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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. US colleges are cutting majors and slashing programs after years of delays

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  2. TuneType

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  3. Why the ZIRP era ruined Software Architecture

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  4. Agile Is for Losers (2020)

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  5. Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  6. Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  7. Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  8. Government shelves £1.3B UK tech and AI plans

    11 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  9. Computers are bad: a pedantic review of the Las Vegas loop

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  10. Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain [video]

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  11. In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  12. Strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  13. Goldman Sachs to Lay Off over 1,300 Workers

    11 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  14. Mexico Before Europeans

    11 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  15. 'Bodies Like Greek Statues': Steroids Are Everywhere

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  16. Alpine.js for Ruby on Rails Developers: Simplifying Front End Development

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  17. Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  18. Show HN: An open-source AI Gateway with integrated guardrails

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  19. Go 1.23

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  20. Hit Chinese Video Game Seeks to Curb 'Negative Discourse'

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  21. Four Stages of Competence

    11 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  22. Google loses antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance

    11 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  23. Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston though both are as far

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  24. Amazon hires Covariant founders in latest 'reverse acquihire'

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  25. We Built a Tool to Hack Our Own AI: Lessons Learned Securing Chatbots/Voicebots

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  26. Introduction to Information Theory – Edward Witten [video]

    11 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  27. Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over "child exploitation"

    11 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  28. Pavel Durov is released under 5M euro bail

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  29. I left Russia and moved to Florida. These were the 5 biggest culture shocks

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  30. Protein Leverage Hypothesis

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  31. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms (2020)

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  32. OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Co-Founder John Schulman, & Peter Deng

    11 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  33. X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  34. What do scientists tell us about boxing's gender row?

    11 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  35. The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz Were Fair and Reasonable (2013)

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  36. Bigcapital – An open source alternative to Quickbooks releases v0.19.0

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  37. Malaysian ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  38. Awesome AI Tools – A Curated List of Artificial Intelligence Top Tools

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  39. 50 Years Later: Remembering How the Future Looked in 1974

    11 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  40. Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  41. Electric vehicle battery fires–what to know and how to react

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  42. First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

    11 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  43. Category Theory

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  44. 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  45. Developers Rail Against JavaScript 'Merchants of Complexity'

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  46. Rust vs. Zig in Reality: A (Somewhat) Friendly Debate

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  47. Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now?

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  48. Symmetrical Gear Spins One Way – Harvesting Surrounding Chaos

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  49. Motorola Razr 2024 Review: A $700 Steal Despite an Underwhelming Camera

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  50. GPU Restaking – Beyond digital currencies to physical computing resources

    11 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  51. UK police commissioner threatens to extradite,jail US citizens over online posts

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  52. Science of Groove [video]

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  53. New Zealand Justice Minister Signs Kim Dotcom's Extradition Order

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  54. Food allergy diagnoses in England doubled in a decade, say researchers

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  55. Ask HN: As you got older what have you realised?

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  56. I automatically applied 1000 jobs in 24h and got 50 interviews (using AI BOT)

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  57. We need visual programming. No, not like that

    11 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  58. 35 Years Ago, One RPG Changed the Course of Video Game History

    11 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  59. China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System

    11 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  60. Ettore Majorana

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  61. A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  62. Mark Zuckerberg regrets working with Biden Administration on censorship

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  63. Tesla's Optimus Robot Can't Even Compete at Trade Shows

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  64. Ask HN: Most effective and "non-invasive" morning wake up alarm method?

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  65. Language model can listen while speaking

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  66. Study finds organizations have a significant gap in security on macOS endpoints

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  67. Most charity interventions don't do much

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  68. More young men are becoming NEETs than women

    11 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  69. Why are Humans used as Batteries (a power source) in the Matrix? (2017)

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  70. Chipmaker Nvidia reportedly under DOJ antitrust investigation

    11 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  71. Dual-boot systems fail after Microsoft update

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  72. A 24 year dance of decoding UX

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  73. Cloudflare – Bandwidth Alliance

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  74. CCP Cracks Down on Once Popular Guandan Card Game

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  75. Stanford creative writing program laying off lecturers

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  76. When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  77. UK's largest mobile network tells parents: don't give under-11s smartphones

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  78. Online sports betting hurts consumers

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  79. Reddit Down for Users

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  80. Microsoft to retire Paint 3D, plans to remove the app from Store across devices

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  81. AI Cheating Is Getting Worse

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  82. RP2350 Hazard3 Added to LLVM

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  83. Wuffs has the fastest, safest PNG decoder in the world (2021)

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  84. Beautiful Tailwind CSS Built with Next.js and TypeScript

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  85. Top Chinese general tells US to stop colluding with Taiwan

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  86. IBM 7090 Mainframe Computer in auction by Christies

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  87. Show HN: an AI copilot for Next.js developers

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  88. A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  89. Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  90. Releasing Re-LAION 5B: Transparent Iteration with Additional Safety Fixes

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  91. 1,800 Alabama students will repeat third grade under new reading law

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  92. National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  93. 50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  94. German climate activists stop air traffic after breaking into four airport sites

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  95. Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  96. 80% of applicants with experience matching our stack were North Koreans

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  97. A somewhat faster, more lightweight, ripgrep-inspired alternative

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  98. Learning from the Earthquake (1990)

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  99. Ask HN: What LLM apps have you built inside your companies?

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  100. From React to Htmx on a real-world SaaS product (2022) [video]

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2024