Hacker News recap for week 6/2024

From 5/2/2024 to 11/2/2024

Articles #

• Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced 1323 comments in 2 discussions

• Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps 1400 comments in 6 discussions

• Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say 725 comments in 2 discussions

• Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy 897 comments in 4 discussions

• FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal 674 comments in 1 discussion

• A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald 514 comments in 1 discussion

• Relativistic Spaceship 485 comments in 1 discussion

• TSMC to build second Japan chip factory 477 comments in 2 discussions

• Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power 2160 comments in 5 discussions

• More misdrilled holes on 737 MAX in latest setback 439 comments in 1 discussion

• I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023) 438 comments in 1 discussion

• A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K 433 comments in 1 discussion

• Sudo for Windows 929 comments in 8 discussions

• How to hire low experience, high potential people 417 comments in 1 discussion

• Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf] 415 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: How many of you are self employed? 438 comments

• Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? 333 comments

• Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people? 153 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in 71 comments

• Tell HN: Square auto subscribes you to any merchant you visit unless you opt-out 2 comments

Releases #

• Go 1.22 Is Released 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Python 3.12.2 Released 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Go Language Release 1.22 233 comments in 9 discussions

Projects #

• AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server 391 comments in 5 discussions

• Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch 181 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model 168 comments in 1 discussion

• ZX – A tool for writing better scripts 500 comments in 8 discussions

• LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS 100 comments in 3 discussions

• Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Automate the creation of YouTube Shorts by providing a topic 59 comments in 1 discussion

• Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler 59 comments in 1 discussion

• Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files 76 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US 49 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Working in the Vision Pro [video] 847 comments in 2 discussions

• What is trauma? The author of "The Body Keeps the Score" explains [video] 122 comments in 1 discussion

• Hyper-Reality (2016) [video] 48 comments in 2 discussions

• The first email from space [video] 26 comments in 1 discussion

• Removed from r/blender because they thought it was real [video] 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Chinese migrants are fastest growing group crossing into U.S. from Mexico [video] 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Why Norway Is Becoming the Richest Country [video] 13 comments in 1 discussion