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Hacker News (2024)

  1. Popover API

    374 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  2. Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]

    374 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  3. From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]

    374 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  4. Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill

    374 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  5. CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU

    374 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  6. Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

    374 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  7. C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

    374 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  8. Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)

    374 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  9. Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

    374 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  10. One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid

    374 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  11. A disk so full, it couldn't be restored

    374 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  12. Svelte 5 Released

    374 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  13. Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

    374 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  14. F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

    374 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  15. Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice

    374 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  16. The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]

    373 points • comment • jun 28, 2024

  17. Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

    373 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  18. Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

    373 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  19. Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)

    373 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  20. Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years

    373 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  21. Using static websites for tiny archives

    373 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  22. Platform Tilt

    373 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  23. You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?

    373 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  24. Clojure 1.12.0 is now available

    373 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  25. Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024

    373 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  26. macOS Sequoia is available today

    372 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  27. Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)

    372 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  28. How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives

    372 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  29. 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch

    372 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  30. Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out

    372 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  31. Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

    372 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  32. Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

    371 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  33. Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play

    371 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  34. 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

    371 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  35. Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative

    371 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  36. Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

    371 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  37. The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection

    371 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  38. Fun facts about SQLite

    371 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  39. SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS

    371 points • comment • sep 28, 2024

  40. 100k Stars

    371 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  41. Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

    371 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  42. Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip

    371 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  43. Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage

    370 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  44. We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

    370 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  45. Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

    370 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  46. Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

    370 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  47. Our biggest ever river catch?

    370 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  48. More powerful Go execution traces

    370 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  49. CockroachDB license change

    370 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  50. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

    370 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  51. Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]

    370 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  52. What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools

    370 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  53. Some Go web dev notes

    370 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  54. D3 in Depth

    370 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  55. New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco

    370 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  56. Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers

    370 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  57. Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

    370 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  58. A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)

    370 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  59. Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time

    370 points • comment • may 31, 2024

  60. Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

    370 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  61. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

    369 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  62. Python Cloudflare Workers

    369 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  63. Let's stop counting centuries

    369 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  64. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

    369 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  65. Start Your Own ISP

    369 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  66. Writing a Unix clone in about a month

    369 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  67. RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent

    369 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  68. Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix

    369 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  69. Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective

    369 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  70. Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

    369 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  71. The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org

    369 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  72. Zed AI

    369 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  73. Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86

    369 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  74. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

    369 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  75. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

    369 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  76. Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

    369 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  77. Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures

    369 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  78. Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting

    369 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  79. Algebraic Data Types for C99

    369 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  80. Francois Chollet is leaving Google

    368 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  81. HTML Form Validation is underused

    368 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  82. Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux

    368 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  83. Mental health in software engineering

    368 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  84. More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

    368 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  85. Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

    368 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  86. How to make a better default Firefox UI

    368 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  87. The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US

    368 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  88. Making my first robot as a software engineer

    368 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  89. DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser

    368 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  90. Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

    368 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  91. Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

    368 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  92. Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

    367 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  93. Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)

    367 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  94. Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers

    367 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  95. Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)

    367 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  96. Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report

    367 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  97. Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

    367 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  98. Examples of Great URL Design (2023)

    367 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  99. Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

    367 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  100. A decade-old Steam bug

    367 points • comment • jan 13, 2024