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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Predicting the future of distributed systems

    67 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  2. Objective-C is just, like, a leaky abstraction over C

    67 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  3. Constraining writers in distributed systems

    67 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  4. IRC Will Never Die (2021)

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  5. What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg

    67 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  6. A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge

    67 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  7. Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics

    67 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  8. Digital Tools I Wish Existed (2019)

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  9. Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters

    67 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  10. JavaScript weakmaps should be iterable

    67 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  11. Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020)

    66 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  12. The U.S. economy is not crashing

    66 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  13. Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework

    66 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  14. Shapez2 Released

    66 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  15. Show HN: Kardinal – Building light-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  16. Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

    66 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  17. Make sports betting taboo again

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  18. Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery

    66 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  19. Show HN: A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web

    66 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  20. Judge who overturned verdict against Boeing bought and sold Boeing stock

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  21. C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore (2022)

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  22. World of Goo 2: now available

    66 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  23. Baidu's Improving Retrieval Augmented Language Model with Self-Reasoning

    66 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  24. Evidence for ~12-h ultradian gene programs in humans

    66 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  25. The Complex Relationship Between ADHD, Autism, and Personality Disorders

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  26. Pursuits That Can't Scale

    65 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  27. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  28. A Weekend at the Immersion Larp Festival

    65 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  29. Nvidia's Blackwell Reworked – Shipment Delays and GB200A Reworked Platforms

    65 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  30. MIT: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

    65 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  31. Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

    65 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  32. Microsoft's controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  33. ISPs worry that killing FCC net neutrality rules will come back to haunt them

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  34. The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010)

    65 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  35. Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

    65 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  36. Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights

    65 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  37. Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  38. AI agents but they're working in big tech

    65 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  39. US dismantles laptop farm used by undercover North Korean IT workers

    65 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  40. To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears

    65 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  41. Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance

    65 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  42. The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022)

    65 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  43. Looking Glass' new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic display

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  44. Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics

    65 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  45. A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)

    65 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  46. What is the ideal chapter length? (2023)

    65 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  47. Considerations when building embedded databases

    65 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  48. Romram: Using QSPI RAM with RP2040's SSI in read-write mode

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  49. Unix file access rwx permissions are simple but tricky

    64 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  50. iPhone 16 could let you shoot in JPEG-XL

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  51. Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human

    64 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  52. Cisco slashes thousands of workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3B

    64 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  53. How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers

    64 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  54. Karpathy/Nano-Llama31

    64 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  55. 'Kafkaesque': bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam

    64 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  56. The Mac Is a Power Tool

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  57. Rubi: Symbolic integrator based on an extensive system of integration rules

    64 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  58. How we migrated Gov.uk notify to AWS elastic container service

    64 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  59. Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON (2022)

    64 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  60. A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946)

    64 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  61. Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  62. NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B

    64 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  63. From Sets to Categories (2023)

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  64. Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 13: the end

    64 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  65. Google Strategy Doc from Antitrust Proceedings

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  66. Brain found to store three copies of every memory

    63 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  67. Moxie Marlinspike: Agile is killing software innovation

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  68. Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit

    63 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  69. A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us

    63 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  70. I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

    63 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  71. Californians can now add their mobile driver's license to Google Wallet

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  72. Ruby on Rails 7.2 Released

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  73. Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  74. A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning

    63 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  75. Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging

    63 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  76. DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  77. A Different Kind of Disc Brake: 1949 Chrysler (2023)

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  78. CORS Is Stupid

    63 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  79. San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents

    63 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  80. The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M

    63 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  81. Why Does Everyone Hate Haskell, Jazz, and Pure Math?

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  82. Show HN: I built a serverless data API builder – no storage, low latency

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  83. Show HN: VirtualStorageLibrary – .NET Tree solutions for items, dirs, symlinks

    62 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  84. Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  85. Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  86. First USGS supercomputer decommissioning makes way for successors

    62 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  87. Intel to cut 15% of headcount, reports quarterly guidance miss

    62 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  88. Jack Welch Screwed Up GE and Boeing, and with Them Much US Climate Action

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  89. Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

    62 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  90. Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  91. Compressing data with sample points and polynomial interpolation

    62 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  92. The bizarre siege behind Stockholm Syndrome

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  93. Git: The Stupid Password Store

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  94. A heck of a wild bug chase

    62 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  95. Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  96. Shufflecake: Plausible deniability for hidden filesystems on Linux (2023)

    62 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  97. We Can and Should Domesticate Raccoons

    62 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  98. The Key to Bizarro's Symbols

    62 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  99. The Google Fit APIs will no longer be available after June 30, 2025

    62 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  100. Show HN: Z80 Sans

    62 points • comment • aug 25, 2024