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Hacker News (2024)

  1. Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

    257 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  2. MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device

    256 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  3. Serverless Horrors

    256 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  4. How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs

    256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  5. Gradient descent visualization

    256 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  6. In Praise of Idleness (1932)

    256 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  7. 2023 Letter

    256 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  8. The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening

    256 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  9. Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH

    256 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  10. Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?

    256 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  11. Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs

    256 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  12. Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

    256 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  13. An RNG that runs in your brain

    256 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  14. Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds

    256 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  15. Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months

    256 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  16. My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack

    256 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  17. I also hacked my car

    255 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  18. Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)

    255 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  19. FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared

    255 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  20. Figma’s Journey to TypeScript

    255 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  21. Origami Simulator

    255 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  22. Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

    255 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  23. Racket Language

    255 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  24. Harvard concluded that a dishonesty expert committed misconduct

    255 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  25. HDMI Forum does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 spec

    255 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  26. The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

    255 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  27. GoFetch: New side-channel attack using data memory-dependent prefetchers

    255 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  28. ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents

    255 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  29. Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech

    255 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  30. Plastic bag bans work

    254 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  31. What I've learned about flow fields so far

    254 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  32. SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle

    254 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  33. Los Alamos Chess

    254 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  34. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

    254 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  35. Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%

    254 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  36. Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

    254 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  37. Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft

    254 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  38. AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  39. American flag sort

    253 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  40. My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4

    253 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  41. Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

    253 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  42. XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

    253 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  43. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    253 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  44. How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries

    253 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  45. eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

    253 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  46. Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application

    253 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  47. The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

    253 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  48. SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python

    253 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  49. How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  50. German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

    253 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  51. The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app

    253 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  52. 1brc merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words

    253 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  53. Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal

    253 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  54. Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)

    253 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?

    252 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  56. What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

    252 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  57. Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming

    252 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  58. Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant

    252 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  59. Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney

    252 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  60. Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers

    252 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  61. Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993

    252 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  62. What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner

    252 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  63. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained

    252 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  64. Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?

    252 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  65. The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue

    251 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  66. Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership

    251 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  67. Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0

    251 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  68. When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?

    251 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  69. Macaroons Escalated Quickly

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  70. SIMD in Pure Python

    251 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  71. Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

    251 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  72. Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think

    251 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  73. Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

    251 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  74. OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning

    251 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  75. From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story

    251 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  76. Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs

    251 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  77. Notes on El Salvador

    251 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  78. Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana

    251 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  79. Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks

    251 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  80. What you've got is in fact a people problem

    250 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  81. Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python

    250 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  82. Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews

    250 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  83. Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys

    250 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  84. Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job

    250 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  85. WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses

    250 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  86. -2000 Lines of Code (2007)

    250 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  87. A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)

    250 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  88. CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers

    250 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  89. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

    250 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  90. Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat

    250 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  91. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

    250 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  92. How did Ancient Greek music sound?

    249 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  93. IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states

    249 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  94. Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says

    249 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  95. How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)

    249 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  96. European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

    249 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  97. Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)

    249 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  98. Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling

    249 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  99. Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?

    249 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  100. French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity

    249 points • comment • jan 19, 2024