Hacker News recap for week 46/2024

From 11/11/2024 to 17/11/2024

Articles #

• The Onion buys Infowars 1250 comments in 4 discussions

• Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson 913 comments in 1 discussion

• The withering dream of a cheap American electric car 608 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI 790 comments in 3 discussions

• M4 Mac mini's efficiency 690 comments in 2 discussions

• Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs 528 comments in 1 discussion

• Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates 504 comments in 2 discussions

• The EdTech Revolution Has Failed 478 comments in 1 discussion

• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess 487 comments in 2 discussions

• Please stop the coding challenges 470 comments in 1 discussion

• How I ship projects at big tech companies 383 comments in 2 discussions

• Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe 485 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties 360 comments in 1 discussion

• Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles 343 comments in 1 discussion

• The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development 320 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? 99 comments

• Ask HN: What open source projects need help? 92 comments

• Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown? 90 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: I'm Giving Up on the News 3 comments

• Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently 2 comments

Releases #

• PHPStan 2.0 Released for Leading PHP Static Analyzer

Projects #

• I Don't Have Spotify 367 comments in 1 discussion

• Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side 199 comments in 1 discussion

• Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux 348 comments in 12 discussions

• Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB 113 comments in 1 discussion

• Watermark Anything 107 comments in 1 discussion

• 80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC 102 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine 95 comments in 1 discussion

• Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs 94 comments in 1 discussion

• JSON for Classic C++ 150 comments in 2 discussions

• Go-Safeweb 89 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] 39 comments in 2 discussions

• Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video] 31 comments in 1 discussion

• One of the largest Godot projects is transitioning off of Godot 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Replacing my $8000 Mac Pro with a $1400 Mac mini [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Why YouTube Sponsors Are Almost Always Terrible 8 comments in 1 discussion

• LICENSE.TXT [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary [video] 17 comments in 2 discussions