top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-17

Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

https://mpv.io/

4 months ago

1113 upvotes – 559 comments

Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

4 months ago

816 upvotes – 255 comments

Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

https://twitter.com/organicmapsapp/status/1824727403580596260

4 months ago

608 upvotes – 223 comments

Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3480918/design-flaw-has-microsoft-authenticator-overwriting-mfa-accounts-locking-users-out.html

4 months ago

497 upvotes – 311 comments

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/14/x-ordered-to-pay-550000-to-irish-employee-fired-for-not-replying-to-elon-musk-yes-or-resign-extremely-hardcore-ultimatum/

4 months ago

488 upvotes – 440 comments

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4 months ago

421 upvotes – 0 comments

Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505647.pdf

4 months ago

378 upvotes – 134 comments

X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-close-operations-brazil-effective-immediately-2024-08-17/

4 months ago

344 upvotes – 615 comments

Blockbuster Video VHS insert template

https://github.com/rfinnie/blockbuster

4 months ago

340 upvotes – 86 comments

Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program

https://github.com/chrxh/alien

4 months ago

295 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275342

4 months ago

257 upvotes – 359 comments

Just use Postgres

https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres

4 months ago

236 upvotes – 228 comments

Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?

https://joel.tools/smarter/

4 months ago

233 upvotes – 103 comments

FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)

https://loyaltylobby.com/2024/08/16/flightaware-leaks-customer-data-name-email-addresses-passwords/

4 months ago

215 upvotes – 135 comments

I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

https://legendofworlds.com/blog/4

4 months ago

202 upvotes – 83 comments

Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google

https://tinystruggles.com/posts/google_postmortem/

4 months ago

198 upvotes – 231 comments

Slackdump

https://github.com/rusq/slackdump

4 months ago

189 upvotes – 47 comments

Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai

4 months ago

187 upvotes – 192 comments

pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

https://motherduck.com/blog/pg_duckdb-postgresql-extension-for-duckdb-motherduck/

4 months ago

186 upvotes – 30 comments

Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/epic-games-store-and-fortnite-arrive-on-eu-iphones/

4 months ago

181 upvotes – 144 comments
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