top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-08

I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=11.%20RP2350

4 months ago

700 upvotes – 341 comments

Do quests, not goals

https://www.raptitude.com/2024/08/do-quests-not-goals/

4 months ago

649 upvotes – 174 comments

LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime

https://github.com/mikex86/LibreCuda

4 months ago

643 upvotes – 145 comments

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/

4 months ago

634 upvotes – 356 comments

Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

https://www.ft.com/content/b3bb80f4-4e01-4ce6-8358-f4f8638790f8

4 months ago

570 upvotes – 361 comments

USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

https://blog.smithsecurity.biz/hacking-the-scammers

4 months ago

460 upvotes – 301 comments

RLHF is just barely RL

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246

4 months ago

386 upvotes – 257 comments

Isometric Projection in Game Development

https://pikuma.com/blog/isometric-projection-in-games

4 months ago

369 upvotes – 93 comments

How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months

https://www.figma.com/blog/migrating-onto-kubernetes/

4 months ago

298 upvotes – 383 comments

Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

https://github.com/stack-auth/stack

4 months ago

280 upvotes – 141 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new-5-microcontroller-board-on-sale-now/

4 months ago

277 upvotes – 131 comments

How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6303226026131456/a-deep-dive-into-cve-2023-2163-how-we-found-and-fixed-an-ebpf-linux-kernel-vulnerability

4 months ago

268 upvotes – 65 comments

Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment

https://system76.com/cosmic

4 months ago

251 upvotes – 197 comments

FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention

https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/

4 months ago

210 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41196237

4 months ago

207 upvotes – 55 comments

Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/are-function-calls-still-slow-in-python

4 months ago

204 upvotes – 167 comments

Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

https://blog.robertelder.org/gnu-coreutils-package-guide/

4 months ago

199 upvotes – 83 comments

Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4800828-office-mandates-cause-attrition/

4 months ago

195 upvotes – 172 comments

Hacking a Virtual Power Plant

https://rya.nc/vpp-hack.html

4 months ago

189 upvotes – 46 comments

Intel's Immiseration

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intels-immiseration

4 months ago

185 upvotes – 218 comments
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