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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Understanding the Odin Programming Language

    149 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  2. Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)

    148 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  3. How types make hard problems easy

    147 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  4. An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

    147 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  5. Map UI – Ghost in the Shell

    147 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  6. Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

    147 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  7. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness

    146 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  8. Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses

    146 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  9. How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study

    146 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  10. Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?

    145 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  11. Uv, a fast Python package and project manager

    145 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  12. The hydraulic systems of the Alhambra Palace [video]

    145 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  13. Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture

    145 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  14. Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease

    145 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  15. Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler

    145 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  16. Talking over a wall changed my direction as a programmer

    145 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  17. Devin is now generally available

    144 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  18. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

    144 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  19. China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025

    144 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  20. Can life emerge around a white dwarf?

    144 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  21. The last Inca bridge master

    144 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  22. Researchers discover new third class of magnetism

    143 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  23. Half My Life with Perl

    143 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  24. Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension

    143 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  25. Konwinski Prize

    142 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  26. Make your QEMU faster (2022)

    142 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  27. Enum of Arrays

    142 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  28. Boltzmann brain

    141 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  29. Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

    141 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  30. Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse

    141 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  31. Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's

    140 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  32. JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking

    140 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  33. Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth'

    140 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  34. An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)

    140 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  35. Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (2018)

    140 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  36. Estimated concentrations of atrazine in agricultural groundwater

    140 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  37. Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (2017)

    139 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  38. Spotify is full of AI music

    139 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  39. Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes

    139 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  40. The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC

    139 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  41. Show HN: WebGPU Tech Demo

    138 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  42. New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups

    138 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  43. Murder Mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring

    138 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  44. Kagi Search API

    137 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  45. Show HN: Ternary Computer System

    137 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  46. Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature

    137 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  47. AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz

    137 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  48. Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'

    136 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  49. A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929

    136 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  50. OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks

    136 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  51. Ad: An Adaptable Text Editor

    136 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  52. Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?

    136 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  53. Revisiting the NetBSD Build System

    136 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  54. AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack

    135 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  55. Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion

    135 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  56. PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers

    135 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  57. Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical

    135 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  58. HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death

    135 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  59. Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams

    135 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  60. What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?

    135 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  61. EmacsConf 2024

    135 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  62. Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners

    134 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  63. B+ Tree Visualization

    134 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  64. Deep dive into finding RSS feeds

    134 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  65. Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data

    134 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  66. WordPress CEO quits community Slack after court injunction

    134 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  67. Homebrew Batteries

    134 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  68. Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent

    134 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  69. The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

    134 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  70. Programming Language Memory Models (2021)

    133 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  71. Starlark Programming Language

    132 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  72. I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

    132 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  73. Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and the world

    132 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  74. Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News

    132 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  75. Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres

    132 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  76. What I learned covering computer science in 2024

    132 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  77. Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect

    132 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  78. Derivative at a Discontinuity

    132 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  79. Error Stacking in Rust

    131 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  80. Into CPS, Never to Return

    131 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  81. Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?

    131 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  82. Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024

    131 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  83. JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

    131 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  84. We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation

    131 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  85. Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports

    131 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  86. MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux

    130 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  87. The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby

    130 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  88. Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler

    130 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  89. Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser

    130 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  90. BareMetal OS

    130 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  91. Researchers launch "moonshot" to cure blindness through eye transplants

    130 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  92. Researchers get 'compact' hard X-ray machine to work

    130 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  93. Show HN: Chorus, a Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs at once

    129 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  94. Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)

    129 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  95. 1/0 = 0 (2018)

    129 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  96. Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models

    129 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  97. What Is Vim?

    129 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  98. VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data

    129 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  99. We Built the Saturn V (2017)

    128 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  100. Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use

    128 points • comment • dec 12, 2024