The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2024
We track 1,109 stories from October 2024, averaging 256 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 104 stories. Together they drew 177,010 comments, 160 per story on average.
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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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3
1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
gist.github.com · mmsc · 12 Oct 2024
1.6k pts
417 comments
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4
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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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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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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13
DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
github.com · geerlingguy · 10 Oct 2024
1.1k pts
157 comments
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14
Internet Archive: Security breach alert
theverge.com · ewenjo · 9 Oct 2024
1.1k pts
607 comments
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15
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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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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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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23
How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
youtube.com · Tomte · 12 Oct 2024
926 pts
205 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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26
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
aschmelyun.com · chrisdemarco · 4 Oct 2024
904 pts
253 comments
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27
GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
bloomberg.com · jbredeche · 29 Oct 2024
897 pts
702 comments
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29
The quiet art of attention
billwear.github.io · billwear · 13 Oct 2024
875 pts
279 comments
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30
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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32
Rider is now free for non-commercial use
jetbrains.com · kretaceous · 24 Oct 2024
828 pts
422 comments
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33
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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36
Dookie Demastered
dookiedemastered.com · nickthegreek · 9 Oct 2024
788 pts
204 comments
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37
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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38
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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39
Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
cosmowenman.substack.com · abetusk · 18 Oct 2024
776 pts
303 comments
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40
Web Browser Engineering (2021)
browser.engineering · MrVandemar · 15 Oct 2024
770 pts
132 comments
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41
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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42
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
en.wikipedia.org · intunderflow · 25 Oct 2024
712 pts
475 comments
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43
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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44
Get me out of data hell
ludic.mataroa.blog · pavel_lishin · 31 Oct 2024
698 pts
299 comments
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45
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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46
Show HN: HTML for People
htmlforpeople.com · blakewatson · 10 Oct 2024
677 pts
220 comments
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47
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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48
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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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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51
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
simonwillison.net · recvonline · 23 Oct 2024
637 pts
465 comments
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52
Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
bbc.com · thunderbong · 21 Oct 2024
635 pts
69 comments
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54
An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers
lwn.net · MrBuddyCasino · 31 Oct 2024
625 pts
266 comments
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55
Working from home is powering productivity
imf.org · rwmj · 11 Oct 2024
623 pts
456 comments
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56
Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
bloomberg.com · necubi · 23 Oct 2024
622 pts
450 comments
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58
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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59
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
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