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Hacker News (2024)

  1. An accident of lighting uncovers origins of the astrolabe

    80 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  2. Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)

    80 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  3. Family medicine is in decline

    80 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  4. Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

    80 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  5. Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests

    80 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  6. Weird Nonfiction

    80 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  7. Konrad Zuse (1994)

    80 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  8. Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  9. Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial

    80 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  10. Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?

    80 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  11. FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps

    80 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  12. Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) Basics

    80 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  13. Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?

    80 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  14. Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company

    80 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  15. Unveiling Mac Security: Comprehensive Exploration of Sandboxing and AppData TCC

    80 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  16. Misinformation fuels outrage and mindless social-media shares – study

    80 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  17. Pornhub Blocked in Texas

    80 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  18. Scheduling Model in LLVM

    80 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  19. Decoupling design from engineering

    80 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  20. The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

    80 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  21. Goldman on Generative AI: doesn't justify costs or solve complex problems [pdf]

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  22. Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?

    80 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  23. Better privacy can be one click away. Google and Apple won't allow it

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  24. Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)

    80 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  25. Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop

    80 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  26. Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability

    80 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  27. Human Life

    80 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  28. Show HN: Cleed – Simple feed reader for the command line

    80 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  29. Digitopia is ruining our lives

    80 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  30. Intentrace: Strace for Everyone

    80 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  31. Show HN: Opik, an open source LLM evaluation framework

    80 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  32. The complete story of Gödel incompleteness

    80 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  33. Apple Smells Blood in the Water

    80 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  34. ScanAllFish

    80 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  35. Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear

    80 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  36. LightRAG: The PyTorch Library for Large Language Model Applications

    80 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  37. Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain

    80 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  38. The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)

    80 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  39. Dijkstra on real map data with raylib

    80 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  40. AI Product Management

    80 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  41. Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users to Edge

    80 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  42. Who can claim Aristotle?

    80 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  43. Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  44. Google engineer indicted for stealing AI secrets to aid Chinese companies

    80 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  45. Superconducting Computer: Imec's plan to shrink datacenters

    80 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  46. How I Use Git

    80 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  47. Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures

    80 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  48. Building Document-Centric, CRDT-Native Editors

    80 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  49. Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

    80 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  50. Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)

    80 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  51. SpaceX's unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  52. Is it time to version observability?

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  53. Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes

    80 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  54. Cold Chemistry Is Different

    80 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  55. Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix (2019)

    80 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  56. Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)

    80 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  57. Alzheimer's Might Not Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals

    80 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  58. A subtle layout bug in Google Search: When CJK text-wrapping meets float

    80 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  59. 2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed

    80 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  60. What I tell people new to on-call

    80 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  61. James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  62. The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  63. Show HN: tu – Convert natural language date/time to UTC

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  64. Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing

    80 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  65. Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms

    80 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  66. 23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach

    80 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  67. An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  68. How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

    80 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  69. Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  70. The Quantum Butterfly Effect

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  71. Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  72. Securing Git Repositories with Gittuf

    80 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  73. Nu-Klear Fallout Detector (ca. 1962-1968)

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  74. Udio – AI Music Generator

    80 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  75. VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble

    80 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  76. Generative AI flooding online crocheting spaces with unrealistic amigurumi pics

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  77. The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    80 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  78. Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

    80 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  79. Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error

    80 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  80. What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?

    80 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  81. Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering

    80 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  82. Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana

    80 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  83. Building an EEG with a Children's Toy

    80 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  84. Orion – From idea to launch in 45 days

    80 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  85. A Brief Look at the 3DS Cartridge Protocol

    80 points • comment • jun 02, 2024

  86. Main-Thread-Scheduling

    80 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  87. California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA

    80 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  88. Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers

    80 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  89. How the first fourth-generation nuclear power plant works

    80 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  90. Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end

    80 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  91. Tracing garbage collection for arenas

    80 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  92. My BDFL guiding principles

    80 points • comment • may 27, 2024

  93. Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models

    80 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  94. Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible

    80 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  95. Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time

    80 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  96. On climbing the stat arb leaderboard, comparative advantage, and careers

    80 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  97. Batteryless OP-1

    80 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  98. Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)

    80 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  99. The Alternate Reality Kit (1987) [video]

    80 points • comment • jun 24, 2024

  100. A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead

    80 points • comment • may 20, 2024