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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. The Cold Email Handbook

    341 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  2. Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?

    339 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  3. Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement

    338 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  4. Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

    338 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  5. 1-800-ChatGPT

    337 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  6. Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail

    337 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  7. Save Music, Save the Archive

    336 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  8. A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)

    336 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  9. A Minecraft server written in COBOL

    335 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  10. EmacsConf 2024 Notes

    335 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  11. Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

    334 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  12. A Replacement for BERT

    332 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  13. Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript

    331 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  14. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

    330 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  15. Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust

    330 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  16. I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig

    330 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  17. Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)

    328 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  18. Mistakes as a new manager

    328 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  19. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]

    328 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  20. Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?

    328 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  21. A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

    328 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  22. Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)

    328 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  23. One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch

    327 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  24. Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated

    327 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  25. They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard

    326 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  26. Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor

    326 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  27. Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]

    323 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  28. Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

    321 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  29. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

    320 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  30. Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope

    319 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  31. Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

    319 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  32. <dialog>: The Dialog Element

    318 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  33. Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch

    317 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  34. Darktable 5.0.0

    317 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  35. US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

    314 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  36. Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers

    313 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  37. 38th Chaos Communication Congress

    311 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  38. Preferring throwaway code over design docs

    311 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  39. Lua is so underrated

    310 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  40. The largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics

    309 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  41. Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)

    309 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  42. OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’

    308 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  43. Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor

    308 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  44. MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

    308 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  45. Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch

    305 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  46. OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

    305 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  47. Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

    304 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  48. Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

    304 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  49. “A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]

    304 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  50. Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)

    304 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  51. Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

    303 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  52. Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free

    301 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  53. Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11

    300 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  54. Tsunami Warning for Northern California

    300 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  55. Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

    300 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  56. Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

    299 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  57. Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite

    299 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  58. Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?

    299 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  59. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)

    298 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  60. DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

    298 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  61. Differential Growth Addon for Blender

    298 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  62. Most people don't care about quality

    298 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  63. Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair

    297 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  64. C++ is an absolute blast

    297 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  65. Modelica

    296 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  66. Alignment faking in large language models

    296 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  67. Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn

    296 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  68. Long Term Software Development

    294 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  69. UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

    293 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  70. Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software

    292 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  71. TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

    292 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  72. React 19

    292 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  73. Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana

    291 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  74. Bench accounting services shutting down

    291 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  75. Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

    291 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  76. Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby

    290 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  77. Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit

    290 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  78. Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

    289 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  79. "Rules" that terminal programs follow

    289 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  80. How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor

    289 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  81. Seconds Since the Epoch

    288 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  82. A Tour of WebAuthn

    288 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  83. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

    288 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  84. Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?

    287 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  85. Ask HN: How do you find part time work?

    285 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  86. Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

    285 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  87. Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server

    283 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  88. Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences

    283 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  89. A Simple ELF

    283 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  90. U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

    283 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  91. Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized

    283 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  92. Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API

    282 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  93. Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

    282 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  94. Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust

    280 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  95. The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

    280 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  96. Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

    279 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  97. Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go

    279 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  98. 25 Years of Dillo

    277 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  99. Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road

    277 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  100. Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast

    276 points • comment • dec 06, 2024