The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2024

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Sora: Creating video from text openai.com · davidbarker · 15 Feb 2024

3.6k pts 2.2k comments

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Airfoil ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 27 Feb 2024

2.5k pts 296 comments

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I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner willempennings.nl · dutchkiwifruit · 11 Feb 2024

2.5k pts 377 comments

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Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site old.reddit.com · laubonghaudoi · 27 Feb 2024

1.8k pts 798 comments

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Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished troyhunt.com · ahonhn · 23 Feb 2024

1.7k pts 564 comments

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European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption eureporter.co · robtherobber · 14 Feb 2024

1.7k pts 258 comments

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Alexei Navalny has died reuters.com · 0xdeafbeef · 16 Feb 2024

1.6k pts 1.5k comments

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Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution effectiviology.com · walterbell · 24 Feb 2024

1.6k pts 1.1k comments

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Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero saveflipper.ca · pabs3 · 21 Feb 2024

1.5k pts 878 comments

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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames signal.org · Josely · 20 Feb 2024

1.4k pts 872 comments

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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll scrollprize.org · amrrs · 5 Feb 2024

1.4k pts 215 comments

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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 blog.google · todsacerdoti · 15 Feb 2024

1.2k pts 588 comments

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Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret cep.dev · slyall · 9 Feb 2024

1.2k pts 626 comments

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Is something bugging you? antithesis.com · wwilson · 13 Feb 2024

1.2k pts 418 comments

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FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov · ortusdux · 8 Feb 2024

1.2k pts 674 comments

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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input simonwillison.net · simonw · 21 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 482 comments

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Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork mailman.nginx.org · bkallus · 14 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 475 comments

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Gemma: New Open Models blog.google · meetpateltech · 21 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 509 comments

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GPT in 500 Lines of SQL explainextended.com · thunderbong · 24 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 76 comments

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Relativistic Spaceship dmytry.github.io · thunderbong · 5 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 485 comments

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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 12 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 410 comments

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John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died scanalyst.fourmilab.ch · jdougan · 8 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 227 comments

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My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 16 Feb 2024

1.1k pts 321 comments

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AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source phoronix.com · mfiguiere · 12 Feb 2024

1k pts 410 comments

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The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing arxiv.org · fgfm · 28 Feb 2024

1k pts 447 comments

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] web.mit.edu · Jtsummers · 22 Feb 2024

1k pts 424 comments

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Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML leanrada.com · Kalabasa · 19 Feb 2024

1k pts 242 comments

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Stable Diffusion 3 stability.ai · reqo · 22 Feb 2024

983 pts 693 comments

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Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) openrss.org · stareatgoats · 24 Feb 2024

959 pts 328 comments

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Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration pkl-lang.org · bioballer · 2 Feb 2024

930 pts 564 comments

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Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu overkill.wtf · brandrick · 27 Feb 2024

903 pts 680 comments

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Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 27 Feb 2024

891 pts 956 comments

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Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy fortune.com · jacooper · 8 Feb 2024

859 pts 701 comments

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Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose techcrunch.com · M2Ys4U · 15 Feb 2024

857 pts 801 comments

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Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s groq.com · tin7in · 19 Feb 2024

847 pts 472 comments

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Vice website is shutting down writing.exchange · colinprince · 23 Feb 2024

836 pts 438 comments

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SQL for data scientists in 100 queries gvwilson.github.io · Anon84 · 6 Feb 2024

834 pts 158 comments

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The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 lwn.net · jrepinc · 29 Feb 2024

817 pts 616 comments

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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years grafana.com · matryer · 9 Feb 2024

790 pts 241 comments

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Google has another secret browser matan-h.com · matan-h · 2 Feb 2024

777 pts 219 comments

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Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday twitter.com · mfiguiere · 14 Feb 2024

769 pts 453 comments

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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters bsky.social · jakebsky · 22 Feb 2024

760 pts 449 comments

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Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute oneminutefocus.com · junetic · 7 Feb 2024

741 pts 285 comments

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Kagi Sidekick (alpha) sidekick.kagi.com · jviide · 20 Feb 2024

739 pts 165 comments

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Testcontainers testcontainers.com · floriangosse · 27 Feb 2024

719 pts 253 comments

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My favourite Git commit (2019) dhwthompson.com · karagenit · 1 Feb 2024

714 pts 398 comments

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Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time github.com · Robin89 · 2 Feb 2024

712 pts 489 comments

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Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations housefresh.com · beavershaw · 19 Feb 2024

699 pts 342 comments

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Apache Superset superset.apache.org · tosh · 26 Feb 2024

696 pts 189 comments

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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification opensource.googleblog.com · alphabetting · 16 Feb 2024

695 pts 251 comments

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Stable Cascade github.com · davidbarker · 13 Feb 2024

694 pts 170 comments

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Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat rachelbythebay.com · l0b0 · 9 Feb 2024

688 pts 378 comments

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Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro christianselig.com · axxl · 2 Feb 2024

686 pts 357 comments

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How video games use lookup tables blog.frost.kiwi · todsacerdoti · 28 Feb 2024

673 pts 106 comments

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Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced blog.google · chamoda · 8 Feb 2024

668 pts 1.1k comments

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Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues theverge.com · helsinkiandrew · 22 Feb 2024

664 pts 1.2k comments

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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business docs.emailengine.app · andris9 · 27 Feb 2024

663 pts 248 comments

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Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps observablehq.com · tmcw · 15 Feb 2024

655 pts 153 comments

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Uv: Python packaging in Rust astral.sh · samwho · 15 Feb 2024

647 pts 210 comments

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Thanksgiving 2023 security incident blog.cloudflare.com · nomaxx117 · 1 Feb 2024

643 pts 322 comments