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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes

    101 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  2. Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib

    100 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  3. Japan's Nikkei Posts Biggest Single-Day Fall Since 1987 After Weak U.S. Data

    100 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  4. Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem

    100 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  5. Pixel Watch 3

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  6. Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021)

    100 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  7. Show HN: I Made a Website for Problems

    100 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  8. Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)

    100 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  9. Things my girlfriend and I have argued about

    100 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  10. Printf Oriented Message Protocol

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  11. A* search: optimized implementation in Lisp

    100 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  12. Caltrain's new electric trains

    100 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  13. FreeBSD-rustdate, a reimplementation of FreeBSD-update

    99 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  14. Memos: stick private notes on your email

    99 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  15. Time-Memory Trade-Offs Sound the Death Knell for GPRS and GSM

    99 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  16. Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design

    99 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  17. Show HN: I built Mailhub – A scalable API for sending emails with ease not tears

    99 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  18. Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria

    99 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  19. The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)

    99 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  20. Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)

    98 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  21. How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?

    98 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  22. When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95

    98 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  23. PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts

    98 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  24. Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby

    98 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  25. Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II

    98 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  26. Apple vs. the "Free Market"

    98 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  27. Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf]

    98 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  28. The ancient art of roasting agave

    98 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  29. A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  30. NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

    98 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  31. Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  32. Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds

    97 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  33. New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  34. Quote-unquote "macros"

    97 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  35. Qlot: Common Lisp Library Manager

    97 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  36. Makefiles for Web Work (2022)

    97 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  37. Revisiting Linux CPU Scheduling

    97 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  38. Regex Crossword

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  39. R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks.

    97 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  40. Foundation for Human Vision Models

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  41. Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  42. Writing a system call tracer using eBPF

    96 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  43. CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good

    96 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  44. Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023)

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  45. Bold Edit: An editor written by power users

    96 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  46. Damn Vulnerable UEFI

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  47. I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life

    96 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  48. WireGuard-rs – Official Rust implementation of WireGuard

    96 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  49. Launch HN: Patchwork (YC S24) – Automatically add structured logs to your code

    96 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  50. Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results

    95 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  51. Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil

    95 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  52. Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why?

    95 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  53. International Study Detects Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients

    95 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  54. Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]

    95 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  55. IBM Audible Random Timer

    95 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  56. A network engineer in search of greener pastures

    94 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  57. Basic MetaProgramming in Zig

    94 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  58. PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages

    94 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  59. Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs

    94 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  60. Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses) (2023)

    94 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  61. The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning

    94 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  62. The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  63. An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance

    94 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  64. GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS

    94 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  65. C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  66. InstantSplat: Sparse-View SfM-Free Gaussian Splatting in Seconds

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  67. The Saucer – A DIY trackpad attachment for the Voyager

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  68. Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month

    93 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  69. Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8B

    93 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  70. Noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set

    93 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  71. Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips

    93 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  72. How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  73. Show HN: I am using AI to measure how well cats sit like bread

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  74. GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13

    93 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  75. Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

    93 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  76. ASCII 3D Renderer for JavaScript

    93 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  77. Single-packet race condition breaking the 65535 byte lim

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  78. The Null Pointer

    92 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  79. Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine

    92 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  80. Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023)

    92 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  81. EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  82. Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking

    92 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  83. Additive manufacturing of an ultrastrong, deformable aluminum alloy

    92 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  84. Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video]

    92 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  85. Neon: A serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres

    92 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  86. GeoWorks: The Other Windows (2019)

    92 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  87. Show HN: Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  88. Semaglutide like Ozempic burn visceral fat, don't just suppress appetite

    91 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  89. Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 2: Ahead-of-Time vs. JIT

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  90. MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems

    91 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  91. How to sort your library in exactly 51,271 steps

    91 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  92. Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux

    91 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  93. Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September

    91 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  94. Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

    91 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  95. Two Dots Too Many (2008)

    91 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  96. Telegram founder charged with wide range of crimes in France

    91 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  97. Launch HN: MinusX (YC S24) – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase

    91 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  98. Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)

    91 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  99. Show HN: The First Non-Smart AI Pendant (NotFriend)

    91 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  100. Brazil top court threatens to suspend X within 24 hours

    90 points • comment • aug 29, 2024