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Hacker News (2024)

  1. He Lost $36B in a Week. Now Bill Hwang Is Fighting to Avoid Prison

    71 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  2. Why use metaphors in conflicts? Because understanding is remembering in disguise (2009)

    71 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  3. Polytype: A Rosetta Stone for typesetting engines

    71 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  4. EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  5. Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024

    71 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  6. The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist

    71 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  7. Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang (2020)

    71 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  8. America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom

    71 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  9. Implementing Brainfuck in APL

    71 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  10. U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska

    71 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  11. Talos – An Immutable OS for Kubernetes

    71 points • comment • may 25, 2024

  12. "Coding" was never the source of value

    71 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  13. rePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  14. C++20 Idioms for Parameter Packs

    71 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  15. Show HN: es6_maps, new Elixir syntax feature via runtime compiler hacking

    71 points • comment • may 12, 2024

  16. Is MathAcademy Worth It? Thoughts After 2k Experience Points (XP)

    71 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  17. Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'

    71 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  18. How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom

    71 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  19. Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills

    71 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  20. Learning 101: The untaught basics [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  21. Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash

    71 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  22. I Rented Out a Movie Theatre (Again) and Used My Steam Deck to Play Co-Op Games

    71 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  23. We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  24. Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up

    71 points • comment • jul 19, 2024

  25. Tlsd: Generate (message) sequence diagrams from TLA+ state traces

    71 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  26. School principal framed using AI-generated racist rant. Co-worker charged

    71 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  27. A Python Library to 6-7x the inference speed of your HF models

    71 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  28. Cosy Computing

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  29. Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions

    71 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  30. A protocol for reliable notifications over a 1 bit fallible connection

    71 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  31. A 15-minute intro to involute gears

    71 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  32. Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji

    71 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  33. Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh

    71 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  34. Four Team Types

    71 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  35. Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS

    71 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  36. Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards

    71 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  37. Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth

    71 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  38. A Brief History of Microprogramming (2022)

    71 points • comment • sep 25, 2024

  39. Show HN: Pokemon prototype game made with JavaScript and p5.js

    71 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  40. Can kids master the video games their parents loved?

    71 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  41. MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations

    71 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  42. The ambiguous witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014)

    71 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  43. JEP Draft – Derived Record Creation (Preview)

    71 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  44. Meta blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier over election interference concerns

    71 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  45. ControlNet Game of Life

    71 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  46. Bringing GPU acceleration to Polars DataFrames in the near future

    71 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  47. How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?

    71 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  48. How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)

    71 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  49. Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry (2023)

    71 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  50. Call Your Local Wizard

    71 points • comment • jun 01, 2024

  51. What Materials Are Magnetic?

    71 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  52. Building GCC 1.27 (first GCC with x86 support) (2019)

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  53. Transistor takes advantage of quantum interference

    71 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  54. How to keep engineers out of meeting hell

    71 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  55. Pepsi’s Soviet Navy (2021)

    71 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  56. CEO of Wordpress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me with Legal Action

    71 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  57. Dual-screen laptops make more sense with this spiral notebook-like hinge

    71 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  58. Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model

    71 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  59. Looking Glass debuts 16-inch OLED and 32-inch 'holographic' spatial displays

    70 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  60. The Basics of How Engines Work (2021) [video]

    70 points • comment • jul 07, 2024

  61. StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port

    70 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  62. Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

    70 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  63. Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables

    70 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  64. United Health CEO Decries "Aggressive" Media Coverage in Leaked Recording

    70 points • comment • dec 06, 2024

  65. INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause (2009)

    70 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  66. A quantitative test of Diamond’s axis of orientation hypothesis

    70 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  67. UK Fell into Recession in 2023

    70 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  68. Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

    70 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  69. Google Reader shutdown tidbits (2013)

    70 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  70. Trello Allegedly Breached

    70 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  71. LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C

    70 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  72. GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome

    70 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  73. Erasure Coding versus Tail Latency

    70 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  74. The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg

    70 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  75. How enterprise software is like baby clothing

    70 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  76. Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid

    70 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  77. A rigid but foldable indoor airship aerial system for cave exploration

    70 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  78. The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

    70 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  79. Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers' credentials

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  80. AIHawk: AI bot to automatically apply for jobs

    70 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  81. Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

    70 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  82. Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 2)

    70 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  83. iTerm2 3.5.0

    70 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  84. The Story Behind Fenster

    70 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  85. I will NEVER add such a privacy breaking a**hole feature

    70 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  86. Wind River Linux

    70 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  87. Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company

    70 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  88. Consider Negotiating with Infringers

    70 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  89. Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud (2023)

    70 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  90. How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race

    70 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  91. London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack

    70 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  92. China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia?

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  93. UnitedHealth says data of 100M stolen in Change Healthcare hack

    70 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  94. Cognate: Readable and concise concatenative programming

    70 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  95. GPT-4 can exploit vulnerabilities by reading CVEs

    70 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  96. My experiences with Automattic: Part 3

    70 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  97. Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  98. Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions

    70 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  99. Show HN: Parallel DOM – Upgrade your DOM to be multithreaded

    70 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  100. Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

    70 points • comment • oct 29, 2024