top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-09

Jake Seliger has died

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/08/jake-seliger-is-dead.html

2 years ago

.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-special-meeting-of-the-icann-board-29-07-2024-en#section2.a

2 years ago

OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

https://otranscribe.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr

2 years ago

Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP

https://www.thundercompute.com/

2 years ago

Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/invasion-of-privacy-hotel-room-inspections-confuse-hacker-convention-attendees-3121350/

2 years ago

Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)

https://urchin.biz/urchin-software-corp-89a1f5292999

2 years ago

Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

https://bhmt.dev/blog/sonic_pi/

2 years ago

DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems

https://www.ans.org/news/article-6276/darpa-wants-to-bypass-the-thermal-middleman-in-nuclear-power-systems/

2 years ago

Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-08/startup-ceo-says-vc-firm-punished-her-for-reporting-sex-assault

2 years ago

Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

https://www.nissin.com/en_jp/about/founder/

2 years ago

Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-base-3-computing-beats-binary-20240809/

2 years ago

Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI

https://github.com/TrafficGuard/nous

2 years ago

Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/public-cdn-risks/

2 years ago

SQLite FTS5 Extension

https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html

2 years ago

Grace Hopper, Nvidia's Halfway APU

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/07/31/grace-hopper-nvidias-halfway-apu/

2 years ago

Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/researchers-discover-potentially-catastrophic-exploit-present-in-amd-chips-for-decades-161541359.html

2 years ago

Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server

https://blog.orange.tw/2024/08/confusion-attacks-en.html

2 years ago

Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?

https://www.joehxblog.com/is-running-a-more-efficient-way-to-travel-than-walking/

2 years ago

Animated Film Making Process

https://disneyanimation.com/process/

2 years ago