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Hacker News (2024)

US Treasury says it was hacked by China
22 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
"Oh shit, my career " shouted one of the interns
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
Identifying and Manipulating LLM Personality Traits via Activation Engineering
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
22 points • comment • oct 14, 2024
International 'race science' network funded by US tech boss
22 points • comment • oct 16, 2024
AMD EPYC 9965 Delivers Better Performance/Power Efficiency vs AmpereOne 192-Core
22 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
The Original Usenet Physics FAQ
22 points • comment • oct 23, 2024
How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children
22 points • comment • oct 02, 2024
"Please consider my plugins hosted on wordpress.org to be abandoned."
22 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
.txt raises $11.9M to make language models programmable
22 points • comment • oct 18, 2024
Show HN: Abusing a GitHub repo as a private certificate authority
21 points • comment • may 18, 2024
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Head First 2024 by O'Reilly
21 points • comment • aug 19, 2024
Instagram tests forcing users to watch adverts
21 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
Biomethane produced from maize grown on peat emits more CO2 than natural gas
21 points • comment • sep 23, 2024
Trapcc – computing with traps
21 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
RFC 9639 – Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
21 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
She Wanted to Make Her Frank Lloyd Wright House Greener
21 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Australians Using Browser Replay Attacks to Get Cheap KFC
21 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
Meta's big vision for face computers might be better than Apple's
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
NZ at the centre of cross-govt group sharing personal traveller records
21 points • comment • jun 17, 2024
Self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America's highways
21 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
SCIM: System for Cross-Domain Identity Management
21 points • comment • nov 09, 2024
In a win for the climate (and safety), urban US speed limits are dropping
21 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Ask HN: What is the best financial advice someone has ever given you?
21 points • comment • jun 22, 2024
Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
21 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Organic Maps Removed from the Google Play Store
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2024
John C. Lilly and the Solid State Entity (2016)
21 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Bit-permuting 16 u32s at once with AVX-512
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
Bigme Hibreak E Ink phone is now available for $219 and up
21 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Only 720k Snapdragon X laptops sold in Q3 – less than 0.8% of PCs
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?
21 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
The problem of 'model collapse': how a lack of human data limits AI progress
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II)
21 points • comment • jun 02, 2024
Elon Musk deletes post spreading fake news about UK 'detainment camps'
21 points • comment • aug 08, 2024
GitHub: Packages support for fine-grained PATs
21 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
U.S. Wealth Inequality [video]
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2024
Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He's Quitting in Frustration
21 points • comment • may 27, 2024
Introductions to new subjects by great people
21 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
A United States of Europe
21 points • comment • may 22, 2024
X all-hands leaves staff with few answers on delayed promotions
21 points • comment • jun 13, 2024
You Don't Feel Jet-Lagged When You Run a Fever (2016)
21 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
WinRAR 7.10 Beta 1 released
21 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
UE5 running in WebGPU
21 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
Why the B-52 is outliving newer bombers [video]
21 points • comment • oct 19, 2024
An EMP or Solar Incident Could Result in Blackout Warfare
21 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
New Defense Dept Initiative to Recruit Private Sector Tech Pros for Reserves
21 points • comment • oct 22, 2024
White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud
21 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Americans pay eight times more for hearing aids than the British
21 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
WebAssembly Runtimes
21 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed
21 points • comment • oct 22, 2024
Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life
21 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Information Batteries (2021) [pdf]
21 points • comment • nov 30, 2024
Features I wish PostgreSQL had as a developer
21 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Your docs are your infrastructure
21 points • comment • nov 26, 2024
Hügelkultur
21 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
Anaesthesiologists and Surprise Billing
21 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
Copilot generates Jewish stereotypes, anti-Semitic tropes
21 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
In Defense of LeetCode Interviews
21 points • comment • oct 08, 2024
Lightweight and fast AMQP (0-9-1) server
21 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Intel's BIOS updates for crashing CPUs are now rolling out
21 points • comment • aug 08, 2024
Child Care Is More Expensive Than Rent for the Average American Family
21 points • comment • may 20, 2024
US regulator rejects bid to boost nuclear power to Amazon data center
21 points • comment • nov 05, 2024
Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature
21 points • comment • may 13, 2024
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You're Laughing?
21 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
"I Was Disappointed with Modern Routers, So I'm Making My Own"
21 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
How should we treat beings that might be sentient?
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2024
The Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History
21 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
Twitter API leak reveals group of protected users that are allowed to break TOS
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys (2017)
21 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
Show HN: OpenDAL, one API to access all the storages (S3, Azblob, HDFS, etc.)
21 points • comment • nov 07, 2024
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
21 points • comment • may 21, 2024
Ask HN: Is it a di*k move to reject pull requests with non-eng commit msgs?
21 points • comment • jun 25, 2024
Delegating tasks to Fly Machines
21 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Measuring and Understanding LLM Identity Confusion
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2024
What is the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech?
21 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas
21 points • comment • oct 06, 2024
Ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia: research (2019)
21 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Britain is running out of babies
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2024
Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row
21 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Google's counteroffer to the government is unbundling Android apps
21 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
Why Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware's Standalone Products
21 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Narcissism Across Life Span: Meta-Analytic Review of Longitudinal Studies [pdf]
21 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
Show HN: AnyText AI – Multilingual text generation and editing tool
21 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
A 378-day Mars simulation changed this Canadian scientist's outlook on life
21 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
Purism Liberty Phone to Be Featured in Orpheum Films Collaboration
21 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Natural acid induces pseudo-starvation, anti-ageing effects in animals
21 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
OpenAI Employees Call for Protections to Speak Out on AI Risks
21 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
American Singapore(s): Taking Inventory of Competent City Governance
21 points • comment • nov 11, 2024
Tech salaries have been cut in half
21 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Scientists learning to 'write' skills to human brain noninvasively, like Matrix
21 points • comment • dec 19, 2024
He Died in a Tragic Accident. Why Did the Internet Say He Was Murdered?
21 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Ask HN: What companies have a good work life balance?
21 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
21 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Probable Predictors of Involuntary Singlehood
21 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
Professor Megalow's Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian literature
21 points • comment • may 02, 2024
The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 8
21 points • comment • jul 25, 2024
SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' meeting
21 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Astronaut: "It takes 2 hours to orbit at the surface of any object made of rock"
21 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
Portal 64 taken down by Valve [video]
21 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning
21 points • comment • nov 10, 2024