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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app

    212 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  2. Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment

    212 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  3. Grok-2 Beta Release

    212 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  4. Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

    212 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  5. How the OCaml type checker works (2022)

    212 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  6. The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)

    212 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  7. Consistently Making Wrong Decisions Whilst Writing Recreational C

    211 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  8. Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library

    211 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  9. What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces?

    211 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  10. Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)

    210 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  11. Getting back into C programming for CP/M

    210 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  12. A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines

    209 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  13. Someone's been messing with Python's floating point subnormals

    209 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  14. DRAKON

    209 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  15. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

    209 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  16. BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time

    209 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  17. FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)

    208 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  18. No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda

    208 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  19. Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

    208 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  20. Show HN: Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash

    208 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  21. Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust

    205 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  22. FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention

    205 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  23. Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+

    205 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  24. Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died

    205 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  25. Transformers in music recommendation

    204 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  26. Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

    204 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  27. Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work

    203 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  28. Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)

    203 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  29. New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings

    203 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  30. The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist

    203 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  31. Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid

    203 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  32. Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty

    202 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  33. Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

    202 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  34. The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth

    202 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  35. Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

    201 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  36. Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups

    201 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  37. New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China's 'Volt Typhoon'

    201 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  38. Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

    201 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  39. Routed Gothic Font

    200 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  40. Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query

    200 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  41. Panasonic Toughbook 40

    200 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  42. Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

    199 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  43. The future of Deep Learning frameworks

    199 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  44. Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate

    199 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  45. Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"

    198 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  46. Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)

    197 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  47. I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

    197 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  48. Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)

    197 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  49. Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing

    197 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  50. Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.

    196 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  51. Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping

    196 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  52. Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system

    195 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  53. Praise My GitHub Profile

    194 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  54. Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft

    194 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  55. Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

    193 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  56. OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

    193 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  57. 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam

    193 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  58. The Future of TLA+ [pdf]

    192 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  59. Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half

    192 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  60. "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

    192 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  61. The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

    192 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  62. Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

    191 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  63. The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

    191 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  64. RP2350 PicoDVI Preview

    191 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  65. Open Source Twitch for Developers

    190 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  66. Phrack 71

    190 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  67. NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

    190 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  68. Just use Postgres

    190 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  69. Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)

    190 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  70. Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp

    189 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  71. How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

    189 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  72. Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?

    189 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  73. Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS

    188 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  74. Firedancer: Language for 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns

    188 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  75. I lost my Google Play dev account

    188 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  76. DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems

    187 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  77. Using AI to fight insurance claim denials

    187 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  78. RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

    186 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  79. Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

    186 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  80. SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring

    186 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  81. What Is a Knowledge Graph?

    186 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  82. X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to San Jose

    186 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  83. Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)

    186 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  84. Lenticular Clock

    186 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  85. Maximal min() and max()

    185 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  86. Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

    185 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  87. Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing

    184 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  88. Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

    184 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  89. 1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide

    184 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  90. A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust

    183 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  91. Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM

    182 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  92. Show HN: A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News

    182 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  93. Jerk

    182 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  94. Yesterday's Pixels, Today

    182 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  95. Slackdump

    182 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  96. YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27

    182 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  97. Hacking a Virtual Power Plant

    181 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  98. Primitive Recursive Functions for a Working Programmer

    181 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  99. Firewall rules: not as secure as you think

    181 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  100. Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood

    181 points • comment • aug 04, 2024