The best of Hacker News - October 02, 2024

1.
The Fastest Mutexes

594 points

2.
Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

507 points

3.
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)

360 points

4.
I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

353 points

5.
Math from Three to Seven

323 points

6.
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

321 points

7.
The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

296 points

8.
American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

279 points

9.
Serialization Is the Secret

266 points

10.
Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

246 points

11.
How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]

235 points

12.
Why TCP needs 3 handshakes

215 points

13.
Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)

213 points

14.
OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog

210 points

15.
Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake

201 points

16.
OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

192 points

17.
AMD GPU Inference

190 points

18.
A Local-First Case Study

189 points

19.
The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia

188 points

20.
John Wheeler saw the tear in reality

185 points

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