The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2024

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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video] twitter.com · alecco · 13 Oct 2024

2.3k pts 1.4k comments

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FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions ftc.gov · pseudolus · 16 Oct 2024

1.7k pts 760 comments

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1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor gist.github.com · mmsc · 12 Oct 2024

1.6k pts 417 comments

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Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 3 Oct 2024

1.5k pts 419 comments

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ChatGPT Search openai.com · thm · 31 Oct 2024

1.5k pts 1.3k comments

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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku anthropic.com · weirdcat · 22 Oct 2024

1.5k pts 735 comments

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First images from Euclid are in dlmultimedia.esa.int · mooreds · 21 Oct 2024

1.4k pts 396 comments

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Busy Status Bar busy.bar · aleksi · 14 Oct 2024

1.4k pts 461 comments

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Helping wikis move away from Fandom weirdgloop.org · creatonez · 10 Oct 2024

1.2k pts 487 comments

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Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone ssoready.com · noleary · 30 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 455 comments

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We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines ifixit.com · LorenDB · 25 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 308 comments

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Meta Movie Gen ai.meta.com · brianjking · 4 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 1k comments

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DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing github.com · geerlingguy · 10 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 157 comments

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Internet Archive: Security breach alert theverge.com · ewenjo · 9 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 607 comments

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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017) unix.stackexchange.com · jamesy0ung · 4 Oct 2024

1.1k pts 409 comments

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Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 github.com · ferbivore · 24 Oct 2024

1k pts 369 comments

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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT openai.com · davidbarker · 3 Oct 2024

985 pts 679 comments

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A $1k Wheelchair newmobility.com · bo0tzz · 1 Oct 2024

965 pts 434 comments

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Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages gamingonlinux.com · jrepinc · 30 Oct 2024

963 pts 640 comments

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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux rosenzweig.io · 6a74 · 10 Oct 2024

944 pts 365 comments

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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] nobelprize.org · drpossum · 8 Oct 2024

943 pts 794 comments

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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted bryanbraun.com · bryanbraun · 25 Oct 2024

936 pts 188 comments

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How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video] youtube.com · Tomte · 12 Oct 2024

926 pts 205 comments

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M4 MacBook Pro apple.com · tosh · 30 Oct 2024

920 pts 1.3k comments

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Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen creativebloq.com · ralusek · 17 Oct 2024

912 pts 268 comments

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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer aschmelyun.com · chrisdemarco · 4 Oct 2024

904 pts 253 comments

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GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic bloomberg.com · jbredeche · 29 Oct 2024

897 pts 702 comments

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The Fastest Mutexes justine.lol · jart · 2 Oct 2024

896 pts 345 comments

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The quiet art of attention billwear.github.io · billwear · 13 Oct 2024

875 pts 279 comments

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We're forking Flutter flutterfoundation.dev · alexzeitler · 28 Oct 2024

853 pts 713 comments

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Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator emoji.build · klimeryk · 15 Oct 2024

832 pts 148 comments

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Rider is now free for non-commercial use jetbrains.com · kretaceous · 24 Oct 2024

828 pts 422 comments

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Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan quantamagazine.org · philiplu · 21 Oct 2024

826 pts 414 comments

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Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris cnbc.com · donsupreme · 25 Oct 2024

825 pts 965 comments

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Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail mcc-berlin.net · mpweiher · 12 Oct 2024

823 pts 885 comments

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Dookie Demastered dookiedemastered.com · nickthegreek · 9 Oct 2024

788 pts 204 comments

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Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge theverge.com · dblitt · 7 Oct 2024

787 pts 580 comments

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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app graphite.rs · Keavon · 15 Oct 2024

785 pts 128 comments

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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court cosmowenman.substack.com · abetusk · 18 Oct 2024

776 pts 303 comments

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Web Browser Engineering (2021) browser.engineering · MrVandemar · 15 Oct 2024

770 pts 132 comments

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The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications thecopenhagenbook.com · sebnun · 10 Oct 2024

750 pts 184 comments

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Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court en.wikipedia.org · intunderflow · 25 Oct 2024

712 pts 475 comments

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It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word theatlantic.com · redwoolf · 5 Oct 2024

703 pts 576 comments

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Get me out of data hell ludic.mataroa.blog · pavel_lishin · 31 Oct 2024

698 pts 299 comments

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Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · 1317 · 7 Oct 2024

681 pts 150 comments

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Show HN: HTML for People htmlforpeople.com · blakewatson · 10 Oct 2024

677 pts 220 comments

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Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate play2048.co · terabytest · 24 Oct 2024

669 pts 212 comments

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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives docs.sweeting.me · nikisweeting · 16 Oct 2024

669 pts 156 comments

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Sqlite3 WebAssembly sqlite.org · whatever3 · 15 Oct 2024

647 pts 192 comments

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Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories hnup.date · yunusabd · 20 Oct 2024

644 pts 178 comments

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Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week simonwillison.net · recvonline · 23 Oct 2024

637 pts 465 comments

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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort bbc.com · thunderbong · 21 Oct 2024

635 pts 69 comments

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Noise noise.jake.fun · amadeuspagel · 2 Oct 2024

632 pts 85 comments

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An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers lwn.net · MrBuddyCasino · 31 Oct 2024

625 pts 266 comments

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Working from home is powering productivity imf.org · rwmj · 11 Oct 2024

623 pts 456 comments

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Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license bloomberg.com · necubi · 23 Oct 2024

622 pts 450 comments

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Crokinole pudding.cool · Tomte · 17 Oct 2024

621 pts 166 comments

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FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect abcnews.go.com · indus · 22 Oct 2024

613 pts 342 comments

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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing szymonkaliski.com · cernocky · 4 Oct 2024

613 pts 117 comments

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Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI businessinsider.com · S0y · 30 Oct 2024

608 pts 990 comments