Hacker News recap for week 45/2024

From 4/11/2024 to 10/11/2024

Articles #

• Trump wins presidency for second time 10699 comments in 3 discussions

• New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike 1417 comments in 2 discussions

• Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 728 comments in 3 discussions

• FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant 499 comments in 1 discussion

• Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada 894 comments in 5 discussions

• Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one 444 comments in 1 discussion

• Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now 613 comments in 2 discussions

• Starship's Sixth Flight Test 677 comments in 3 discussions

• Mitochondria Are Alive 388 comments in 1 discussion

• A change of heart regarding employee metrics 387 comments in 1 discussion

• Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill 1490 comments in 3 discussions

• QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image 340 comments in 1 discussion

• We're Leaving Kubernetes 437 comments in 4 discussions

• Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe 330 comments in 2 discussions

• Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions 303 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000) 547 comments

• Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented? 178 comments

• Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network? 111 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram 21 comments

• Tell HN: I have a new google.com tab labeled "Forums" – Is everyone seeing this? 11 comments

Projects #

• Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue 163 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics 124 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler 108 comments in 2 discussions

• Tencent Hunyuan-Large 98 comments in 1 discussion

• Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output 218 comments in 12 discussions

• Show HN: I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM 70 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang 68 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust 54 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI 47 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Chonkie – A Fast, Lightweight Text Chunking Library for RAG 34 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Why 4D geometry makes me sad [video] 43 comments in 1 discussion

• Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) [video] 40 comments in 1 discussion

• Political bias can subvert your rational thinking [video] 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Ryan Dahl introduces Deno 2 [video] 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple Mac Mini has removable upgradeable storage [video] 85 comments in 2 discussions

• How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion

• I'm Accepting There Is No Avoiding the Collapse of Civilization [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion