top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-19

13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft

4 months ago

618 upvotes – 263 comments

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

https://www.matthewball.co/all/roblox2024

4 months ago

466 upvotes – 564 comments

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/

4 months ago

456 upvotes – 251 comments

Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-interpreters.html

4 months ago

366 upvotes – 160 comments

Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41291219

4 months ago

365 upvotes – 172 comments

Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/classifying_a_bunch_of_pdfs.html

4 months ago

296 upvotes – 110 comments

Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place

https://netboot.xyz/

4 months ago

288 upvotes – 65 comments

FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator

https://github.com/MatthewKuKanich/FindMyFlipper

4 months ago

282 upvotes – 65 comments

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

http://www.righto.com/2024/08/minuteman-guidance-computer.html

4 months ago

272 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping

https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook

4 months ago

267 upvotes – 50 comments

What If Data Is a Bad Idea?

https://schmud.de/posts/2024-08-18-data-is-a-bad-idea.html

4 months ago

239 upvotes – 129 comments

Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes

https://github.com/gruhn/typescript-sudoku

4 months ago

229 upvotes – 90 comments

On finishing projects

https://www.alexreichert.com/blog/finishing

4 months ago

228 upvotes – 100 comments

Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring

https://www.builder.io/blog/good-vs-bad-refactoring

4 months ago

226 upvotes – 150 comments

DRAKON

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

4 months ago

213 upvotes – 59 comments

Transformers in music recommendation

https://research.google/blog/transformers-in-music-recommendation/

4 months ago

211 upvotes – 125 comments

Lenticular Clock

https://www.instructables.com/Lenticular-Clock/

4 months ago

192 upvotes – 46 comments

'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-rare-species-area-years-arizona.html

4 months ago

183 upvotes – 55 comments

Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f6XM6_7pUE

4 months ago

171 upvotes – 132 comments

Tales from the Far Side

http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/08/tales-from-far-side.html

4 months ago

168 upvotes – 38 comments
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