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Hacker News (2024)

Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio
694 points • comment • sep 10, 2024
Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
692 points • comment • nov 06, 2024
Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
691 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
My favourite Git commit (2019)
691 points • comment • feb 01, 2024
What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
691 points • comment • nov 29, 2024
I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
691 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Meta outage
691 points • comment • mar 05, 2024
Apache Superset
689 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
689 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step
689 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
688 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
Stable Cascade
688 points • comment • feb 13, 2024
Winamp Legacy player source code
687 points • comment • sep 24, 2024
I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
687 points • comment • aug 08, 2024
The Lunacy of Artemis
686 points • comment • may 19, 2024
Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues
686 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
686 points • comment • jun 25, 2024
Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
685 points • comment • may 09, 2024
An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
684 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
683 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
2M users but no money in the bank
683 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
683 points • comment • sep 13, 2024
Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
683 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
Toasts are bad UX
683 points • comment • aug 20, 2024
Susan Wojcicki has died
682 points • comment • aug 10, 2024
Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
682 points • comment • jun 24, 2024
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
681 points • comment • may 24, 2024
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
681 points • comment • nov 13, 2024
The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
681 points • comment • jun 08, 2024
Starlink Direct to Cell
681 points • comment • nov 24, 2024
The Art of Finishing
680 points • comment • sep 02, 2024
The hunt for the missing data type
680 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
macOS in QEMU in Docker
679 points • comment • jul 31, 2024
Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection
677 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Standard Ebooks
677 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers
677 points • comment • jun 09, 2024
Get me out of data hell
677 points • comment • oct 31, 2024
Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
676 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
676 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
676 points • comment • dec 30, 2024
Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
674 points • comment • nov 04, 2024
Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
674 points • comment • jun 05, 2024
What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]
673 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
672 points • comment • jan 21, 2024
Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
671 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
Japan's push to make all research open access
671 points • comment • may 31, 2024
Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
670 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
670 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
669 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
668 points • comment • dec 15, 2024
I should have loved biology (2020)
668 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
Sit.
668 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
666 points • comment • may 02, 2024
Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode
666 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
My second year without a job
666 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
The return of the frame pointers
665 points • comment • mar 17, 2024
Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
665 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
665 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
664 points • comment • nov 14, 2024
How video games use lookup tables
661 points • comment • feb 28, 2024
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
661 points • comment • oct 25, 2024
Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
661 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
660 points • comment • feb 09, 2024
A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
660 points • comment • jan 10, 2024
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
660 points • comment • dec 16, 2024
Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
659 points • comment • aug 01, 2024
Calculus Made Easy
659 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
659 points • comment • may 09, 2024
Apple Vision Pro review
659 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
658 points • comment • jan 02, 2024
IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system
658 points • comment • jan 06, 2024
Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
656 points • comment • mar 11, 2024
Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
655 points • comment • dec 26, 2024
I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
655 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
655 points • comment • jun 30, 2024
My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)
655 points • comment • mar 08, 2024
SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
654 points • comment • aug 12, 2024
Show HN: HTML for People
654 points • comment • oct 10, 2024
--libcurl
653 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
653 points • comment • jan 01, 2024
Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
652 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
We're ending our Samsung collaboration
651 points • comment • may 23, 2024
Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
650 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
649 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Prevention of HIV
649 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
649 points • comment • may 21, 2024
ReMarkable Paper Pro
648 points • comment • sep 04, 2024
Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
648 points • comment • sep 06, 2024
James Earl Jones has died
648 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone
647 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
No one buys books
646 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
646 points • comment • nov 20, 2024
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
646 points • comment • nov 22, 2024
US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes
646 points • comment • jan 12, 2024
Show HN: Startup funding simulator
645 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
Portable EPUBs
645 points • comment • jan 26, 2024
Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
645 points • comment • nov 09, 2024
What we know about CEO shooting suspect
645 points • comment • dec 09, 2024
Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
644 points • comment • jun 07, 2024
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
644 points • comment • aug 14, 2024