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Hacker News (Dec 2024)

  1. Show HN: Rivet Actors – Durable Objects build with Rust, FoundationDB, Isolates

    128 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  2. Bioluminescent wood using the white rot fungus desarmillaria tabescens

    128 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

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

    128 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  4. We Built the Saturn V (2017)

    128 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  5. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2006) [pdf]

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  6. Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  7. Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine

    127 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  8. Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  9. The Jujutsu version control system

    126 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  10. There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)

    126 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  11. Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  12. Grammarly acquires Coda

    126 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  13. There Are No More Dogs in Antarctica

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  14. Bazel 8.0

    125 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  15. Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards

    125 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  16. A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte

    125 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  17. Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight

    124 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  18. KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python

    124 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  19. UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan

    124 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  20. Ruby-refrigerator: Freeze all core Ruby classes

    124 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  21. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

    124 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  22. Dog Aging Project

    123 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  23. Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

    123 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  24. The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack

    123 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  25. JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service

    123 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  26. AI company that made robots for children went bust and now the robots are dying

    123 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  27. I thought I found a bug

    123 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  28. A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils

    123 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  29. Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare

    123 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  30. Lucy: A concise language for describing Finite State Machines

    122 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  31. Show HN: HackerNews-new-jobs – insights into fresh and recurring job ads

    122 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  32. A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  33. The Porsche Macan EV is being recalled because its headlights are too bright

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  34. Chip Cities Rise in Japan's Fields of Dreams

    122 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  35. DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  36. Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker

    122 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  37. The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)

    122 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  38. Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  39. A pilot raced through the airport to surprise the woman who saved his life

    122 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  40. Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk

    122 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  41. Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)

    121 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  42. Boeing plea deal over fatal 737 MAX crashes rejected by judge

    121 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  43. Using GPS satellites to detect tsunamis via ionospheric ionization waves

    121 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  44. A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs

    121 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  45. Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

    120 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  46. BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)

    120 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  47. Optimality of Gerver's Sofa

    120 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  48. Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)

    120 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  49. New physics sim can compress training times from decades into hours

    120 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  50. The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government

    120 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  51. Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia

    120 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  52. Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps

    120 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  53. Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood

    119 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  54. German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data

    119 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  55. Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel

    119 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  56. The history of twisted-pair Ethernet [video]

    118 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  57. Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)

    118 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  58. Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M

    118 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  59. Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders

    118 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  60. Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019)

    118 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  61. Neuroplasticity in F16 fighter jet pilots

    117 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  62. Ten Thousand Years

    117 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  63. Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe

    117 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  64. "Eat What You Kill"

    117 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  65. My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner

    117 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  66. A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app

    117 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  67. For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house

    117 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  68. Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise

    116 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  69. Show HN: A 5th order motion planner with PH spline blending, written in Ada

    116 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  70. Tokenisation Is NP-Complete

    116 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  71. The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022)

    116 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  72. 0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations

    116 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  73. Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions

    116 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  74. Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    116 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  75. Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance

    115 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  76. Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work

    115 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  77. Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application

    115 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  78. Show HN: Adventures in OCR

    115 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  79. A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop

    115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  80. California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite

    115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  81. ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’

    115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  82. All You Need Is 4x 4090 GPUs to Train Your Own Model

    115 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  83. Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours

    115 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  84. Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War

    115 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  85. Demystifying Git Submodules

    115 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  86. Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection

    114 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  87. Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit

    114 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  88. The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise

    114 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  89. Bicameral, Not Homoiconic

    114 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  90. OpenWrt One router officially launched

    114 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  91. DOS APPEND

    114 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  92. Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]

    114 points • comment • dec 19, 2024

  93. The Power Mac 4400

    114 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  94. Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video]

    114 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  95. Computing Inside an AI

    113 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  96. The world of tomorrow

    113 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  97. Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly

    113 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  98. My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

    113 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  99. Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)

    113 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  100. The world of Dante's Divine Comedy

    113 points • comment • dec 02, 2024