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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

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

    142 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  2. Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

    142 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  3. Making database systems usable

    142 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  4. We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency

    142 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  5. Game Informer shutting down after 33 years

    142 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  6. The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)

    141 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  7. EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications

    141 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  8. The Threat to OpenAI

    141 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  9. 80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report

    141 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  10. On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited

    141 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  11. Gitlab is reportedly up for sale

    141 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  12. Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process

    141 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  13. Home Assistant Presence Simulation

    141 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  14. Susan Wojcicki has died

    140 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  15. How Does OpenAI Survive?

    140 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  16. UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite

    140 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  17. If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention

    140 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  18. Trainwreck Design

    140 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  19. Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer

    140 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  20. Building Bubbletea Programs

    139 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  21. “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction

    139 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  22. Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?

    138 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  23. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

    138 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  24. Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS

    138 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  25. Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)

    138 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  26. Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language

    138 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  27. Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model

    138 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  28. Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea

    138 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  29. Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More

    138 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  30. GPU utilization can be a misleading metric

    138 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  31. Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down California pipeline

    138 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  32. Discovering algorithms by enumerating terms in Haskell

    138 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  33. How Deep Can Humans Go?

    138 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  34. Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?

    137 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  35. Researchers develop treatment that can kill glioblastoma cells in brain pathway

    137 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  36. Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes

    137 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  37. 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)

    137 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  38. The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)

    137 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  39. Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry

    136 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  40. Poetry was an official Olympic event

    136 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  41. Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule

    136 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  42. Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway

    136 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  43. Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

    136 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  44. An FPGA built with 7400 series logic [video]

    136 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  45. Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)

    136 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  46. WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

    136 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  47. Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming

    136 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  48. TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips

    136 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  49. Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool

    135 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  50. Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JavaScript

    135 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  51. Quark Stars

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  52. My IRC client runs on Kubernetes

    134 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  53. Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

    134 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  54. More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland

    134 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  55. How the SNES Graphics System Works

    134 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  56. The staggering death toll of scientific lies

    133 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  57. Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors

    133 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  58. Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw

    133 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  59. Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?

    132 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  60. Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps

    132 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  61. Judge Fines Ripple $125M, Bans Future Securities Law Violations

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  62. All text in Brooklyn

    132 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  63. Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework

    132 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  64. Ask HN: How to Price a Product

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  65. Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

    132 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  66. Show HN: Visual A* pathfinding and maze generation in Python

    132 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  67. Jepsen: Jetcd 0.8.2

    132 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  68. ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

    132 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  69. Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process

    132 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  70. Sega Jet Rocket: The '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

    132 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  71. YouTube Video to Tabs and Lyrics

    132 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  72. Brazilian court orders suspension of X

    132 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  73. GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

    132 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  74. Finite State Machine Designer

    131 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  75. Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

    131 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  76. MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images

    131 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  77. Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles

    131 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  78. Gear Acquisition Syndrome

    131 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  79. Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them

    130 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  80. xdg-override: change default application temporarily on Linux

    130 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  81. Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed

    130 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  82. Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust)

    130 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  83. Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs

    130 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  84. ARPA-H announces awards to develop novel technologies for precise tumor removal

    130 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  85. Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, Ollama, and SearXNG

    130 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  86. How de-Googled is Lineage OS?

    129 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  87. A different kind of keyboard (2021)

    129 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  88. Peng – A minimal Rust-based quadrotor simulation pipeline

    129 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  89. Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor

    129 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  90. Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so

    128 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  91. Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth

    128 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  92. A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts

    128 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  93. Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

    128 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  94. US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

    128 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  95. It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices

    128 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  96. Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice

    128 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  97. How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  98. Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  99. On Writing Well

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  100. Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2024