The best of Hacker News - October 19, 2024

1.
New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

333 points

2.
Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

306 points

3.
Focus on decisions, not tasks

267 points

4.
Svelte 5 Released

263 points

5.
Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

252 points

6.
Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

226 points

7.
Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

215 points

8.
Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

208 points

9.
A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino

206 points

10.
The long road to lazy preemption in the Linux CPU scheduler

203 points

11.
setBigTimeout

202 points

12.
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

189 points

13.
My solar-powered and self-hosted website

186 points

14.
NASA freezes Starliner missions

181 points

15.
AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%

180 points

16.
SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

174 points

17.
Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

170 points

18.
Smart pointers for the kernel

160 points

19.
A Distributed Systems Reading List (2014)

158 points

20.
QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

158 points

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