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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. IOGraphica

    83 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  2. AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

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

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  4. The occult technology of the rollercoaster

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  5. Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse

    82 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  6. Can a Rust binary use incompatible versions of the same library?

    82 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  7. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days?

    82 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  8. Who Wrote the Blue Screens of Death

    82 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  9. What we can learn from vintage computing

    82 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  10. My favorite device is a Chromebook

    82 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  11. Intel to lay off 15,000 employees

    82 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  12. ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn't have to disconnect users accused of piracy

    82 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  13. Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice

    81 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  14. BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor

    81 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  15. Sublime Text 4 Build 4180

    81 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  16. Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership

    81 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  17. The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent

    81 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  18. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

    81 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  19. Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer's disease mouse study

    81 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  20. RISC-V CPU arrives on a tablet starting at $149

    81 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  21. Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Postgres

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  22. Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time

    81 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  23. The Quantum Butterfly Effect

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  24. Scheduling Model in LLVM

    80 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  25. Nu-Klear Fallout Detector (ca. 1962-1968)

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  26. 2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed

    80 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  27. How the Totem Compass Works

    80 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  28. Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022)

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  29. Building an EEG with a Children's Toy

    80 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  30. Is it time to version observability?

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  31. The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    80 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  32. Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes

    80 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  33. Artifacts are now generally available

    80 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  34. Batteryless OP-1

    80 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  35. The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  36. Show HN: Cleed – Simple feed reader for the command line

    80 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  37. VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks

    80 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  38. What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?

    80 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  39. Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers

    79 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  40. Tensors, the geometric tool that solved Einstein's relativity problem

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  41. Carmack on Oculus, Minecraft, Meta and Microsoft

    79 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  42. Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing

    79 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  43. Online Dating

    79 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  44. Hexsheets: Hexagonal Spreadsheets

    79 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  45. Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)

    79 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  46. NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

    79 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  47. Paris Agreement thresholds crossed

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  48. A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts

    79 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  49. Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple's AI Scraping

    79 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  50. Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project

    78 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  51. A RoCE network for distributed AI training at scale

    78 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  52. Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs a.k.a. WITH clauses

    78 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  53. Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs

    78 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  54. Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL

    78 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  55. AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming

    78 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  56. Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  57. What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  58. How I Became the EEVBlog Guy [video]

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  59. Genetics solves a thorny problem: how plants have prickles

    78 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  60. Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis

    78 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  61. Tsunami Alert Issued for Japan

    78 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  62. Fun times with energy-based models

    78 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  63. How WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war

    78 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  64. Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

    78 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  65. Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  66. Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

    77 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  67. Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings

    77 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  68. IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead

    77 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  69. Tree Attention: Topology-Aware Decoding for Long-Context

    77 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  70. Stressed mouse brain sends gut messages that reduce beneficial bacteria levels

    77 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  71. A practitioner's guide to testing and running GPU clusters

    77 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  72. Many FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data

    77 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  73. EWritable – e-ink tablet news and reviews

    77 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  74. An admittedly wandering defense of the SSO tax

    77 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  75. Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache

    77 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  76. Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing

    77 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  77. David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video]

    77 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  78. Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

    76 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  79. Queues invert control flow but require flow control

    76 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  80. Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot

    76 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  81. Fermilab is 'doomed' without management overhaul claims whistleblower report

    76 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  82. Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions

    76 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  83. Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet

    76 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  84. RePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  85. Lucee: A light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM

    76 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  86. Companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns

    76 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  87. Faulty instructions in C910 RISC-V CPUs

    76 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  88. Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week

    76 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  89. Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations

    76 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  90. Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  91. A web scraping CLI made for AI that is idempotent

    76 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  92. Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM

    76 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  93. How the SNES Graphics System Works

    76 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  94. The Composer Has No Clothes

    76 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  95. Show HN: High school robotics code/CAD/design binder release

    75 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  96. I Wasn't the First Person to Find the NJ Coca-Cola Cocaine Factory (2016)

    75 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  97. Convert Markdown files to RSS feed

    75 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  98. Vaseline and Uranium Glass (ca. 1930s)

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  99. Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young People

    75 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  100. NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control

    75 points • comment • aug 09, 2024