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Hacker News (May 2024)
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  Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
  
  221 points • 96 comments • may 10, 2024 
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  Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
  
  220 points • 98 comments • may 30, 2024 
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  The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City
  
  220 points • 154 comments • may 28, 2024 
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  Falcon 2
  
  220 points • 105 comments • may 13, 2024 
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  Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing
  
  220 points • 74 comments • may 13, 2024 
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  Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf]
  
  220 points • 40 comments • may 28, 2024 
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  F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language
  
  220 points • 82 comments • may 16, 2024 
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  Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
  
  218 points • 87 comments • may 04, 2024 
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  Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
  
  218 points • 125 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  Context caching guide
  
  217 points • 39 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens
  
  217 points • 78 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups
  
  216 points • 143 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  Bento3D
  
  216 points • 68 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
  
  216 points • 315 comments • may 25, 2024 
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  Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More
  
  216 points • 144 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Show HN: Slipshow – A presentation tool not based on slides
  
  215 points • 38 comments • may 29, 2024 
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  Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)
  
  215 points • 67 comments • may 16, 2024 
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  Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
  
  215 points • 71 comments • may 17, 2024 
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  Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)
  
  215 points • 179 comments • may 17, 2024 
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  DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories
  
  215 points • 93 comments • may 13, 2024 
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  You can force employees back to the office, but not the good ones
  
  214 points • 192 comments • may 29, 2024 
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  Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
  
  214 points • 165 comments • may 03, 2024 
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  ESP32 Drum Synth Machine
  
  213 points • 35 comments • may 09, 2024 
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  Psion 5mx Emulator
  
  213 points • 79 comments • may 22, 2024 
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  Time-Based CSS Animations
  
  213 points • 36 comments • may 05, 2024 
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  Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
  
  212 points • 110 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  The OpenAI board was right – No (by a voice actres named Scarlet) means No
  
  212 points • 209 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic
  
  212 points • 38 comments • may 14, 2024 
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  CSS Text Box Trim
  
  212 points • 48 comments • may 03, 2024 
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  Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
  
  211 points • 290 comments • may 12, 2024 
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  A Slower Speed of Light (2012)
  
  211 points • 56 comments • may 12, 2024 
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  Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
  
  210 points • 80 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Libyear
  
  210 points • 85 comments • may 09, 2024 
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  AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training
  
  209 points • 122 comments • may 19, 2024 
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  Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
  
  209 points • 420 comments • may 18, 2024 
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  Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images
  
  209 points • 44 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal
  
  208 points • 63 comments • may 28, 2024 
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  How a 64k intro is made (2017)
  
  208 points • 38 comments • may 20, 2024 
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  LO – simple WASM native language
  
  208 points • 61 comments • may 26, 2024 
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  Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
  
  208 points • 74 comments • may 30, 2024 
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  StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation
  
  207 points • 56 comments • may 01, 2024 
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  Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
  
  207 points • 177 comments • may 07, 2024 
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  PiFex: JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi
  
  207 points • 41 comments • may 06, 2024 
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  Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
  
  207 points • 48 comments • may 07, 2024 
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  German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms
  
  206 points • 80 comments • may 06, 2024 
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  Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
  
  206 points • 132 comments • may 31, 2024 
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  Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers
  
  206 points • 87 comments • may 23, 2024 
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  C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)
  
  205 points • 125 comments • may 19, 2024 
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  World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients
  
  205 points • 60 comments • may 06, 2024 
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  How Might We Learn?
  
  204 points • 67 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
  
  204 points • 98 comments • may 12, 2024 
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  How I think about debt
  
  204 points • 387 comments • may 06, 2024 
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  Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
  
  204 points • 40 comments • may 29, 2024 
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  What's New in Neovim 0.10
  
  204 points • 73 comments • may 16, 2024 
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  A Pattern Language
  
  203 points • 35 comments • may 13, 2024 
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  Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma
  
  203 points • 185 comments • may 27, 2024 
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  So We've Got a Memory Leak
  
  202 points • 138 comments • may 10, 2024 
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  Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub
  
  202 points • 63 comments • may 07, 2024 
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  Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI
  
  202 points • 271 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
  
  202 points • 281 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries
  
  202 points • 140 comments • may 06, 2024 
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  One Minute Park
  
  201 points • 23 comments • may 10, 2024 
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  Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
  
  201 points • 134 comments • may 08, 2024 
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  &udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search
  
  201 points • 28 comments • may 23, 2024 
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  I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
  
  201 points • 112 comments • may 05, 2024 
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  Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
  
  200 points • 106 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos
  
  200 points • 64 comments • may 31, 2024 
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  Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
  
  200 points • 148 comments • may 28, 2024 
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  A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption
  
  200 points • 41 comments • may 05, 2024 
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  Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
  
  200 points • 104 comments • may 10, 2024 
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  Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
  
  199 points • 457 comments • may 19, 2024 
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  Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering
  
  199 points • 42 comments • may 24, 2024 
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  A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history
  
  199 points • 228 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  Bluesky adds direct messages
  
  198 points • 168 comments • may 22, 2024 
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  Why you can hear the temperature of water
  
  198 points • 141 comments • may 10, 2024 
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  Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
  
  198 points • 127 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)
  
  198 points • 151 comments • may 11, 2024 
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  Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs
  
  197 points • 12 comments • may 22, 2024 
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  25 Years of Krita
  
  197 points • 79 comments • may 31, 2024 
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  Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
  
  197 points • 64 comments • may 02, 2024 
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  What We're Working on in Firefox
  
  197 points • 176 comments • may 30, 2024 
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  Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML
  
  196 points • 145 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
  
  196 points • 70 comments • may 29, 2024 
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  Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident
  
  196 points • 145 comments • may 19, 2024 
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  Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
  
  195 points • 216 comments • may 31, 2024 
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  Linux When?
  
  195 points • 124 comments • may 07, 2024 
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  Fast real time fluid simulator based on MPM algorithm
  
  194 points • 45 comments • may 21, 2024 
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  Interview with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack Enigma (1974) [video]
  
  194 points • 53 comments • may 03, 2024 
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  Making a Postgres query 1k times faster
  
  193 points • 54 comments • may 15, 2024 
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  Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site
  
  193 points • 112 comments • may 19, 2024 
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  Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
  
  193 points • 63 comments • may 18, 2024 
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  How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)
  
  193 points • 59 comments • may 30, 2024 
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  Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
  
  193 points • 188 comments • may 05, 2024 
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  Trial results for new lung cancer drug are 'off the charts'
  
  192 points • 46 comments • may 31, 2024 
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  Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
  
  192 points • 193 comments • may 28, 2024 
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  Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust
  
  192 points • 55 comments • may 01, 2024 
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  llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3
  
  192 points • 55 comments • may 26, 2024 
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  Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)
  
  192 points • 50 comments • may 07, 2024 
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  Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
  
  192 points • 163 comments • may 05, 2024 
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  Taking Risk
  
  191 points • 275 comments • may 21, 2024