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Hacker News (2024)

Poetry was an official Olympic event
136 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
Lord Kelvin and his analog computer
136 points • comment • jun 02, 2024
Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021)
136 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
C++ Safety, in Context
136 points • comment • mar 12, 2024
Boy photographer seeks danger as others flee (1968)
136 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture
136 points • comment • jun 04, 2024
JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons
136 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
136 points • comment • may 17, 2024
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
136 points • comment • jan 27, 2024
Self-driving as a case study for AGI
136 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'
136 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
What Is WebTV?
136 points • comment • mar 03, 2024
A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)
136 points • comment • jun 24, 2024
Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day
136 points • comment • nov 11, 2024
ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
136 points • comment • oct 07, 2024
No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
136 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
Ad: An Adaptable Text Editor
136 points • comment • dec 18, 2024
The Slang Shading Language
136 points • comment • nov 26, 2024
A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust
136 points • comment • jan 15, 2024
Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory
136 points • comment • nov 01, 2024
An FPGA built with 7400 series logic [video]
136 points • comment • aug 03, 2024
Taking a Radio Camping
136 points • comment • jul 27, 2024
Autism's Four Core Subtypes
136 points • comment • oct 19, 2024
30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
136 points • comment • jan 04, 2024
Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?
136 points • comment • dec 20, 2024
Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown
136 points • comment • oct 03, 2024
NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing
136 points • comment • jul 16, 2024
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
136 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild
136 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
136 points • comment • jan 11, 2024
How does the sky turn dark at night?
136 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
136 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
136 points • comment • aug 21, 2024
Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?
136 points • comment • may 13, 2024
Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
136 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
Gleam: A Basic Introduction
136 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations
136 points • comment • may 16, 2024
Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming
136 points • comment • aug 07, 2024
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
136 points • comment • nov 24, 2024
Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
136 points • comment • jul 23, 2024
A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away
136 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Building the new hypermedia systems
136 points • comment • jul 19, 2024
Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
136 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
136 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket
136 points • comment • aug 04, 2024
Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak
136 points • comment • jun 22, 2024
AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception
136 points • comment • sep 01, 2024
Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible
136 points • comment • jun 01, 2024
OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks
136 points • comment • dec 01, 2024
Understanding Google's File System (2020)
136 points • comment • mar 19, 2024
Scientists put Jared Diamond's continental axis hypothesis to the test
136 points • comment • mar 04, 2024
HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade
136 points • comment • jun 06, 2024
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
136 points • comment • may 25, 2024
Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
136 points • comment • jan 29, 2024
Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
136 points • comment • jun 11, 2024
Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
136 points • comment • aug 24, 2024
Linux kernel 6.12 has been released
136 points • comment • nov 18, 2024
A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript
136 points • comment • oct 31, 2024
WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free
136 points • comment • aug 06, 2024
Is Tableau Dead?
136 points • comment • feb 27, 2024
Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry
136 points • comment • aug 18, 2024
Cindy Lee might be the future of music
136 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster
136 points • comment • mar 16, 2024
Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died
136 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)
136 points • comment • oct 26, 2024
DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation)
136 points • comment • jul 29, 2024
Revisiting the NetBSD Build System
136 points • comment • dec 28, 2024
A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
136 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
136 points • comment • oct 17, 2024
How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky
136 points • comment • sep 11, 2024
Show HN: rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler
136 points • comment • nov 05, 2024
Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it
136 points • comment • nov 15, 2024
Nixie Tubes (2015)
136 points • comment • nov 10, 2024
Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
135 points • comment • jul 14, 2024
Back to our roots
135 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]
135 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
135 points • comment • dec 05, 2024
PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers
135 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
135 points • comment • oct 27, 2024
Trilobites killed by volcanic ash
135 points • comment • jun 29, 2024
Real-Time Settlers of Catan
135 points • comment • jun 10, 2024
New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products
135 points • comment • feb 08, 2024
Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion
135 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect
135 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services
135 points • comment • may 30, 2024
Rewriting Rust: A Response
135 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?
135 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
135 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
How to send progress updates
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Grace Version Control System
135 points • comment • may 06, 2024
Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be rarest whale
135 points • comment • jul 15, 2024
Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
135 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
EmacsConf 2024
135 points • comment • dec 04, 2024
LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
135 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
135 points • comment • jul 02, 2024