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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

    180 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  2. The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

    180 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  3. Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood

    180 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  4. Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

    180 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  5. The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)

    180 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  6. Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping

    180 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  7. Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"

    179 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  8. Belenios: Verifiable online voting system

    179 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  9. WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner

    179 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  10. Ruby in Jupyter Notebook

    179 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  11. Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible

    179 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  12. I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company

    179 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  13. Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity

    178 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  14. pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

    177 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  15. Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist

    177 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  16. Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google

    177 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  17. How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis

    177 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  18. Intel's Immiseration

    177 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  19. 'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

    177 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  20. Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

    177 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  21. "Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"

    176 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  22. Deterministic Replay of QEMU Emulation

    175 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  23. Blood Disorder: Unveiling the Mystery of My Poisoning in Sweden

    175 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  24. I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (2019)

    175 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  25. Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps

    175 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  26. Threads Enables Fediverse Replies

    175 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  27. From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer

    174 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  28. Docusaurus – Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content

    174 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  29. Hardware Virtualization

    174 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  30. Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

    174 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  31. Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code

    173 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  32. Google Closure Library has been archived

    172 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  33. Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

    172 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  34. You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses

    172 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  35. Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)

    172 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  36. US FDA approves nasal spray alternative to EpiPen for allergic reactions

    171 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  37. Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues

    171 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  38. Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)

    171 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  39. Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit

    171 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  40. Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3

    171 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  41. Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

    170 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  42. The art of programming and why I won't use LLM

    170 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  43. The UX of HTML (2023)

    170 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  44. Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture

    170 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  45. Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement

    170 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  46. Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?

    170 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  47. Golang Interpreter Written in PHP

    170 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  48. Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational

    170 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  49. Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution

    170 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  50. 500 Python Interpreters

    170 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  51. Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown

    170 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  52. Lady tasting tea

    169 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  53. Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository

    169 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  54. Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be

    169 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  55. A primer on the current state of longevity research

    169 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  56. Tell HN: Google OAuth consent screen issue could be costing you signups

    169 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  57. Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian

    169 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  58. Julius: Open-source reimplementation of Caesar III

    169 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  59. Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'

    169 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  60. Implementing React from Scratch

    169 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  61. The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology

    169 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  62. Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor

    168 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  63. Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

    168 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  64. Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems

    168 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  65. Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds

    167 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  66. Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm

    167 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  67. Micro-libraries should never be used

    167 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  68. Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables

    167 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  69. Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

    167 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  70. How I learned to stop worrying and love userspace networking

    167 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  71. Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore

    166 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  72. Xapian: Open source search engine library

    166 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  73. Tales from the Far Side

    166 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  74. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)

    166 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  75. The Syndicated Actor Model

    166 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  76. Go 1.23 Released

    166 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  77. How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps

    166 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  78. Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications

    165 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  79. AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile

    165 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  80. Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript

    165 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  81. Client-side QR code generator with SVG output

    165 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  82. Kotlin for data analysis

    165 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  83. Apple is America's semiconductor problem

    165 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  84. I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services

    165 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  85. Postgres.new

    164 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  86. Antifragility in complex dynamical systems

    164 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  87. Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

    163 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  88. Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool

    163 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  89. The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass

    163 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  90. Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died

    162 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  91. I turned an old phone into a NAS

    162 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  92. Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs

    161 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  93. Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  94. Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index

    161 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  95. "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows

    161 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  96. Show HN: Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  97. Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)

    161 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  98. Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example

    161 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  99. How the music industry learned to love piracy

    161 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  100. Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)

    161 points • comment • aug 14, 2024