Hacker News recap for week 47/2024

From 18/11/2024 to 24/11/2024

Articles #

• DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome 2077 comments in 5 discussions

• Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted 1126 comments in 3 discussions

• ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials 1226 comments in 3 discussions

• Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science 993 comments in 1 discussion

• Starlink Direct to Cell 748 comments in 1 discussion

• Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke 736 comments in 2 discussions

• The size of BYD's factory 552 comments in 1 discussion

• How good are American roads? 479 comments in 1 discussion

• The two factions of C++ 763 comments in 4 discussions

• OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now 530 comments in 2 discussions

• Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT 445 comments in 1 discussion

• Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells 442 comments in 1 discussion

• The 'Return to Office' Lies 438 comments in 1 discussion

• Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest 422 comments in 1 discussion

• SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing 413 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts 126 comments

• Ask HN: To those with successful browser extension(s), how did you grow it? 47 comments

• Ask HN: What are the nice feature you need in a programming language? 39 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Using Anthropic is risky. They just banned our company without warning 17 comments

• Tell HN: Amazon Pharmacy 37% Cheaper Than CVS's Insured Price 5 comments

Releases #

• Forthcoming C++ 26 'most impactful release since C++11'

• JEP 404: Generational Shenandoah GC (Experimental) targeted to Java 24 release

Projects #

• Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use 120 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank 122 comments in 2 discussions

• Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) 590 comments in 10 discussions

• RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library 108 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders 97 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP 86 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data 55 comments in 1 discussion

• Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool 143 comments in 10 discussions

• Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech 59 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video] 60 comments in 1 discussion

• Microsoft employees are doubtful of AI's capabilities and company's AI bet 27 comments in 1 discussion

• No More Storage Limits: M.2 Adapter for Apple's M1 MacBooks [video] 34 comments in 2 discussions

• M4 Mac Mini Cluster [video] 40 comments in 2 discussions

• This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video] 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Creating Your Own Programming Language – Laurence Tratt [video] 13 comments in 2 discussions

• CNBC Live: Pentagon's UFO Report Finds 21 Cases That Can't Be Explained [video] 5 comments in 2 discussions