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Hacker News (2024)

On knowing who he was
95 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?
95 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
The history of Monokai
95 points • comment • oct 31, 2024
MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy
95 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try
95 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
The medieval habit of 'two sleeps' (2022)
95 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Self-Funding Harberger Taxes
95 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors
95 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
AIConfig Extension for VS Code
95 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
95 points • comment • may 21, 2024
Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless
95 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021)
95 points • comment • jun 01, 2024
Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample
95 points • comment • jun 28, 2024
The Art Of Niwaki (2017)
95 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser
95 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
95 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup signs major data center contract
95 points • comment • may 31, 2024
I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Kernighan's Lever (2012)
95 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop
95 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Programming in Unison
95 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
IBM Audible Random Timer
95 points • comment • aug 03, 2024
Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
95 points • comment • may 18, 2024
TreeSeg: Hierarchical Topic Segmentation of Large Transcripts
95 points • comment • jul 29, 2024
Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf]
95 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
Chicken Egg Production (2019) [video]
95 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
95 points • comment • may 26, 2024
Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days
94 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
94 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance
94 points • comment • aug 12, 2024
Chemists tie a trefoil knot using only 54 atoms
94 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
94 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types
94 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
94 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
94 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English
94 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
94 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy
94 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
94 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Gitlab Duo
94 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Arduino FDX-B (animal ID chip) reader built from discrete components
94 points • comment • may 30, 2024
A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school
94 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
94 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Fort Worth's tallest building sells for $12.3M, bought for $137.5M in 2021
94 points • comment • may 13, 2024
AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2024
OpenSSH 9.9 Released
94 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
Hidden Files in C64 OS
94 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Stardew Valley 1.6 Changelog
94 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Simplicity of IRC (2022)
94 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs
94 points • comment • aug 23, 2024
Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Company Flounders
94 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?
94 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders
94 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command
94 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?
94 points • comment • may 24, 2024
Freenginx.org – open-source Nginx fork
94 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022)
94 points • comment • jun 23, 2024
Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics [pdf] (2020)
94 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017)
94 points • comment • dec 25, 2024
Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?
94 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
The end of the dark universe?
94 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI
94 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR
94 points • comment • may 05, 2024
OpenAI and journalism
94 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Porting HPC Applications to AMD Instinct MI300A Using Unified Memory and OpenMP
94 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy
94 points • comment • nov 22, 2024
French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
94 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Can You Grok It – Hacking together my own dev tunnel service
94 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results
94 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Minix 3 (2014)
94 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
Using the Topics API (Chrome Only, Opposed by Firefox/Safari)
94 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
Atash Behram – Types of Fire
94 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development
94 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?
94 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M
94 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Python's many command-line utilities
94 points • comment • jun 03, 2024
Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
94 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
94 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
An Analog Network of Resistors Promises Machine Learning Without a Processor
94 points • comment • jun 30, 2024
The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA
94 points • comment • may 14, 2024
My War (1982)
94 points • comment • jun 10, 2024
Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality
94 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
Maybe Functions
94 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
SuperC: Parsing All of C by Taming the Preprocessor [pdf] (2012)
94 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)
94 points • comment • may 02, 2024
New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video]
94 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Limits to Growth (1972)
94 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)
94 points • comment • nov 15, 2024
Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
94 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
94 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK
94 points • comment • aug 19, 2024
My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing
94 points • comment • oct 23, 2024
Brplot – plotting app/lib in C
94 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning
94 points • comment • aug 02, 2024
Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be
94 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"
94 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
94 points • comment • oct 29, 2024