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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

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

    233 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  2. The Cody Computer

    232 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  3. Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer

    232 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  4. Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

    231 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  5. The Tube Computer

    230 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  6. Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined

    229 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  7. Exotic new superconductors delight and confound

    229 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  8. 3D-Printed Dune Chess Set

    229 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  9. AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

    228 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  10. Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks

    226 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  11. OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program

    226 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  12. Luon programming language

    226 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  13. 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub

    225 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  14. QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

    225 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  15. Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

    225 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  16. Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable

    224 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  17. Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

    224 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  18. Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program

    223 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  19. Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women

    222 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  20. Reads Causing Writes in Postgres

    221 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  21. Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups

    220 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  22. The XOR Texture (2004)

    220 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  23. Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)

    219 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  24. Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

    218 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  25. Donald Bitzer has died

    218 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  26. Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit

    218 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  27. Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering

    218 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  28. KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework

    218 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  29. Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app

    217 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  30. SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)

    217 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  31. CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion

    217 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  32. Gene behind orange fur in cats

    217 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  33. Sensible SQLite Defaults

    216 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  34. Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama

    216 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  35. Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin

    216 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  36. Conversations are better with four people

    216 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  37. Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?

    215 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  38. Next stop: Miami

    215 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  39. Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made

    215 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  40. Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application

    215 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  41. AI Guesses Your Accent

    214 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  42. Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker

    214 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  43. A new learning experience on MDN

    214 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  44. Mathics 7.0 – Open-source alternative to Mathematica

    214 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  45. IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts

    214 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  46. Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360

    214 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  47. Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers

    213 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  48. Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning

    213 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  49. Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web

    213 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  50. Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys

    213 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  51. Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps

    212 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  52. PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning

    211 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  53. Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?

    211 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  54. Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say

    211 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  55. Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics

    210 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  56. Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

    209 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  57. The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

    209 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  58. Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)

    209 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  59. The GPU is not always faster

    209 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  60. Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location

    209 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  61. Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once

    209 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  62. The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered

    209 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  63. Notre Dame Cathedral reopens

    209 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  64. I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

    209 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  65. 38C3: Blinkencity, radio controlling street lamps and power plants [video]

    208 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  66. Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4

    208 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  67. Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production

    208 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  68. Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out

    208 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  69. Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant

    207 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  70. Distributed Erlang

    207 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  71. Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions

    206 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  72. Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

    206 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  73. Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats

    206 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  74. Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth

    206 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  75. CUDA Moat Still Alive

    206 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  76. I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly

    205 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  77. The software you need for holiday overdecoration

    205 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  78. The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something

    204 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  79. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

    204 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  80. MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones

    204 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  81. Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain

    204 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  82. How China turns members of its diaspora into spies

    204 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  83. No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect

    203 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  84. Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine

    203 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  85. AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism

    203 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  86. Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title

    203 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  87. Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer

    203 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  88. UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

    202 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  89. Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs

    202 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  90. CDC confirms first severe human case of bird flu in U.S.

    202 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  91. Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?

    201 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  92. Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony

    201 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  93. Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction

    201 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  94. SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer

    201 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  95. Developing Developers (2015)

    201 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  96. Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico

    200 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  97. Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain

    199 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  98. An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews

    199 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  99. How AI is unlocking ancient texts

    199 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  100. Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access

    198 points • comment • dec 23, 2024