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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. Show HN: Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread

    161 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  2. How the music industry learned to love piracy

    161 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

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

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  4. Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos

    160 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  5. Building data infrastructure that will last

    160 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  6. Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

    159 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  7. FUTO

    159 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  8. Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones

    159 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  9. LLM and Bug Finding: Insights from a $2M Winning Team in the White House's AIxCC

    158 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  10. Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker

    158 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  11. Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed

    158 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  12. Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

    158 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  13. The introverts are winning

    158 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  14. Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you

    158 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  15. Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews

    158 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  16. Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form

    158 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  17. Prompt Caching

    157 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  18. Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

    157 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  19. To Nerves from Elixir

    157 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  20. What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation

    157 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  21. Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults

    157 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  22. Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models

    157 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  23. Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic

    157 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  24. Space is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampus

    157 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  25. FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band

    157 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  26. Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen

    156 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  27. Update on Llama adoption

    156 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  28. Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video]

    156 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  29. Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

    156 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  30. Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

    156 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  31. Software possession for personal use

    155 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  32. Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh

    154 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  33. In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality

    154 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  34. Better Living Through Algorithms (2023)

    154 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  35. The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism

    154 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  36. Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds

    153 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  37. Just use fucking paper, man

    153 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  38. Micrograd.jl

    153 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  39. Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022)

    153 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  40. Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list

    153 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  41. Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe

    153 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  42. AMD's Radeon 890M: Strix Point's Bigger iGPU

    152 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  43. The End of Finale

    152 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  44. Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit

    152 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  45. DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage

    152 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  46. There Is No Website

    152 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  47. Zngur: A C++/Rust interop tool

    152 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  48. Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization

    151 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  49. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

    151 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  50. Mistral Agents

    150 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  51. Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)

    150 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  52. DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

    150 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  53. Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs

    150 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  54. To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

    150 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  55. Rust in Linux Revisited

    149 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  56. Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs

    149 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  57. Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

    149 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  58. On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)

    149 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  59. A rare disorder makes people see monsters

    149 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  60. Show HN: Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service

    149 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  61. Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990

    149 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  62. Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died

    148 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  63. 1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation

    148 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  64. Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting

    148 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  65. Carvings at Gobekli Tepe may be oldest calendar

    148 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  66. OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console)

    148 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  67. Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

    148 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  68. Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms

    148 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  69. Total War: Rome II and Creative Assembly – My Statement Ten Years On

    147 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  70. Programming a CH32v003 with light

    147 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  71. Degas: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars

    147 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  72. Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

    147 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  73. Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power

    147 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  74. LLMs know more than what they say

    146 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  75. Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit

    146 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  76. Rerun: Visualize Multimodal Data over Time

    146 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  77. Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years

    146 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  78. Ruby's official documentation just got a new look

    145 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  79. Study: Consumers Actively Turned Off by AI

    145 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  80. An unordered list of things I miss in Go

    145 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  81. Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup

    144 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  82. Postgres as a Search Engine

    144 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  83. Generating Mazes

    144 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  84. USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040

    144 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  85. Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

    144 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  86. Can reading make you happier? (2015)

    144 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  87. Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica

    143 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  88. Making an atomic trampoline [video]

    143 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  89. Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions

    143 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  90. Splatt3R: Zero-Shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs

    143 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  91. My fake job in Y2K preparedness

    143 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  92. Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes

    143 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  93. Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web

    143 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  94. Game Informer shutting down after 33 years

    142 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  95. Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]

    142 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  96. Show HN: ScholArxiv – an open-source, aesthetic, minimal research paper explorer

    142 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  97. Making database systems usable

    142 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  98. Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS

    142 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  99. We found North Korean engineers in our application pile

    142 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  100. Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly

    142 points • comment • aug 19, 2024