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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Plunk: The open source email platform

    90 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  2. Can you convert a video to pure CSS?

    90 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  3. Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route

    90 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  4. Entangled Photons Maintained Under New York Streets

    90 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  5. Self-Supervised Learning for Videos

    90 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  6. Poor Richard's Almanack

    90 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  7. Cleaning up after WWII (2017)

    90 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  8. An Overview of Datalog (2010)

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

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

    90 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  10. Toothpaste Null-Terminator

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  11. Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality

    89 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  12. Portraits of insects reveal the intricacies of a world

    89 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  13. Why isn't Colorado's snowpack ending up in the Colorado River?

    89 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  14. From Julia to Rust (2021)

    89 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  15. DIY, 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV (2020)

    89 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  16. Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)

    89 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  17. AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  18. Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity

    89 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  19. BMX: A Freshly Baked Take on BM25

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  20. Gaussian Splatting SLAM

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  21. TR1X: Open-source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1

    89 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  22. 100M Token Context Windows

    89 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  23. Launch HN: Outerport (YC S24) – Instant hot-swapping for AI model weights

    89 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  24. Japan cracks down on use of rideable electric suitcases amid tourist boom

    89 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  25. Pocket-Godot: Starter Kit for mobile game development using Godot

    89 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  26. Using the Moon as an Echo [video]

    89 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  27. Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here

    89 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  28. Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them

    88 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  29. Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense

    88 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  30. The Vala Language (2017)

    88 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  31. Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive

    88 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  32. Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives

    88 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  33. After 12 years at Google, I have decided it is time to move on

    88 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  34. Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (2020)

    88 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  35. 'Agua, Agua'

    88 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  36. Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL

    88 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  37. Show HN: I published a book to save you from my software architecture mistakes

    88 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  38. The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life

    87 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  39. US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

    87 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  40. GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub

    87 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  41. Ancient calendar, recently discovered, may document a long-ago disaster

    87 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  42. Bit Twiddling Hacks (2009)

    87 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  43. What the heck are reverse mapped types?

    87 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  44. Fast Lua Serialization (2023)

    87 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  45. Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?

    87 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  46. Perceived Age

    87 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  47. DisTrO – a family of low latency distributed optimizers

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  48. Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

    87 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  49. The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis

    87 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  50. A primer on why microbiome research is hard

    87 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  51. Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  52. How long does Apple support Mac firmware?

    86 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  53. Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

    86 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  54. Non-computability of solutions of certain equations on digital computers (2022)

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  55. A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics (2003) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  56. AMD's Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug

    86 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  57. An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  58. Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration

    86 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  59. A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs

    86 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  60. Profiling with Ctrl-C

    86 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  61. Neo Geo Dev: Fixed Point Numbers

    86 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  62. Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  63. A symbol for the Fediverse

    86 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  64. Alexander Grothendieck

    86 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  65. Don't rely on IF NOT EXISTS for concurrent index creation in PostgreSQL

    86 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  66. After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less adept of providing care

    85 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  67. Uber fined €290M ($324M) in Netherlands for sending drivers' data to the US

    85 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  68. Out of Your Head

    85 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  69. 17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations

    85 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  70. Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

    85 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  71. Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022)

    85 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  72. We created a new account in Telegram and started looking for a job in Estonia

    85 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  73. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour

    85 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  74. Docker-OSX image removed after Apple reports copyright infringement

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  75. Py5, a Python version of Processing for your creative coding projects

    85 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  76. New U.N. Cybercrime Treaty Unanimously Approved, Could Threaten Human Rights

    85 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  77. Largest Geothermal Development in America Taking Shape in Utah

    85 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  78. Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?

    84 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  79. Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X

    84 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  80. Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps

    84 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  81. Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions

    84 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  82. Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate

    84 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  83. Safe curves for Elliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf]

    84 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  84. A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming

    84 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  85. BuffDB is a Rust library to simplify multi-plexing on edge devices

    84 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  86. Distributed Locks with Redis (2014)

    84 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  87. Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)

    84 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  88. Show HN: Repo2vec – an open-source library for chatting with any codebase

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  89. The occult technology of the rollercoaster

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  90. WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?

    83 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  91. KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  92. Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs

    83 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  93. Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS

    83 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  94. Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?

    83 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  95. Revisiting the Classics: Jensen's Inequality (2023)

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  96. GitButler is now fair source

    83 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  97. Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  98. Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?

    83 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  99. ICPP – Run C++ anywhere like a script

    83 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  100. AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2024