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  1. Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

    462 points • 297 comments • aug 14, 2024

  2. Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync

    461 points • 102 comments • aug 12, 2024

  3. No Salt

    459 points • 145 comments • aug 06, 2024

  4. Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

    459 points • 75 comments • aug 18, 2024

  5. I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go

    455 points • 109 comments • aug 01, 2024

  6. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk

    455 points • 124 comments • aug 10, 2024

  7. Crows are even smarter than we thought

    454 points • 239 comments • aug 30, 2024

  8. OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

    453 points • 100 comments • aug 09, 2024

  9. Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better

    452 points • 187 comments • aug 26, 2024

  10. I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

    449 points • 295 comments • aug 21, 2024

  11. Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

    447 points • 291 comments • aug 17, 2024

  12. Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming

    445 points • 73 comments • aug 04, 2024

  13. Okay, I Like WezTerm

    444 points • 247 comments • aug 12, 2024

  14. Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

    444 points • 158 comments • aug 09, 2024

  15. Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

    444 points • 145 comments • aug 11, 2024

  16. Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

    444 points • 167 comments • aug 17, 2024

  17. Galois Theory

    437 points • 218 comments • aug 15, 2024

  18. Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

    434 points • 677 comments • aug 12, 2024

  19. p5.js

    434 points • 63 comments • aug 03, 2024

  20. Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged

    433 points • 86 comments • aug 13, 2024

  21. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

    432 points • 229 comments • aug 19, 2024

  22. Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over

    431 points • 464 comments • aug 29, 2024

  23. USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

    430 points • 284 comments • aug 08, 2024

  24. OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20

    430 points • 125 comments • aug 11, 2024

  25. NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

    429 points • 334 comments • aug 12, 2024

  26. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

    427 points • 508 comments • aug 19, 2024

  27. X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum

    427 points • 354 comments • aug 17, 2024

  28. The semantic web is now widely adopted

    427 points • 242 comments • aug 21, 2024

  29. Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing

    425 points • 364 comments • aug 25, 2024

  30. Maker Skill Trees

    422 points • 90 comments • aug 28, 2024

  31. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

    422 points • 180 comments • aug 06, 2024

  32. Hot Page – a graphical site builder

    417 points • 96 comments • aug 24, 2024

  33. US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button

    416 points • 196 comments • aug 12, 2024

  34. Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

    416 points • 110 comments • aug 12, 2024

  35. How to build a 50k ton forging press

    412 points • 166 comments • aug 21, 2024

  36. The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

    411 points • 251 comments • aug 20, 2024

  37. Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

    408 points • 68 comments • aug 31, 2024

  38. The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script

    406 points • 261 comments • aug 06, 2024

  39. Strandbeest

    405 points • 106 comments • aug 25, 2024

  40. Sourcegraph went dark

    404 points • 168 comments • aug 20, 2024

  41. Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition

    404 points • 47 comments • aug 16, 2024

  42. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

    403 points • 244 comments • aug 06, 2024

  43. Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick

    401 points • 247 comments • aug 27, 2024

  44. Stop Killing Games

    401 points • 142 comments • aug 05, 2024

  45. Bug squash: An underrated interview question

    400 points • 244 comments • aug 18, 2024

  46. What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care

    399 points • 223 comments • aug 22, 2024

  47. Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts

    398 points • 109 comments • aug 06, 2024

  48. Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

    397 points • 200 comments • aug 14, 2024

  49. Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits

    396 points • 113 comments • aug 29, 2024

  50. Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

    396 points • 134 comments • aug 04, 2024

  51. We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus

    395 points • 67 comments • aug 23, 2024

  52. NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

    387 points • 527 comments • aug 07, 2024

  53. Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out

    385 points • 92 comments • aug 07, 2024

  54. CIEL Is an Extended Lisp

    384 points • 92 comments • aug 30, 2024

  55. Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)

    381 points • 159 comments • aug 24, 2024

  56. How I Use "AI"

    381 points • 170 comments • aug 04, 2024

  57. Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

    379 points • 144 comments • aug 01, 2024

  58. Python’s Preprocessor

    378 points • 83 comments • aug 22, 2024

  59. Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown

    378 points • 111 comments • aug 06, 2024

  60. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall

    377 points • 92 comments • aug 10, 2024

  61. It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis

    374 points • 146 comments • aug 11, 2024

  62. We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

    374 points • 293 comments • aug 21, 2024

  63. Just disconnect the internet

    372 points • 193 comments • aug 01, 2024

  64. Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

    372 points • 217 comments • aug 15, 2024

  65. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon

    371 points • 315 comments • aug 11, 2024

  66. Can solar costs keep shrinking?

    370 points • 556 comments • aug 29, 2024

  67. Writing a Rust compiler in C

    368 points • 195 comments • aug 25, 2024

  68. Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

    366 points • 673 comments • aug 31, 2024

  69. US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died

    366 points • 197 comments • aug 21, 2024

  70. Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig

    365 points • 45 comments • aug 12, 2024

  71. JavaScript dates are about to be fixed

    363 points • 256 comments • aug 24, 2024

  72. How to avoid losing items? Holding pens

    360 points • 240 comments • aug 11, 2024

  73. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

    357 points • 156 comments • aug 19, 2024

  74. Let's Write a Reverb (2021)

    356 points • 61 comments • aug 15, 2024

  75. Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

    354 points • 105 comments • aug 15, 2024

  76. Zed AI

    354 points • 243 comments • aug 20, 2024

  77. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

    353 points • 167 comments • aug 19, 2024

  78. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

    353 points • 111 comments • aug 18, 2024

  79. Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

    353 points • 79 comments • aug 22, 2024

  80. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V

    352 points • 139 comments • aug 27, 2024

  81. RLHF is just barely RL

    352 points • 224 comments • aug 08, 2024

  82. The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection

    351 points • 151 comments • aug 30, 2024

  83. Transformers for Ruby

    350 points • 46 comments • aug 20, 2024

  84. Make Firefox Private Again

    349 points • 247 comments • aug 21, 2024

  85. Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa

    349 points • 125 comments • aug 28, 2024

  86. EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention

    348 points • 93 comments • aug 10, 2024

  87. CockroachDB license change

    346 points • 387 comments • aug 15, 2024

  88. Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor

    345 points • 111 comments • aug 27, 2024

  89. Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)

    344 points • 214 comments • aug 25, 2024

  90. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

    344 points • 342 comments • aug 01, 2024

  91. Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

    343 points • 160 comments • aug 25, 2024

  92. Public Work: a search engine for public domain images

    342 points • 51 comments • aug 05, 2024

  93. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

    342 points • 240 comments • aug 06, 2024

  94. SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99

    341 points • 128 comments • aug 23, 2024

  95. Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

    341 points • 95 comments • aug 11, 2024

  96. Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]

    341 points • 124 comments • aug 17, 2024

  97. Isometric Projection in Game Development

    341 points • 84 comments • aug 08, 2024

  98. WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System

    339 points • 75 comments • aug 04, 2024

  99. Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

    337 points • 113 comments • aug 20, 2024

  100. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

    335 points • 223 comments • aug 16, 2024