top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-10-02

The Fastest Mutexes

https://justine.lol/mutex/

2 months ago

896 upvotes – 345 comments

Noise

https://noise.jake.fun/

2 months ago

632 upvotes – 85 comments

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/02/an-adult-fruit-fly-brain-has-been-mapped-human-brains-could-follow

2 months ago

594 upvotes – 195 comments

I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tik/id6720712299

2 months ago

381 upvotes – 259 comments

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/travel/wwii-bomb-miyazaki-airport-japan-scli-intl/index.html

2 months ago

377 upvotes – 299 comments

AMD GPU Inference

https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference

2 months ago

270 upvotes – 99 comments

OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 425 comments

The bunkbed conjecture is false

https://igorpak.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/the-bunkbed-conjecture-is-false/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 71 comments

In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/divers-in-mexicos-underwater-caves-get-a-glimpse-of-rarely-seen-artifacts-fossils-and-human-remains-180985159/

2 months ago

184 upvotes – 53 comments

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

https://sidhion.com/blog/posts/nixos_server_issues/

2 months ago

182 upvotes – 168 comments
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