Hacker News recap for week 44/2024

From 28/10/2024 to 3/11/2024

Articles #

• M4 MacBook Pro 1875 comments in 4 discussions

• ChatGPT Search 1244 comments in 1 discussion

• New iMac with M4 2638 comments in 4 discussions

• Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction 1030 comments in 2 discussions

• Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI 1193 comments in 2 discussions

• Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back 2907 comments in 4 discussions

• Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid 944 comments in 2 discussions

• We're forking Flutter 868 comments in 3 discussions

• New Mac Mini with M4 3099 comments in 4 discussions

• GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic 695 comments in 2 discussions

• Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO 684 comments in 1 discussion

• Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 891 comments in 3 discussions

• Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak 632 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple acquires Pixelmator 1041 comments in 3 discussions

• Using an 8K TV as a Monitor 548 comments in 2 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) 409 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) 335 comments

• Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? 275 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN 79 comments

• Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt 10 comments

Releases #

• Watermill 1.4 Released (Event-Driven Go Library) 20 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers 165 comments in 1 discussion

• Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization 142 comments in 1 discussion

• Ink: React for interactive CLI apps 360 comments in 7 discussions

• Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell 92 comments in 1 discussion

• Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs 81 comments in 1 discussion

• A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript 98 comments in 2 discussions

• SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator 64 comments in 1 discussion

• ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone 61 comments in 1 discussion

• The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant 52 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video] 529 comments in 2 discussions

• It's a Palworld After All a Lawyer Explains Nintendo vs. Palworld [video] 22 comments in 1 discussion

• M-series MacBook SSD storage upgrade (non-official) [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Filter, Map, Reduce in 1.5 minutes [video] 12 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: I made a presentation video for my SaaS API. Here's what's looks like 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Strava Leaks: How bodyguards' data exposed Biden and Trump's locations [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion

• MrBeast did not pay for 1k eye surgeries 2 comments in 1 discussion