The best of Hacker News - October 21, 2024

1.
Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

519 points

2.
Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

423 points

3.
Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

327 points

4.
Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

283 points

5.
Please do not write below the line

277 points

6.
The AI Investment Boom

267 points

7.
Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

257 points

8.
First images from Euclid are in

244 points

9.
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

230 points

10.
The IPv6 Transition

212 points

11.
The best darn grid shader yet (2023)

208 points

12.
Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

186 points

13.
T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

183 points

14.
A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

182 points

15.
Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

180 points

16.
Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

178 points

17.
Sampling with SQL

172 points

18.
VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

171 points

19.
Time is a dimension, but not like space

168 points

20.
Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

156 points

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