The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2024

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AnandTech Farewell anandtech.com · janice1999 · 30 Aug 2024

3k pts 598 comments

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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels ytch.xyz · hadisafa · 14 Aug 2024

2.7k pts 514 comments

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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes eieio.games · todsacerdoti · 29 Aug 2024

2.4k pts 218 comments

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Bypassing airport security via SQL injection ian.sh · iancarroll · 29 Aug 2024

2k pts 440 comments

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Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch blog.hopefullyuseful.com · ranebo · 29 Aug 2024

2k pts 478 comments

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"We ran out of columns" jimmyhmiller.github.io · poidos · 3 Aug 2024

1.6k pts 571 comments

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I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it switowski.com · switowski · 21 Aug 2024

1.5k pts 419 comments

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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team mono-project.com · itherseed · 27 Aug 2024

1.4k pts 478 comments

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CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike clownstrike.lol · clownstrikelol · 1 Aug 2024

1.2k pts 229 comments

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Starting Hospice jakeseliger.com · jdkee · 5 Aug 2024

1.2k pts 145 comments

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport theguardian.com · NoxiousPluK · 24 Aug 2024

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon news.patreon.com · miiiiiike · 12 Aug 2024

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Diffusion models are real-time game engines gamengen.github.io · jmorgan · 28 Aug 2024

1.1k pts 409 comments

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Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase github.com · nezaj · 22 Aug 2024

1.1k pts 297 comments

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Did you lose your AirPods? alexyancey.com · RockRobotRock · 23 Aug 2024

1.1k pts 383 comments

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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player mpv.io · Bluestein · 17 Aug 2024

1.1k pts 559 comments

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Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop magazine.sebastianraschka.com · mdp2021 · 31 Aug 2024

970 pts 136 comments

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Jake Seliger has died marginalrevolution.com · A_D_E_P_T · 9 Aug 2024

960 pts 193 comments

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Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones bloomberg.com · rvz · 5 Aug 2024

959 pts 731 comments

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NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture nsa.gov · gaws · 26 Aug 2024

946 pts 227 comments

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OpenAI is good at unminifying code glama.ai · punkpeye · 29 Aug 2024

931 pts 304 comments

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Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform hamel.dev · tosh · 26 Aug 2024

922 pts 270 comments

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Medieval teenage.engineering · beefman · 6 Aug 2024

880 pts 321 comments

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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com · wut42 · 15 Aug 2024

853 pts 1.2k comments

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Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules reason.com · throwup238 · 18 Aug 2024

840 pts 464 comments

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Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine zen-browser.app · femou · 20 Aug 2024

828 pts 409 comments

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Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine github.com · pabs3 · 11 Aug 2024

821 pts 318 comments

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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely github.com · tosh · 17 Aug 2024

816 pts 255 comments

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The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community afterbabel.com · throwup238 · 2 Aug 2024

800 pts 770 comments

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DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters justice.gov · pseudolus · 23 Aug 2024

795 pts 625 comments

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How I got my laser eye injury funraniumlabs.com · omnibrain · 1 Aug 2024

792 pts 361 comments

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Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech 100r.co · Bluestein · 1 Aug 2024

780 pts 488 comments

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Structured Outputs in the API openai.com · davidbarker · 6 Aug 2024

764 pts 269 comments

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You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites lelouch.dev · JustinSkycak · 24 Aug 2024

760 pts 403 comments

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Elasticsearch is open source, again elastic.co · dakrone · 29 Aug 2024

759 pts 450 comments

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How French Drains Work practical.engineering · chmaynard · 6 Aug 2024

755 pts 209 comments

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All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019) usgs.gov · tigerlily · 13 Aug 2024

753 pts 275 comments

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Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane n_ermosh · 5 Aug 2024

738 pts 615 comments

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Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead groups.google.com · bojanz · 1 Aug 2024

738 pts 371 comments

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Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn decripto.org · toss1 · 25 Aug 2024

733 pts 829 comments

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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy icode4.coffee · ndiddy · 7 Aug 2024

731 pts 97 comments

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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018) qntm.org · squircle · 12 Aug 2024

728 pts 291 comments

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Susan Wojcicki has died twitter.com · grandmczeb · 10 Aug 2024

721 pts 452 comments

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Open Source Farming Robot farm.bot · pedrodelfino · 3 Aug 2024

714 pts 356 comments

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Toasts are bad UX maxschmitt.me · Mackser · 20 Aug 2024

702 pts 385 comments

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Low Cost Mini PCs lowcostminipcs.com · mjcurl · 29 Aug 2024

701 pts 336 comments

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I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350 dmitry.gr · elipsitz · 8 Aug 2024

700 pts 341 comments

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How to build quickly learnhowtolearn.org · fagnerbrack · 3 Aug 2024

697 pts 144 comments

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Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments roometron.com · streakolay · 7 Aug 2024

694 pts 200 comments

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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters blog.fal.ai · CuriouslyC · 1 Aug 2024

683 pts 226 comments

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Calling All Hackers phrack.org · picture · 21 Aug 2024

674 pts 253 comments

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Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms wdwnt.com · fortran77 · 14 Aug 2024

667 pts 366 comments

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Prevention of HIV science.org · etiam · 7 Aug 2024

667 pts 305 comments

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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting blog.glyphdrawing.club · microflash · 14 Aug 2024

665 pts 137 comments

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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube sponsor.ajay.app · anotherhue · 12 Aug 2024

661 pts 400 comments

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Puppeteer Support for Firefox hacks.mozilla.org · cpeterso · 7 Aug 2024

655 pts 90 comments

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Do quests, not goals raptitude.com · zdw · 8 Aug 2024

649 pts 174 comments

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Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor cprimozic.net · Ameo · 26 Aug 2024

645 pts 165 comments

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LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime github.com · rrampage · 8 Aug 2024

643 pts 145 comments

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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content politico.com · southernplaces7 · 27 Aug 2024

639 pts 1.3k comments