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Hacker News (2024)

Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
249 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
249 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
249 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
249 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
AI your home on street view
249 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure
249 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first
249 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements
248 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Add Depth of Field to Screenshots
248 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study
248 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
Why is it so hard to build an airport?
248 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs
248 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
248 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
RSS is still pretty great
248 points • comment • feb 11, 2024
Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show
248 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL
248 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
247 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides
247 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
How to Use JSON Path
247 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Is the frequency domain a real place?
247 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
247 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Financial market applications of LLMs
246 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't
246 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
246 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor
246 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough
246 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
GGUF, the Long Way Around
246 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says
246 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies
246 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
246 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
246 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
246 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Textart.sh
245 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
245 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]
245 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
245 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Sky lapse in two tone
245 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
245 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
245 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography
245 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
245 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
245 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
245 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
245 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf]
245 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
245 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
My Clients, the Liars
244 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Scale of the Universe
244 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License
244 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips
244 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Teachable Machine (2017)
244 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
244 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment
244 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups
244 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
In B-Flat (2009)
244 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon
244 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014)
244 points • comment • may 06, 2024
How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
244 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Perf Is Not Enough
244 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Don't Use Discord for FOSS (2021)
244 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
243 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
243 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira
243 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
243 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Abandoned villages of Hong Kong
243 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Cloudflare lays off new hires
243 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
243 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
243 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Nokia made too many phones
243 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
242 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Winning a hackathon, losing my sanity
242 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector
242 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers
242 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
242 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
242 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
242 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct
242 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
242 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk
242 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
242 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
242 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
241 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
241 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system
241 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
241 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
Clean your codebase with basic information theory
241 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
241 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Postgres is eating the database world
241 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
241 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Think more about what to focus on
240 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
240 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)
240 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Redis License Changed
240 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police
240 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Pure CSS Website
240 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
SecureDrop Protocol
240 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Coroutines and effects
240 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
240 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
The dating app paradox
240 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA
240 points • comment • apr 12, 2024