top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-18

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/

2 months ago

840 upvotes – 464 comments

Markov chains are funnier than LLMs

https://emnudge.dev/blog/markov-chains-are-funny/

2 months ago

525 upvotes – 233 comments

Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

https://github.com/TomWright/dasel

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 84 comments

Bug squash: An underrated interview question

https://blog.jez.io/bugsquash/

2 months ago

434 upvotes – 271 comments

Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

https://github.com/janbjorge/PgQueuer

2 months ago

376 upvotes – 122 comments

Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M

https://www.theblock.co/post/311707/google-took-three-months-to-remove-scam-app-that-stole-over-5-million-in-crypto-lawsuit

2 months ago

360 upvotes – 214 comments

Leaving Neovim for Zed

https://stevedylan.dev/posts/leaving-neovim-for-zed/

2 months ago

350 upvotes – 322 comments

Mike Mageek is dead

https://fudzilla.com/news/59503-mike-mageek-is-dead

2 months ago

344 upvotes – 68 comments

NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-acknowledges-it-cannot-quantify-risk-of-starliner-propulsion-issues/

2 months ago

314 upvotes – 449 comments

Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1

https://github.com/jbreckmckye/notris

2 months ago

293 upvotes – 75 comments

Algorithms we develop software by

https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding

2 months ago

270 upvotes – 106 comments

How the OCaml type checker works (2022)

https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/generalization.html

2 months ago

219 upvotes – 42 comments

Getting back into C programming for CP/M

https://kevinboone.me/cpm-c.html

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 101 comments

Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.

https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

2 months ago

205 upvotes – 43 comments

The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.13.607810v1

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 63 comments

The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)

https://personal.utdallas.edu/~otoole/CGS2301_S09/15_expert.pdf

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 111 comments

Micro-libraries should never be used

https://bvisness.me/microlibraries/

2 months ago

180 upvotes – 171 comments

Prompt Caching

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-caching

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 68 comments

On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)

https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 111 comments

Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry

https://www.surveillancewatch.io

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments
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