US Only)

    18 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  56. Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  57. ChatGPT Is Terrible at Checking Its Own Code

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  58. Show HN: Caravan, a flexible, transport-based logging system for TypeScript apps

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  59. Traffic Cam Selfie Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  60. I Was Wrong About Scrum, Again

    18 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  61. Louis Rossmann for FTC chair [video]

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  62. The Death of the Stubborn Developer

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  63. Wi-Fi and the Problem with Radar (DFS)

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  64. Russian UVB-76 radio station broadcasts burst of mysterious messages

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  65. Google search hallucinates Encanto 2

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  66. Intel's Death and Potential Revival

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  67. America's obsession with California failing

    18 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  68. Designing a distributed circuit breaker in Golang

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  69. Fujitsu's Monaka CPU: ARMv9, SVE2, and 3D Stacking

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  70. Decivilization May Be Under Way

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  71. Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools

    18 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  72. Why hasn't the bird flu pandemic started? – Science – AAAS

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  73. Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  74. Dual Cancer Therapy Eradicates Tumors Without Harsh Side Effects

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  75. Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service

    18 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  76. The Masterpiece Hannah Arendt Died Writing

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  77. Google Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  78. Merry Christmas

    18 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  79. How Russian hypersonic missiles work [pdf]

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  80. Advent of Code analysis through the years

    18 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  81. Coast Guard Ship Stalked by Unidentified craft, Iran Mothership Claim Shot Down

    18 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  82. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

    18 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  83. Avatar robot cafe in Tokyo provides independence for bedridden 'pilots'

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  84. Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  85. DOJ Finds Civil Rights Violations by Police Department and City of Memphis

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  86. Uber's Dark Descent: How Abandoning Innovation Hurt Drivers and Gouges Riders

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  87. Show HN: An Open Source Equilizer Plugin

    18 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  88. UnitedHealthcare executive killed in Manhattan in targeted attack

    18 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  89. Behind Germany's Political Turmoil, a Stagnating Economy

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  90. The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball

    18 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  91. From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnation [pdf]

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  92. Yellen: US will hit debt ceiling in mid- or late-January

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  93. QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

    18 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  94. First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  95. Fixing C Strings

    18 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  96. A cross-section illustration reveals the happenings of Kowloon Walled City

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  97. AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  98. China's new long range stealth aircraft makes appearance

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  99. NATO's Emergency Plan for an Orbital Backup Internet

    17 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  100. OnlyFans turned into an empire bent on redefining porn

    17 points • comment • dec 29, 2024