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Hacker News (2024)

Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
137 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
How the codpiece flopped
137 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)
137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM
137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft
137 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224
137 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming
137 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
NASA's plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes
137 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust
137 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?
137 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died
136 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
What Is WebTV?
136 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
136 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
How to Design an ISA
136 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Cindy Lee might be the future of music
136 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
C++ Safety, in Context
136 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Boy photographer seeks danger as others flee (1968)
136 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Researchers use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water
136 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Self-driving as a case study for AGI
136 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
136 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons
136 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Everything we can't describe in music
136 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster
136 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
How does the sky turn dark at night?
136 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
136 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
136 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Scientists put Jared Diamond's continental axis hypothesis to the test
136 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
136 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
136 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away
136 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
136 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
The Airship to Orbit Project
136 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Is Tableau Dead?
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild
136 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
136 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust
136 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
136 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Understanding Google's File System (2020)
136 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Dracula Theme for Hacker News
135 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
135 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
NVK is now ready for prime time
135 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]
135 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
135 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products
135 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
135 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Verified curl
135 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor whose steel creations awed viewers, has died
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
TCP connection timeout mystery
135 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
135 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
How (and why) to run SQLite in production
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
135 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
135 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf]
135 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
FTC challenges 'junk' patents held by 10 drugmakers, incl Novo Nordisk's Ozempic
135 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
135 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
135 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
135 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
A reasonable configuration language
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
The power of two random choices
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
135 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
How to send progress updates
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
135 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Bertie – A minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in hacspec
134 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding
134 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
134 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
134 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs
134 points • comment • may 04, 2024
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
134 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
134 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
LCD displays still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens (2019)
134 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Why use strace in 2023? [video]
134 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
134 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine
134 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Game Font Forensics
134 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock
134 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Origins of J
134 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
GitHub having issues today
134 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
134 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
134 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Binary vector search is better than FP32 vectors
134 points • comment • mar 26, 2024
Show HN: Podlite - a lightweight markup language for organizing knowledge
133 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act
133 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
133 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
133 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
133 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Old London Bridge
133 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable
133 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
133 points • comment • jan 12, 2024