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Hacker News (2024)

Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file
99 points • comment • jun 01, 2024
A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed
99 points • comment • may 08, 2024
The Albuquerque "Broken Arrow" Nuclear Accident
99 points • comment • dec 10, 2024
Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code
99 points • comment • may 27, 2024
A legal and moral question: The crash of Turkish Airlines flight 981 (2021)
99 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Show HN: I built a vector database API on Cloudflare
99 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel
99 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research
99 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Algae that can fix nitrogen – thanks to a tiny cell structure
99 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust
99 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows (2018)
99 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Jury finds Cognizant discriminated against US workers
99 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time
99 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
uBlock Origin – 1.55.0
99 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud
98 points • comment • nov 25, 2024
What's up Python? Django get background tasks, a new REPL, bye bye gunicorn
98 points • comment • jun 25, 2024
Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition
98 points • comment • may 11, 2024
The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
98 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Why OpenAI CEO was ousted
98 points • comment • may 29, 2024
Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading
98 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
Adélie Linux
98 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
98 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
98 points • comment • jun 28, 2024
6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
98 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Driving forward in Android drivers
98 points • comment • jun 14, 2024
In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased (2023)
98 points • comment • oct 27, 2024
Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
98 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
TextAnalysisTool.NET
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
98 points • comment • aug 17, 2024
Warewoolf: A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor
98 points • comment • sep 14, 2024
Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
98 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Sleeping our way to being productive
98 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
Vistex CEO Sanjay Shah dies on stage after freak accident
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II
98 points • comment • aug 13, 2024
Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser
98 points • comment • may 21, 2024
Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust
98 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
98 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
98 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf]
98 points • comment • aug 10, 2024
Codenames App, or my biggest project so far
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction
98 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
Navtive FlameGraphViewer
98 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings
98 points • comment • jun 24, 2024
'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated – buyers beware
98 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
98 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Follow the Crypto
98 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
Canvas Fingerprinting
98 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
Mutt on Windows Without WSL
98 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
98 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations
98 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
DuckDB Isn't Just Fast
98 points • comment • jun 11, 2024
Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes
98 points • comment • nov 28, 2024
NextNav's Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz
98 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
98 points • comment • dec 07, 2024
Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
98 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum
98 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
Did Automattic commit open source theft?
98 points • comment • oct 19, 2024
David Kahn has died
98 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids
98 points • comment • jul 06, 2024
A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit
98 points • comment • nov 20, 2024
Why camera calibration is so important in computer vision
98 points • comment • jun 03, 2024
An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company
98 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux
98 points • comment • may 29, 2024
Cheap light transformed civilization
98 points • comment • oct 23, 2024
History of Hangul
98 points • comment • nov 24, 2024
OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
98 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
32k context length text embedding models
98 points • comment • nov 24, 2024
Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
98 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"
98 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
Should we be thinking about luck differently?
98 points • comment • oct 09, 2024
Receive push notifications from your rice cooker
98 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet
98 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Natron: Open-source alternative to Adobe After Effects
98 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Launch HN: Panora (YC S24) – Data Integration API for LLMs
98 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
98 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2024
Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More
98 points • comment • may 15, 2024
Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)
98 points • comment • aug 09, 2024
Do we need to store all that telemetry?
98 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Show HN: PlasCAD: Open-source plasmid editor
98 points • comment • sep 03, 2024
Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)
98 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules
98 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
98 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
New GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super
98 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – remove it immediately
98 points • comment • jun 26, 2024
The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop
98 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Better adb shell
98 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
The ancient art of roasting agave
98 points • comment • aug 06, 2024
Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice
98 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95
98 points • comment • aug 19, 2024
Apple vs. the "Free Market"
98 points • comment • aug 15, 2024
Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
98 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Why Python's integer division floors (2010)
98 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Elixir Gotchas
98 points • comment • jun 23, 2024
Calm Company Fund Is Taking a Break
98 points • comment • jun 12, 2024
Show HN: JAQT – JavaScript Queries and Transformations
98 points • comment • sep 16, 2024
Artificial needles to real haystacks: Improving retrieval capabilities in LLMs
98 points • comment • jun 29, 2024
IBM and the Holocaust
98 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
98 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo
98 points • comment • oct 15, 2024