854
303
Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines
a year ago
707
159
Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better
https://addyosmani.com/blog/write-learn/
587
227
Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-they-bypass-youtube-video-download-throttling/
555
101
Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
530
51
OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
https://openfarm.cc
429
115
Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript
https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town
406
183
Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media
https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/
404
142
Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
https://stackdiary.com/the-data-of-760000-discord-io-users-was-put-up-for-sale-on-the-darknet/
392
179
Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models
https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/following-pushback-zoom-says-it-won-t-use-customer-data-to-train-ai-models
386
300
Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
https://go.dev/blog/compat
367
146
Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment
362
177
JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe
https://www.quantamagazine.org/jwst-spots-giant-black-holes-all-over-the-early-universe-20230814/
344
337
Software Engineering at Google (2020)
https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/toc.html
320
144
I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one
https://claytonwramsey.github.io/2023/08/14/dumpster.html
262
148
Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says
https://www.reuters.com/legal/bankman-fried-used-customer-funds-100-mln-us-political-donations-prosecutors-say-2023-08-14/
259
119
The 2002 Überlingen midair collision
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/tears-in-the-rain-the-2002-%C3%BCberlingen-midair-collision-591232d0c51e
231
197
The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1130736/
229
161
Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/
223
277
Python: Just Write SQL
https://joaodlf.com/python-just-write-sql
222
151
Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
https://dashbit.co/blog/why-the-dot
180
71
Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework
https://veilid.com/
306
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
178
135
Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK
https://jitsi.org/blog/introducing-the-jitsi-meet-flutter-sdk/
95
Testing on production
https://marcochiappetta.medium.com/yes-you-should-test-on-production-61f6dc61908b
170
49
Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html
165
45
Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing
https://math.mit.edu/~shor/435-LN/
163
192
Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126182
155
110
Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)
https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html
154
Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/montana-loses-fight-against-youth-climate-activists-in-landmark-ruling/
22
Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/374089/does-there-exist-a-complete-implementation-of-the-risch-algorithm
147
46
Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/def_con_roundup/
107
Java 21: First Release Candidate
https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/21/
166
Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
https://www.thediff.co/archive/inside-the-decline-of-stack-exchange/
77
Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues
https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-shows-dementia-more-common-older-adults-vision-issues
141
43
Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-newspaper-police-raid-marion-county-record-joan-meyer-dies/
139
84
Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37119311
138
66
Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/
136
120
Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
https://www.wired.com/story/archiving-hip-hop-history/
38
Autospam and Naive Bayes
https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves
134
Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web
https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura
128
93
What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077351/microfinance-money-making/
111
How to run a miserable code review
https://badsoftwareadvice.substack.com/p/how-to-run-a-miserable-code-review
36
Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/36488/is-venus-in-some-way-tidally-locked-to-earth
123
195
Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114154/
122
81
Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)
https://defacto2.net/f/a3178
121
68
Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts
https://emiruz.com/post/2023-08-12-data-jobs/
24
Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency
https://github.com/epsilla-cloud/vectordb
Grindr employees have 2 weeks: agree to move across the country+RTO or lose jobs
https://www.businessinsider.com/grindr-united-unionized-employees-work-from-home-return-in-person-2023-8
25
Bombe: Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
70
Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fprogramming%2F
106
4
Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers
https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/
105
13
Stefan Tilkov has died
https://www.innoq.com/en/news/2023/08/stefan-tilkov-english/
108
The Cuts at WVU
https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/
104
Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-fanatics-is-building-a-weird
99
47
AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]
https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-vs-bytecode-interpreters-in-the-age-of-meta-compilation.pdf
29
LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
https://python.langchain.com/docs/use_cases/agent_simulations/two_player_dnd
The Dance of Śiva
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/08/09/the-dance-of-siva/
18
The Problem with Linus Tech Tips [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc
131
The IPv6 mess (2002)
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
91
Decimal to fraction
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/08/decimal-to-fraction/
89
Timing with Curl (2010)
https://susam.net/blog/timing-with-curl.html
117
Lack of Walkability in the US is destroying mental health
https://makeamericawalkable.com/
88
2
The Cost of Convenience
https://surma.dev/things/cost-of-convenience/
The Virtual Blender Camera
https://www.srlt.ca/virtual-blender-camera
83
16
Silicon Valley Bank vice president sentenced to 15 months in prison
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/silicon-valley-bank-vice-president-sentenced/