The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2024

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IMG_0416 ben-mini.com · bewal416 · 10 Nov 2024

2.3k pts 324 comments

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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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Passport Photos maxsiedentopf.com · gaws · 6 Nov 2024

1.5k pts 226 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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Apple acquires Pixelmator pixelmator.com · dm · 1 Nov 2024

1.2k pts 576 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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Model Context Protocol anthropic.com · benocodes · 25 Nov 2024

872 pts 258 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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I Don't Have Spotify github.com · sjdonado · 11 Nov 2024

786 pts 371 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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Starlink Direct to Cell starlink.com · tosh · 24 Nov 2024

721 pts 799 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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Make It Yourself makeityourself.org · deivid · 1 Nov 2024

670 pts 94 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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Mitochondria Are Alive asimov.press · mailyk · 8 Nov 2024

638 pts 389 comments

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Leaving and Waving deannadikeman.com · Duke_Pixie · 12 Nov 2024

634 pts 94 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