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Hacker News (2024)

Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals
147 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
147 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Mr. Rogers' music was intricate (2020) [video]
147 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks
147 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List
147 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array
147 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills
147 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
147 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants
147 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Bit-Banging Bluetooth Low Energy
147 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
147 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Create More, Consume Less (2021)
147 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Debian 64-bit-time transition
147 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
147 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)
147 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
147 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"
147 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
147 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)
147 points • comment • mar 15, 2024
Ask HN: Are there any websites for SQL puzzle games?
146 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
146 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Zoomable Circles, a Svelte component for hierarchical data
146 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video]
146 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types
146 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)
146 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024
146 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
146 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk
146 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report
146 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
146 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Common Google XSS
146 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel
146 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
146 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)
146 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry
146 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
146 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Updating Gov.uk’s crown
146 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose
146 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
Fck-nat: The (f)easible (C)ost (k)onfigurable NAT
146 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Distributed Authorization
146 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Duty to Document (2023)
146 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
146 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
146 points • comment • jan 05, 2024
Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future
146 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California
145 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
Passkeys – Under the Hood
145 points • comment • mar 14, 2024
Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
145 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Westworld: The first film with CGI (and its source code)
145 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals
145 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise
145 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
When did dogs become our best friends?
145 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Porting to GCC 14: C language issues
145 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
145 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth
145 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale
145 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Transformer as a general purpose computer
145 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos
145 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
145 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
An open-source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization (2022)
145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Reverse engineering a cable modem and turning it into an SDR
145 points • comment • mar 06, 2024
Show HN: I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr
145 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback
145 points • comment • may 05, 2024
The Myers diff algorithm: part 1
145 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Extending Rust's Effect System
145 points • comment • feb 10, 2024
Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency
145 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
The Orange Pi 5 Plus
145 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
145 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?
145 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play
145 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February
145 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America
145 points • comment • mar 02, 2024
RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'
145 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation
145 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
So you think you know C? (2016)
145 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Pydantic Logfire
145 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene
144 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
144 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element
144 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration
144 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
Atari Falcon030
144 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
144 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
144 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Full-scale file system acceleration on GPU [pdf]
144 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Nitro: A fast, lightweight inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
144 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Apple restores Epic's account in the EU
144 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
The perverse policies that fuel wildfires
144 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
Hyrum's Law
144 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]
144 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Mariposa – A programming language with time-travel
144 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
The Disappointing Tea.xyz
144 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Floats Are Weird
144 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
144 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Organ pipe physics
144 points • comment • jan 03, 2024
Tidy First?
144 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Show HN: I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
144 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom
144 points • comment • mar 28, 2024
Xr0: C but Safe
144 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century
144 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
144 points • comment • apr 30, 2024