The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2024

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Bop Spotter walzr.com · walz · 30 Sep 2024

2.4k pts 385 comments

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How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF) simonwillison.net · babelfish · 15 Sep 2024

2.1k pts 1.4k comments

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Why wordfreq will not be updated github.com · tomthe · 18 Sep 2024

1.7k pts 510 comments

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Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com · fofoz · 12 Sep 2024

1.7k pts 1.3k comments

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We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi labs.watchtowr.com · notmine1337 · 11 Sep 2024

1.6k pts 367 comments

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Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC timculpan.substack.com · colinprince · 18 Sep 2024

1.6k pts 826 comments

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Fraud, so much fraud science.org · nabla9 · 27 Sep 2024

1.5k pts 823 comments

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I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock arslan.io · farslan · 23 Sep 2024

1.5k pts 356 comments

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Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com · jbredeche · 16 Sep 2024

1.5k pts 1.9k comments

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Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website kibty.town · xyzeva · 19 Sep 2024

1.5k pts 498 comments

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Is My Blue Your Blue? ismy.blue · bpierre · 3 Sep 2024

1.4k pts 527 comments

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An NFC movie library for my kids simplyexplained.com · kzrdude · 8 Sep 2024

1.4k pts 314 comments

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Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake theatlantic.com · jimbob45 · 26 Sep 2024

1.4k pts 1.2k comments

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OpenAI to become for-profit company reuters.com · jspann · 26 Sep 2024

1.3k pts 745 comments

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Founder Mode paulgraham.com · bifftastic · 1 Sep 2024

1.3k pts 735 comments

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Sanding UI blog.jim-nielsen.com · roosgit · 21 Sep 2024

1.3k pts 400 comments

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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com · mfiguiere · 25 Sep 2024

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Greppability is an underrated code metric morizbuesing.com · thunderbong · 3 Sep 2024

1.2k pts 613 comments

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I Am Tired of AI ontestautomation.com · Liriel · 27 Sep 2024

1.2k pts 1.1k comments

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Ask HN: Why is Pave legal? nowyoudont · 11 Sep 2024

1.1k pts 495 comments

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Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com · logicchains · 17 Sep 2024

1.1k pts 2.5k comments

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Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today simonwillison.net · ulrischa · 24 Sep 2024

1k pts 467 comments

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The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive storage.courtlistener.com · Signez · 4 Sep 2024

995 pts 793 comments

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Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system hackaday.com · kwiens · 12 Sep 2024

928 pts 405 comments

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Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models ai.meta.com · nmwnmw · 25 Sep 2024

924 pts 328 comments

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Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker wealthfolio.app · a-fadil · 6 Sep 2024

924 pts 263 comments

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Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) sohl-dickstein.github.io · feyman_r · 29 Sep 2024

917 pts 360 comments

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NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective simonwillison.net · simonw · 30 Sep 2024

907 pts 490 comments

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Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined worksinprogress.co · bswud · 9 Sep 2024

881 pts 490 comments

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Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting openfreemap.org · hyperknot · 24 Sep 2024

848 pts 234 comments

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Being Raised by the Internet jimmyhmiller.github.io · DamonHD · 25 Sep 2024

837 pts 314 comments

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FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot github.com · RafelMri · 28 Sep 2024

836 pts 103 comments

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Mira Murati leaves OpenAI twitter.com · brianjking · 25 Sep 2024

823 pts 599 comments

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Is Tor still safe to use? blog.torproject.org · Sami_Lehtinen · 18 Sep 2024

809 pts 561 comments

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1M Users blog.spacehey.com · theneedful · 2 Sep 2024

787 pts 184 comments

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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font brailleinstitute.org · fanf2 · 15 Sep 2024

786 pts 214 comments

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Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047 gov.ca.gov · atlasunshrugged · 29 Sep 2024

778 pts 476 comments

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Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city sirobg · 14 Sep 2024

768 pts 372 comments

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CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them larslofgren.com · greg_V · 27 Sep 2024

760 pts 265 comments

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Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care tuyguntn · 5 Sep 2024

742 pts 327 comments

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Winamp Legacy player source code github.com · gjvc · 24 Sep 2024

717 pts 328 comments

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Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio illuminate.google.com · leblancfg · 10 Sep 2024

713 pts 243 comments

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The Art of Finishing bytedrum.com · emmorts · 2 Sep 2024

711 pts 165 comments

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Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode timesofisrael.com · FridayoLeary · 17 Sep 2024

708 pts 23 comments

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EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series ninjalab.io · GTP · 3 Sep 2024

706 pts 278 comments

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Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops nature.com · rbanffy · 21 Sep 2024

705 pts 365 comments

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Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models simonwillison.net · loganfrederick · 13 Sep 2024

699 pts 629 comments

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2M users but no money in the bank exercism.org · leandot · 6 Sep 2024

699 pts 351 comments

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James Earl Jones has died variety.com · birriel · 9 Sep 2024

670 pts 182 comments

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ReMarkable Paper Pro remarkable.com · buro9 · 4 Sep 2024

664 pts 546 comments

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Terence Tao on O1 mathstodon.xyz · dselsam · 14 Sep 2024

664 pts 482 comments

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QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet dl.acm.org · Shank · 9 Sep 2024

664 pts 326 comments

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PostgreSQL 17 postgresql.org · jkatz05 · 26 Sep 2024

661 pts 148 comments

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Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo? blog.nuclearsecrecy.com · terryf · 6 Sep 2024

660 pts 206 comments

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Why GitHub won blog.gitbutler.com · hardwaregeek · 9 Sep 2024

652 pts 504 comments

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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison blogsystem5.substack.com · LorenDB · 9 Sep 2024

648 pts 609 comments

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Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host larslofgren.com · greg_V · 19 Sep 2024

646 pts 299 comments

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Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses massgrave.dev · tuxuser · 7 Sep 2024

638 pts 296 comments

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Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board investors.23andme.com · LarsDu88 · 17 Sep 2024

633 pts 350 comments

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Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate samcurry.net · speckx · 26 Sep 2024

630 pts 367 comments