The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2024
We track 1,082 stories from August 2024, averaging 261 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 123 stories. Together they drew 153,547 comments, 142 per story on average.
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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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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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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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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
qntm.org · squircle · 12 Aug 2024
728 pts
291 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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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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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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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
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