top 50% 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

960 upvotes – 193 comments

.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

563 upvotes – 278 comments

OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

https://otranscribe.com/

2 years ago

482 upvotes – 103 comments

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

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr

2 years ago

479 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP

https://www.thundercompute.com/

2 years ago

344 upvotes – 108 comments

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

322 upvotes – 327 comments

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

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

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 57 comments

Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

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

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 30 comments

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

191 upvotes – 142 comments

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

176 upvotes – 68 comments

Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 62 comments

Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

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

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 160 comments

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

https://github.com/TrafficGuard/nous

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs

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

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

SQLite FTS5 Extension

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

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 56 comments

Grace Hopper, Nvidia's Halfway APU

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

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

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

121 upvotes – 106 comments

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

120 upvotes – 180 comments

Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server

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

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 16 comments

Animated Film Making Process

https://disneyanimation.com/process/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: I built Mailhub – A scalable API for sending emails with ease not tears

https://www.mailhub.sh/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 54 comments

Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/infinite-proofs-the-effects-of-mathematics-on-david-foster-wallace/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-report-boeing-damning-assessments-rcna165813

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Perceived Age

https://suryad.com/blog/percieved-age/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor

https://www.reuters.com/technology/signal-messenger-blocked-russia-says-roskomnadzor-ifax-2024-08-09/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 104 comments

What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?

https://extkits.co.uk/what-the-hell-is-a-luminiferous-theremin/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/08/margaret-watts-hughes-voice-figures/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

If you give Copilot the reins, don't be surprised when it spills your secrets

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/copilot_black_hat_vulns/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Using alternative browser engines in the European Union

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 154 comments

Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary

https://nomenclature.ctang.art

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Don't write Rust like it's Java (2023)

https://jgayfer.com/dont-write-rust-like-java/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

The UK government has blocked IPs

https://www.police.uk/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 95 comments

The Dying Web

https://endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

XMPP vs. Matrix

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200028

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 89 comments

LangGraph Engineer

https://github.com/hwchase17/langgraph-engineer

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

https://jalopnik.com/boeing-starliner-could-brick-iss-docking-port-if-crew-a-1851615463

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 100 comments

Of mice and men and Magdalen: C. S. Lewis’s Oxford

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-2024/of-mice-and-men-and-magdalen/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

History of HTTPS Usage

https://www.jefftk.com/p/history-of-https-usage

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 26 comments

Launch HN: Roe AI (YC W24) – AI-powered data warehouse to query multimodal data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41202694

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

SaaS Copywriting: Marketing SaaS Framework

https://slimsaas.com/blog/saas-copy-writing-saas-marketing-framework-works

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Upsetting Magazine #77 (2023)

https://www.markdomowicz.com/all/2023_10_16_upsetting_magazine_77/article/upsettingmagazine77/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

A gang of harmonica geeks saved the soul of the blues harp (2013)

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-a-gang-of-harmonica-geeks-saved-the-soul-of-the-blues-harp/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-09-solar-energy-breakthrough-could-reduce-need-solar-farms

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21075

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

VFusion3D: Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models

https://github.com/facebookresearch/vfusion3d

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Magit 4.0 Released

https://emacsair.me/2024/08/09/magit-4.0/

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Japan Issues First Ever Mega Earthquake Warning

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-earthquake-tsunami-advisory-rcna165728

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Zotero 7: Zotero, Redesigned

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

The Rise of Neotoddlerism: how society encourages activists to act like infants

https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-outrageous-rise-of-neotoddlerism

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Books of the world, stand up and be counted All 129,864,880 of you. (2010)

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html

2 years ago

45 upvotes – 36 comments

Burning Man is struggling to sell tickets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-09/silicon-valley-may-be-losing-its-cultural-connection-with-burning-man

2 years ago

44 upvotes – 22 comments

AI-Driven Drone Surveillance Is Leading to Home Insurance Cancellations

https://scnr.com/article/ai-driven-drone-surveillance-is-leading-to-unexpected-home-insurance-cancellations_ea244cc8558f11ef9c930242ac1c0002

2 years ago

43 upvotes – 59 comments

23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/nyregion/manhattan-office-building-auction.html

2 years ago

43 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Test your WireGuard connectivity and see global stats, no client needed

https://probe.sh

2 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

Epic Games and Spotify Say Apple's Latest DMA Changes Are 'Illegal'

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/08/epic-games-spotify-apple-dma-changes/

2 years ago

42 upvotes – 52 comments

Frank Zappa estate: the feud, and the pain, that dogs his children

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/interactive/2024/frank-zappa-family-feud-moon-unit-dweezil/

2 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments
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