top 50% 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 years ago

768 upvotes – 372 comments

Terence Tao on O1

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

2 years ago

664 upvotes – 482 comments

Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]

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

2 years ago

601 upvotes – 118 comments

How America's universities became debt factories

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

2 years ago

492 upvotes – 544 comments

OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/

2 years ago

475 upvotes – 187 comments

Why Scrum is stressing you out

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

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 453 comments

Writing an OS in Rust

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

2 years 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 years 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 years 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 years ago

375 upvotes – 327 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 261 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

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

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 223 comments

The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

https://bofh.bjash.com/

2 years 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 years ago

222 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome

https://github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler/electrico

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly

https://github.com/satmihir/fair

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker

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

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 61 comments

MicroPython on Flipper Zero

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

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 118 comments

Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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

2 years 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 years ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments

Factor 0.100 Now Available

https://re.factorcode.org/2024/09/factor-0-100-now-available.html

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game

https://github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever/circuit-artist

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 14 comments

To forget is an ethical act

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/to-forget-is-an-ethical-act/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 50 comments

A overview of binaries, ELF, and NoMMU on Linux

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2024-January/029957.html

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 4 comments

They don't make readers like they used to

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/08/they-dont-make-readers-like-th.html

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 120 comments

Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis

https://valkey.io/blog/unlock-one-million-rps-part2/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

How Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux

https://swagnik.netlify.app/posts/how-raw-sockets-behave-in-different-systems/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Warewoolf: A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor

https://github.com/brsloan/warewoolf

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs

https://qz.com/almost-all-new-car-sales-in-norway-last-month-were-evs-1851639882

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 115 comments

Nesting Allocators (2023)

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/nesting-allocators/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/sports/cycling/bicycle-around-the-world-record.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

The Department of Everything – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-varieties-of-travel-experience/articles/the-department-of-everything

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop

https://giacomo.coletto.io/blog/arch-amd/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 133 comments

Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong

https://www.ft.com/content/f3bb0b62-2d8a-44e8-a5aa-13a8f154ec0e

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 100 comments

iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/14/iphone-16-pro-m1/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 119 comments

Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test

https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 105 comments

OpenAI's $150B valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openais-stunning-150-billion-valuation-hinges-upending-corporate-structure-2024-09-14/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 134 comments

Testing the Firefox Alternatives

https://tommorris.org/posts/2024/testing-the-firefox-alternatives/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Billiards is a good game (1975)

https://mag.uchicago.edu/billiards

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online

https://www.the42.life/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments
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