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Hacker News (2024)

Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author
162 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns
162 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
162 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Show HN: Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source
162 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches
162 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Flow Field Pathfinding
162 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse
162 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center
162 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf]
162 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB
162 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Venice's Secret Service
162 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
How to generate uniformly random points on n-spheres and in n-balls
162 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Happy Public Domain Day
162 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP
162 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
What went wrong at Techstars
162 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
The Sinusoidal Tetris
162 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
162 points • comment • may 09, 2024
The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias (2014)
162 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired
162 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
162 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)
162 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
162 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update
162 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer
162 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)
162 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
The Top of the DNS Hierarchy
162 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Building a deep learning rig
162 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
162 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
162 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism
161 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
161 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big
161 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Speeding up C++ build times
161 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids
161 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Astro DB
161 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
The M2 is more advanced that it seemed
161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
V Language Review (2023)
161 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
161 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation
161 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
161 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Show HN: Refractify – Optical software against myopia
161 points • comment • feb 23, 2024
British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
161 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Best 7B LLM on leaderboards made by an amateur following a medium tutorial
161 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)
161 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Retina – eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes
161 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Research into why some people have a better sense of direction
161 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff
161 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
161 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
Immediate Mode GUI Programming
161 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee
161 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes
161 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure
161 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
161 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline
161 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
161 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Low-Power Wi-Fi Extends Signals Up to 3 Kilometers
161 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills
161 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)
161 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser
160 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
160 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
On Leibniz Notation
160 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Keeping a long shell history
160 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels
160 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Simulating a minimal cell in the browser
160 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way
160 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone
160 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
The first amateur radio station on the moon
160 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
Web-based Turbo Pascal compiler
160 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known
160 points • comment • feb 24, 2024
How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries
160 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
160 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
A formula for responsive font-size
160 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
160 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Vcc – The Vulkan Clang Compiler
160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Jim Ward has died
160 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
C++ left arrow operator (2016)
160 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
Glucoboy
160 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Google CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma [pdf]
160 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (2023)
160 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
159 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site will no longer exist
159 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip
159 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose
159 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
The 100MHz 6502 (2022)
159 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
159 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Mistral Remove "Committing to open models" from their website
159 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
159 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
Based: Simple linear attention language models
159 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Algorithmic Mathematical Art (2004)
159 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python
159 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h
159 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
The Eclipse via Satellite
159 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length
159 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Explaining the SDXL Latent Space
159 points • comment • feb 05, 2024
The Vision Pro is a flop
159 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Folk Computer
159 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Hair sample that put a man in prison turned out to be dog hair
159 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool
159 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Power of small optimizations
159 points • comment • feb 09, 2024