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Hacker News (2024)

Focus by Automation
115 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
llm.c: multi-GPU, bfloat16, flash attention, ~7% faster than PyTorch
115 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
115 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
Open Beam Interface
115 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy (2014)
115 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour
115 points • comment • nov 16, 2024
Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?
115 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024
115 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Show HN: Adventures in OCR
115 points • comment • dec 17, 2024
Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
115 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
115 points • comment • oct 21, 2024
Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)
115 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source
115 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer
115 points • comment • oct 24, 2024
Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials
115 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter
115 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Build a simple LSM-Tree storage engine in a week
115 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Build a startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates
115 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
InteractiVenn – Interactive Venn Diagrams
115 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
Computer scientists combine two 'beautiful' proof methods
115 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser
115 points • comment • nov 22, 2024
Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes
115 points • comment • aug 26, 2024
Exponential Rate Limiting
115 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps
115 points • comment • aug 06, 2024
Exploring How Cache Memory Works
115 points • comment • jun 21, 2024
How Netflix really uses Java
115 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
"The Door Problem" (2014)
115 points • comment • jun 12, 2024
Turning psychiatric labels into identities
115 points • comment • may 27, 2024
Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (or without) Rayon
115 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
Only9Fans
115 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Decoding DME aircraft radio navigation system with the LimeSDR
115 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
115 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages?
115 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
How to Make More Money Renting a GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It
115 points • comment • may 03, 2024
htmx 2.0.0-beta1
115 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way
115 points • comment • oct 27, 2024
Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours
115 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
115 points • comment • nov 27, 2024
Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma
115 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
AMD ROCm Software Blogs
115 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
115 points • comment • dec 14, 2024
Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
115 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
SQLite does not do checksums
115 points • comment • nov 09, 2024
Vvvv – A hybrid visual/textual development environment
115 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Jsfxr: 8-Bit sound maker and sfx generator
115 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime
115 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades
115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project
115 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software
115 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
115 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]
115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea
115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van
115 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework
115 points • comment • may 29, 2024
‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’
115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
115 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Amber: Smalltalk for the Web
115 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Overcoming the limits of current LLMs
115 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
Smalltalk simplicity and consistency vs. other languages (2022) [video]
115 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Effect – Build robust apps in TypeScript
115 points • comment • jun 14, 2024
Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance
115 points • comment • dec 15, 2024
Hierarchical Navigable Small World: a scalable nearest neighbor search
114 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
114 points • comment • jun 02, 2024
Inner Speech
114 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox
114 points • comment • nov 25, 2024
Chess-GPT's Internal World Model
114 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
114 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
The Strange Case of the Rogue HP-12c Calculator
114 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits
114 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
Usborne 1980s Computer Books
114 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)
114 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in
114 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
The Power Mac 4400
114 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Mozilla places Microsoft under fire for using deceptive tricks in Edge
114 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
SwiftUI for Mac 2024
114 points • comment • aug 22, 2024
The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise
114 points • comment • dec 02, 2024
Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article
114 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use
114 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?
114 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers
114 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024
114 points • comment • aug 12, 2024
Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard
114 points • comment • aug 06, 2024
Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm?
114 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Emacs commands I got by with for years
114 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
114 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
114 points • comment • may 28, 2024
Rust: Box Is a Unique Type
114 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA
114 points • comment • oct 15, 2024
What is the best pointer tagging method?
114 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
70% of meteorites from 3 collisions in asteroid belt within past 40M years
114 points • comment • oct 24, 2024
Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)
114 points • comment • jun 17, 2024
Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video]
114 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
Google fined €250M in France for breaching intellectual property deal
114 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Zig's new CLI progress bar explained
114 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Ngtop – Request analytics from the Nginx access logs
114 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Show HN: How much is 13B euros?
114 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
114 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Make Pottery at Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) [video]
114 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF
114 points • comment • jul 19, 2024