Hacker News recap for week 49/2024

From 2/12/2024 to 8/12/2024

Articles #

• ChatGPT Pro 1190 comments in 1 discussion

• Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round 1091 comments in 2 discussions

• My second year without a job 908 comments in 1 discussion

• Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger 738 comments in 2 discussions

• Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support 766 comments in 2 discussions

• South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it 908 comments in 6 discussions

• The correct amount of ads is zero 555 comments in 1 discussion

• TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court 1111 comments in 2 discussions

• My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback 493 comments in 3 discussions

• Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family 2918 comments in 5 discussions

• React 19 453 comments in 1 discussion

• ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’ 778 comments in 2 discussions

• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding 657 comments in 2 discussions

• Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model 408 comments in 1 discussion

• Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance 985 comments in 3 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) 421 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) 419 comments

• Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights? 111 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data 114 comments

• Tell HN: Alaska Airlines website exposes passenger data 41 comments

Releases #

• Boa JavaScript Engine v0.20 released

Projects #

• An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews 248 comments in 1 discussion

• Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner 181 comments in 1 discussion

• How to use Postgres for everything 148 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI 141 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself 126 comments in 1 discussion

• Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite 102 comments in 3 discussions

• macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium 103 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: A portable hash map in C 87 comments in 1 discussion

• KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python 90 comments in 3 discussions

• Black Hat Rust 67 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video] 63 comments in 1 discussion

• Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now? [video] 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Can we make a camera see behind walls? [video] 14 comments in 1 discussion

• The "Code of Conduct" Must Die [video] 11 comments in 1 discussion

• The First Geared CVT and It Will Blow Your Mind [video] 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Visualizing website carbon footprints using steam and robotics [video] 8 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a satellite ion thruster [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion