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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. First USGS supercomputer decommissioning makes way for successors

    62 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  2. A heck of a wild bug chase

    62 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  3. The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  4. 'Weird and Daunting': 7k Readers Told Us How It Felt to Focus

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  5. There is only one amphibian emoji

    61 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  6. A New Theory of Distraction (2015)

    61 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  7. How did divers manage to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline?

    61 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  8. Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

    61 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  9. AMD and FreeBSD Begin Collaborating over OS Improvements

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  10. Apple Approves iDOS Emulator

    61 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  11. Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?

    61 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  12. Of mice and men and Magdalen: C. S. Lewis’s Oxford

    61 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  13. LangGraph Engineer

    61 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  14. Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  15. Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

    61 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  16. Show HN: Amine – Prevents you from switching 100s of Browser Tabs

    61 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  17. Faster Inverse BWT (2021)

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  18. The tragedy of low-level exploitation

    61 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  19. Another variable-length integer encoding (2021)

    61 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  20. India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt

    61 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  21. Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer

    61 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  22. Calendar Queues: A Fast O(1) Priority Queue Implementation (1988)

    61 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  23. Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek

    61 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  24. What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?

    61 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  25. Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  26. Cox (was) bragging about listening to user mics

    61 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  27. Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry

    61 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  28. Late Again

    61 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  29. Show HN: Visual Sudoku solver in the browser

    61 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  30. Code as Art

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  31. Run Diablo Inside Your Web Browser

    60 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  32. Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural networks hands-on?

    60 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  33. The Big Fringe Telescope

    60 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  34. Show HN: I cloned HN to make a simple portfolio page

    60 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  35. KCL, a constraint-based functional language for configuration

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  36. Acorn – Use Laravel Inside WordPress

    60 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  37. UltimateAntiCheat

    60 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  38. Rust Dylib Rabbit Holes

    60 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  39. Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone

    60 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  40. Creating the largest protein-protein interaction dataset in the world

    60 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  41. Encyclopedia of Optimization

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  42. Google transfers 1.2 EB of data every day using Effingo

    60 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  43. Quantum Cryptography Has Everyone Scrambling

    60 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  44. Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  45. D&D will release its 2024 ruleset under a Creative Commons licence

    60 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  46. GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US

    60 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  47. The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line

    60 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  48. Black Mesa

    60 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  49. Why does getting a job in tech suck?

    60 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  50. Trio of Leaders Leave OpenAI

    60 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  51. The Goths

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  52. HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient

    60 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  53. Thoughts on Canonical S-Expressions (2019)

    59 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  54. Are we living in the age of info-determinism?

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  55. PyPy gets a new RISC-V JIT back end

    59 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  56. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3

    59 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  57. Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  58. The official Elixir Language Server team

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  59. Keeping Secrets (2014)

    59 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  60. Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28

    59 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  61. Telegram boss banned from leaving France in criminal probe

    59 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  62. Stereographer

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  63. Hazard3: 3-stage RV32IMACZb* processor with debug

    59 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  64. Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  65. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  66. UN Cybercrime Convention to Overrule Bank Secrecy

    59 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  67. Iranian banks hit by major cyber attack, reportedly one of largest in history

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  68. The Flywheel Effect

    59 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  69. Ordinals aren't much worse than Quaternions

    59 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  70. Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform

    59 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  71. Disney's not alone in saying your clicks means you can't sue

    59 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  72. 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

    58 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  73. PC Floppy Copy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock

    58 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  74. Weak supervision to isolate sign language communicators in crowded news videos

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  75. 10 Years of Dear ImGui

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  76. Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  77. Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  78. The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done

    58 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  79. Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work

    58 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  80. Distributed == Relational

    58 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  81. Mike Lynch's co-defendant in fraud trial 'fatally struck' by car while jogging

    58 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  82. Apple: Using alternative browser engines in the European Union

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  83. ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  84. Making 'food out of thin air'

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  85. How Chrome Accessibility Works

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  86. Bootstrappable Builds

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  87. Ask HN: Google Ads Rejected My SaaS as Compromised Site

    58 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  88. John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  89. Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  90. Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  91. the US government has to start paying for things again

    58 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  92. Is GitHub Down? a.k.a. Angry Unicorn

    57 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  93. Ask HN: How to build site with payment, subscriptions, user login, registration

    57 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  94. Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  95. &udm=14 for Safari (iOS/iPadOS)

    57 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  96. Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides – and farm workers – obsolete?

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  97. Open Letter to the European Commission

    57 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  98. What is the longest known sequence that repeats in Pi? (homelab)

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  99. Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  100. Cerebras Launches the Fastest AI Inference

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2024