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Hacker News (2024)

Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug
126 points • comment • jun 08, 2024
Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019
126 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen
126 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language
126 points • comment • oct 23, 2024
Insiders Stealing Instagram Usernames?
126 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
The Physics of Karate (2021)
126 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting
126 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency
126 points • comment • sep 15, 2024
Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java
126 points • comment • aug 02, 2024
Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off
126 points • comment • aug 05, 2024
Special-use domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)
126 points • comment • jun 03, 2024
Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News
126 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation
126 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
A podcast about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it
126 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (2019)
126 points • comment • jun 05, 2024
Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade
126 points • comment • jul 21, 2024
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision
126 points • comment • nov 25, 2024
What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist
126 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck
126 points • comment • may 14, 2024
IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
126 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit
126 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars after fatal crash
126 points • comment • oct 19, 2024
Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster
126 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
126 points • comment • jul 23, 2024
The Magic of Bird Brains
126 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week
126 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
125 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Highly realistic talking head video generation
125 points • comment • jun 16, 2024
What happens to latency if service time is cut in half (2022)
125 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
125 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Soupault: A static website management tool
125 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust
125 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself
125 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser
125 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them
125 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
The quest to build a telescope on the moon
125 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux
125 points • comment • jun 17, 2024
Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
125 points • comment • nov 17, 2024
Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
125 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
125 points • comment • aug 19, 2024
Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements
125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule
125 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?
125 points • comment • aug 01, 2024
Bazel 8.0
125 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests
125 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
125 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
Japanese words and names sound African (2022)
125 points • comment • jun 16, 2024
Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
125 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum
125 points • comment • may 22, 2024
Light-based technique shows 90% accuracy in early prostate cancer detection
125 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
Yaak is now open source
125 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen
125 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions
125 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
125 points • comment • nov 09, 2024
The math exams of my life
125 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
'Magical' Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient
125 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Google Search's Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
125 points • comment • may 28, 2024
URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars
125 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
Syzygy: An open standard for low cost, compact and high-performance peripherals
125 points • comment • jun 15, 2024
Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
125 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Security Is a Useless Controls Problem
125 points • comment • nov 11, 2024
How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI
125 points • comment • aug 17, 2024
The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009)
125 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy
125 points • comment • sep 19, 2024
The Private Life: On James Baldwin
125 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal
125 points • comment • nov 15, 2024
26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models
125 points • comment • may 20, 2024
The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina
125 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
The Fossil Sync Protocol
125 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
All I Know About Certificates – Certificate Authority
125 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
125 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
NetBSD 10.0 Released
125 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
125 points • comment • may 16, 2024
A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte
125 points • comment • dec 12, 2024
Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
125 points • comment • may 27, 2024
A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
125 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Show HN: I made an Ollama summarizer for Firefox
125 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
EFF: Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents
125 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials
125 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
Windsor Typeface (2018)
125 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
125 points • comment • may 18, 2024
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
125 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards
125 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
Meta Open-Sources Megalodon LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
125 points • comment • jun 11, 2024
You Exist in the Long Context
125 points • comment • nov 21, 2024
Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
125 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010)
125 points • comment • nov 01, 2024
Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup
125 points • comment • jun 27, 2024
Achieving high Python performance with code generation (2022)
125 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
125 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Morgan Spurlock has died
125 points • comment • may 24, 2024
Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
125 points • comment • jun 14, 2024
Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard
125 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Janky Apple ID Security
125 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline
125 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
125 points • comment • oct 22, 2024
Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)
125 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
125 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Lemonade Stand
125 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
125 points • comment • sep 02, 2024