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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales

    198 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  2. Write a Shell in C (2015)

    198 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  3. "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"

    198 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  4. Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

    197 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  5. Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE

    197 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  6. Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program

    196 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  7. Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024

    196 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  8. Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums

    195 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  9. Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS

    194 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  10. How to monitor your local weather with Grafana

    194 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  11. Machine-Assisted Proof [pdf]

    194 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  12. The essays of Michel de Montaigne online

    194 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  13. Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease

    194 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  14. How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect

    193 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  15. Show HN: I built an open-source data pipeline tool in Go

    193 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  16. Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue

    193 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  17. Don't Get Distracted (2017)

    192 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  18. Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python

    192 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  19. Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers

    191 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  20. The Depths of Wikipedians

    191 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  21. Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures

    191 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  22. Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64

    191 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  23. The RAM Myth

    191 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  24. What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf]

    190 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  25. Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study

    190 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  26. I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

    189 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  27. FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for selling location data

    188 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  28. Our brains create mental "chapters" with new event segmentation study

    188 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  29. Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously

    188 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  30. Librebooting the ThinkPad T480

    188 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  31. Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy

    187 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  32. Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy

    187 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  33. Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary

    187 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  34. I Reversed a Drone and Landed It with My PC

    187 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  35. OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider

    187 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  36. Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components

    187 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  37. Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime

    187 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  38. Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

    186 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  39. China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert

    186 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  40. Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker

    186 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  41. Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data

    186 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  42. DSPy – Programming–not prompting–LMs

    185 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  43. US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010

    185 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  44. We all took the DVD boom era for granted

    185 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  45. No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4

    184 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  46. ’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024

    184 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  47. Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?

    184 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  48. Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

    184 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  49. Using Libc for GPUs

    183 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  50. AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)

    183 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  51. Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images

    182 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  52. Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires

    182 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  53. Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual

    182 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  54. Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch

    182 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  55. The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction

    181 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  56. Common misconceptions about compilers

    181 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  57. Sub-pixel distance transform (2023)

    181 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  58. New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader

    181 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  59. Includeable minimal operating system for C++

    180 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  60. The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024

    180 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  61. Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code

    180 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  62. CodeMic: A new way to talk about code

    179 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  63. The new science of controlling lucid dreams

    179 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  64. Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research

    179 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  65. Task-specific LLM evals that do and don't work

    178 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  66. Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)

    178 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  67. Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale

    178 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  68. Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches

    178 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  69. AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware

    178 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  70. Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth

    177 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  71. Amazon Aurora DSQL

    177 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  72. Trillium TPU Is GA

    177 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  73. Kagi Teams

    177 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  74. Using Guile for Emacs

    176 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  75. Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS

    176 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  76. The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80

    176 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  77. ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

    176 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  78. Why making friends as an adult is harder

    175 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  79. Developing inside a virtual machine

    175 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  80. RWKV Language Model

    174 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  81. Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client

    174 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  82. You need 4 colors

    174 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  83. Linux Context Switching Internals: Process State and Memory

    174 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  84. Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers

    174 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  85. CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop

    173 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  86. Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo

    173 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  87. Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract

    173 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  88. Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins

    173 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  89. Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)

    173 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  90. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

    173 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  91. The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)

    172 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  92. Htmx 2.0.4 Released

    172 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  93. The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

    172 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  94. Gource: Software Version Control Visualization

    171 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  95. Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+

    171 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  96. The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood

    171 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  97. Show HN: A portable hash map in C

    171 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  98. McKinsey unit will pay $123M to settle claims it bribed South African officials

    171 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  99. The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"

    171 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  100. RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available

    171 points • comment • dec 11, 2024