top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-18

A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/introducing-timecapsule

2 months ago

709 upvotes – 566 comments

Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

2 months ago

693 upvotes – 266 comments

GitHub Copilot is now available for free

https://github.com/features/copilot

2 months ago

553 upvotes – 384 comments

Updates to H-1B

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-strengthens-h-1b-program-allowing-us-employers-to-more-quickly-fill-critical-jobs

2 months ago

461 upvotes – 1353 comments

Java in the Small

https://horstmann.com/unblog/2024-12-11/index.html

2 months ago

409 upvotes – 331 comments

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd

2 months ago

380 upvotes – 467 comments

1-800-ChatGPT

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10193193-1-800-chatgpt-calling-and-messaging-chatgpt-with-your-phone

2 months ago

365 upvotes – 317 comments

How to lose a fortune with one bad click

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-to-lose-a-fortune-with-just-one-bad-click/

2 months ago

361 upvotes – 368 comments

Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript

https://github.com/boardgameio/boardgame.io

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 65 comments

Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

https://www.historylink.org/File/5136

2 months ago

330 upvotes – 305 comments

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627324008080%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

2 months ago

296 upvotes – 309 comments

Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 154 comments

Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/15/optimizing-ruby-json-part-1.html

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 62 comments

Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/12/oldest-evidence-of-christianity-north-of-the-alps/

2 months ago

270 upvotes – 290 comments

How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments

https://www.greptile.com/blog/make-llms-shut-up

2 months ago

256 upvotes – 169 comments

An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-artist-who-trained-rats-to-trade-in-foreign-exchange-markets/381456/

2 months ago

247 upvotes – 119 comments

Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10270

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 131 comments

Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/17/packets/

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 207 comments

Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

https://www.16elt.com/2024/09/25/first-book-of-byte-sized-tech/

2 months ago

235 upvotes – 135 comments

The XOR Texture (2004)

https://lodev.org/cgtutor/xortexture.html

2 months ago

227 upvotes – 49 comments
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