top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-14

Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

https://ytch.xyz

2 years ago

Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms

https://wdwnt.com/2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-lawsuit/

2 years ago

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/

2 years ago

How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

https://davekiss.com/blog/how-i-won-2750-using-javascript-ai-and-a-can-of-wd-40

2 years ago

Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/

2 years ago

GitHub was down

https://github.com/

2 years ago

Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/General%20Motors%20Data%20Privacy%20Petition%20Filed.pdf

2 years ago

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

https://praachi.work/blog/questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interview

2 years ago

Examples of Great URL Design (2023)

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/examples-of-great-urls/

2 years ago

Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)

https://leanrada.com/notes/sweep-and-prune/

2 years ago

How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)

https://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/

2 years ago

Grok-2 Beta Release

https://x.ai/blog/grok-2

2 years ago

Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41246686

2 years ago

Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/of-modes-and-men

2 years ago

The Syndicated Actor Model

https://syndicate-lang.org/about/

2 years ago

Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca41448a5b29e257

2 years ago

Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh

https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail

2 years ago

Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

2 years ago

Trainwreck Design

https://j3s.sh/thought/trainwreck-design.html

2 years ago

Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/transponder-landing-system/

2 years ago

Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems

https://github.com/project-oak/oak

2 years ago

A different kind of keyboard (2021)

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/peggi/

2 years ago

Surgeons Cut a Giant Tumor Out of My Head. Is There a Better Way?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-14/a-neurosurgeon-who-operated-on-biden-wants-to-treat-disease-with-sound

2 years ago

Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/hackers-may-have-leaked-the-social-security-numbers-of-every-american-150834276.html

2 years ago

Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source LLM provider price comparison

https://github.com/arc53/llm-price-compass

2 years ago

Re-fixing Servo's event-loop

https://medium.com/@polyglot_factotum/re-fixing-servos-event-loop-e00bdf267385

2 years ago

Things I learned from teaching (2023)

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/learned-from-teaching

2 years ago

CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good

https://matthodges.com/posts/2024-08-12-csv-bad-dsv-good/

2 years ago

Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAPI specs

https://github.com/zuplo/rate-my-openapi

2 years ago

Basic MetaProgramming in Zig

https://www.openmymind.net/Basic-MetaProgramming-in-Zig/

2 years ago

Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2024/02/13/is-rich-dad-poor-dad-a-fraud/

2 years ago

International Study Detects Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/consciousness-unresponsive-patients

2 years ago

Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine

https://www.instructables.com/Diy-Rc-Submarine/

2 years ago

Poor Richard's Almanack

https://blog.plover.com/calendar/poor-richards-almanack.html

2 years ago

AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription

https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112962388607680148

2 years ago

BMX: A Freshly Baked Take on BM25

https://www.mixedbread.ai/blog/intro-bmx

2 years ago

Meshtastic's Opposition to Proposed Changes on 900 MHz Band

https://meshtastic.org/blog/meshtastic-opposition-to-nextnav-proposed-changes/

2 years ago

What the heck are reverse mapped types?

https://andreasimonecosta.dev/posts/what-the-heck-are-reverse-mapped-types/

2 years ago

Visual data structures cheat sheet

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visual-data-structures-cheat-sheet

2 years ago

Building an EEG with a Children's Toy

https://geofflord.substack.com/p/brainwaves-on-a-budget

2 years ago

Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/intel-sells-stake-chip-designer-arm-holdings-2024-08-13/

2 years ago

Introducing passkey support to Fastmail

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/introducing-passkeys/

2 years ago

RePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port

https://dmitry.gr/?proj=27.+rePalm&r=05.Projects

2 years ago

Tell HN: Server error (5xx) in Google Search Console may not be 5xx at all

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248542

2 years ago

The Complex Relationship Between ADHD, Autism, and Personality Disorders

https://www.traudhd.com/p/autism-adhd-personality-disorders-narcissism

2 years ago

Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/14/scientists-find-humans-age-dramatically-in-two-bursts-at-44-then-60-aging-not-slow-and-steady

2 years ago

Some thoughts on OpenSSH 9.8's PerSourcePenalties feature

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHPerSourcePenaltiesThings

2 years ago

ISPs worry that killing FCC net neutrality rules will come back to haunt them

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/isps-ask-supreme-court-to-kill-new-york-law-that-requires-15-broadband-plans/

2 years ago

Run Diablo Inside Your Web Browser

https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/

2 years ago

Kiota: OpenAPI-based HTTP client code generator

https://github.com/microsoft/kiota

2 years ago

Algorithms through the lens of symbolic pattern matching

https://symbolica.io/posts/pattern_matching/

2 years ago

Hilary Mantel Reviews “A Life of One's Own/An Experiment in Leisure” (1986)

https://literaryreview.co.uk/journeys-into-the-interior

2 years ago

A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07652-1

2 years ago

Who Goes Nazi? (1941)

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

2 years ago

X's new AI image generator will make anything

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220173/xai-grok-image-generator-misinformation-offensive-imges

2 years ago

Making 'food out of thin air'

https://www.noemamag.com/making-food-out-of-thin-air/

2 years ago