top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-06

Medieval

https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320

2 years ago

Structured Outputs in the API

https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/

2 years ago

How French Drains Work

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/8/6/how-french-drains-work

2 years ago

Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/05/x-officially-kills-its-san-francisco-headquarters-will-relocate-workers-to-south-bay/

2 years ago

Moments in Chromecast's history

https://blog.google/products/google-nest/chromecast-history/

2 years ago

No Salt

https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/05/no-salt/

2 years ago

East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/06/superfest-unbreakable-drinking-glasses-east-germany

2 years ago

Please do not attempt to simplify this code

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/60c4c2b2521fb454ce69dee737e3eb91a25e0535/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go

2 years ago

Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

https://www.sakisv.net/2024/08/tracking-supermarket-prices-playwright/

2 years ago

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

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/parody-site-clownstrike-refused-to-bow-to-crowdstrikes-bogus-dmca-takedown/

2 years ago

Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts

https://1fps.video/

2 years ago

The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script

https://www.jointhefollowup.com/p/the-actual-wolf-of-wall-street-sales-script

2 years ago

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/06/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-says-he-will-join-rival-anthropic.html

2 years ago

The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-of-maintaining-a-new-machine/1

2 years ago

Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives

https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/elasticsearch_vs_postgres

2 years ago

A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film

https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/

2 years ago

The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-ifixit-partnership-story-3456726/

2 years ago

Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type

https://pola.rs/posts/polars-string-type/

2 years ago

Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half

https://www.philipotoole.com/building-rqlite-9-0-cutting-disk-usage-by-half/

2 years ago

X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to San Jose

https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/x-closing-san-francisco-hq-relocating-staffers-san-jose-palo-alto-shared-space-with-x-ai-linda-yaccarino-leaked-email/

2 years ago