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Hacker News (Aug 2024)

  1. On Writing Well

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  2. The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  3. Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  4. Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  5. $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  6. Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?

    127 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  7. Cassette Tape Archive

    127 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  8. Dispatches from the farm upstate

    127 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  9. Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents

    126 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  10. Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off

    126 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  11. Surgeons Cut a Giant Tumor Out of My Head. Is There a Better Way?

    126 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  12. This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more

    126 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  13. Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives

    126 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  14. Go Donut: Convert Live Streaming to WebRTC

    126 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  15. The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk

    126 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  16. Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java

    126 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  17. How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI

    125 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  18. The Private Life: On James Baldwin

    125 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  19. Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?

    125 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  20. AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products

    125 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  21. What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

    124 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  22. Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more

    124 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  23. Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions

    124 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  24. Show HN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion

    124 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  25. Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down

    124 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  26. Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability

    123 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  27. National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

    123 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  28. Techniques for safe garbage collection in Rust

    122 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  29. WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD

    122 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  30. Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys

    122 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  31. Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  32. A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other

    122 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  33. Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage

    122 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  34. Magnetically levitated space elevator to low-earth orbit (2001) [pdf]

    122 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  35. Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO

    122 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  36. Firewalling your code

    122 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  37. The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

    121 points • comment • aug 11, 2024

  38. SQLite FTS5 Extension

    121 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  39. Dell lays off 12,500 people

    121 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  40. Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act

    121 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  41. Qwen2-Math

    121 points • comment • aug 08, 2024

  42. Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better

    121 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  43. Grace Hopper, Nvidia's Halfway APU

    121 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  44. "Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers"

    121 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  45. I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs

    120 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  46. So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

    120 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  47. Google says it is obligated to disclose confidential info to U.S. government

    120 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  48. Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations and Search

    120 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  49. The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted

    120 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  50. Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature

    120 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  51. The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus

    120 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  52. Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022)

    120 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  53. Interstellar movie is implemented with Einstein's equations in 40k lines C++

    120 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  54. Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next

    120 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  55. LLM-based sentiment analysis of Hacker News posts between Jan 2020 and June 2023

    119 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  56. Notes on Buttondown.com

    119 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  57. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

    119 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  58. KDE Asking for Donations

    119 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  59. Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators

    118 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  60. The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018)

    118 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  61. Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server

    118 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  62. Intel is laying off over 10k employees

    118 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  63. Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II

    118 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  64. Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency

    118 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  65. Writing a tile server in Python

    117 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  66. Modern Wardriving (2023)

    117 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  67. Hacking with PDF (2022)

    117 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  68. Imagining a personal data pipeline

    117 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  69. Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]

    117 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  70. Floating points between zero and one

    117 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  71. Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

    117 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  72. Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?

    117 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  73. China's manufacturers are going broke

    116 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  74. Show HN: Open-source LLM provider price comparison

    116 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  75. Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday

    116 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  76. Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990

    116 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  77. LLM as Database Administrator (2023)

    116 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  78. Seeing America by train

    116 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  79. Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries

    115 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  80. Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it

    115 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  81. Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes

    115 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  82. Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps

    115 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  83. Why CSV is still king

    114 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  84. HID Remapper

    114 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  85. DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  86. SwiftUI for Mac 2024

    114 points • comment • aug 22, 2024

  87. History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  88. Re-fixing Servo's event-loop

    114 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  89. The secret lives of snowblowers

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  90. Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard

    114 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  91. Python extensions should be lazy

    113 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  92. Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident

    113 points • comment • aug 07, 2024

  93. The weird of function-local types in Rust

    113 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  94. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret

    113 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  95. Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?

    113 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  96. How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins

    113 points • comment • aug 06, 2024

  97. Why Does Elisp Suck

    113 points • comment • aug 25, 2024

  98. How people with disabilities use the web

    113 points • comment • aug 23, 2024

  99. Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights

    113 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  100. Qub – a framework for building websites with QBasic

    113 points • comment • aug 04, 2024