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Hacker News (2024)

The power of two random choices
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2024
FTC challenges 'junk' patents held by 10 drugmakers, incl Novo Nordisk's Ozempic
135 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
135 points • comment • jun 17, 2024
Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
135 points • comment • jul 14, 2024
NVK is now ready for prime time
135 points • comment • feb 29, 2024
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
A reasonable configuration language
135 points • comment • feb 04, 2024
Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool
135 points • comment • aug 24, 2024
Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager
135 points • comment • jul 17, 2024
The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
135 points • comment • may 10, 2024
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf]
135 points • comment • feb 02, 2024
Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
135 points • comment • mar 10, 2024
Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl
135 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
What is the point of an online conference?
135 points • comment • nov 01, 2024
Quark Stars
135 points • comment • aug 02, 2024
Dracula Theme for Hacker News
135 points • comment • jan 30, 2024
The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained
135 points • comment • sep 12, 2024
I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]
135 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
135 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
Back to our roots
135 points • comment • jul 28, 2024
Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
135 points • comment • jul 02, 2024
PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers
135 points • comment • dec 27, 2024
What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?
135 points • comment • dec 23, 2024
Rewriting Rust: A Response
135 points • comment • sep 27, 2024
TCP connection timeout mystery
135 points • comment • mar 24, 2024
John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
135 points • comment • jan 13, 2024
PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
135 points • comment • feb 22, 2024
Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JavaScript
135 points • comment • aug 30, 2024
How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
135 points • comment • nov 08, 2024
C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2024
Verified curl
135 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
Nurdle Patrol
135 points • comment • oct 11, 2024
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
135 points • comment • dec 05, 2024
Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion
135 points • comment • dec 21, 2024
MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
135 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor whose steel creations awed viewers, has died
135 points • comment • mar 27, 2024
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
135 points • comment • feb 26, 2024
Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
135 points • comment • mar 13, 2024
Trilobites killed by volcanic ash
135 points • comment • jun 29, 2024
Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
135 points • comment • jan 24, 2024
A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect
135 points • comment • sep 30, 2024
I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2024
AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack
135 points • comment • dec 10, 2024
How to send progress updates
135 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership
135 points • comment • oct 04, 2024
Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2024
How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
135 points • comment • oct 23, 2024
Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
134 points • comment • aug 14, 2024
Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
134 points • comment • jan 23, 2024
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
134 points • comment • feb 14, 2024
OpenBSD Desktop
134 points • comment • may 10, 2024
Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
134 points • comment • jan 22, 2024
What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)
134 points • comment • may 22, 2024
Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
134 points • comment • may 10, 2024
The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs
134 points • comment • may 04, 2024
Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?
134 points • comment • sep 07, 2024
lldap: Light LDAP Implementation
134 points • comment • jul 12, 2024
More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland
134 points • comment • aug 08, 2024
The Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac (2019)
134 points • comment • jun 01, 2024
The ‘contain’ CSS property
134 points • comment • nov 17, 2024
Firefox 127
134 points • comment • jun 11, 2024
Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding
134 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
SIMD < SIMT < SMT: Parallelism in Nvidia GPUs (2011)
134 points • comment • jun 10, 2024
Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
134 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
134 points • comment • mar 22, 2024
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
134 points • comment • jan 18, 2024
A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)
134 points • comment • may 30, 2024
B+ Tree Visualization
134 points • comment • dec 07, 2024
The Programmer's Brain (2021)
134 points • comment • jun 17, 2024
Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
134 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
134 points • comment • oct 01, 2024
Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?
134 points • comment • jul 22, 2024
Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
134 points • comment • jun 03, 2024
WordPress CEO quits community Slack after court injunction
134 points • comment • dec 11, 2024
How to prolong lithium based batteries
134 points • comment • jun 21, 2024
GitHub having issues today
134 points • comment • jan 09, 2024
Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)
134 points • comment • nov 19, 2024
LCD displays still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens (2019)
134 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
A review on protein language models
134 points • comment • may 14, 2024
Sljit: Platform independent low-level JIT compiler
134 points • comment • jul 09, 2024
Elephants use namelike calls
134 points • comment • jul 18, 2024
Binary vector search is better than FP32 vectors
134 points • comment • mar 26, 2024
F3 – Fight Flash Fraud
134 points • comment • sep 09, 2024
Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data
134 points • comment • dec 06, 2024
Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
134 points • comment • jan 31, 2024
Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
134 points • comment • nov 22, 2024
Build and train GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch
134 points • comment • jul 06, 2024
My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
134 points • comment • aug 23, 2024
How the SNES Graphics System Works
134 points • comment • aug 10, 2024
Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
134 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere
134 points • comment • nov 22, 2024
Code Models
134 points • comment • jun 18, 2024
The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock
134 points • comment • mar 07, 2024
Why use strace in 2023? [video]
134 points • comment • jan 08, 2024
A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
134 points • comment • sep 17, 2024
Origins of J
134 points • comment • jan 04, 2024