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Hacker News (Dec 2024)
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Populism and the World of Oz (2016)
17 points • comment • dec 29, 2024
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Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2024
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GenCast Predicts Weather with Accuracy
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
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Christopher Hitchens Epigrams That Aged Like Fine Wine
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2024
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Foams Made Out of Felt
17 points • comment • dec 01, 2024
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Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2024
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A 1,000-Year-Old Seed Grows in Israel
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
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Stimulus-use: collection of composable behaviors for Stimulus Controllers
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
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Jimmy Carter, Who Died at Age 100, Spared People from Guinea Worm
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
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Tokyo makes 3D data available
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
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dtrace.conf(24)
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
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Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate (2019)
17 points • comment • dec 29, 2024
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Ex-Mossad Agents Reveal How They Turned Hezbollah's Devices into Bombs
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2024
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Basf.com: Forced Labor at the Factory in Auschwitz
17 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture
17 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
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Parkchester – The Bronx: Last Stop on the Orphan Train
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
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Urine Led to the Foundation of Chemistry
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
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Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
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Show HN: Powerdrill – Leverage LLMs to Simplify Data Analysis
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
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Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2024
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Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
17 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
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Making true random numbers with radioactive decay (2021)
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
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Fine-tune classifier with ModernBERT in 2025
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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FBI Warns iPhone and Android Users–Stop Sending Texts
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
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Was zombie-Bench just acquired?
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
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How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code to Run Directly on GPUs
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
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Amazon secretly slowed deliveries, deceived anyone who complained, lawsuit says
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
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Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated 'Users' No One Asked For
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
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Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
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Free Your Vacuum from the Cloud
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
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The end is nigh and here's why
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
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'It Had to Be Done': Luigi Mangione Manifesto Revealed
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2024
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Palantir and Anduril are building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts
17 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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Zotac confirms GeForce RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory
17 points • comment • dec 17, 2024
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Are Ghost Engineers Real?
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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Dolby Atmos for music streaming is a waste of time
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry
17 points • comment • dec 25, 2024
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Skype Credit is no longer available
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
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Netflix will never beat outdoor cinema in Australia
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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Black plastics may contain toxic compounds that can leach into food, experts say
17 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
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Google ads appeal process is broken?
16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
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Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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FTC Sends $72M in Refund Payments to Fortnite Consumers
16 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
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Atoms for Peace: Learning to Love the Bomb
16 points • comment • dec 07, 2024
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Zig Software Foundation – Introducing Carmen the Allocgator
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
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Multiple airplanes landing gear failures in a day
16 points • comment • dec 29, 2024
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How does ChatGPT work: An in-depth look for Programmers
16 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
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Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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Thelio Astra ARM64 is now available
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
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WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
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Spying on Student Devices, Schools Aim to Intercept Self-Harm Before It Happens
16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
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Show HN: Akiradocs – open-source Documentation Framework with AI features
16 points • comment • dec 02, 2024
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Show HN: AuthorTrail – Browse files you've touched in a Git repo
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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China bans export of key minerals to U.S. as trade frictions escalate
16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
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The AI backlash couldn't have come at a better time
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
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Bitcoin miner purchases 112-megawatt North Texas wind farm
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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Gitlab's director Matthew Jacobson sold $32M in shares
16 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
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50 Years Ago: Celebrating the Influential Intel 8080
16 points • comment • dec 25, 2024
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Walmart Employees Now Wearing Body Cameras to Keep Them Safe
16 points • comment • dec 20, 2024
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Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?
16 points • comment • dec 29, 2024
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The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme
16 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
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Finland Says Vessel Suspected of Cutting Cable Part of Russia's 'Shadow Fleet'
16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
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US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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How to Make LLMs Shut Up
16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
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What you need to know about SQLite
16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
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BetterDisplay: Extra Configuration Options for macOS
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
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Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
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Netflix sues Broadcom's VMware over US virtual machine patents
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
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New Administration to block the government and military from buying EVs
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)
16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
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Askers vs. Guessers
16 points • comment • dec 10, 2024
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Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
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Faster continuous integration builds at Canva
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
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AI Agents as Neuro-Symbolic Systems? [video]
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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Elon Musk backs Germany's far-right party ahead of election
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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Diamonds are forever? World-first carbon-14 diamond battery made
16 points • comment • dec 05, 2024
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Two men arrested after drone flies 'dangerously close' to Boston's Logan Airport
16 points • comment • dec 15, 2024
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Ask HN: Why do laptop chargers have data wires?
16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024
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John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
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Show HN: CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library
16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
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Dissecting Puma: Anatomy of a Ruby Web Server
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
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Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study
16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024
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How Accurate Is the Sensirion SGP41 TVOC Sensor?
16 points • comment • dec 14, 2024
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38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
16 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
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Waste Makes Haste?
16 points • comment • dec 14, 2024
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Scalable and Performant Data Loading
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2024
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The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)
16 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
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Scientists develop cleaner, greener heat pump
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
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Sci-Fi Inspired Antenna Adjusts to Signal Needs
16 points • comment • dec 15, 2024
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Particle gains or loses mass depending on direction it travels
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
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Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative (2022)
16 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
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FTC's Lina Khan Changes Everything with Ban on Hidden Junk Fees
16 points • comment • dec 17, 2024
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Best-of-N Jailbreaking
16 points • comment • dec 13, 2024
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Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
16 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
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Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld editor and renowned hardware journalist, dies at 58
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
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Wrote a custom libc for POSIX and x86-64
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2024
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U.S. Treasury says it was hacked by Chinese actors
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
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Blizzard Changed Their Mind, Then GOG Humiliated Them [video]
15 points • comment • dec 09, 2024