The best of Hacker News - September 14, 2024

1.
Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio

698 points

2.
A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

604 points

3.
Terence Tao on O1

472 points

4.
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures

406 points

5.
Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

385 points

6.
How America's universities became debt factories

367 points

7.
Lisp implemented in Rust macros

283 points

8.
Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

254 points

9.
Writing an OS in Rust

253 points

10.
LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This

216 points

11.
The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out

197 points

12.
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)

196 points

13.
Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

192 points

14.
Exploring the scalable matrix extension of the Apple M4 processor

183 points

15.
Notepat – Aesthetic Computer

168 points

16.
Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military

167 points

17.
One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel (2016)

164 points

18.
Going open-source as a VC-Backed company

158 points

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