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Hacker News (2024)

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

    367 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  2. Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

    366 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  3. What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know

    366 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  4. Meta does everything OpenAI should be

    366 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  5. Writing secure Go code

    366 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  6. I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton

    366 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  7. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

    366 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  8. Weather forecasts have become more accurate

    366 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  9. XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

    366 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  10. When Random Isn't

    365 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  11. EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention

    365 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  12. FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm

    365 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  13. Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

    365 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  14. MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

    365 points • comment • dec 17, 2024

  15. Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

    365 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  16. American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

    365 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  17. 300k airplanes in five years

    365 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  18. I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

    365 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  19. Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website

    364 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  20. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

    364 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  21. Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce

    364 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  22. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

    364 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  23. MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)

    364 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  24. Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage

    364 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  25. Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse

    363 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  26. Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

    363 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  27. Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

    363 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  28. Isometric Projection in Game Development

    363 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  29. Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

    363 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  30. A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

    363 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  31. Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

    363 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  32. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

    363 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  33. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

    363 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  34. Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive

    363 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  35. How to hire low experience, high potential people

    363 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  36. Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests

    363 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  37. Never Missing the Train Again

    363 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  38. Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

    362 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  39. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V

    362 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  40. Ollama is now available on Windows in preview

    362 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  41. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

    362 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  42. I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device

    362 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  43. A bad day at the office

    362 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  44. Terminal colours are tricky

    362 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  45. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

    361 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  46. Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier

    361 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  47. Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]

    361 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  48. Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

    361 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  49. Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

    361 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  50. Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship

    361 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  51. Antarctic English

    360 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  52. A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

    360 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  53. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

    360 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  54. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought

    360 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

    360 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  56. Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research

    360 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  57. Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security

    360 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  58. Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

    360 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  59. Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)

    360 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  60. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting

    360 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  61. Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs

    360 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  62. PostgreSQL is enough

    360 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  63. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

    360 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  64. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

    360 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  65. Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders

    360 points • comment • may 30, 2024

  66. Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model

    360 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  67. Pretty.c

    360 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  68. I've stopped using box plots (2021)

    360 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  69. The deterioration of Google

    360 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  70. Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq

    359 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  71. Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue

    359 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  72. I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source

    359 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  73. Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine

    359 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  74. Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years

    359 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  75. TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning

    359 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  76. The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

    359 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  77. Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

    359 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  78. Grandmaster-level chess without search

    359 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  79. Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs

    359 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  80. I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

    359 points • comment • nov 08, 2024

  81. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods

    359 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  82. Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

    359 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  83. Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

    359 points • comment • jun 22, 2024

  84. LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops

    359 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  85. The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury

    359 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  86. Simulating Jupiter

    359 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  87. Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?

    359 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  88. Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

    359 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  89. Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM

    359 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  90. Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

    359 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  91. My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

    358 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  92. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback

    358 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  93. Bun’s New Crash Reporter

    358 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  94. Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"

    358 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  95. OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition

    358 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  96. Embeddings are underrated

    358 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  97. Why Bridges Don't Sink

    358 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  98. Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)

    358 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  99. Sitina1 Open-Source Camera

    358 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  100. Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa

    357 points • comment • aug 28, 2024