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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. On the nature of computing science (1984)

    275 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  2. Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust

    274 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  3. I was wrong about the ethics crisis

    274 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  4. Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork

    274 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  5. Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

    274 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  6. ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4

    274 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  7. Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro

    272 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  8. Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley

    272 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  9. Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death

    272 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  10. More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

    272 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  11. I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping

    272 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  12. Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

    271 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  13. Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

    269 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  14. Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling

    268 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  15. EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

    266 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  16. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search'

    265 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  17. Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1

    265 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  18. Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself

    264 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  19. Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps

    263 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  20. The story of Rogue

    263 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  21. Structured Outputs with Ollama

    263 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  22. ExxonMobil's Alleged Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targeting Climate Activists

    263 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  23. Unexpected Keyboard

    262 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  24. Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential

    262 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  25. Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard

    262 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  26. Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

    261 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  27. 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)

    261 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  28. Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again

    260 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  29. App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)

    259 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  30. One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107

    258 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  31. Xerox to acquire Lexmark

    258 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  32. Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation

    258 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  33. Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers

    256 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  34. YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email

    256 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  35. The trap of "I am not an extrovert"

    256 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  36. Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold

    255 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  37. LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

    254 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  38. Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

    254 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  39. How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?

    254 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  40. OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

    254 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  41. Native dual-range input

    253 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  42. Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

    253 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  43. Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide

    253 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  44. VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles

    253 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  45. The Zombocom Problem

    252 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  46. UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)

    252 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  47. Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

    252 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  48. Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it

    251 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  49. Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804

    251 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  50. Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

    251 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  51. Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

    251 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  52. Numbers Are Leaves

    251 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  53. Crystal Ball Trading Game

    251 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  54. A data table thousands of years old (2020)

    251 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  55. Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ

    251 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  56. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)

    250 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  57. Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024

    250 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  58. A particle physics course for high-school students

    250 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  59. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)

    250 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  60. Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance

    250 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  61. How to Study Mathematics (2017)

    249 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  62. F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language

    249 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  63. Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)

    249 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  64. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?

    249 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  65. Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island

    249 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  66. Short Message Compression Using LLMs

    249 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  67. CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

    249 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  68. How to use Postgres for everything

    248 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  69. Biggest shell programs

    248 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  70. LineageOS 22

    248 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  71. Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)

    247 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  72. How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments

    247 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  73. Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?

    246 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  74. Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users

    246 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  75. Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?

    246 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  76. Show HN: Anki AI Utils

    246 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  77. Debanking (and Debunking?)

    246 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  78. Ada's dependent types, and its types as a whole

    245 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  79. Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

    245 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  80. Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents

    243 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  81. The age of average (2023)

    243 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  82. FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia

    242 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  83. Debian opens a can of username worms

    242 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  84. OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt

    241 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  85. An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)

    241 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  86. Apple Watch with Android

    240 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  87. Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip

    240 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  88. Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format

    239 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  89. Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models

    239 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  90. Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it

    239 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  91. A Raycaster in Bash

    238 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  92. Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust

    238 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  93. "BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home

    238 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  94. Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)

    237 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  95. Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs

    236 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  96. Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything

    235 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  97. Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74

    234 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  98. Guide to mechanical keyboards

    234 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  99. Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model

    233 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  100. Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing

    233 points • comment • dec 29, 2024