top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-11

Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

https://github.com/versotile-org/verso

2 years ago

821 upvotes – 318 comments

Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/progress-on-porting-firefox/13493?page=7

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 214 comments

OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20

https://stevecoast.substack.com/p/the-days-are-long-but-the-years-are

2 years ago

470 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

https://grandmasword.com

2 years ago

454 upvotes – 150 comments

How to avoid losing items? Holding pens

https://blog.alexwendland.com/2024-07-07-holding-pens/

2 years ago

417 upvotes – 270 comments

CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon

https://twitter.com/singe/status/1822324795645575263

2 years ago

405 upvotes – 356 comments

It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/i-lost-my-job-so-spent-14-years-searching-for-osteoarthritis-cure-d6d69wwxz

2 years ago

402 upvotes – 174 comments

Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs

https://servermono.com/

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 99 comments

Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)

https://www.textualize.io/blog/7-things-ive-learned-building-a-modern-tui-framework/

2 years ago

331 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter

https://cjycode.com/posts/rust-ui-flutter/

2 years ago

301 upvotes – 103 comments

Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/cdc-records-lawsuit-ruling-00173416

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 126 comments

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 173 comments

A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final

https://petapixel.com/2024/08/06/a-camera-that-shoots-40000-fps-decided-the-100-meter-sprint-final-olympics-paris-2024-omega/

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 197 comments

Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 26 comments

The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524791/the-surveilled-society-who-is-watching-you-and-how

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 85 comments

OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16741

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 107 comments

Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3

https://kevinlynagh.com/z3-simpsons-paradox/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 57 comments

China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal

https://renewablesnow.com/news/chinas-total-wind-and-solar-capacity-outstrips-coal-rystad-says-865106/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 166 comments

Building data infrastructure that will last

https://seattledataguy.substack.com/p/why-your-data-stack-wont-last-and

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 82 comments

Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs

https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-to-mass-produce-solid-state-batteries-for-super-premium-evs-by

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 236 comments

OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console)

https://hackmd.gfuzz.de/s/Qsk14kc3i

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

Finite State Machine Designer

https://madebyevan.com/fsm/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33416/the-1986-oldsmobile-incas-had-the-wildest-dashboard-youve-never-seen

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/chatgpt-unexpectedly-began-speaking-in-a-users-cloned-voice-during-testing/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 154 comments

Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-prototypes-corporate-data/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 50 comments

Introduction to Golang Preemption Mechanisms

https://unskilled.blog/posts/preemption-in-go-an-introduction/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

WireGuard-rs – Official Rust implementation of WireGuard

https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-rs/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Online Dating

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2024/08/02/online-dating.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 179 comments

Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs

https://blog.isaacmiller.dev/posts/dspy

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-378-most-cited-contemporary-authors.html

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Pixeltune, a nicer chiptune and VGM player

https://pixeltune.org

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

Tree Attention: Topology-Aware Decoding for Long-Context

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04093

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

RFC 9180: Hybrid Public Key Encryption (2022)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9180.html

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

KnitScape

https://depts.washington.edu/machines/projects/knitscape/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

X's likelihood of prevailing in boycott suit is higher than I thought

https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/group-boycotts.html

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 91 comments
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