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Hacker News (2024)

  1. Induced demand is not a useful concept

    76 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  2. Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)

    76 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  3. Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job?

    76 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  4. How I got into deep learning

    76 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  5. It's time to break free from Corporate Agile

    76 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  6. Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models

    76 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  7. Late 70s and 80s: forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C

    76 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  8. DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought

    76 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  9. Pet parrots prefer live video-calls

    76 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  10. The oldest hackies tell it like it was (1966)

    75 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  11. Asian Arowana: The most expensive pet fish

    75 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  12. OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers

    75 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  13. One bad apple can spoil your IPv6 privacy (2022)

    75 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  14. Mathematical Foundations of Joy

    75 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  15. The Early History of Usenet (2019)

    75 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  16. I am no longer attending vintage computer festivals

    75 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  17. LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy

    75 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  18. Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure

    75 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  19. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law with union comments, NLRB rules

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  20. Residents' lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment

    75 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  21. The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin

    75 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  22. Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs

    75 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  23. Juniper support portal exposed customer device info

    75 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  24. Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science

    75 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  25. Crookes Radiometer

    75 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  26. Parable of the Polygons (2014)

    75 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  27. Fixing all the bugs won't solve all the problems – Deming's path of frustration

    75 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  28. Open-Source AI at FOSDEM

    75 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  29. GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation

    75 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  30. Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  31. 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge

    75 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  32. A 1.9 solar mass neutron star candidate in a 2-year orbit

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  33. Why African startups don't always need to expand across the continent

    75 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  34. Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

    75 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  35. 8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

    75 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  36. Interview with Robert Garner, Lead Designer of SPARC at Sun Microsystems [video]

    75 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  37. SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard

    75 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  38. Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021)

    75 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  39. What if null was an Object in Java?

    75 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  40. History Is Written by the Losers (2016)

    75 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  41. Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)

    75 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  42. Show HN: MuscleWiki Workout Generator – Generate unique workouts

    75 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  43. Feds decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes phone networks

    75 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  44. M1 Macs may lag behind

    75 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  45. GDPR Enforcement Tracker – list of GDPR fines

    75 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  46. Show HN: Digital Superpowers, a free book highlighting various FOSS tools

    75 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  47. Howard Hughes modified a 1925 Doble steam car to reach 133 MPH (2022)

    75 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  48. I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol' Nginx

    75 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  49. Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable

    75 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  50. The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches

    75 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  51. Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled

    75 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  52. Emergence of stone-tool use behavior in a population of common macaques

    75 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  53. Let insects eat your plants

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  54. LLM agents can autonomously hack websites

    75 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  55. Proton, a fast and lightweight alternative to Apache Flink

    75 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  56. The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

    75 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  57. Why Scientists Are Calling for the Moon to Be Better Protected from Development

    75 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  58. Clickr, or a young man's Flickr clonejure

    75 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  59. Pivotal Mental States (2020)

    75 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  60. What was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?

    75 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  61. Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls

    75 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  62. Claude Team plan and iOS app

    75 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  63. Implement Tcl in Tcl (2007)

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  64. Optuna – A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework

    75 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  65. Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store

    75 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  66. Dataflow Analyses and Compiler Optimizations That Use Them, for Free

    75 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  67. Firefox Is Bringing in Tab Grouping Feature

    75 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  68. FBI Opens Criminal Investigation into Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    75 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  69. Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset

    75 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  70. On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)

    75 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  71. Project AZORIAN

    75 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  72. Show HN: Replay your typing in a few lines of JavaScript

    75 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  73. Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)

    75 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  74. Agile Is a Tainted Term

    74 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  75. Crunchy Bridge for Analytics: Your Data Lake in PostgreSQL

    74 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  76. Meta String: A more space-efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury

    74 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  77. The quietest places in the loudest cities

    74 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  78. Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java

    74 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  79. Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network

    74 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  80. Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting point, say historians

    74 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  81. First Framework Laptop 16 shipments and a $499 Framework Laptop

    74 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  82. Unison File Synchronizer

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  83. Code for the Byte Pair Encoding algorithm, commonly used in LLM tokenization

    74 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  84. Winteracter – The Fortran GUI Toolset

    74 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  85. 70 years ago, an H-bomb test went awry. We must never forget the fallout

    74 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  86. Ask HN: How can I get out of tech?

    74 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  87. Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications

    74 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  88. Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

    74 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  89. Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?

    74 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  90. Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions

    74 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  91. Don Bluth's Garage Band

    74 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  92. The driest place on Earth

    74 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  93. Finding and fixing standard misconceptions about program behavior

    74 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  94. Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]

    74 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  95. Did grave robbers plunder battlefields?

    74 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  96. Knockoff Iranian drone sold on Alibaba was meant for war, documents show

    74 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  97. C++ Exit-Time Destructors

    74 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  98. YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again

    74 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  99. Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  100. What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?

    74 points • comment • may 01, 2024