woid

top stories

Hacker News (Aug 2024)

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

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  2. History of HTTPS Usage

    57 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  3. European iPhones are more fun now

    57 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  4. Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

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

    57 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  6. Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models

    56 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  7. Godot 4.3

    56 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  8. How to Escape from the Simulation [pdf] (2023)

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  9. The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books (2023)

    56 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  10. ScreenPlay Is an Open Source Live-Wallpaper App for Windows and OS X

    56 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  11. Unprofessionalism (2013)

    56 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  12. SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  13. Show HN: Browser-based XSS scanner

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  14. Pavel Durov is questioned on 12 charges [pdf]

    56 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  15. Why Heroism Is Bad and What We Can Do to Stop It

    56 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  16. Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  17. TMobile fined $60M for unauthorized access to data: the largest fine of its type

    56 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  18. Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  19. 2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory

    56 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  20. The Mystery of Detective Barbie's Audio

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  21. The Path to StyleGan2 – Implementing the Progressive Growing GAN

    56 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  22. SaaS Copywriting: Marketing SaaS Framework

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  23. You Can't Spell WebRTC Without RCE – Part 1

    56 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  24. German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames

    56 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  25. TextBundle

    56 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  26. Largest protein yet discovered builds algal toxins

    56 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  27. Searching a Codebase in English

    56 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  28. Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video]

    56 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  29. Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  30. Proposed rule would ban airlines from charging parents to sit with children

    55 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  31. ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  32. 1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  33. About the IMGUI Paradigm

    55 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  34. The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  35. Show HN: FlowVision – Waterfall-Style Image Browser for macOS (Open-Source)

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  36. A gang of harmonica geeks saved the soul of the blues harp (2013)

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  37. Bevy's Game Engine Fourth Birthday

    55 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  38. Show HN: bpfquery – experimenting with compiling SQL to bpf(trace)

    55 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  39. .kkrieger – An FPS game from 2004 in 96kb

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  40. Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone

    55 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  41. Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  42. Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search

    55 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  43. The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug

    55 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  44. Upsetting Magazine #77 (2023)

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  45. 4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor

    55 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  46. What I Saw in the Darién Gap

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  47. Taichi: Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python

    55 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  48. A Texas DNA Lab Cracked the 1995 Murder of Catherine Edwards

    55 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  49. We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half

    54 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  50. Wush: Simplest and fastest way to transfer files between computers via WireGuard

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  51. Kubernetes Cost Management with the New OpenCost Plugin for Headlamp

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  52. Analysis of unicorn startup founders

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  53. Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  54. Programming with ChatGPT

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  55. It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  56. State and time are the same thing

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  57. Colorize Lidar point clouds with camera images

    54 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  58. IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay

    54 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  59. Tennessee Awards $5.5M to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  60. Show HN: Visualizing Chess Games

    54 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  61. My chatbot builder is over-engineered and I love it

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  62. Unmanned submarine discovers ice shelf mysteries, then disappears

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  63. Oxide: Control plane data storage requirements

    54 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  64. Launch HN: Roe AI (YC W24) – AI-powered data warehouse to query multimodal data

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  65. Thunderstorms Have Caused $45B in Damages in the U.S. in Six Months

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  66. RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  67. If you give Copilot the reins, don't be surprised when it spills your secrets

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  68. Windows 11 tweaks and usability improvements

    54 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  69. Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation

    54 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  70. Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs

    54 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  71. Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover'

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  72. OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100B

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  73. The genome diversity of major crops tells the story of their evolution

    54 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  74. Superhuman built an engine to find product market fit (2018)

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  75. Hetzner Pricing

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  76. VFusion3D: Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models

    53 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  77. Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  78. No tax on tips: Why politicians love it, and economists don't

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  79. NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  80. Federal Appeals Court Rules Fair Use May Be Narrowed to Serve Hollywood Profits

    53 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  81. Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure

    53 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  82. A Java language cumulative feature rollup

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  83. Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?

    53 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  84. Understanding Intel

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  85. Deprecate 0.0.0.0 for Private Network Access

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  86. Russia: Citizens must turn off home surveillance because Ukrainians are coming

    53 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  87. Trolltech's Documentation Process

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  88. Kitchen sponges can be used as memory devices

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  89. Building a GATT Server on Pi Pico W

    53 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  90. Intel's Day of Reckoning Arrives: 15,000 Jobs Will Be Eliminated

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  91. 'Megalopolis' trailer's fake critic quotes were AI-generated

    52 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  92. Genghis Khan, trade warrior (2021)

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  93. Wheel of Lunch: Killed by Yelp after 15 years

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  94. 'Virtually intact' wreck believed to be Royal Navy warship torpedoed in WWI

    52 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  95. Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects

    52 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  96. Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  97. Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days

    52 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  98. Backdoor in RFID cards allows instant cloning

    52 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  99. Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?

    52 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  100. Apple Macintosh System Software 7.1 source (m68k and basic PPC)

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2024