The best of Hacker News - October 20, 2024

1.
Accountability sinks

451 points

2.
Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

355 points

3.
Syncthing Android App Discontinued

343 points

4.
Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

273 points

5.
555 Timer Circuits

263 points

6.
The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most (2023)

217 points

7.
Data Version Control

208 points

8.
Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

206 points

9.
Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

198 points

10.
Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

197 points

11.
Show HN: HN Update – Hourly News Broadcast of Top HN Stories

189 points

12.
Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

187 points

13.
How to do distributed locking (2016)

187 points

14.
S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

187 points

15.
WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

185 points

16.
Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

176 points

17.
Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

174 points

18.
Understanding how bureaucracy develops

159 points

19.
Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

157 points

20.
Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter

156 points

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