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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit?

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  2. The meanest app: Duolingo subjects its users to "emotional blackmail"

    39 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  3. CNCFsweeper

    39 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  4. Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  5. Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  6. Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme

    39 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  7. The difference between undefined behavior and ill-formed C++ programs

    39 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  8. Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update

    39 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  9. What Is Rotoscope Animation? The Process Explained (2020)

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  10. Britain to use "AI" to answer taxpayer's letters

    39 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  11. Say less in your emails, get more replies (2017)

    39 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  12. How we communicate signals seniority

    39 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  13. Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller – The Hustle

    39 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  14. Designing (Procedural) Monsters (2021) [video]

    39 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  15. The Elegant Universe: 25th Anniversary Edition

    39 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  16. CA Governor Newsom and AG Bonta Pretend Court Agreed with Them on Kids Code

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  17. The human typewriter, or why optimizing for typing is short-sighted

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  18. Setting expectations for open source participation (2018)

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  19. Nix in 100 Seconds [video]

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  20. By law, Chinese citizens must install the gov't spyware – ''anti-fraud'' app

    38 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  21. Analysis of EV charging stations finds reliability issues galore

    38 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  22. The surprising cause of fasting's regenerative powers

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  23. Epic vs. Google judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store

    38 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  24. AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  25. How a tiny radio station came to play a continuous loop since the late-1990s

    38 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  26. 6.893 Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  27. A blood test accurately diagnosed Alzheimer's 90% of the time, study finds

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  28. Michael Phelps is 14 feet tall

    38 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  29. Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  30. New Apache Airflow Operators for Google Generative AI

    38 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  31. Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  32. Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

    38 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  33. Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?

    38 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  34. Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps

    38 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  35. Hacked Tesla FSD computers disclose alarming raw data on deadly accidents

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  36. 1 vs. 1000 guitar picks (5000 picks/second) [video]

    38 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  37. Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

    38 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  38. Stoke awarded contract to develop space mobility capabilities

    38 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  39. If Fever Helps Fight Infection, Should I Avoid Fever-Reducing Drugs? (2018)

    38 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  40. #F – A Minimalistic Scheme System

    38 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  41. Phone maker Nothing: staff back into the office 5 days/week or quit

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  42. Complete Visual Guide to Sony CLIÉ (2000-2004)

    38 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  43. How Bank of America Ignores Its Own Rules to Prevent Dangerous Workloads

    38 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  44. What if Germany had invested in nuclear power?

    38 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  45. AFP Spent $500k Trying to Lock Up Autistic 13-Year-Old on Terrorism Charges

    38 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  46. Dogsheep: Tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  47. Myspace celebrates its 21st birthday. Do we still need it?

    38 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  48. Groq Raises $640M to Meet Soaring Demand for Fast AI Inference

    38 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  49. 2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  50. Building a 10BASE5 Thick Ethernet Network (2012)

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  51. Introducing The Fellowship for Maintainers – Sovereign Tech Fund

    38 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  52. Windows Control Panel set for deprecation

    38 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  53. The Authoritarian Playbook (2022)

    38 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  54. Neo – Futuristic Matrix Messenger

    38 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  55. Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008)

    38 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  56. Architectural Retrospectives: The Key to Getting Better at Architecting

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  57. Merchants of Complexity

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  58. Software Possession for Personal Use

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  59. Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (2020)

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  60. Google ignores indie DMCA takedown request for App Store knock off

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  61. 13 Years of Building Infrastructure Control Planes in Ruby

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  62. How to get to know someone (2018)

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  63. Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me prescription drugs

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  64. 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  65. Fake QR codes posted on Redondo Beach parking meters to scam drivers, police say

    37 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  66. Imec demonstrates logic and DRAM structures using High NA EUV Lithography

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  67. Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  68. Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  69. Our slowly growing Unix monoculture

    37 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  70. A 3D-printable quartz glass for high-performance applications (2023)

    37 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  71. A single server can go a long way these days

    37 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  72. Bill Ackman Raised No Money

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  73. I'm taking a sabbatical through end of year

    37 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  74. Intel Raptor Lake 0x129 CPU Microcode Performance Impact on Linux

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  75. Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  76. In a new book, Christof Koch views consciousness as a theorist and an aficionado

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  77. Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  78. Show HN: Test your WireGuard connectivity and see global stats, no client needed

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  79. Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  80. The First Law of Complexodynamics (2011)

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  81. Delivery worker minimum wage is bringing order to a wild industry

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  82. Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  83. The Case for Hypochondria

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  84. RubyGateway: Embed Ruby in Swift

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  85. Massachusetts 'Reviewing' Kei Car Ban After Uproar over Canceled Registrations

    37 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  86. A World Split Apart (1978)

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  87. Box2D 3.0 Released

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  88. Military Motivation and Frontier Maintenance

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  89. Poor man's signals – tiny vanilla JavaScript signals implementation

    36 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  90. No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues only accessible by public transit

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  91. Fluid Simulation and Web Assembly

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  92. Lilygo T-Deck Plus is a $70 handheld with GPS, LoRa, and a BlackBerry keyboard

    36 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  93. Mpox: Sweden confirms first case of 'more grave' variant outside Africa

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  94. Australia must treat housing as a human right: Former State Supreme Court judge

    36 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  95. Organic Maps Removed from Play Store Due to "Requirements for Family Program"

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  96. Ray Dalio's "The Changing World Order" [pdf]

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  97. Catcher plays for both teams in same game

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  98. Mastering ISO 8583 Message Networking with Golang

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  99. What Are 'Mini-Retirements,' and Who Takes Them?

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  100. Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2024