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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  2. Show HN: Similar user search for Hacker News

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  3. Trautonium – a German synthesizer invented in 1930

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  4. Tornado (2021)

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  5. Estuaries and coastlines capture most plastic before it gets out to sea

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  6. Show HN: I built a dumb directory – tell me I didn't waste my time

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  7. China's Taichi-II Chip: First Optical AI Processor Outperforms Nvidia H100

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  8. The history and future of workplace automation (2015)

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  9. 520M-year-old larva fossil reveals the origins of arthropods

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  10. Moscow under attack: Air defenses shoot down killer drones over Russian capital

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  11. Andrej Karpathy on X: RLHF is just barely RL

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  12. Show HN: RAGBuilder – Hyperparameter tuning on various RAG parameters

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  13. This is MIT and yes, we have bananas

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  14. FusionAuth 1.52.0 – Passkeys for Everyone

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  15. Ask HN: Strategies to rein in or prevent bikeshedding?

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  16. Elon Musk's Boring Company can't get Tesla FSD to work in tunnels

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  17. SaaS Economics

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  18. Why China Would Struggle to Invade Taiwan

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  19. Hacker dad who faked death to avoid child support sentenced to prison

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  20. California Passes Bill Requiring Easier Data Sharing Opt Outs

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  21. Show HN: Devlog, generate development blog posts from Git commit messages

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  22. Fake insects – Find the AI generated insect

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  23. The Reason People Aren't Having Kids

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  24. Weird Object Careening Across the Cosmos at Ludicrous Speeds

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  25. Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  26. AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  27. MacBook app generated $100k in seven days, now Stripe won't pay up

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  28. X Suspended By Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  29. Training independent subnetworks for robust prediction

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  30. Mega-Rich Family's Advisers Made Fortune Despite $30B in Failed Bets

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  31. 'Pig Butchering' Online Scams Are Proliferating. Here's Why They Work So Well

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  32. Show HN: Open-Source macOS App for AI-Summarized Web Change Alerts

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  33. The VS Code Flatpak is useless

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  34. Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  35. Notion-like WYSIWYG editor with export to a beautiful static HTML website

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  36. British tech tycoon: I only got justice because I'm rich

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  37. Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  38. The use of mare's milk for yogurt ice cream and synbiotic ice cream production

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  39. Show HN: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  40. Chipmaker Intel to cut 15,000 jobs as tries to revive its business

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  41. Crayola Trademarks the Smell of Its Crayons

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  42. America Has a Hot-Steel Problem

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  43. No smoking in your own home, California city orders residents

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  44. LangChain vs. LlamaIndex

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  45. Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in STEM [video]

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  46. Bitcoin Investors Buy Puts Aggressively

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  47. Elon Musk and JK Rowling could be handed five-year sentences for cyberbullying

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  48. The enemies within: How the pandemic radicalised Britain

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  49. Google Discontinues Chromecast Line

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  50. Cancer is on the rise in younger adults

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  51. What are the odds, II: the Venezuelan presidential election

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  52. The Mystics of Progress (2023)

    9 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  53. NASA Says SpaceX Will Bring Boeing's Starliner Astronauts Back to Earth, in Feb

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  54. Show HN: Open-Source Shamir Secret Sharing Library in Go

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  55. Show HN: Valkey-Operator Kubernetes Operator for Valkey (Redis Fork)

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  56. Why the collapse of the Generative AI bubble may be imminent

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  57. The Higgs particle could have ended the universe by now – Why are we still here?

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  58. Show HN: No-Code ETL Framework for Vector Databases

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  59. GEN One: Innovations from the Paul G. Allen Collection

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  60. More than 75% of popular takeaway and restaurant food is unhealthy, study finds

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  61. China to achieve 'basic' self-sufficiency for chip fab tools this summer

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  62. Iran Emerges as the Most Aggressive Foreign Threat to U.S. Election

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  63. Converting ASCII strings to lower case at crazy speeds with AVX-512

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  64. A simply utility script which allows you to analyze your Python file

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  65. Telegram CEO charged in France for 'allowing criminal activity' on messaging app

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  66. Stern-Gerlach Experiment

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  67. Uterus transplant trial ends with bundles of joy

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  68. China's Long March 6A rocket is making a mess in low-Earth orbit

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  69. "I've not repaid a penny of my £70K student loan since leaving Britain"

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  70. CPU Dispatching: Make your code both portable and fast (2020)

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  71. The Complexity of Business Source License (BUSL) Transformation

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  72. Nue 1.0 (Beta) – A web framework for UX developers

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  73. 'Star Wars: The Acolyte' has been canceled

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  74. Apple delays highly anticipated device due to 'technical challenges'

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  75. 'Wartime CEO': Urbit's Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  76. Proof of P ≠ NP (2nd attempt)

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  77. His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  78. CrowdStrike: Tech Alert – EU-1 – system performance degradation – 2024-08-22

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  79. Elon Musk is being ridiculous. Companies are free to choose where to advertise

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  80. Palantir for Developers

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  81. Brain wiring is guided by activity even in early development

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  82. What's your favorite RSS feed reader?

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  83. In 'Riefenstahl,' a Director Takes Down Hitler's Favorite Filmmaker

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  84. Zero to Sixty Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety

    9 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  85. Canada's Housing Bust Pits Real Estate Coaches Against Students

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  86. Nearly 12% of India's tested spice samples fail quality and safety standards

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  87. Gift card scams generate billions as regulators fail to protect consumers

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  88. Gemma explained: What's new in Gemma 2

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  89. Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  90. Tetris for Sharp Electronic Notebook (1989)

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  91. 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  92. Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  93. Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video]

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  94. Elon Musk's lawyers subpoena public interest groups

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  95. Cellular Starlink Will Offer Free Emergency Service to All Phones

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  96. Theres a Tool to Catch Students Cheating with ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn't Released It

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  97. Outage for Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  98. The Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light (1880)

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  99. Developers can soon offer in‑app NFC transactions using the Secure Element

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  100. Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, study finds

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2024