top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-19

Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file

https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

2 years ago

610 upvotes – 179 comments

Ghost artists on Spotify

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

2 years ago

586 upvotes – 383 comments

Clay – UI Layout Library

https://www.nicbarker.com/clay

2 years ago

460 upvotes – 87 comments

Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-workers-strike-multiple-us-warehouses-during-busy-holiday-season-2024-12-19/

2 years ago

423 upvotes – 529 comments

Kelly Can't Fail

https://win-vector.com/2024/12/19/kelly-cant-fail/

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 120 comments

A Replacement for BERT

https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 75 comments

Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

https://www.ft.com/content/5122706e-39ca-4bbc-95cc-373188a9b1c9

2 years ago

327 upvotes – 150 comments

Alignment faking in large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 353 comments

Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential

https://research.google/blog/satellite-powered-estimation-of-global-solar-potential/

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 204 comments

Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics

https://genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering

https://mizu.sh

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 86 comments

Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360

https://github.com/kooscode/srgh-matrix-trinity/blob/main/README.md

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 98 comments

Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales

https://roelsworld.eu/blog-music/music-geometry-intervals-scales/

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 60 comments

Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/garyexplains/piccolo_os_v1

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 51 comments

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect

https://rakhim.exotext.com/web-developers-a-growing-disconnect

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 200 comments

Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client

https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 37 comments

Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019)

https://github.com/shapr/markovkeyboard

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 105 comments

In praise of the hundred page idea

https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/17/in-praise-of-the-hundred-page-idea/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Postgres as a VectorDB GUI

https://github.com/Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 23 comments

How types make hard problems easy

https://mayhul.com/posts/type-driven-design/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 167 comments

Half My Life with Perl

https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-19.html

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 131 comments

Exposing the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht Im Internet (CUII)

https://damcraft.de/blog/exposing-the-cuii

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 30 comments

Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect

https://carsonogenic.substack.com/p/polyamory-doesnt-liberate-monogamy

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 270 comments

Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature

https://www.universetoday.com/169993/advanced-civilizations-could-be-indistinguishable-from-nature/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: WebGPU Tech Demo

https://gnikoloff.github.io/webgpu-sponza-demo/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 79 comments

Error Stacking in Rust

https://greptime.com/blogs/2024-05-07-error-rust

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 102 comments

There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)

https://www.benrady.com/2012/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-software-productivity.html

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 135 comments

Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5DehAuT2I

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 55 comments

Exploiting McDonald's APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny

https://eaton-works.com/2024/12/19/mcdelivery-india-hack/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

A Knife Forged in Fire

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2024/a-knife-forged-in-fire/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 117 comments

Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends

https://github.com/retis-org/retis

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

Revisiting Stereotype Threat

https://www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/revisiting-stereotype-threat

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 110 comments

How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/19/humphreys-world-how-the-samuel-smith-beer-baron-built-britains-strangest-pub-chain

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++

https://github.com/randombit/botan

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70633-x

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

Silk – Interactive Generative Art (2011)

http://weavesilk.com/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License

https://www.scylladb.com/2024/12/18/why-were-moving-to-a-source-available-license/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

DVST Graphic Terminals

https://vintagetek.org/dvst-graphic-terminals/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction

https://github.com/LoSinCos/movie-iris

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Reimagining mathematics in a world of reasoning machines [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYCT7cw0ycw

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Elixir 1.18 Released

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/12/19/elixir-v1-18-0-released/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

My vote on voting systems

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/voting

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/realpage-rent-landlords-white-house

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 66 comments

Critics, not fans, perpetuate the failed second album myth, study shows

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-critics-fans-perpetuate-album-myth.html

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 79 comments

Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children (2023)

https://taylor.town/santa-prefers

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Aegisub 3.4 – Open-Source Subtitle Editor

https://aegisub.org/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Fish shell announces 4.0 release

https://lwn.net/Articles/1002820/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Mozilla: Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/google-remedies-browsers/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 92 comments

I Built a Figma Plugin That Generates Custom SVG Illustrations with AI

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1440141868641854458/vector-image-ai

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty

https://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/68864b6f-0ab8-41ef-be18-069c33df6336

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple Says Meta Is Making Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under EU's DMA

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/18/apple-meta-interoperability-requests-dma/

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 61 comments

The case for clinical trial abundance

https://ifp.org/the-case-for-clinical-trial-abundance/

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/american-healthcare-spending-charts-explained-adaa0e23

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 153 comments

Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan

https://noyb.eu/en/want-book-ryanair-flight-prepare-face-scan

2 years ago

50 upvotes – 88 comments

The Ghosts in the Machine – Spotify's plot against musicians

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

2 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Implementing Raft: Part 0 – Introduction (2020)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/implementing-raft-part-0-introduction/

2 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Yadm: Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

https://github.com/yadm-dev/yadm

2 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments
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