Hacker News recap for week 43/2024

From 21/10/2024 to 27/10/2024

Articles #

• Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris 3940 comments in 3 discussions

• Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku 723 comments in 1 discussion

• Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license 1053 comments in 4 discussions

• Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court 500 comments in 2 discussions

• A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote 428 comments in 1 discussion

• Rider is now free for non-commercial use 546 comments in 4 discussions

• How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me 418 comments in 2 discussions

• Crossing the USA by Train 404 comments in 1 discussion

• First images from Euclid are in 392 comments in 1 discussion

• Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 431 comments in 3 discussions

• Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US 357 comments in 1 discussion

• Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022) 353 comments in 1 discussion

• A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance 340 comments in 2 discussions

• FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 437 comments in 2 discussions

• All political ads running on Google in the US 327 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) 1024 comments

• Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots 199 comments

• Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work? 100 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number 37 comments

• Tell HN: Switched from Lightsail to Hetzner Cloud, 2 blogs for $4 a month 13 comments

Releases #

• Ruby on Rails 8.0.0.rc1 Released

Projects #

• Show HN: Rust Web Framework 255 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine 232 comments in 1 discussion

• Pretty.c 244 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices 172 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game 186 comments in 2 discussions

• You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web 138 comments in 1 discussion

• Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir 89 comments in 1 discussion

• Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox 97 comments in 3 discussions

• Vimium – The Hacker's Browser 85 comments in 2 discussions

• Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations

Videos #

• How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? (2021) [video] 80 comments in 1 discussion

• The Incredible Machine (1968) [video] 36 comments in 1 discussion

• David Lynch Interview Project 20 comments in 1 discussion

• I built a 20k watt microwave oven [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion

• YouTube: The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 [video] 25 comments in 2 discussions

• New largest prime number found See all 41,024,320 digits [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Gren: A Language for Modern Software Development [video] 30 comments in 2 discussions