The best of Hacker News - December 01, 2024

1.
Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

806 points

2.
The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

533 points

3.
Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

473 points

4.
QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM

418 points

5.
Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip

228 points

6.
Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once

200 points

7.
Rails is better low code than low code

199 points

8.
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?

175 points

9.
Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models

173 points

10.
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%

171 points

11.
Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain

155 points

12.
WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker

148 points

13.
The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020)

148 points

14.
Map UI – Ghost in the Shell

148 points

15.
The Slang Shading Language

134 points

16.
Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)

131 points

17.
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New

131 points

18.
DELETEs Are Difficult

126 points

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