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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System

    347 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  2. SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99

    344 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  3. Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications

    343 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  4. We need to liberate the Postcode Address File

    343 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  5. Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

    340 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  6. The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

    339 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  7. Mike Mageek is dead

    338 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  8. Vim Racer

    338 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  9. Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?

    337 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  10. Blockbuster Video VHS insert template

    335 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  11. Leaving Neovim for Zed

    335 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  12. Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

    334 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  13. Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M

    334 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  14. Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)

    333 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  15. The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology

    332 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  16. I sped up serde_json strings by 20%

    331 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  17. A new type of neural network is more interpretable

    331 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  18. X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

    329 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  19. Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

    329 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  20. Linux Pipes Are Slow

    327 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  21. Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)

    327 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  22. Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles

    327 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  23. Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP

    323 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  24. Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world

    321 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  25. CSS Grid Areas

    319 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  26. Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees

    319 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  27. Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase

    319 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  28. Faster CRDTs (2021)

    318 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  29. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

    317 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  30. The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute

    316 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  31. Adding 16 kb page size to Android

    316 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  32. HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver

    312 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  33. Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

    312 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  34. Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

    311 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  35. Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images

    310 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  36. Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans

    309 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  37. Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away

    309 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  38. NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

    307 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  39. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk

    307 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  40. Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)

    306 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  41. Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives

    305 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  42. Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

    303 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  43. Accident Forgiveness

    301 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  44. US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

    300 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  45. Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux

    299 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  46. SDL3 new GPU API merged

    299 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  47. Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere

    298 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  48. Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)

    298 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  49. Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS

    297 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  50. Official proposal for Type Unions in C#

    297 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  51. "Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees

    295 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  52. Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

    295 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  53. TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them

    294 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  54. How I Program in 2024

    293 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  55. How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)

    292 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  56. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

    292 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  57. City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack

    289 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  58. Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program

    289 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  59. How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months

    289 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  60. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

    288 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  61. Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE

    288 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  62. Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter

    286 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  63. Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator

    285 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  64. Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned

    285 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  65. Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library

    284 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  66. The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)

    284 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  67. Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

    284 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  68. Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

    284 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  69. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

    283 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  70. Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

    281 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  71. I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

    281 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  72. A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film

    281 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  73. Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1

    280 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  74. Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

    279 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  75. Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?

    279 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  76. Building a highly-available web service without a database

    278 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  77. Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place

    278 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  78. FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator

    277 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  79. Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems

    277 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  80. Pipe Syntax in SQL

    276 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  81. Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'

    275 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  82. Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC

    274 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  83. Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

    274 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  84. Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers

    274 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  85. Clojure Desktop UI Framework

    274 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  86. Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero

    273 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  87. Did your car witness a crime?

    273 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  88. The 4-chan Go programmer

    272 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  89. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

    271 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  90. Games People Play with Cash Flow (2020)

    270 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  91. Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'

    270 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  92. PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser

    269 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  93. Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite

    269 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  94. Why we picked AGPL

    265 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  95. The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO

    265 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  96. DEF CON's response to the badge controversy

    265 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  97. COSMIC Alpha Released

    265 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  98. A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)

    264 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  99. Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)

    264 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  100. The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

    263 points • comment • aug 19, 2024