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Hacker News (2024)

  1. Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died

    304 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  2. Give people something to link to

    304 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  3. Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

    304 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  4. “A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]

    304 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  5. Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source

    304 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  6. DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

    304 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  7. Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)

    304 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  8. Algorithms for Modern Hardware

    304 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  9. Transparenttextures.com

    304 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  10. Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)

    304 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  11. Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails

    304 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  12. Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers

    304 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  13. OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

    304 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  14. Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing

    304 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  15. A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)

    304 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  16. Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script

    304 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  17. Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

    304 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  18. Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps

    304 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  19. Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

    304 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  20. .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

    303 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  21. Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

    303 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  22. The appendix is not, in fact, useless

    303 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  23. YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

    303 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  24. Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

    303 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  25. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests

    303 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  26. Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives

    303 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  27. EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

    303 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  28. Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions

    303 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  29. Coroutines in C (2000)

    303 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  30. Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

    303 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  31. Pivotal Tracker will shut down

    303 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  32. Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust

    302 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  33. The Illustrated AlphaFold

    302 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  34. How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed

    302 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  35. To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

    302 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  36. Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

    302 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  37. So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)

    302 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  38. My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

    302 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  39. I don't want to fill out your contact form

    302 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  40. Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot

    302 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  41. WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

    302 points • comment • nov 24, 2024

  42. Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

    302 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  43. Why doesn't advice work?

    302 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  44. PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU

    302 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  45. Contextual Retrieval

    302 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  46. Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight

    302 points • comment • jul 10, 2024

  47. Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

    302 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  48. Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

    302 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  49. AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson

    302 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  50. How we applied fuzzing techniques to cURL

    302 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  51. Ramanujan's lost notebook

    302 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  52. $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating

    302 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  53. AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research

    302 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  54. Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments

    302 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  55. The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem

    302 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  56. Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028

    301 points • comment • jan 23, 2024

  57. Forging signed commits on GitHub

    301 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  58. Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    301 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  59. End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit

    301 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  60. Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

    301 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  61. Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space

    301 points • comment • jun 18, 2024

  62. Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free

    301 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  63. CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

    301 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  64. The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

    301 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  65. Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

    301 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  66. Accident Forgiveness

    301 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  67. Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative

    301 points • comment • may 28, 2024

  68. Using S3 as a Container Registry

    301 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  69. Grim Fandango

    301 points • comment • nov 09, 2024

  70. Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

    300 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  71. Atuin – Magical shell history

    300 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  72. The server chose violence

    300 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  73. Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters

    300 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  74. Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11

    300 points • comment • dec 30, 2024

  75. Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues

    300 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  76. US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

    300 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  77. Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting

    300 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  78. JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

    300 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  79. Appearances of MIT in Anime

    300 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  80. Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

    300 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  81. Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS

    300 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  82. Tsunami Warning for Northern California

    300 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  83. How economical is your local Taco Bell?

    300 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  84. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

    300 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  85. Probably pay attention to tokenizers

    300 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  86. Java 22 Released

    299 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  87. Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go

    299 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  88. Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

    299 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  89. Interview with gwern

    299 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  90. Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

    299 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  91. Gettiers in software engineering (2019)

    299 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  92. AirPods fast connect security vulnerability

    299 points • comment • jun 29, 2024

  93. C Macro Reflection in Zig

    299 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  94. Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

    299 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  95. Why you've never been in a plane crash

    299 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  96. Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

    299 points • comment • dec 10, 2024

  97. Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?

    299 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  98. The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)

    299 points • comment • jul 30, 2024

  99. A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

    299 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  100. SDL3 new GPU API merged

    299 points • comment • aug 29, 2024