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Hacker News (2024)

AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
1012 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
1012 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?
1009 points • comment • jun 03, 2024
The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
1006 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
1000 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Claude 3 model family
997 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
997 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
996 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
990 points • comment • jun 15, 2024
FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
990 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
989 points • comment • oct 24, 2024
Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
989 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
OpenAI and Elon Musk
987 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Engineering for Slow Internet
986 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
986 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
Akira Toriyama has died
985 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
Daniel Kahneman has died
985 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Monodraw
982 points • comment • mar 09, 2024
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
979 points • comment • dec 13, 2024
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
978 points • comment • jun 25, 2024
I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
977 points • comment • may 29, 2024
Polars
977 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
976 points • comment • may 16, 2024
A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
974 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
969 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Krazam OS
964 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
964 points • comment • dec 14, 2024
Stable Diffusion 3
964 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Printing Music with CSS Grid
961 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
959 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
One Million Checkboxes
959 points • comment • jun 26, 2024
Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
959 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
955 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
953 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
952 points • comment • aug 31, 2024
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
952 points • comment • may 29, 2024
Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
949 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
948 points • comment • may 27, 2024
Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
943 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
A $1k Wheelchair
942 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
941 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
941 points • comment • jul 21, 2024
Daniel Dennett has died
937 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
937 points • comment • jun 24, 2024
AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
936 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
932 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
A forged Apple employee badge
931 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
930 points • comment • aug 05, 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
928 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
Jake Seliger has died
928 points • comment • aug 09, 2024
Every company should be owned by its employees
928 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
926 points • comment • jun 10, 2024
Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
919 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
917 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
916 points • comment • jun 23, 2024
NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
916 points • comment • aug 26, 2024
TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
915 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
913 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
911 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
911 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
KidPix
910 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
Cloudflare took down our website
909 points • comment • may 26, 2024
Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
909 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
908 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
906 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
904 points • comment • sep 29, 2024
Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
904 points • comment • oct 30, 2024
Fine tune a 70B language model at home
901 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Passkeys: A shattered dream
900 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
900 points • comment • aug 26, 2024
Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
899 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
OpenAI is good at unminifying code
894 points • comment • aug 29, 2024
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
891 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
891 points • comment • dec 02, 2024
I am starting an AI+Education company
890 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
The era of open voice assistants
887 points • comment • dec 20, 2024
Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
884 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Why we use our own hardware
882 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
882 points • comment • may 07, 2024
Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
881 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
880 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
880 points • comment • oct 25, 2024
Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
879 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
879 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
879 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
M4 MacBook Pro
879 points • comment • oct 30, 2024
Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
879 points • comment • jun 06, 2024
It's always TCP_NODELAY
878 points • comment • may 09, 2024
YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
878 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
878 points • comment • oct 12, 2024
Zed on Linux Is Here
877 points • comment • jul 10, 2024
Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
877 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
876 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
875 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
New startup sells coffee through SSH
874 points • comment • may 01, 2024
GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
871 points • comment • oct 29, 2024
The Fastest Mutexes
868 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
866 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
865 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
863 points • comment • jul 17, 2024