The best of Hacker News - July 06, 2024

1.
First anode-free sodium solid-state battery

294 points

2.
Radio Garden

255 points

3.
Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows

206 points

4.
Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)

193 points

5.
Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)

184 points

6.
Advantages of incompetent management

183 points

7.
Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)

172 points

8.
The Software Crisis

169 points

9.
GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion

167 points

10.
Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop

167 points

11.
The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)

164 points

12.
YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio

164 points

13.
Properly testing concurrent data structures

155 points

14.
Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe

148 points

15.
Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

140 points

16.
Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be

138 points

17.
How to implement a hash table in C (2021)

131 points

18.
How to think in writing

120 points

19.
Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite

119 points

20.
The magic of small engineering teams

119 points

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