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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found

    491 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  2. Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

    490 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  3. A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g

    485 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  4. Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

    485 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  5. I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go

    484 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  6. Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

    482 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  7. I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust

    480 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  8. Crows are even smarter than we thought

    480 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  9. No Salt

    478 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  10. Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

    472 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  11. OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

    464 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  12. Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming

    461 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  13. Maker Skill Trees

    459 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  14. Okay, I Like WezTerm

    459 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  15. Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better

    457 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  16. OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20

    457 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  17. Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

    456 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  18. Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition

    455 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  19. NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

    454 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  20. Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

    452 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  21. Galois Theory

    450 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  22. X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum

    450 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  23. p5.js

    450 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  24. Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over

    449 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  25. Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged

    449 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  26. Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

    447 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  27. Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

    447 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  28. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

    447 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  29. USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

    446 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  30. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

    445 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  31. Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing

    440 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  32. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

    439 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  33. US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button

    438 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  34. Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits

    436 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  35. The semantic web is now widely adopted

    434 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  36. Hot Page – a graphical site builder

    432 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  37. How to build a 50k ton forging press

    431 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  38. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

    431 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  39. Stop Killing Games

    429 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  40. How I Use "AI"

    426 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  41. Bug squash: An underrated interview question

    424 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  42. Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts

    419 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  43. Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

    419 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  44. Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick

    419 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  45. The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

    418 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  46. The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script

    418 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  47. Make Firefox Private Again

    415 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  48. Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

    415 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  49. What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care

    413 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  50. Strandbeest

    412 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  51. Sourcegraph went dark

    412 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  52. NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

    410 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  53. Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

    409 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  54. Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out

    406 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  55. We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus

    406 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  56. We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

    403 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  57. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall

    397 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  58. Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)

    397 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  59. Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

    395 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  60. Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

    394 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  61. Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)

    393 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  62. CIEL Is an Extended Lisp

    392 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  63. How to avoid losing items? Holding pens

    392 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  64. It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis

    392 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  65. Python’s Preprocessor

    392 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  66. Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

    387 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  67. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon

    387 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  68. Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown

    386 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  69. Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig

    386 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  70. JavaScript dates are about to be fixed

    386 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  71. Just disconnect the internet

    384 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  72. US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died

    382 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  73. Writing a Rust compiler in C

    380 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  74. Can solar costs keep shrinking?

    376 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  75. RLHF is just barely RL

    375 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  76. Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

    373 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  77. The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection

    371 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  78. Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

    370 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  79. CockroachDB license change

    370 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  80. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

    369 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  81. Zed AI

    369 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  82. Examples of Great URL Design (2023)

    367 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  83. EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention

    365 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  84. Isometric Projection in Game Development

    363 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  85. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

    363 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  86. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

    362 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  87. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V

    362 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  88. Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]

    361 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  89. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

    360 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  90. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

    360 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  91. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

    360 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  92. Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

    359 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  93. Transformers for Ruby

    357 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  94. Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa

    357 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  95. Let's Write a Reverb (2021)

    356 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  96. Public Work: a search engine for public domain images

    356 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  97. Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor

    352 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  98. Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface

    352 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  99. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

    351 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  100. Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

    349 points • comment • aug 11, 2024