The best of Hacker News - June 23, 2024

1.
I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

926 points

2.
The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

451 points

3.
Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

408 points

4.
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

385 points

5.
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

328 points

6.
I've stopped using box plots (2021)

302 points

7.
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

224 points

8.
SSH as a Sudo Replacement

212 points

9.
Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind

209 points

10.
The Pre-Scheme Restoration

192 points

11.
Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC

163 points

12.
HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering

161 points

13.
Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

156 points

14.
Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c

155 points

15.
Memory sealing for the GNU C Library

153 points

16.
Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data

152 points

17.
The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive

145 points

18.
As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)

144 points

19.
Reconstructing Public Keys from Signatures

141 points

20.
Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)

140 points

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