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Hacker News (May 2024)
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The Waning Reign of the Muskrat
132 points • 27 comments • may 07, 2024
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Emoji History: The Missing Years
132 points • 50 comments • may 12, 2024
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Tensor Puzzles
132 points • 10 comments • may 22, 2024
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Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
131 points • 236 comments • may 10, 2024
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I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett
131 points • 35 comments • may 04, 2024
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My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
131 points • 87 comments • may 24, 2024
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The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs
131 points • 10 comments • may 04, 2024
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Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
131 points • 11 comments • may 23, 2024
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You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill
131 points • 176 comments • may 30, 2024
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First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids
131 points • 59 comments • may 29, 2024
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Show NH: "data-to-paper" - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research
131 points • 48 comments • may 12, 2024
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Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware
131 points • 48 comments • may 31, 2024
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Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"
130 points • 87 comments • may 19, 2024
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Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months
130 points • 21 comments • may 02, 2024
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Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' [video]
130 points • 36 comments • may 01, 2024
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Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
130 points • 43 comments • may 15, 2024
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GTFL – A Graphical Terminal for Common Lisp
130 points • 21 comments • may 27, 2024
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Unix and Multics (2019)
129 points • 68 comments • may 10, 2024
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Debian 64-bit-time transition
129 points • 47 comments • may 05, 2024
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Smart Pointers in (GNU) C
129 points • 33 comments • may 16, 2024
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Arena-based parsers
129 points • 42 comments • may 06, 2024
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A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)
129 points • 82 comments • may 30, 2024
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A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe
129 points • 62 comments • may 29, 2024
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Using Postgres for Everything
129 points • 71 comments • may 20, 2024
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James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
129 points • 47 comments • may 30, 2024
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OpenBSD Desktop
128 points • 77 comments • may 10, 2024
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A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial
128 points • 19 comments • may 17, 2024
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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
128 points • 82 comments • may 26, 2024
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Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than ever
128 points • 36 comments • may 28, 2024
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A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
128 points • 31 comments • may 19, 2024
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A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima reactor
128 points • 109 comments • may 28, 2024
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'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms
128 points • 69 comments • may 30, 2024
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Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
128 points • 67 comments • may 29, 2024
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Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)
128 points • 62 comments • may 12, 2024
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Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?
127 points • 68 comments • may 13, 2024
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Becoming an Amateur Polyglot
127 points • 87 comments • may 12, 2024
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Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
127 points • 44 comments • may 25, 2024
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Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology
127 points • 72 comments • may 07, 2024
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Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior
127 points • 51 comments • may 29, 2024
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Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software
127 points • 25 comments • may 09, 2024
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The derivative of a number (2014)
127 points • 85 comments • may 11, 2024
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Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook
127 points • 51 comments • may 21, 2024
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Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]
126 points • 69 comments • may 31, 2024
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A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations
126 points • 31 comments • may 16, 2024
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YARA is dead, long live YARA-X
126 points • 21 comments • may 18, 2024
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Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons
126 points • 5 comments • may 03, 2024
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GCC 14.1
126 points • 33 comments • may 07, 2024
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British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed
126 points • 98 comments • may 27, 2024
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The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)
126 points • 125 comments • may 20, 2024
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Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware
126 points • 56 comments • may 30, 2024
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Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
126 points • 39 comments • may 06, 2024
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The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
125 points • 93 comments • may 18, 2024
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Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
125 points • 77 comments • may 07, 2024
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Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL
124 points • 24 comments • may 08, 2024
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Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat
124 points • 30 comments • may 28, 2024
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Timekeeping Before Clocks
124 points • 71 comments • may 13, 2024
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The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
124 points • 81 comments • may 16, 2024
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The Physics of Karate (2021)
124 points • 97 comments • may 03, 2024
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Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server
124 points • 80 comments • may 05, 2024
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Regular expression functions in Excel
123 points • 84 comments • may 21, 2024
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GRC SpinRite
123 points • 130 comments • may 26, 2024
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Morgan Spurlock has died
123 points • 192 comments • may 24, 2024
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EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design
123 points • 78 comments • may 16, 2024
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CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense
123 points • 36 comments • may 23, 2024
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Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
122 points • 160 comments • may 09, 2024
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Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)
122 points • 77 comments • may 17, 2024
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TheDesk desktop environment
122 points • 73 comments • may 05, 2024
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26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models
122 points • 18 comments • may 20, 2024
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Show HN: Visual debugger for Rails system tests
122 points • 11 comments • may 07, 2024
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Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
122 points • 20 comments • may 14, 2024
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Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
122 points • 123 comments • may 07, 2024
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Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting
121 points • 4 comments • may 01, 2024
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BASIC turns 60
121 points • 129 comments • may 01, 2024
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Low-latency scripting for game engines
120 points • 62 comments • may 26, 2024
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I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
120 points • 177 comments • may 18, 2024
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Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology
120 points • 73 comments • may 18, 2024
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS
120 points • 68 comments • may 24, 2024
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SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
120 points • 59 comments • may 05, 2024
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The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
120 points • 203 comments • may 07, 2024
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Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications
119 points • 23 comments • may 16, 2024
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History of the Italian electrical system
119 points • 48 comments • may 16, 2024
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Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
119 points • 90 comments • may 07, 2024
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Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha
119 points • 71 comments • may 14, 2024
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New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink
119 points • 33 comments • may 07, 2024
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Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago
119 points • 110 comments • may 23, 2024
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OpenProject – open-source project management software
119 points • 39 comments • may 18, 2024
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Unix version control lore: what, ident
119 points • 23 comments • may 13, 2024
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Using a LLM to compress text
119 points • 57 comments • may 03, 2024
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Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Suddenly
119 points • 39 comments • may 02, 2024
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Ointers: A library for representing pointers where bits have been stolen (2021)
119 points • 102 comments • may 08, 2024
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.NET for NES Game Console on 6502 Microprocessors
119 points • 22 comments • may 24, 2024
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Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free
118 points • 60 comments • may 23, 2024
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The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)
118 points • 75 comments • may 04, 2024
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Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East
118 points • 161 comments • may 14, 2024
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Fast Shadow Stacks for Go
118 points • 31 comments • may 29, 2024
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Johnson & Johnson announces $6.5B settlement over ovarian cancer allegations
118 points • 84 comments • may 02, 2024
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The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
118 points • 84 comments • may 10, 2024
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Pair Your Compilers at the ABI Café
118 points • 35 comments • may 06, 2024
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Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?
117 points • 65 comments • may 01, 2024
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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
117 points • 91 comments • may 25, 2024