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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer

    171 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  2. The paper passport's days are numbered

    170 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  3. The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport

    170 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  4. A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles

    170 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  5. Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms

    170 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  6. Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS

    170 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  7. SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection

    169 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  8. 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

    169 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  9. BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]

    169 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  10. A letter to open-source maintainers

    169 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  11. Design Token-Based UI Architecture

    169 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  12. Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

    168 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  13. Droste’s Lair

    167 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  14. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)

    167 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  15. Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

    166 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  16. The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)

    166 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  17. Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes

    165 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  18. How an Indian startup hacked the world (2023)

    165 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  19. Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust

    165 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  20. Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal

    165 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  21. In Defense of Y'All

    164 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  22. How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang

    164 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  23. Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019)

    164 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  24. Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

    164 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  25. How concurrency works: A visual guide

    164 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  26. WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States

    164 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  27. PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P

    164 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  28. One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices

    163 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  29. Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis (2023)

    163 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  30. Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents

    163 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  31. Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary

    163 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  32. Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui

    163 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  33. Canvas

    162 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  34. The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

    162 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  35. In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape

    162 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  36. Database mocks are not worth it

    162 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  37. Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts

    161 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  38. Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization

    161 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  39. Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

    161 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  40. We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)

    161 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  41. US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report

    161 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  42. VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor

    161 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  43. The Nvidia Way

    161 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  44. In praise of the hundred page idea

    161 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  45. JSON parsers that can accept comments

    160 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  46. Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning

    160 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  47. Execution units are often pipelined

    160 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  48. So you want to write Java in Neovim

    159 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  49. Conda: A package management disaster?

    159 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  50. Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms

    159 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  51. Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software

    158 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  52. Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers

    158 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  53. Storing Times for Human Events

    158 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  54. Show HN: Copper – Open-source robotics in Rust with deterministic log replay

    158 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  55. Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter

    158 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  56. Show HN: Postgres as a VectorDB GUI

    157 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  57. Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video]

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  58. Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion

    157 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  59. Efficient Track Anything

    157 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  60. How God Plays Chess (2018)

    156 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  61. Gordon Mah Ung has died

    156 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  62. VectorChord: Store 400k Vectors for $1 in PostgreSQL

    156 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  63. When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)

    156 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  64. Black Hat Rust

    156 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  65. A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization

    155 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  66. Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish

    155 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  67. Is stuff online worth saving?

    155 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  68. Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link

    155 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  69. The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw

    155 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  70. Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch

    155 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  71. Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)

    154 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  72. The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio

    154 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  73. Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

    154 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  74. Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

    154 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  75. Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform

    154 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  76. Hit men aren't what you think

    154 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  77. Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

    154 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  78. Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem

    153 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  79. Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)

    153 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  80. A simple way to scale pixel art games

    153 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  81. 1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project

    153 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  82. Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4

    153 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  83. Category Theory in Programming

    152 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  84. The Headlight Brightness Wars

    152 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  85. Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C

    152 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  86. Congo gov. says it's 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens

    151 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  87. Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)

    151 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  88. Y2K

    151 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  89. PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions – Part 1: Jepsen Test and Patroni

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  90. People who are good at reading have different brains: study

    150 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  91. Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013)

    150 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  92. Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust

    150 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  93. Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy

    150 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  94. A bestiary of exotic hadrons

    150 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  95. Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years (2018)

    150 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  96. Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web

    149 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  97. Exposing the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht Im Internet (CUII)

    149 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  98. The Myth of Bananaland

    149 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  99. Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications

    149 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  100. Understanding the Odin Programming Language

    149 points • comment • dec 07, 2024