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Hacker News (2024)

Parable of the Polygons (2014)
75 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Vaseline and Uranium Glass (ca. 1930s)
75 points • comment • aug 16, 2024
DIY RFID Business Card and Badge Holder with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Tools
75 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
Deno 1.45: Workspace and Monorepo Support
75 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)
75 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone
75 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
What if null was an Object in Java?
75 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure
75 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
What was the point of [ "x$var" = "xval" ]? (2021)
75 points • comment • sep 28, 2024
Computer Security Is a Political Struggle
75 points • comment • aug 05, 2024
Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python
75 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
Study shows bats have acoustic cognitive maps
75 points • comment • nov 05, 2024
8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo
75 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
OpenLoco: An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
75 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
It's raining PFAS in South Florida – study
75 points • comment • nov 06, 2024
I am no longer attending vintage computer festivals
75 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field (2019)
75 points • comment • may 21, 2024
Unraveling the physics of knitting
75 points • comment • jun 14, 2024
25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
75 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed
75 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"
75 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
75 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability
75 points • comment • oct 25, 2024
Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)
75 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
FBI Opens Criminal Investigation into Baltimore Bridge Collapse
75 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
75 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young People
75 points • comment • aug 12, 2024
Howard Hughes modified a 1925 Doble steam car to reach 133 MPH (2022)
75 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Optimizing your career for happiness
75 points • comment • sep 15, 2024
Implement Tcl in Tcl (2007)
75 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
A 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the Panama Canal (2023)
74 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
To the Bored All Things Are Boring
74 points • comment • jun 25, 2024
Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company
74 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
74 points • comment • jul 20, 2024
HashLife – A memoized algorithm for Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata
74 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Sweeping chronic fatigue study brings clues, not clarity to mysterious syndrome
74 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
A Liveness Example in TLA+
74 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
Show HN: Onramp Can Compile Doom
74 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
The driest place on Earth
74 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Forewarn gives realtors access to buyers' histories with a phone number
74 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
A Little History of the Anchovy
74 points • comment • sep 20, 2024
Don Bluth's Garage Band
74 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
The problem is not plagiarism, but cargo cult science
74 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Writing an IR from Scratch and survive to write a post
74 points • comment • jun 23, 2024
X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content Whether They Want It or Not
74 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS
74 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?
74 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
Knockoff Iranian drone sold on Alibaba was meant for war, documents show
74 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Show HN: Gosax – A high-performance SAX XML parser for Go
74 points • comment • jun 27, 2024
Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs [pdf] (1994)
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications
74 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
74 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes
74 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
74 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Konrad Zuse's Homepage
74 points • comment • may 20, 2024
Guide to applying to YC – from a founder who was accepted on the third try
74 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network
74 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago
74 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Some updates on our AI efforts
74 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
74 points • comment • may 31, 2024
YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
74 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
The Origin of Ambergris (2012)
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints
74 points • comment • jul 21, 2024
Chiplet IP Standards Are Just the Beginning
74 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
72% of U.S. high school teachers say cellphone distraction is a major problem
74 points • comment • jun 16, 2024
50% discount on OpenAI pricing if you submit a batch and give them up to 24h
74 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Music for Programming
74 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
China sanctions US drone maker Skydio
74 points • comment • oct 31, 2024
00Key a 75% Keyboard
74 points • comment • may 02, 2024
First Framework Laptop 16 shipments and a $499 Framework Laptop
74 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more
74 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
Unit Testing Numerical Routines
74 points • comment • nov 12, 2024
Transferring energy from nitrogen to argon enables 2-way cascaded lasing in air
74 points • comment • aug 25, 2024
Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?
74 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
Show HN: DBChaos – A Database stress testing tool
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java
74 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in a running inter (2017)
74 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine
74 points • comment • may 27, 2024
Agile Is a Tainted Term
74 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive
74 points • comment • jul 05, 2024
Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?
74 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
Ask HN: Anyone else hate company "hack days"
74 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions
74 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
Visualizing Complex Functions
74 points • comment • aug 10, 2024
The Acton Programming Language
74 points • comment • dec 05, 2024
Twitter/X has lost its lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate
74 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
PowerToys Run: extensible quick launcher for power users
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings
74 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Kudzu, the vine that never ate the South (2015)
74 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2024
Ask HN: Resources for GPU Compilers?
74 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri)
74 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
Show HN: Made some progress on character consistency for AI storytelling
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Replication Prohibited: Attacking Restricted Keyways with 3D Printing [pdf]
74 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Evidence of earth's first rains found trapped within primordial crystals
74 points • comment • jun 07, 2024
Herbie: Optimize Floating-Point Expressions
74 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
Show HN: Galaxy Visualization
74 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
Two kinds of LLM responses: Informational vs. Instructional
74 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
Linear Clock (2021)
74 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios
74 points • comment • jan 11, 2024