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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

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

    263 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  2. How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability

    263 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  3. A deep dive into how linkers work (2008)

    263 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  4. FCast: Casting Made Open Source

    262 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  5. Eyechat

    262 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  6. Caltech Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure Blood Pressure

    261 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  7. Make your electronics tamper-evident

    261 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  8. Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams

    261 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  9. Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial

    260 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  10. Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping

    259 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  11. Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

    259 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  12. Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers

    259 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  13. Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)

    259 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  14. Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks

    259 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  15. WebGL visual programming editor cables.gl is now open source

    258 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  16. Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI

    258 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  17. Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer

    258 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  18. Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs

    256 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  19. The Third Atomic Bomb

    255 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  20. AMD records its highest server market share in decades

    255 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  21. Algorithms we develop software by

    255 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  22. Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

    253 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  23. Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs

    253 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  24. ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  25. Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  26. Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review

    250 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  27. One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One

    249 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  28. Using a list to manage executive function

    249 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  29. EU ChatControl is back on the agenda

    249 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  30. Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

    248 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  31. Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

    248 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  32. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

    247 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  33. Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)

    245 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  34. This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more

    245 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  35. Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

    245 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  36. OpenSSH Backdoors

    245 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  37. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

    244 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  38. GNU Screen 5.0 Released

    244 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  39. Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging

    243 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  40. The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim

    243 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  41. MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]

    243 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  42. Clang vs. Clang

    243 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  43. Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age

    242 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  44. A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final

    240 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  45. Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool

    240 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  46. Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good

    240 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  47. Aristotle – How to live a good life

    239 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  48. Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

    238 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  49. U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news

    238 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  50. Marketing to Engineers (2001)

    238 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  51. LM Studio 0.3 – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

    237 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  52. Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

    233 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  53. A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard

    233 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  54. Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

    233 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  55. Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

    232 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  56. Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible

    232 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  57. What If Data Is a Bad Idea?

    231 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  58. Self-Compressing Neural Networks

    231 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  59. What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images

    231 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  60. Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos

    230 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  61. Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?

    230 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  62. Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?

    230 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  63. Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet

    229 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  64. Don’t let your domain name become a sitting duck

    228 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  65. ArchiveTeam Warrior

    228 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  66. Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

    228 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  67. Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

    227 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  68. Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

    227 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  69. Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes

    226 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  70. Typing lists and tuples in Elixir

    226 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  71. Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes

    226 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  72. Renderings Created with Only a Pencil

    226 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  73. AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis

    225 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  74. Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra

    224 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  75. Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off

    224 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  76. Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

    223 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  77. Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

    223 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  78. An open-source flow battery kit

    222 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  79. I Made an Extended Version of Vimtutor – Introducing Vimtutor Sequel

    222 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  80. What you learn by making a new programming language

    222 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  81. Making your own hot sauce

    222 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  82. Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)

    221 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  83. Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app

    221 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  84. GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments

    220 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  85. How Uber tests payments in production

    220 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  86. ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

    220 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  87. Designing my own watch (2020)

    219 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  88. Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish

    218 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  89. Web Design Museum

    218 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  90. Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type

    218 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  91. Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring

    217 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  92. Intel SGX Fuse Key0, a.k.a. Root Provisioning Key Was Extracted by Researchers

    217 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  93. DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

    216 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  94. Null-Restricted and Nullable Types

    216 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  95. Seven basic rules for causal inference

    214 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  96. Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

    214 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  97. The future of kdb+?

    214 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  98. What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models

    213 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  99. On finishing projects

    213 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  100. Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement

    213 points • comment • aug 10, 2024