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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Pixel 9 Pro, Pro XL launch with Satellite SOS, Android 14, $999 starting price

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  2. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies at 56 of lung cancer

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  3. Show HN: Using AI to Generate Custom Sounds from Text

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  4. Slow TCP Connect on Windows

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  5. Libya's Central Bank Coup Turns to Farce with Plea for Passwords

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  6. Can We Hear Temperature? New Study Says Yes

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  7. 'My identity is stolen': Photos of influencers used to push pro-Trump propaganda

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  8. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care 2024

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  9. Terence Tao at IMO 2024: AI and Mathematics [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  10. Exploiting column chunks for faster ingestion and lower memory use

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  11. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  12. Pilet. a modular tablet-console based on pi5

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  13. Apple in Talks to Join New OpenAI Funding Round

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  14. Bananas almost went extinct 70 years ago – Now a deadly fungus is trying again

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  15. How to build a crazy 1000W 90k lumens led flashlight

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  16. Show HN: Fast Incremental Plaintext Searcher

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  17. Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  18. Hackers breach ISP to poison software updates with malware

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  19. Meta allows drug ads selling everything from opioids to cocaine

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  20. Half of American now carry credit card debt, many with no plan to pay it off

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  21. From McMurdo Sound to Flanders Fields

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  22. Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley's Best Engineering Teams (2013)

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  23. Ask HN: I can't grok front end development

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  24. Schedule Email API

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  25. What are great international locations to work at?

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  26. NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published with New Capabilities

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  27. Microsoft's internal memo: So Long, Intel (1992) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  28. UUIDv7: The Time-Sortable Identifier for Modern Databases

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  29. Bad news, red wine drinkers: alcohol is only ever bad for your health

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  30. Don't panic It's only 60 Linux CVE security bulletins a week

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  31. Scientist Wants to Block the Sun to Cool the Earth

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  32. Founder and CEO of Telegram arrested at French airport – report

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  33. New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  34. Houston restaurant still waiting for power a month after Beryl

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  35. Streetlights are influencing nature–from how leaves grow to how insects eat

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  36. Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  37. Scientist performs the first nonlinear study of black hole mimickers

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  38. Fake Insects: a game where you have to identify AI-generated insects

    14 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  39. Defcon Response to Badge Issues

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  40. TruffleHog now finds all Deleted and Private Commits on GitHub

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  41. Ask HN: How does LLM serving infra work?

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  42. AI Generated Song "Zo Zomer" in in Dutch Top25-NL Charts

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  43. The Red Herring of Red Flags: Why Resumes Are a Relic of the Past

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  44. When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  45. Rand Paul: KOSA is not the solution for protecting children from social media

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  46. WebComponents Proposal: Add lit-HTML to the browser

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  47. Against XMPP+omemo

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  48. Meta permanently bans The Cradle in latest attack on free speech

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  49. How to Cheat with Math – The Russian Cards Problem

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  50. Noyb files two complaints against EU Parliament over data breach

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  51. FoodAnalyze: Instant Food Label Analysis – Free for 24 Hours

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  52. Genie: Best AI Software Engineer

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  53. Extracting Pre-Post Correlations for Meta-Analyses of Repeated Measures Designs

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  54. Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  55. Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  56. Visualization of Consistent Hashing Rings

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  57. Intel hit with lawsuit over $32B loss, shareholders complain company hid problem

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  58. Free LoRaWAN Books

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  59. Neanderthals and humans interbred 47k years ago for 7k years, research suggests

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  60. Notion to terminate accounts with Russian billing history regardless of location

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  61. 2d Circuit Holds Lawfully Possessed Gun Does Not Constitute Probable Cause

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  62. Profiling Programming Language Learning

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  63. Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1880)

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  64. 5G from AT&T and Verizon turns out to be Europe-level bad

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  65. Show HN: Outperforming VByte for Large Integers Using Phi-Encoding

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  66. It seems that ChatGPT can reference Reddit data ~30 seconds after it's posted

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  67. San Francisco residents complain of late-night honking from Waymo cars

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  68. Jeff Bezos' family office is making big investments in AI

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  69. Detecting diamonds with X-ray technology(2014)

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  70. Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  71. Open-source utils for devs who don't like ads

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  72. Cockroachlabs – Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  73. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  74. Ask HN: Visualize Software Architecture/Concepts

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  75. Gamer Sets World Record by Hooking Up 444 Consoles to 1 TV

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  76. The Problem with the Job Market

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  77. Synchronization of bowhead whales

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  78. Antidepressants sexual side-effects, SSRI sexual dysfunction, serotonin syndrome

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  79. Miss your flip phone? people are ditching the smartphone for 'dumb phones'

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  80. China's dramatic drop in air pollution may have prevented suicides in the 2010s

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  81. Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  82. PFAS removed from water with 3D-printed ceramic monoliths

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  83. The AI Arms Race Isn't Inevitable

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  84. Honeywell 316

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  85. Show HN: Warehouse OpenAI requests to your own database

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  86. Rise and Fall of OpenSea

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  87. PhysGen: Rigid-Body Physics-Grounded Image-to-Video Generation

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  88. Photon Entanglement Drives Brain Function

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  89. Intel took billions from the CHIPS Act, and gave nothing back

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  90. The many, many signs that Kamala Harris' rally crowds aren't AI creations

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  91. Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  92. Ad Hoc Infrastructure – By Kent Beck

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  93. Florida's Biggest Insurer Says It Needs to Increase Rates by 93 Percent

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  94. Since my brain tumor diagnosis I've lived with a ticking time bomb in my head

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  95. Show HN: A directory to find open source AI projects easier

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  96. Avoiding Sun as Dangerous as Smoking (2016)

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  97. Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  98. Once more about the rule of 5

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  99. Mafias co-opted by CCP run money laundering networks through TD Bank in Toronto

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  100. Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2024