Hacker News recap for week 48/2024

From 25/11/2024 to 1/12/2024

Articles #

• If not React, then what? 761 comments in 2 discussions

• Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices 680 comments

• Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers 548 comments in 1 discussion

• California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones 525 comments in 1 discussion

• Advent of Code 2024 519 comments in 1 discussion

• Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) 2367 comments in 8 discussions

• What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch 497 comments in 1 discussion

• Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws 2296 comments in 5 discussions

• Cybertruck's Many Recalls 603 comments in 2 discussions

• Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad 422 comments in 1 discussion

• I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either 495 comments in 3 discussions

• QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM 409 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone 376 comments in 1 discussion

• Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI 359 comments in 1 discussion

• Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) 334 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases? 358 comments

• Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? 287 comments

• Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year? 144 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan 28 comments

• Tell HN: Twitter/X is blocking all tinyurl links 7 comments

Projects #

• Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 517 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning 192 comments in 2 discussions

• Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs 335 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) 159 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go 143 comments in 4 discussions

• Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics 101 comments in 4 discussions

• Nodezator is a generalist Python node editor 78 comments in 1 discussion

• Bananas: Cross-Platform screen sharing made simple 71 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll 67 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub 53 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video] 43 comments in 1 discussion

• Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? [YouTube] [video] 18 comments in 2 discussions

• Debanking of tech startup founders – Marc Andreessen interview 8 comments in 1 discussion

• The Timeless Way of Software [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Eiffel: An Overview 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Make AI Mediocre Again [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• E-SIM SIM-Swapping Attack 4 comments in 1 discussion