731
97
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
https://icode4.coffee/?p=954
2 years ago
694
200
Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
https://roometron.com
667
305
Prevention of HIV
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/prevention-hiv
655
90
Puppeteer Support for Firefox
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/08/puppeteer-support-for-firefox/
422
108
Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/8/3.html
417
552
NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html
308
302
Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/18a527bcc1f0bdaf542d8b9a189c50068615b439/proposals/TypeUnions.md
275
95
Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams
https://www.budgetflow.cc/
266
255
The Third Atomic Bomb
https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/the-third-atomic-bomb/
227
144
How Uber tests payments in production
https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/cringey-but-true-how-uber-tests-payments
225
111
70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam
https://blog.phylum.io/the-great-npm-garbage-patch/
223
94
GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments
https://www.treatmenteffect.app/
213
127
What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces?
https://www.core77.com/posts/133176/What-are-the-Olympics-Shooting-Competitors-Wearing-On-Their-Faces
203
77
Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
https://github.com/markuman/sms
191
1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/clean-air-act-climate-change
47
Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
https://argdown.org/
190
114
Maximal min() and max()
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/983965/3266dc25bf5c68d7/
161
42
Mistral Agents
https://mistral.ai/news/build-tweak-repeat/
158
621
In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/02/book-against-death-elias-canetti-review/
143
87
Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More
http://www.numberworld.org/blogs/2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardown/
142
133
Poetry was an official Olympic event
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/poetry-was-an-official-olympic-event-for-nearly-40-years-what-happened-180984838/
141
123
Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)
https://safemap.io/sf/map
139
52
Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming
https://github.com/gazette
138
159
Gear Acquisition Syndrome
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48282
137
68
Ask HN: How to Price a Product
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180492
135
54
A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/a-two-stroke-engine-made-from-scratch-using-basic-hardware-store-parts/
134
40
Judge Fines Ripple $125M, Bans Future Securities Law Violations
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/08/07/judge-fines-ripple-125m-bans-future-securities-law-violations-in-long-running-sec-case/
130
65
Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322
128
15
The Private Life: On James Baldwin
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08/02/the-private-life-on-james-baldwin/
126
116
I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life
https://www.gq.com/story/sleep-apnea-study
122
45
Imagining a personal data pipeline
https://www.joshcanhelp.com/personal-data-pipeline/
120
80
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x
118
106
Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/07/cats-appear-to-grieve-death-of-fellow-pets-even-dogs-study-finds
115
63
Python extensions should be lazy
https://www.gauge.sh/blog/python-extensions-should-be-lazy
112
How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety
https://cheriot.org/cheri/2024/08/06/how-to-talk-about-CHERI.html
110
24
A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/ab-testing-mistakes-i-learned-the
23
Segment Anything Model and Friends
https://www.lightly.ai/post/segment-anything-model-and-friends
103
31
Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department
102
Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux
https://www.chris-wood.design/resources/linux-for-ux-designers
101
50
Neon: A serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
GitButler is now fair source
https://blog.gitbutler.com/gitbutler-is-now-fair-source/
93
83
2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/29-billion-hit-in-one-of-largest-data-breaches-ever-full-names-addresses-and-ssns-exposed
88
33
A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics (2003) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/notices/200503/fea-weil.pdf
86
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming
https://twitter.com/amdryzen/status/1820956835794358451
85
macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run not notarized or signed apps
https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-makes-it-harder-to-run-apps-that-dont-follow-apples-security-rules/
78
The Pesticide Industry's Toxic Lobby
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/pesticide-cancer-lobbying-lawsuits/
Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem
https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/scrum-is-the-symptom-not-the-problem
34
Faulty instructions in C910 RISC-V CPUs
https://ghostwriteattack.com
75
How Olympic Timing Works
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/olympic-timing.htm
74
153
Can kids master the video games their parents loved?
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/aug/07/this-is-impossible-can-kids-master-the-video-games-their-parents-loved
Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182565
73
39
Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Orchestrate AI Infrastructure and Applications
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182055
Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit
https://www.ft.com/content/491d7760-c329-4f57-9509-0da36bc9e7de
72
Atlanta Police Monitoring of 'Cop City' Opponents' Political Activity
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/internal-atlanta-police-records-reveal-monitoring-cop-city-opponents
70
Ask HN: How to build site with payment, subscriptions, user login, registration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182823
71
18
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
14
Review – Ford’s First Engine
https://sites.google.com/site/lagadoacademy/machining---lathes-mills-etc/review---ford-s-first-engine
67
62
Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/211/24/3836/18013/Limits-to-running-speed-in-dogs-horses-and-humans
66
46
First USGS supercomputer decommissioning makes way for successors
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/first-usgs-supercomputer-decommissioning-makes-way-successors
56
A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946)
https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1947-53-06/S0002-9904-1947-08821-2/S0002-9904-1947-08821-2.pdf
64
12
Thoughts on Canonical S-Expressions (2019)
https://write.emacsen.net/thoughts-on-canonical-s-expressions
Hetzner Pricing
https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/pricing/hetzner-pricing/
48
macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screen recording apps
https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-screen-recording-privacy-prompt/
61
Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover'
https://coq.inria.fr/
60
29
Deprecate 0.0.0.0 for Private Network Access
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5106143060033536
