The best of Hacker News - June 04, 2024

1.
Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

492 points

2.
A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis

432 points

3.
Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis

378 points

4.
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

350 points

5.
If English was written like Chinese (1999)

308 points

6.
Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)

282 points

7.
Why YC went to DC

257 points

8.
The Moral Economy of the Shire

238 points

9.
An animated introduction to Fourier series

223 points

10.
Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines

201 points

11.
Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

185 points

12.
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023)

176 points

13.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)

176 points

14.
Circle C++ with memory safety

176 points

15.
New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft

175 points

16.
Intel's Lion Cove Architecture Preview

163 points

17.
Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming

162 points

18.
Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)

155 points

19.
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

154 points

20.
Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager

153 points

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