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Hacker News (2024)

QuickJS 2024-01-13
20 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Basic – The Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing
20 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Anduril Is Building Out The Pentagon's Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
20 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Just released: oryx now includes a powerful firewall feature
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2024
How to Land an Airplane in an Emergency (Step-by-Step)
20 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
How Distributed Systems Avoid Race Conditions Using Pessimistic Locking?
20 points • comment • nov 17, 2024
Drawing Kolam patterns in stitches and code
20 points • comment • mar 29, 2024
Death Rates by Vehicle Model
20 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
What went wrong with federal student loans?
20 points • comment • may 26, 2024
Elon Musk's Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris Campaign
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2024
Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns
20 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown
20 points • comment • jul 23, 2024
Russia's persecution of faith in Ukraine called 'cultural genocide' campaign
20 points • comment • may 31, 2024
A "new" part of the human body, the interstitium
20 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to life on Earth
20 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Notes for an annotation SDK (2021)
20 points • comment • nov 01, 2024
the US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy
20 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Does everyone hate Google now?
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2024
Graphviz
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
AWS wins $2B contract for Australian military top secret region build
20 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
Rich Harris: Svelte parses HTML all wrong
20 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
Spain introduces "Porn Passport" to keep kids from watching porn
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
Free SVG generators, color tools and web design tools
20 points • comment • feb 19, 2024
Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming
20 points • comment • jul 08, 2024
Breaking BFT: Quantifying the cost to attack Bitcoin and Ethereum
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2024
Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
20 points • comment • jul 03, 2024
An empirical answer to the question, when Postgres is not enough
20 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
What everyone seems to be missing in the CrowdStrike incident
20 points • comment • jul 23, 2024
Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
20 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
The moonbit compiler is available on GitHub
20 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
Web bloat means pages are 21MB+, some sites are harder to render than PUBG
20 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
GIMPS Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1
20 points • comment • oct 21, 2024
AI programming tools should be added to the Joel Test
20 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything
20 points • comment • nov 08, 2024
Fidelity cuts value of X stake, 73% decline in Twitter since Elon Musk takeover
20 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Visa Faces Justice Department Antitrust Case on Debit Cards
20 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
US Media Is Collapsing
20 points • comment • mar 20, 2024
SS Warrimoo, the Ship That Existed in Two Centuries at Once
20 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
PeOS – Windows-like OS mockup in web browser
20 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Apple's A18 Pro chip in iPhone 16 Pro has faster CPU than 6GHz Intel i9-14900K
20 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2B WhatsApp users
20 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
'White Dudes for Harris' X Suspension Sparks Fury: 'Election Interference'
20 points • comment • jul 30, 2024
Show HN: 23 Words
20 points • comment • may 31, 2024
UK Gov Open Consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
20 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
Tesla Makes It Harder for Investors to Ignore Its Problems
20 points • comment • jan 25, 2024
How to make a table row a link (2020)
20 points • comment • sep 08, 2024
Ask HN: How do I find a job, in this market with ADHD
20 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
MIT Uncovers Photomolecular Effect: Light Can Vaporize Water Without Heat
20 points • comment • may 05, 2024
Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon explosions
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
Largest EV battery maker set to cut costs in half by mid 2024
20 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot
20 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
Random Walk Simulation
20 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Online-gambling giants conquer U.S. with tactics deemed too tough for Britain
20 points • comment • jul 04, 2024
Toyota showcases compact engines adaptable to different fuels
20 points • comment • may 28, 2024
Founder Gigs
20 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
SiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board
20 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
SF Mutual Fund Exec Front-Ran His Fund's Trades
20 points • comment • aug 27, 2024
State Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California
20 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Coccinelle
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
Air Jordan Is Finally Deflating
20 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Starlink Mini
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
The NakedCPU: Hardware Experiments and a Roadmap for Navigating Documentation [pdf]
20 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
I Left Norway to Build My Startup
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
20 points • comment • may 08, 2024
Show HN: Decentralized Twitter clone built on Ethereum blockchain
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2024
Military interests are pushing new nuclear power; UK gov finally admits it
20 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Elon Musk PAC will pay registered voters in swing states to sign a petition
20 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
Robinhood's new, attractive and expensive credit card
20 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
The Underground University
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
How the 'Harvard of Trading' Ruined Young People's Lives
20 points • comment • may 20, 2024
Tesla Analyst Nearly Crashes While Using Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving
20 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
What if I paid for all my free software?
20 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Tax the Rich – European Citizens' Initiative
20 points • comment • sep 18, 2024
Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws
20 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
"I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again"
20 points • comment • jun 19, 2024
Baird's beaked whales found in shallower waters than previously observed
20 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
The Mathematics of Dobble (2018)
20 points • comment • sep 21, 2024
Startup Founder Wants to Sell Cocaine
20 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
OpenAI's former chief scientist is starting a new AI company
20 points • comment • jun 19, 2024
Sam Altman: "Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways"
20 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Introducing the Theia IDE
20 points • comment • jun 30, 2024
Palworld Has the Highest Player Count on Steam
20 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux and Open-Source Investments in 2024
20 points • comment • dec 28, 2024
Making light 'feel' a magnetic field like an electron would
20 points • comment • may 06, 2024
The future is self-hosted
20 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
Ask HN: IRS section 174 – cause of layoffs?
20 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
London Bridge tested tech to track individuals inside the station
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2024
Boomers, Gen X Are Also Fed Up with Their Employers
20 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Schaffer–Vega Diversity System
20 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Show HN: Obsess Jobs – Apply to jobs in your sleep
20 points • comment • dec 31, 2024
Wall Street braces for faster trade settlement
20 points • comment • may 28, 2024
An RKRM-style reference of AmigaDOS/dos.library
20 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects
20 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Interoception: The inner sense driving your thoughts
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history
20 points • comment • mar 25, 2024
Elon Musk Rehiring Supercharger Team
20 points • comment • may 13, 2024