The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2024
We track 1,013 stories from November 2024, averaging 253 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 89 stories. Together they drew 153,973 comments, 152 per story on average.
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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
jan.miksovsky.com · pabs3 · 14 Nov 2024
2.1k pts
251 comments
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The Onion buys Infowars
nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 14 Nov 2024
1.9k pts
1.2k comments
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Trump wins presidency for second time
thehill.com · koolba · 6 Nov 2024
1.8k pts
9.3k comments
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
seangoedecke.com · gfysfm · 11 Nov 2024
1.4k pts
381 comments
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Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
continueandpersist.org · adnanaga · 28 Nov 2024
1.4k pts
224 comments
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Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
spectrum.ieee.org · pseudolus · 3 Nov 2024
1.3k pts
890 comments
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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
bloomberg.com · redm · 18 Nov 2024
1.2k pts
1.4k comments
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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
lanparty.house · kentonv · 16 Nov 2024
1.1k pts
381 comments
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
blog.transitapp.com · dotcoma · 13 Nov 2024
1.1k pts
317 comments
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Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
github.com · xairy · 27 Nov 2024
1k pts
521 comments
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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
michaelcharl.es · thunderbong · 17 Nov 2024
908 pts
184 comments
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Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
battleda.sh · mooreds · 5 Nov 2024
902 pts
154 comments
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ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
icc-cpi.int · runarberg · 21 Nov 2024
890 pts
1k comments
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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
weiyen.net · yen223 · 6 Nov 2024
837 pts
231 comments
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Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
play.google.com · jarko27 · 27 Nov 2024
817 pts
381 comments
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RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
5snb.club · zkldi · 25 Nov 2024
815 pts
211 comments
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Frosted glass from games to the web
tyleo.com · tyleo · 24 Nov 2024
791 pts
192 comments
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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
cbc.ca · empressplay · 6 Nov 2024
747 pts
453 comments
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
news.mit.edu · gnabgib · 20 Nov 2024
737 pts
459 comments
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IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
ironcalc.com · kaathewise · 9 Nov 2024
726 pts
227 comments
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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
news.virginmediao2.co.uk · ortusdux · 14 Nov 2024
718 pts
263 comments
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New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
washingtonpost.com · ChrisArchitect · 4 Nov 2024
717 pts
1.2k comments
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This website is hosted on Bluesky
danielmangum.com · hasheddan · 24 Nov 2024
713 pts
168 comments
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What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
blog.koenvh.nl · Koenvh · 29 Nov 2024
712 pts
509 comments
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Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
med.stanford.edu · Jerry2 · 4 Nov 2024
703 pts
178 comments
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
pikuma.com · atan2 · 13 Nov 2024
700 pts
320 comments
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
dynomight.substack.com · crescit_eundo · 14 Nov 2024
696 pts
474 comments
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Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
nature.com · dataminer · 9 Nov 2024
692 pts
248 comments
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Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
quantamagazine.org · sonabinu · 21 Nov 2024
669 pts
397 comments
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Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
apnews.com · geox · 24 Nov 2024
667 pts
466 comments
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Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
cnbc.com · swyx · 22 Nov 2024
666 pts
363 comments
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QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
blackberry.qnx.com · JohnAtQNX · 7 Nov 2024
658 pts
357 comments
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Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
swapnilchauhan.com · swapxstar · 10 Nov 2024
656 pts
276 comments
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A change of heart regarding employee metrics
rachelbythebay.com · zdw · 4 Nov 2024
650 pts
389 comments
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Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output
github.com · nateb2022 · 8 Nov 2024
642 pts
92 comments
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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
history.stackexchange.com · napolux · 20 Nov 2024
628 pts
150 comments
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SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases
sqlitestudio.pl · thunderbong · 25 Nov 2024
626 pts
123 comments
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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
bloomberg.com · lukebennett · 13 Nov 2024
625 pts
604 comments
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OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models
opencoder-llm.github.io · pil0u · 9 Nov 2024
619 pts
77 comments
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Thomas E. Kurtz has died
computerhistory.org · 1986 · 14 Nov 2024
618 pts
149 comments
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Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
5-million-devs.netlify.com · franck · 22 Nov 2024
616 pts
230 comments
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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
firehose3d.theo.io · consumer451 · 16 Nov 2024
602 pts
149 comments
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AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
blog.frost.kiwi · todsacerdoti · 20 Nov 2024
602 pts
96 comments
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Phased Array Microphone (2023)
benwang.dev · bglazer · 22 Nov 2024
600 pts
187 comments
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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
cnn.com · mooreds · 18 Nov 2024
597 pts
1k comments
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All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
jero.zone · noleary · 6 Nov 2024
595 pts
178 comments
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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
lagrangepoint.substack.com · rithvikvibhu · 12 Nov 2024
591 pts
193 comments
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Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
news.alvaroduran.com · fagnerbrack · 28 Nov 2024
590 pts
551 comments
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Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
jamcorder.com · chipweinberger · 7 Nov 2024
590 pts
194 comments
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Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
bsky.app · perihelions · 20 Nov 2024
588 pts
731 comments
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Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
huntaub · 18 Nov 2024
587 pts
320 comments
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