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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Populism and the World of Oz (2016)

    17 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  2. Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl

    17 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  3. GenCast Predicts Weather with Accuracy

    17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  4. Christopher Hitchens Epigrams That Aged Like Fine Wine

    17 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  5. Foams Made Out of Felt

    17 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  6. Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images

    17 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  7. A 1,000-Year-Old Seed Grows in Israel

    17 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  8. Stimulus-use: collection of composable behaviors for Stimulus Controllers

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  9. Jimmy Carter, Who Died at Age 100, Spared People from Guinea Worm

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  10. Tokyo makes 3D data available

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  11. Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down

    17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  12. dtrace.conf(24)

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  13. Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate (2019)

    17 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  14. Ex-Mossad Agents Reveal How They Turned Hezbollah's Devices into Bombs

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  15. From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive

    17 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  16. Basf.com: Forced Labor at the Factory in Auschwitz

    17 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  17. Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  18. Parkchester – The Bronx: Last Stop on the Orphan Train

    17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  19. Urine Led to the Foundation of Chemistry

    17 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  20. Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks

    17 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  21. Show HN: Powerdrill – Leverage LLMs to Simplify Data Analysis

    17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  22. Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?

    17 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  23. Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

    17 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  24. Making true random numbers with radioactive decay (2021)

    17 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  25. Fine-tune classifier with ModernBERT in 2025

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  26. FBI Warns iPhone and Android Users–Stop Sending Texts

    17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  27. Was zombie-Bench just acquired?

    17 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  28. How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code to Run Directly on GPUs

    17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  29. Amazon secretly slowed deliveries, deceived anyone who complained, lawsuit says

    17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  30. Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated 'Users' No One Asked For

    17 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  31. Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  32. Free Your Vacuum from the Cloud

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  33. The end is nigh and here's why

    17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  34. 'It Had to Be Done': Luigi Mangione Manifesto Revealed

    17 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  35. Palantir and Anduril are building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts

    17 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  36. Zotac confirms GeForce RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory

    17 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  37. Are Ghost Engineers Real?

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  38. Dolby Atmos for music streaming is a waste of time

    17 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  39. 2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry

    17 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  40. Skype Credit is no longer available

    17 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  41. Netflix will never beat outdoor cinema in Australia

    17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  42. Black plastics may contain toxic compounds that can leach into food, experts say

    17 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  43. Google ads appeal process is broken?

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  44. Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop

    16 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  45. FTC Sends $72M in Refund Payments to Fortnite Consumers

    16 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  46. Atoms for Peace: Learning to Love the Bomb

    16 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  47. Zig Software Foundation – Introducing Carmen the Allocgator

    16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  48. Multiple airplanes landing gear failures in a day

    16 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  49. How does ChatGPT work: An in-depth look for Programmers

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  50. Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  51. Thelio Astra ARM64 is now available

    16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  52. WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza

    16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  53. Spying on Student Devices, Schools Aim to Intercept Self-Harm Before It Happens

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  54. Show HN: Akiradocs – open-source Documentation Framework with AI features

    16 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  55. Show HN: AuthorTrail – Browse files you've touched in a Git repo

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  56. China bans export of key minerals to U.S. as trade frictions escalate

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  57. The AI backlash couldn't have come at a better time

    16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  58. Bitcoin miner purchases 112-megawatt North Texas wind farm

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  59. Gitlab's director Matthew Jacobson sold $32M in shares

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  60. 50 Years Ago: Celebrating the Influential Intel 8080

    16 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  61. Walmart Employees Now Wearing Body Cameras to Keep Them Safe

    16 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  62. Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?

    16 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  63. The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  64. Finland Says Vessel Suspected of Cutting Cable Part of Russia's 'Shadow Fleet'

    16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  65. US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  66. How to Make LLMs Shut Up

    16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  67. What you need to know about SQLite

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  68. BetterDisplay: Extra Configuration Options for macOS

    16 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  69. Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes

    16 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  70. Netflix sues Broadcom's VMware over US virtual machine patents

    16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  71. New Administration to block the government and military from buying EVs

    16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  72. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)

    16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  73. Askers vs. Guessers

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  74. Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

    16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  75. Faster continuous integration builds at Canva

    16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  76. AI Agents as Neuro-Symbolic Systems? [video]

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  77. Elon Musk backs Germany's far-right party ahead of election

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  78. Diamonds are forever? World-first carbon-14 diamond battery made

    16 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  79. Two men arrested after drone flies 'dangerously close' to Boston's Logan Airport

    16 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  80. Ask HN: Why do laptop chargers have data wires?

    16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  81. John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  82. Show HN: CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library

    16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  83. Dissecting Puma: Anatomy of a Ruby Web Server

    16 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  84. Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study

    16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  85. How Accurate Is the Sensirion SGP41 TVOC Sensor?

    16 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  86. 38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming

    16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  87. Waste Makes Haste?

    16 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  88. Scalable and Performant Data Loading

    16 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  89. The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)

    16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  90. Scientists develop cleaner, greener heat pump

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  91. Sci-Fi Inspired Antenna Adjusts to Signal Needs

    16 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  92. Particle gains or loses mass depending on direction it travels

    16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  93. Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative (2022)

    16 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  94. FTC's Lina Khan Changes Everything with Ban on Hidden Junk Fees

    16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  95. Best-of-N Jailbreaking

    16 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  96. Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  97. Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld editor and renowned hardware journalist, dies at 58

    16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  98. Wrote a custom libc for POSIX and x86-64

    16 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  99. U.S. Treasury says it was hacked by Chinese actors

    16 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  100. Blizzard Changed Their Mind, Then GOG Humiliated Them [video]

    15 points • comment • dec 09, 2024