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Hacker News (2024)

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
120 points • comment • jan 20, 2024
Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502
120 points • comment • jan 14, 2024
Blueprint health protocol
120 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
120 points • comment • mar 31, 2024
Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order
120 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf]
120 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build
120 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
120 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association
120 points • comment • jan 17, 2024
Plant patents sow fear among small growers
120 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Shecc: A self-hosting and educational C optimizing compiler
120 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths
120 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
The drinking fountain button
120 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Graphic Presentation (1939)
120 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely
120 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
120 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Evergrande, once China's biggest property developer, ordered to liquidate
120 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form
120 points • comment • feb 20, 2024
Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
120 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Show HN: DualShock calibration in the browser using WebHID
120 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
120 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Show HN: OfflineLLM – a Vision Pro app running TinyLlama on device
120 points • comment • mar 01, 2024
5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients
120 points • comment • mar 18, 2024
Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute
120 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
Spectrum Analyser, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum reverse engineering tool
120 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
TrenchBroom: A cross platform level editor for Quake-engine based games
119 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Ask HN: How does deploying a fine-tuned model work
119 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
Stress reduction techniques for high stress operations (2023)
119 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Performance-Aware Programming Series
119 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
119 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants
119 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
secd chews up CPU cycles and Watch battery life goes in the terlet (2022)
119 points • comment • feb 18, 2024
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016)
119 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"
119 points • comment • may 07, 2024
A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]
119 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal
119 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
AI or Ain't: Eliza
119 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money
119 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)
119 points • comment • feb 06, 2024
EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
119 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
Blur Radius Comparison
119 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
Ointers: A library for representing pointers where bits have been stolen (2021)
119 points • comment • may 08, 2024
Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others
119 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
240-Gbit/s sub-THz wireless communications using ultra-low phase noise receiver
119 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
Penpot 2.0 Released
119 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger
119 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents
119 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems
119 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Slowroads
119 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Researchers taking on fraudulent science
119 points • comment • feb 03, 2024
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
119 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)
119 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media
119 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative
119 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System
119 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Beaver Drop
119 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Chess-GPT's Internal World Model
119 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
How to Determine the Error of an Air Quality Sensor?
119 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
119 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees
119 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Show HN: Ragas – Open-source library for evaluating RAG pipelines
119 points • comment • mar 21, 2024
The scarcity of the long term
119 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
118 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)
118 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir
118 points • comment • mar 23, 2024
Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC
118 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
118 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL
118 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Dynamouse: Mouse driver for Mac studios
118 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Talc – A fast and flexible allocator for no_std and WebAssembly
118 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion
118 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)
118 points • comment • jan 16, 2024
A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest
118 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Identifying Software
118 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)
118 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)
118 points • comment • feb 12, 2024
Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
118 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Theory of Constraints
118 points • comment • may 01, 2024
Draft Paper Discovered in Which Joseph Weizenbaum Envisions ELIZA's Applications
118 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Shots: Create Mockups
118 points • comment • jan 19, 2024
Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
118 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
118 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)
118 points • comment • may 03, 2024
Canoes discovered northwest of Rome are oldest boats ever found in Mediterranean
118 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
118 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
A company that sells lost airplane luggage
118 points • comment • jan 28, 2024
Multi – Multiplayer Collaboration for macOS
118 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude
118 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
Computer-generated holography with ordinary display
118 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
Functional ownership through fractional uniqueness
118 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20
118 points • comment • may 05, 2024
The fishy death of Red Lobster
118 points • comment • may 02, 2024
ResearchAgent: Iterative Research Idea Generation Using LLMs
118 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal
118 points • comment • feb 21, 2024
Factorio – Statistics improvements, Linux adventures
118 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel
118 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP
118 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders
118 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
The Ken Thompson Hack
118 points • comment • mar 30, 2024
Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
118 points • comment • jan 15, 2024