Hacker News recap for week 44/2024

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

Articles #

• M4 MacBook Pro 1900 comments in 4 discussions

• ChatGPT Search 1252 comments in 1 discussion

• New iMac with M4 2651 comments in 4 discussions

• Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction 1060 comments in 2 discussions

• Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI 1214 comments in 2 discussions

• Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back 2989 comments in 4 discussions

• Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid 969 comments in 2 discussions

• New Mac Mini with M4 3167 comments in 4 discussions

• We're forking Flutter 877 comments in 3 discussions

• GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic 704 comments in 2 discussions

• Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO 685 comments in 1 discussion

• Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak 643 comments in 1 discussion

• Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 899 comments in 3 discussions

• Apple acquires Pixelmator 1060 comments in 3 discussions

• Using an 8K TV as a Monitor 550 comments in 2 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) 498 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) 391 comments

• Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? 310 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN 83 comments

• Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt 19 comments

Releases #

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

Projects #

• Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers 173 comments in 1 discussion

• Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization 163 comments in 1 discussion

• Ink: React for interactive CLI apps 361 comments in 7 discussions

• Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell 96 comments in 1 discussion

• Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs 83 comments in 1 discussion

• A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript 102 comments in 2 discussions

• SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS 66 comments in 1 discussion

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

• ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone 63 comments in 1 discussion

• ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands 56 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video] 533 comments in 2 discussions

• It's a Palworld After All a Lawyer Explains Nintendo vs. Palworld [video] 25 comments in 1 discussion

• M-series MacBook SSD storage upgrade (non-official) [video] 39 comments in 2 discussions

• Making Pop Rocks from scratch (is complicated) [video] 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Filter, Map, Reduce in 1.5 minutes [video] 16 comments in 2 discussions

• Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video] 7 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: I made a presentation video for my SaaS API. Here's what's looks like 4 comments in 1 discussion