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Hacker News (2024)

  1. Internal tools often make bad startup ideas

    81 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  2. The web I want vs. the one we have

    81 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  3. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

    81 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  4. A new way to see the activity inside a living cell

    81 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  5. Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale

    81 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  6. Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

    81 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  7. Multi-channel Audio Part 2

    81 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  8. Physically attractive attorneys tend to have greater success in federal court

    81 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  9. The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf]

    81 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  10. The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress

    81 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  11. I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon – now I'm alone in the mountains [video]

    81 points • comment • jul 11, 2024

  12. Isreal Spied on and Hacked the ICC

    81 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  13. Apple's hysterics over new EU antitrust law have led to two climbdowns already

    81 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  14. Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System (2017)

    81 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  15. Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service"

    81 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  16. TCP over TCP is a bad idea (2000)

    81 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  17. Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor

    81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  18. Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog

    81 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  19. A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages

    81 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  20. Self-Rewarding Language Models

    81 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  21. Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says

    81 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  22. BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor

    81 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  23. Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  24. The tale of two Shanghais

    81 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  25. ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core

    81 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  26. Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop

    81 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  27. Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (2022)

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  28. Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?

    81 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  29. Scheme modules vs. whole-program compilation: fight

    81 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  30. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

    81 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  31. Generative AI Handbook: A Roadmap for Learning Resources

    81 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  32. How did human butts evolve to look that way?

    81 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  33. Asgard launches world's first DDR5-9600 DIMMs

    81 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  34. Cosmic: The Road to Alpha

    81 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  35. Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming

    81 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  36. Show HN: I Made an Open Source Platform for Structuring Any Unstructured Data

    81 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  37. Sam 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model

    81 points • comment • jul 29, 2024

  38. Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker removes non-enterprise price tiers

    81 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  39. Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees

    81 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  40. Show HN: Vekos – a Rust OS with Built-In Cryptographic Verification

    81 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  41. On hoot, on boot

    81 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  42. Google's New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet

    81 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  43. Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years

    81 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  44. X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral

    81 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  45. The state of carbon dioxide removal

    81 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  46. Are We Modules Yet?

    81 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  47. The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning

    81 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  48. A scientific run-down of coffee blooming

    81 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  49. Ubuntu Looking at Discontinuing Its Source ISOs

    81 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  50. Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  51. 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers (2020)

    81 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  52. Query Your Python Lists

    81 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  53. I hate Stripe, so I'm going to build my own payment processor

    81 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  54. Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether

    81 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  55. 2D Racket Syntax

    81 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  56. The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation

    81 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  57. Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't

    81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  58. Does your test suite account for weak transaction isolation?

    81 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  59. A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)

    81 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  60. Show HN: 4B+ DNS Records Dataset

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  61. Instagram's co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app

    81 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  62. Measuring GitHub Copilot's impact on productivity

    81 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  63. pico9918: A replacement TMS9918A/TMS9929A VDP using a Raspberry Pi Pico

    81 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  64. Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Postgres

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  65. Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

    81 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  66. WoWMIPS – MIPS Emulator for Windows, Part 1: Introduction

    81 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  67. Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest

    81 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  68. Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

    81 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  69. He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine

    81 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  70. Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  71. Gunter's Space Page

    81 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  72. IEA: 20% of 2023 new car sales globally were EVs, curbing oil demand

    81 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  73. Moore Curve Voronoi Animation

    81 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  74. Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time

    81 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  75. Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

    81 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  76. Pulitzer winning reporter faces jail for protecting funding scandal sources

    81 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  77. Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision

    81 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  78. Show HN: Latex.to – LaTeX to image converter running in the browser

    81 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  79. Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing

    81 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  80. The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf]

    81 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  81. Notes on Text Editing

    81 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  82. The Naming of America (2023)

    81 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  83. The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation

    81 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  84. Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month

    81 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  85. Oxford commercializes its 20% more powerful solar panels in the US

    81 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  86. Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees

    81 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  87. Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)

    81 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  88. 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  89. The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)

    81 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  90. Concrete Faith: The creation of the Bahá’í house of worship (2023)

    81 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  91. Video: A Language for Making Movies

    81 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  92. A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System [pdf] (1977)

    81 points • comment • sep 27, 2024

  93. Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32

    81 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  94. Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)

    81 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  95. How public key cryptography works, using only simple math

    81 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  96. MKUltra

    81 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  97. Why blue animals are so rare

    81 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  98. Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin

    81 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  99. Sentence Structure for Writers (2017)

    81 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  100. 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

    81 points • comment • jan 11, 2024