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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. The Bug in the Computer Bug Story (2022)

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

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

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

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

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  4. Scientists Build a Simple Gel 'Brain' That Learns How to Play Pong Better

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  5. The Anatomy of Brainwashing

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  6. Tvision – A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  7. Map of the World's Emotional Temperature

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

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

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  9. Catcher plays for both teams in same game

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  10. Show HN: I develop free, open source and web based irregular shapes bin solver

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  11. "Grip Car"

    36 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  12. Humane's daily returns are outpacing sales

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  13. New compound found to be effective against 'flesh-eating' bacteria

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  14. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announces he is joining Anthropic

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  15. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  16. Our renewal bill for Datadog came to –$83,000/year before we canceled

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  17. Improving cat food flavors with the help of feline taste-testers

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  18. The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  19. White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Meeting-Industrial Complex

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  20. SPL: A programming language coding in a grid

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  21. Streams, Calculational Proofs and Dafny

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  22. Is there any way HN can implement a 'paywall tag' to save wasted clicks?

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  23. Ren'Py

    35 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  24. Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change?

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  25. How I started blogging (2024)

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  26. Judge orders removal of 1,000ft rotting ocean liner from Philadelphia pier

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  27. Blood Pressure Control Should Focus on More Potassium (2023)

    35 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  28. National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

    35 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  29. America Has Too Many Laws – An excess of restrictions has taken a real toll

    35 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  30. Navy Ad: Gig Work Is a Dystopian Unregulated Hellscape, Build Submarines Instead

    35 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  31. Why don't we have personalized search engines?

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  32. Canadian Tire Money

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  33. Hypothyroidism: The anonymous Olmec artisan and Velázquez (2017)

    35 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  34. StructuredRAG: JSON Response Formatting with Large Language Models

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  35. Changes in Need for Uniqueness From 2000 Until 2020

    35 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  36. Apple Is Building Its Own Modem, Plays Long Game in Dropping Qualcomm

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  37. San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of X headquarters: 'Good riddance'

    35 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  38. Meteorites give the Moon its thin atmosphere

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  39. AI-Driven Drone Surveillance Is Leading to Home Insurance Cancellations

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  40. Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  41. Launch HN: Synnax (YC S24) – Unified hardware control and sensor data streaming

    35 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  42. Kioxia Demonstrates Raid Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  43. Brazil blocks Starlink bank accounts

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  44. X64_dbg: An open-source x64/x86 debugger for Windows

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  45. AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

    35 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  46. Brain-to-Speech Tech Good Enough for Everyday Use Debuts in a Man with ALS

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  47. Growth hacking? More like systems thinking

    34 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  48. Harmonic Function Theory

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  49. Has the degradation in the quality of ChatGPT and Claude over time been proven?

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  50. Baron who revived Olympics believed they were a religion of perfection and peace

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  51. When A.I.'s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

    34 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  52. Senate: Kroger's new AI pricing scheme is 'corporate greed out of control'

    34 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  53. All the possible ways to destroy Google's monopoly in search

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  54. Samsung delivers solid-state battery for EVs with 600-mile range

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  55. China is stockpiling – we must do the same

    34 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  56. Does Sundar Pichai/Search team know how bad Google search is?

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  57. Show HN: Monogo – Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo

    34 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  58. Recession and crisis in the IT industry. 7 months of interviews with 50 managers

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  59. Show HN:I build a website to generate infographics

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  60. Death Cafe

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  61. Canada wildfires last year released more carbon than several countries

    34 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  62. Repulsive Shells [video]

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  63. I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – what I discovered

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  64. Unified Grid: How we re-architected Slack for our largest customers

    34 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  65. DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  66. Epic Games Store Launches on iPhone in EU, Brings Fortnite Back to iOS

    34 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  67. The Calendar of Sound of Hermeto Pascoal (2020) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  68. Phantom Menance: memory leak that wasn't there

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  69. MacBook Air, M2 Chip, 8GB RAM: Nothing is open, but half the memory is gone

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  70. Signals for Tailwind CSS (styling based on ancestor state via style queries)

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  71. Understanding 3D Graphics

    34 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  72. Mozilla removes telemetry service Adjust from mobile Firefox versions

    34 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  73. I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  74. Is C99 actually Turing-complete? (2016)

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  75. The Airport Security Liquid Rules That Refuse to Go Away

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  76. Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs

    33 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  77. Handwritten Text Recognition for Xournal++ Using Deep Learning

    33 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  78. Nissan Invents Car Paint That Can Lower Interior Temps by Nearly 10 Degrees

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  79. Golang Sync Mutex: Normal and Starvation Mode

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  80. California bill to ban food dyes in schools may have nationwide impact

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  81. Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  82. Parochialism in time and space (2021)

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  83. Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible (2005)

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  84. Smoke Forecast – Real time map of fires and their smoke with forecast

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  85. Apple Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  86. NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  87. Review of Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  88. Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?

    33 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  89. Chemical 'waves' used to encode words as Morse code

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  90. Americans are doing less DIY. It's another worrying sign for the economy

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  91. Programming vs. Software Engineering (Rust vs. Go)

    33 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  92. After a decade of free Alexa, Amazon now wants you to pay

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  93. Ancient DNA Revolution

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  94. Ask HN: What was your biggest startup fail?

    33 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  95. Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  96. UK chip giant ARM developing GPU in Israel

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  97. B.C. brings in 'bell to bell' school phone ban

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  98. Integrating Random Functions on a Cluster with Temporal

    33 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  99. The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  100. $1T wipeout: Market rout punishes mega-cap tech

    33 points • comment • aug 05, 2024