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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. CSS adds vertical centering in 2024

    112 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  2. MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust

    112 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  3. Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)

    112 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  4. Reversing the AMD Secure Processor (PSP) – Part 2: Cryptographic Co-Processor

    112 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  5. Code review antipatterns

    112 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  6. Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance

    112 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  7. Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

    112 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  8. A year of Meta's news ban in Canada

    112 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  9. Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)

    112 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  10. ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing

    112 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  11. Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying

    111 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  12. Type 2 diabetes drug associated with 35% lower risk of dementia, study finds

    111 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  13. Rodney Brooks’s Three Laws of Robotics

    111 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  14. Electric Clojure v3: Differential Dataflow for UI [video]

    111 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  15. Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  16. Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

    111 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  17. Show HN: A ninja's Handbook: A book on privacy, security, and anonymity online

    110 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  18. You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code

    110 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  19. Shell.how: Explain Shell Commands

    110 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  20. Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)

    110 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  21. MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap

    110 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  22. Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

    110 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  23. French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court

    110 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  24. Things I learned from teaching (2023)

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  25. The Katsuification of Britain

    110 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  26. The LMAX Architecture (2011)

    110 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  27. Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes

    110 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  28. About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"

    110 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  29. JPMorgan's Python training for business analysts and traders

    110 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  30. Kill the Newsletter: Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

    109 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  31. Bum Farto

    109 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  32. Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  33. Birds aren't real – how to create your own "bird"

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  34. Segment Anything Model and Friends

    109 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  35. Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail

    109 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  36. The Dying Computer Museum

    109 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  37. How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)

    109 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  38. Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque,it didn't contain their music

    109 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  39. Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)

    109 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  40. Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc

    109 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  41. Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU

    109 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  42. How not to say the wrong thing (2013)

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  43. Animated Film Making Process

    108 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  44. Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery

    108 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  45. Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle

    108 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  46. Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview

    108 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  47. Leveraging AI for efficient incident response

    108 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  48. AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance

    108 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  49. Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  50. Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads

    108 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  51. Launch HN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks

    107 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  52. When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  53. How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety

    107 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  54. Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties (2022)

    107 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  55. Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006)

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  56. Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k

    106 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  57. Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech

    106 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  58. Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years

    106 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  59. Hacker Purity Test (1989)

    106 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  60. SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level

    106 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  61. Introduction to Golang Preemption Mechanisms

    106 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  62. Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts to Files

    106 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  63. VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)

    105 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  64. Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again

    105 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  65. Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  66. SnapDiagram – Instantly Convert Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Digital with AI

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  67. The Open Source Computer Science Degree

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  68. Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  69. The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)

    105 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  70. Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  71. They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  72. Probability Estimates of a 21st Century AMOC Collapse

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  73. Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO

    104 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  74. Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts

    104 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  75. Random Thoughts about Unity

    104 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  76. Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

    104 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  77. Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes

    104 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  78. Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go)

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  79. Interval parsing grammars for file format parsing (2023)

    104 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  80. Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application (1981)

    103 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  81. FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

    103 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  82. MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

    103 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  83. Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer Returns to Google

    103 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  84. Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works

    103 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  85. Finding Nash equilibria through simulation

    103 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  86. How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  87. Automating My /Now Page

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  88. Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021)

    102 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  89. Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23

    102 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  90. Blackhouses of Scotland

    101 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  91. JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism

    101 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  92. Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors

    101 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  93. How does it feel to test a compiler?

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  94. From Datalog to SVG

    101 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  95. Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

    101 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  96. Transformer Explainer

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  97. A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way

    101 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  98. Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes

    101 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  99. Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAPI specs

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  100. Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter

    101 points • comment • aug 03, 2024