top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-09-14

Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125

2 months ago

768 upvotes – 372 comments

Terence Tao on O1

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408

2 months ago

664 upvotes – 483 comments

Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Ny3j5nH0U

2 months ago

600 upvotes – 117 comments

How America's universities became debt factories

https://anandsanwal.me/college-student-debt-deception/

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 544 comments

OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/

2 months ago

475 upvotes – 187 comments

Why Scrum is stressing you out

https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stressing-you-out

2 months ago

445 upvotes – 453 comments

Writing an OS in Rust

https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os

2 months ago

420 upvotes – 40 comments

One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

https://www.science.org/content/article/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel

2 months ago

407 upvotes – 255 comments

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/14/founder-mode-hackers-and-being-bored-by-tech/

2 months ago

385 upvotes – 222 comments

Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543666

2 months ago

375 upvotes – 326 comments

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 261 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

https://lwn.net/Articles/990281/

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 223 comments

The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

https://bofh.bjash.com/

2 months ago

274 upvotes – 87 comments

The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

2 months ago

222 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome

https://github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler/electrico

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly

https://github.com/satmihir/fair

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker

https://10maurycy10.github.io/projects/speaker/

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 61 comments

MicroPython on Flipper Zero

https://lab.flipper.net/apps/upython

2 months ago

174 upvotes – 118 comments

Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=14900

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 106 comments

The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/the-rise-of-open-source-time-series-databases/index.html

2 months ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments
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