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Hacker News (2024)

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)
299 points • comment • nov 26, 2024
The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)
299 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died
299 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent
299 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
Interview with gwern
299 points • comment • nov 14, 2024
A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
299 points • comment • nov 13, 2024
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
299 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Pi Chess Board
298 points • comment • nov 10, 2024
Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere
298 points • comment • aug 02, 2024
Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
298 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI
298 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
Show HN: 2d web paddle game
298 points • comment • jun 05, 2024
Learning to Learn
298 points • comment • oct 22, 2024
I kind of like rebasing
298 points • comment • jun 20, 2024
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)
298 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM
298 points • comment • oct 27, 2024
Differential Growth Addon for Blender
298 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper
298 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Show HN: Online database diagram editor
298 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Most people don't care about quality
298 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
298 points • comment • jun 23, 2024
Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub
298 points • comment • nov 27, 2024
You are not late (2014)
298 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
More options for apps distributed in the European Union
298 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
298 points • comment • may 23, 2024
Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI
298 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)
298 points • comment • aug 10, 2024
Kagi search reached 20k paying members
298 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo
298 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
298 points • comment • dec 03, 2024
Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
298 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
297 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS
297 points • comment • aug 05, 2024
Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
297 points • comment • dec 08, 2024
C++ is an absolute blast
297 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea
297 points • comment • nov 06, 2024
The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children
297 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
297 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
297 points • comment • may 24, 2024
KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
297 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
297 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
297 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell
297 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
297 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)
297 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
297 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
Modelica
296 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson
296 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales
296 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)
296 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
296 points • comment • jun 19, 2024
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
296 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
296 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Thinking in an array language
296 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Alignment faking in large language models
296 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
Ross Anderson has died
296 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
296 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Breaking down tasks
296 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn
296 points • comment • dec 13, 2024
Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)
296 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)
296 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
296 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
Making my own wedding rings
296 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
Life, death, and retirement
296 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
296 points • comment • jun 06, 2024
Windows NT for Power Macintosh
296 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
295 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
295 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM
295 points • comment • may 22, 2024
London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
295 points • comment • sep 22, 2024
Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files
295 points • comment • aug 22, 2024
The Delusion of the Polygraph
295 points • comment • jul 15, 2024
"Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees
295 points • comment • aug 13, 2024
Meteor seen in Portugal
295 points • comment • may 19, 2024
MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes
295 points • comment • jun 21, 2024
The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time
295 points • comment • oct 25, 2024
Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
295 points • comment • feb 25, 2024
NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
295 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
295 points • comment • jun 13, 2024
Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition
295 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
OpenID Connect specifications published as ISO standards
294 points • comment • nov 10, 2024
Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code
294 points • comment • jun 11, 2024
A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note
294 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
HonoJS: Small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges
294 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
294 points • comment • nov 28, 2024
SQL Tips and Tricks
294 points • comment • sep 25, 2024
I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum
294 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
294 points • comment • jun 01, 2024
Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
294 points • comment • jul 26, 2024
Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
294 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
294 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
294 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
JSON Patch
294 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
Long Term Software Development
294 points • comment • dec 22, 2024
Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM
294 points • comment • may 21, 2024
Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
294 points • comment • jun 21, 2024
TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
294 points • comment • aug 25, 2024
Security research on Private Cloud Compute
294 points • comment • oct 24, 2024
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
294 points • comment • nov 17, 2024
WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic
294 points • comment • sep 24, 2024