880
321
Medieval
https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320
4 months ago
764
269
Structured Outputs in the API
https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/
755
209
How French Drains Work
https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/8/6/how-french-drains-work
634
1201
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/
597
577
Moments in Chromecast's history
https://blog.google/products/google-nest/chromecast-history/
519
167
No Salt
https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/05/no-salt/
512
294
East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/06/superfest-unbreakable-drinking-glasses-east-germany
479
311
Please do not attempt to simplify this code
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/60c4c2b2521fb454ce69dee737e3eb91a25e0535/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go
467
210
Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
https://www.sakisv.net/2024/08/tracking-supermarket-prices-playwright/
448
159
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/
433
125
Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
https://1fps.video/
429
271
The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script
https://www.jointhefollowup.com/p/the-actual-wolf-of-wall-street-sales-script
403
280
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
348
48
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
319
121
Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/elasticsearch_vs_postgres
285
93
A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film
https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/
268
119
The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-ifixit-partnership-story-3456726/
226
67
Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type
https://pola.rs/posts/polars-string-type/
197
43
Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half
https://www.philipotoole.com/building-rqlite-9-0-cutting-disk-usage-by-half/
191
2
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/
190
132
Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"
https://protonvpn.com/blog/stealth-vpn-protocol
183
158
YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-fall-2024#
150
79
Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/science/tsung-dao-lee-dead.html
36
Carvings at Gobekli Tepe may be oldest calendar
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1751696X.2024.2373876#abstract
148
WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/wordstar_7_the_last_ever/
147
27
Show HN: ScholArxiv – an open-source, aesthetic, minimal research paper explorer
https://github.com/dagmawibabi/ScholArxiv
146
54
MNT Pocket Reform first impressions and hardware
https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/06/mnt-pocket-reform-first-impressions/
140
95
Dell lays off 12,500 people
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/dell_layoffs/
133
90
Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
https://github.com/d3witt/viking
28
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding
130
4
How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins
https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/06/how-to-let-go-one-life-ends-while-another-begins/
129
30
Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
https://text.marvinborner.de/2024-04-16-10.html
76
WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/wd-announces-enterprise-128tb-ssd-8tb-sd-cards-and-a-16tb-external-ssd-at-fms-2024
124
101
Google says it is obligated to disclose confidential info to U.S. government
https://targettrend.com/google-says-it-is-obligated-to-disclose-confidential-information-of-users-to-u-s-government/
122
20
Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps
https://slingcode.net/
Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYOF-YggWAg
120
18
Writing a tile server in Python
https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/writing-a-tile-server-in-python/
CrowdStrike Official RCA is now out [pdf]
https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf
115
89
Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173330
9
Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap
https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/how-to-query-osm/
113
65
How not to say the wrong thing (2013)
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407-story.html
111
Finding Nash equilibria through simulation
https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/nashSim/
108
46
VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
https://benlo.com/visicalc/
107
44
Blackhouses of Scotland
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/04/blackhouses-of-scotland.html
100
47
Qlot: Common Lisp Library Manager
https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot
99
21
The ancient art of roasting agave
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-ancient-art-of-roasting-agave
105
My favorite device is a Chromebook
https://kokada.capivaras.dev/blog/my-favorite-device-is-a-chromebook/
97
87
Plunk: The open source email platform
https://github.com/useplunk/plunk
92
Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/no-ifs-many-bots-partisan-bot-accounts-continue-amplify-divisive-content-x-generating-over-4-billion-views-uk-general-election-was-called/
91
24
TR1X: Open-source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1
https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X
40
Who Wrote the Blue Screens of Death
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240730-00/?p=110062
OpenAI: Cofounders Greg Brockman, John Schulman, along with others, to leave
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trio-of-leaders-leave-openai
88
73
How long does Apple support Mac firmware?
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/08/06/how-long-does-apple-support-mac-firmware/
86
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
85
74
No price Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: Google antitrust ruling excerpts
https://www.theverge.com/24214574/google-antitrust-search-apple-microsoft-bing-ruling-breakdown
