Story ranking for the past week

  1. Bop Spotter | 382
  2. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public | 369
  3. A $1k Wheelchair | 427
  4. Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT | 660
  5. Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017) | 382
  6. Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) | 360
  7. NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective | 489
  8. The Fastest Mutexes | 341
  9. Meta Movie Gen | 806
  10. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047 | 477
  11. Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer | 198
  12. California bans legacy admissions at private universities | 619
  13. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped | 191
  14. Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] | 598
  15. Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing | 104
  16. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth | 246
  17. Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation | 191
  18. Is the world really running out of sand? | 208
  19. Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene | 118
  20. Were RNNs all we needed? | 251
  21. Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store | 411
  22. Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub | 407
  23. Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency | 256
  24. MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia | 101
  25. How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) | 232
  26. COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it | 432
  27. Bots, so many bots | 426
  28. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx | 202
  29. Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first | 164
  30. Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022) | 338
  31. Some Go web dev notes | 149
  32. Do AI companies work? | 444
  33. Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code | 78
  34. SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS | 346
  35. Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) | 254
  36. Sitina1 Open-Source Camera | 160
  37. 12 Months of Mandarin | 213
  38. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound) | 254
  39. American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway | 298
  40. Map with public fruit trees | 153
  41. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) | 425
  42. Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? | 1034
  43. Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died | 28
  44. Math from Three to Seven | 205
  45. Terminal colours are tricky | 129
  46. FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control | 153
  47. YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup | 257
  48. Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring? | 120
  49. Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs | 199
  50. Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018) | 179
  51. BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH | 120
  52. The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t | 199
  53. A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018) | 75
  54. Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? | 370
  55. GnuCash 5.9 | 171
  56. Web components are okay | 354
  57. Serialization Is the Secret | 100
  58. Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan | 280
  59. AMD GPU Inference | 98
  60. The best browser bookmarking system is files | 157
  61. What excessive screen time does to the adult brain | 185
  62. A Bendy RISC-V Processor | 81
  63. Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative | 59
  64. Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer | 350
  65. Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts | 297
  66. How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video] | 110
  67. ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way | 60
  68. Kris Kristofferson has died | 57
  69. Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement | 164
  70. When To Do What You Love | 212
  71. Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer | 2
  72. Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020) | 183
  73. Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf] | 58
  74. Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator | 40
  75. Why TCP needs 3 handshakes | 79
  76. Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims | 322
  77. Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? | 197
  78. Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene | 71
  79. Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting | 60
  80. John Wheeler saw the tear in reality | 189
  81. OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B | 419
  82. FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia | 286
  83. Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales? | 91
  84. Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011) | 100
  85. FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs | 138
  86. Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods | 308
  87. Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes | 116
  88. AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO | 132
  89. Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording | 125
  90. MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone | 79
  91. New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data | 163
  92. Notion's mid-life crisis | 154
  93. Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane | 65
  94. OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog | 97
  95. Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake | 63
  96. Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast | 238
  97. Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones | 36
  98. A Local-First Case Study | 82
  99. The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia | 202
  100. The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve | 107