top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-05

It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

2 months ago

703 upvotes – 576 comments

Jazz – Apps with Distributed State

https://jazz.tools/

2 months ago

500 upvotes – 174 comments

Linux from Scratch

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/index.html

2 months ago

466 upvotes – 159 comments

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/03/patent_shakedown_fails_as_troll/

2 months ago

451 upvotes – 58 comments

Whence '\n'?

https://rodarmor.com/blog/whence-newline/

2 months ago

338 upvotes – 128 comments

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/we-only-learnt-of-our-sons-secret-online-life-after-he-died-at-20-rj3bqfnqn

2 months ago

295 upvotes – 112 comments

The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data

https://datavizcatalogue.com/search.html

2 months ago

295 upvotes – 34 comments

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 572 comments

Fuzzing 101

https://github.com/antonio-morales/Fuzzing101

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 17 comments

Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git

https://otterwiki.com/

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic

https://github.com/cepa/aegir-gps-tracker

2 months ago

211 upvotes – 56 comments

I Stayed

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

2 months ago

210 upvotes – 169 comments

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)

https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 25 comments

Starbase: SQLite on the Edge

https://starbasedb.com/

2 months ago

169 upvotes – 47 comments

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 160 comments

What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/69788/what-is-the-history-of-the-use-of-foo-and-bar-in-source-code-examples

2 months ago

156 upvotes – 142 comments

Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

https://github.com/Losses/rune

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 79 comments

Sailfish Mobile OS

https://sailfishos.org/

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 144 comments

CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)

https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/corncrete-a-corn-starch-based-building-material

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 104 comments

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03209-4

2 months ago

147 upvotes – 51 comments
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