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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. No water, no power, hordes of birds: San Francisco's $25M private island

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  2. We can have democracy or we can have Facebook, but we can't have both (2020)

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  3. Trump's A.I. Stunt to Win Taylor Swift's Endorsement Backfires

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  4. GPT-4o vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  5. Failing starter motor – why does whacking it help?

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  6. The Eternal Truth of Markdown

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  7. Instead of carrying multiple camera lenses, this one lets you swap optics

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  8. Artemis II: Return to the Moon

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  9. Google Under Fire After Influencers Were Asked to Prefer Pixel Phones

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  10. Water treaty between Mexico and U.S. faces biggest test in 80 years

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  11. Podman Desktop 1.12: Remote access, macOS native GPU support and AI Lab

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  12. OpenAI says ChatGPT's weekly users have grown to 200M

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  13. An innovative cryptocurrency payment platform to provide payment solutions

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  14. Ida Pro 9.0 Beta (unintentionally?) available to the public

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  15. Webpage served from an EMF 2022 TiDAL badge

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  16. .less: Crafting .less Docker Containers That Will Blow Your Mind

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  17. A Uruguayan company is teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  18. Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  19. Show HN: InnoDB_rs – InnoDB 'Undelete' Toolkit in Rust

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  20. Show HN: Track project ETAs and statuses based on due date with this Jira App

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  21. PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for install reproducibility

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  22. Private Equity Is Coming for Youth Sports

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  23. Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail?

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  24. Uncensored AI: a fine tune of Llama 405B – no more PC nonsense

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  25. CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  26. NetNewsWire and Conditional Get Issues

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  27. China's cheating threatens to wreck Paris Olympics, US anti-drugs chief says

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  28. High school shuts down its library because of book-banning state law

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  29. US expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  30. Living with a Computer (1982)

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  31. 'AI gold mine': NGA aims to exploit archive of satellite images, expert analysis

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  32. Floating Point Math

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  33. Gen Z-Ers Are Computer Whizzes. Just Don't Ask Them to Type

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  34. Ask HN: Can individual setup payment gateway like stripe easily?

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  35. Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  36. Todoist's Guide to Deep Work

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  37. Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  38. Braid, Anniversary Edition 'Sold Like Dogs**T,' Developer Jonathan Blow Says

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  39. AI cameras spot toddlers not wearing seat belts

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  40. 2024 Olympics game U.S. medals by colleges

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  41. Real-Time Mouse Pointers

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  42. The Compounding Loophole

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  43. Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online [video]

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  44. How would you explain a tensor to a computer scientist?

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  45. Climate Change's Latest Deadly Threat: Lightning Strikes

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  46. Show HN: Flux LoRA Model Library

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  47. Rethinking the Nature of Light

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  48. Pavel Durov Arrested

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  49. Disney World: Cannot sue over wife's death at park as he signed up for Disney+

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  50. The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About – Terraform

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  51. Starbucks replaces CEO after just 17 months, turns to Chipotle leader

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  52. Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  53. Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  54. China's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Surpass Coal in Historic Milestone

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  55. Delidding the new Pi 5 to find the 'dark silicon' [video]

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  56. ICANN reserves .internal for private use at the DNS level

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  57. Twitter/X as a Bubble for Bad Ethics

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  58. The Reason Why Oranges Are Sold in Those Red Net Bags

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  59. Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn't Solve Food Deserts Deserts

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  60. Microsoft is losing a staggering amount of money on AI

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  61. Doomscrolling, existential anxiety and pessimism about human nature

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  62. Man Left Behind by Co-Workers During Office Retreat on Colorado Mountain

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  63. Access your brain? The creepy race to read workers' minds (2023)

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  64. Apple is opening the iPhone's NFC chip to third-party apps

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  65. A comparison of 22 Arenas in Rust

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  66. Tesla's reputation in Australia is tanking with buyers turned off by Elon Musk

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  67. X: We have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  68. Software estimates have never worked and never will

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  69. Timelapse of Juice's lunar-Earth flyby [video]

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  70. NYC elected officials push for student newspapers at every high school

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  71. Sean "Diddy" Combs Revealed as Part of Investors in Elon Musk's X Launch

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  72. Researchers develop reusable filter that removes 75% of PFAS from water

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  73. Hyundai Motor Group hits double-digit EV market share in the US

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  74. Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  75. Wallpaper Symmetries

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  76. Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-Training

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  77. Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  78. CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over global outage

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  79. Warner Bros. Discovery pretty much wiped the Cartoon Network website

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  80. Grafana 11.2 release: new updates for data sources, visualizations, and more

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  81. Large language models don't behave like people, even though we expect them to

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  82. Astroscale begins contract for space junk harvest satellite

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  83. LongWriter: Unleashing 10k Word Generation from Long Context LLMs

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  84. Linear Algebra: What matrices are (2011)

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  85. Museum Invites Back 4 Year Old Who Destroyed 3,500 Year Old Jar

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  86. What to Know About Calcification of the Pineal Gland

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  87. Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  88. Redbox app axed, dashing people's hopes of keeping purchased content

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  89. Star Wars walked away from the first self-retracting lightsaber toy

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  90. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  91. Carles Puigdemont: How I pulled off my daring escape from Spain

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  92. Sonos' $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  93. Demand for seed-oil-free foods is growing

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  94. Federal judge throws out U.S. ban on noncompetes

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  95. How deaf Nicaraguan children invented their own sign language

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  96. Axios announced it's laying off 10% of staff in a 'cringe' branded memo

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  97. Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  98. Overdose Deaths Are Finally Starting to Decline. Here's Why

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  99. Just Say It, Henry

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  100. The TrueType font system is also a byte code VM

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2024