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Hacker News (Aug 2024)
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  AnandTech Farewell
  
  2926 points • 584 comments • aug 30, 2024 
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  Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
  
  2560 points • 497 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
  
  2212 points • 207 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
  
  1961 points • 476 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
  
  1895 points • 414 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  "We ran out of columns"
  
  1553 points • 541 comments • aug 03, 2024 
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  I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
  
  1400 points • 395 comments • aug 21, 2024 
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  Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  
  1392 points • 465 comments • aug 27, 2024 
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  Starting Hospice
  
  1122 points • 140 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Diffusion models are real-time game engines
  
  1099 points • 393 comments • aug 28, 2024 
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  Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
  
  1099 points • 949 comments • aug 12, 2024 
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  Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
  
  1096 points • 280 comments • aug 22, 2024 
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  Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
  
  1046 points • 920 comments • aug 24, 2024 
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  Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
  
  1040 points • 534 comments • aug 17, 2024 
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  Did you lose your AirPods?
  
  1018 points • 366 comments • aug 23, 2024 
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  CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
  
  955 points • 188 comments • aug 01, 2024 
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  Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
  
  923 points • 113 comments • aug 31, 2024 
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  Jake Seliger has died
  
  918 points • 187 comments • aug 09, 2024 
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  NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
  
  899 points • 211 comments • aug 26, 2024 
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  Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
  
  891 points • 683 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
  
  880 points • 266 comments • aug 26, 2024 
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  OpenAI is good at unminifying code
  
  858 points • 289 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  Medieval
  
  829 points • 309 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
  
  813 points • 1088 comments • aug 15, 2024 
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  Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
  
  800 points • 304 comments • aug 11, 2024 
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  Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
  
  795 points • 422 comments • aug 18, 2024 
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  Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
  
  776 points • 245 comments • aug 17, 2024 
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  How I got my laser eye injury
  
  763 points • 343 comments • aug 01, 2024 
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  Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
  
  758 points • 368 comments • aug 20, 2024 
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  Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
  
  756 points • 443 comments • aug 01, 2024 
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  DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
  
  751 points • 591 comments • aug 23, 2024 
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  Structured Outputs in the API
  
  733 points • 264 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
  
  719 points • 267 comments • aug 13, 2024 
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  How French Drains Work
  
  718 points • 199 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
  
  710 points • 331 comments • aug 01, 2024 
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  The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
  
  709 points • 680 comments • aug 02, 2024 
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  Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
  
  708 points • 600 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Elasticsearch is open source, again
  
  705 points • 392 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
  
  688 points • 96 comments • aug 07, 2024 
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  You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
  
  687 points • 386 comments • aug 24, 2024 
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  There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
  
  682 points • 261 comments • aug 12, 2024 
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  Open Source Farming Robot
  
  680 points • 349 comments • aug 03, 2024 
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  I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
  
  677 points • 332 comments • aug 08, 2024 
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  Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
  
  672 points • 765 comments • aug 25, 2024 
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  Toasts are bad UX
  
  661 points • 371 comments • aug 20, 2024 
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  Susan Wojcicki has died
  
  654 points • 374 comments • aug 10, 2024 
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  Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
  
  637 points • 200 comments • aug 01, 2024 
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  Prevention of HIV
  
  633 points • 291 comments • aug 07, 2024 
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  LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
  
  631 points • 136 comments • aug 08, 2024 
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  Puppeteer Support for Firefox
  
  630 points • 88 comments • aug 07, 2024 
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  Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
  
  629 points • 131 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
  
  628 points • 183 comments • aug 07, 2024 
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  Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
  
  610 points • 157 comments • aug 26, 2024 
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  SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
  
  609 points • 376 comments • aug 12, 2024 
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  Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
  
  604 points • 348 comments • aug 08, 2024 
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  Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
  
  601 points • 374 comments • aug 31, 2024 
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  Calling All Hackers
  
  591 points • 224 comments • aug 21, 2024 
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  Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
  
  590 points • 1271 comments • aug 24, 2024 
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  How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
  
  590 points • 203 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
  
  589 points • 1108 comments • aug 27, 2024 
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  Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
  
  586 points • 173 comments • aug 20, 2024 
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  Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
  
  585 points • 1119 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  Do quests, not goals
  
  583 points • 164 comments • aug 08, 2024 
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  13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
  
  582 points • 242 comments • aug 19, 2024 
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  Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
  
  577 points • 97 comments • aug 10, 2024 
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  Repair and Remain (2022)
  
  567 points • 228 comments • aug 12, 2024 
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  Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
  
  566 points • 153 comments • aug 02, 2024 
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  Low Cost Mini PCs
  
  563 points • 270 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  How to build quickly
  
  557 points • 115 comments • aug 03, 2024 
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  The Monospace Web
  
  553 points • 138 comments • aug 27, 2024 
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  Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
  
  550 points • 570 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
  
  544 points • 361 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  Ending production of Chromecast
  
  539 points • 524 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
  
  534 points • 191 comments • aug 20, 2024 
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  A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
  
  530 points • 107 comments • aug 27, 2024 
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  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
  
  523 points • 473 comments • aug 25, 2024 
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  Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
  
  519 points • 162 comments • aug 12, 2024 
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  Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
  
  516 points • 300 comments • aug 08, 2024 
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  .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
  
  514 points • 252 comments • aug 09, 2024 
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  How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner
  
  514 points • 85 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
  
  507 points • 271 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
  
  501 points • 675 comments • aug 24, 2024 
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  Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
  
  500 points • 127 comments • aug 04, 2024 
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  VanillaJSX.com
  
  499 points • 210 comments • aug 16, 2024 
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  Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
  
  494 points • 217 comments • aug 18, 2024 
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  The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
  
  494 points • 377 comments • aug 02, 2024 
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  Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
  
  491 points • 402 comments • aug 31, 2024 
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  UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
  
  489 points • 267 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
  
  487 points • 186 comments • aug 05, 2024 
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  Google Pixel 9 Pro
  
  484 points • 1117 comments • aug 13, 2024 
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  East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
  
  484 points • 273 comments • aug 06, 2024 
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  GitHub was down
  
  483 points • 238 comments • aug 14, 2024 
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  Artificial intelligence is losing hype
  
  482 points • 721 comments • aug 20, 2024 
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  17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
  
  474 points • 189 comments • aug 23, 2024 
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  I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
  
  474 points • 103 comments • aug 10, 2024 
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  Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
  
  472 points • 199 comments • aug 11, 2024 
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  I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
  
  472 points • 301 comments • aug 13, 2024 
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  Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
  
  470 points • 382 comments • aug 26, 2024 
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  Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
  
  468 points • 267 comments • aug 29, 2024 
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  A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
  
  465 points • 310 comments • aug 10, 2024