The best of Hacker News - November 19, 2024

1.
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

536 points

2.
Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

434 points

3.
OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

368 points

4.
Fair coins tend to land on the side they started

335 points

5.
$8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating

307 points

6.
MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server

285 points

7.
Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera

237 points

8.
The tragedy of running an old Node project

231 points

9.
Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible

226 points

10.
Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

225 points

11.
Rats learned to drive

218 points

12.
The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles

213 points

13.
Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

203 points

14.
Museum of Bad Art

198 points

15.
When did estimates turn into deadlines?

192 points

16.
AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia

192 points

17.
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step

173 points

18.
Using Erlang hot code updates

165 points

19.
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data

165 points

20.
Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table

160 points

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