top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-17

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

https://mpv.io/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Blockbuster Video VHS insert template

https://github.com/rfinnie/blockbuster

2 years ago

Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program

https://github.com/chrxh/alien

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Just use Postgres

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

2 years ago

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

https://joel.tools/smarter/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

https://legendofworlds.com/blog/4

2 years ago

Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google

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

2 years ago

Slackdump

https://github.com/rusq/slackdump

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

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

2 years ago

Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones

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

2 years ago

Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables

https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-1-listing-tables

2 years ago