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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. AnandTech Farewell

    2987 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  2. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

    2676 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  3. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

    2297 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  4. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

    1991 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  5. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

    1948 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  6. "We ran out of columns"

    1621 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  7. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

    1443 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  8. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

    1430 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  9. Diffusion models are real-time game engines

    1141 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  10. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

    1135 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  11. Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

    1127 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  12. Starting Hospice

    1125 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  13. Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon

    1115 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  14. Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

    1094 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  15. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

    1094 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  16. Did you lose your AirPods?

    1058 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  17. Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop

    952 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  18. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

    930 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  19. Jake Seliger has died

    928 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  20. NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture

    916 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  21. Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

    900 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  22. OpenAI is good at unminifying code

    894 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  23. Medieval

    853 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  24. Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

    822 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  25. Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

    810 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  26. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

    806 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  27. Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

    806 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  28. How I got my laser eye injury

    789 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  29. Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

    788 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  30. DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

    787 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  31. The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

    762 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  32. Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

    757 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  33. How French Drains Work

    749 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  34. Structured Outputs in the API

    738 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  35. You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites

    731 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  36. Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane

    725 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  37. Elasticsearch is open source, again

    725 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  38. Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

    722 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  39. All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

    720 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  40. Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy

    715 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  41. There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

    715 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  42. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

    715 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  43. Open Source Farming Robot

    701 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  44. I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

    687 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  45. Toasts are bad UX

    683 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  46. Susan Wojcicki has died

    682 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  47. Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments

    670 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  48. Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

    659 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  49. SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

    654 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  50. Prevention of HIV

    649 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  51. Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

    644 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  52. Puppeteer Support for Firefox

    643 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  53. Low Cost Mini PCs

    634 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  54. LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime

    632 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  55. How to build quickly

    630 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  56. Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor

    629 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  57. Calling All Hackers

    628 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  58. Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

    624 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  59. Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

    621 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  60. Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

    617 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  61. Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

    616 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  62. Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

    614 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  63. Do quests, not goals

    611 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  64. Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]

    603 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  65. How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

    598 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  66. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

    595 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  67. The Monospace Web

    591 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  68. Repair and Remain (2022)

    589 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  69. Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

    586 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  70. Moments in Chromecast's history

    576 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  71. A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily

    574 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  72. Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

    566 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  73. NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

    565 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  74. Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

    563 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  75. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

    562 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  76. Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

    556 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  77. Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained

    552 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  78. Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

    550 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  79. Artificial intelligence is losing hype

    550 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  80. Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional

    546 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  81. How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

    544 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  82. .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

    531 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  83. VanillaJSX.com

    526 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  84. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

    525 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  85. Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms

    520 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  86. Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

    518 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  87. UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

    513 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  88. Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason

    511 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  89. Markov chains are funnier than LLMs

    509 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  90. I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)

    507 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  91. GitHub was down

    506 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  92. East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses

    504 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  93. I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

    501 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  94. Google Pixel 9 Pro

    501 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  95. The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning

    501 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  96. 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist

    500 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  97. Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

    500 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  98. Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

    496 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  99. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk

    495 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  100. Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync

    493 points • comment • aug 12, 2024