618
263
13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft
2 years ago
466
561
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
https://www.matthewball.co/all/roblox2024
456
251
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
366
160
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
365
172
Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41291219
296
110
Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/classifying_a_bunch_of_pdfs.html
288
65
Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
https://netboot.xyz/
282
FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator
https://github.com/MatthewKuKanich/FindMyFlipper
272
175
The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
http://www.righto.com/2024/08/minuteman-guidance-computer.html
267
50
Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping
https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook
239
129
What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
https://schmud.de/posts/2024-08-18-data-is-a-bad-idea.html
229
90
Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes
https://github.com/gruhn/typescript-sudoku
228
100
On finishing projects
https://www.alexreichert.com/blog/finishing
226
150
Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
https://www.builder.io/blog/good-vs-bad-refactoring
213
59
DRAKON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
211
125
Transformers in music recommendation
https://research.google/blog/transformers-in-music-recommendation/
192
46
Lenticular Clock
https://www.instructables.com/Lenticular-Clock/
183
55
'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
171
132
Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f6XM6_7pUE
168
38
Tales from the Far Side
http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/08/tales-from-far-side.html
136
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
164
30
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/19/archiving-the-famous-computer-cafe/
Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-20-553/
148
18
LLMs know more than what they say
https://arjunbansal.substack.com/p/llms-know-more-than-what-they-say
147
34
Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/08/19/migrating-mess-with-dns-to-use-powerdns/
144
73
Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
https://andadinosaur.com/launch-imgpls
141
49
Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html
139
104
How Deep Can Humans Go?
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-contributors-did-you-know/how-deep-can-humans-really-go
83
Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/19/court-sees-through-californias-protect-the-children-ruse-strikes-down-kids-code/
133
195
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating
121
23
The Dying Computer Museum
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5672
118
112
Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292674
116
HID Remapper
https://github.com/jfedor2/hid-remapper
17
Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday
https://thingswemake.com/bit-banging-a-basic-birthday/
111
98
The Katsuification of Britain
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-katsuification-of-britain
102
66
Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-evidence-stacks-poisonous-toxic-dyes.html
101
35
When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95
https://terinstock.com/post/2024/08/When-Serial-Isnt-RS-232-and-Geocaching-with-the-Garmin-GPS-95/
137
Caltrain's new electric trains
https://www.fastcompany.com/91174458/californias-new-electric-train-makes-for-a-shockingly-better-trip-we-tried-it
32
The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK
https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/malware/the-curious-case-of-queencreek/
93
47
Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
https://cardinal.kx.studio/
92
108
Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286630
Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration
https://ably.com/blog/optimizing-global-message-transit-latency-a-journey-through-tcp-configuration
84
37
Distributed Locks with Redis (2014)
https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use/patterns/distributed-locks/
16
How I Became the EEVBlog Guy [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riBwRC_CaAA
81
24
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM
https://ollama.com/blog/tool-support
76
Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
https://kaeruct.github.io/posts/2024/08/18/migrating-from-dokuwiki-to-obsidian/
79
Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing
https://www.objectivebayesian.com/p/hypothesis-testing
77
What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg
https://noahkagan.com/what-i-learned-working-for-mark-zuckerberg/
70
20
JavaScript weakmaps should be iterable
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/08/19/javascript-weakmaps-should-be-iterable
69
51
Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill
https://robata.app
3
Constraining writers in distributed systems
https://shachaf.net/w/constraining-writers-in-distributed-systems
68
31
Late Again
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/late-again/
52
The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/the-epic-games-store-launches-on-mobile
67
The bizarre siege behind Stockholm Syndrome
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240815-stockholm-syndrome-and-the-art-of-hostage-negotiation
Ask HN: Google Ads Rejected My SaaS as Compromised Site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292172
4
The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device
https://vfxblog.com/dinosaurinputdevice/
45
Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289087
61
11
Modern Unix Tool List
https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/cli_tips_and_tools/modern_unix_tool_list.html
60
87
Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-mayor-cheyenne-vic/
58
15
Largest protein yet discovered builds algal toxins
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-largest-protein-algal-toxins.html
56
Show HN: FlowVision – Waterfall-Style Image Browser for macOS (Open-Source)
https://github.com/netdcy/FlowVision
54
13
Everyone's Life Is Weird
https://www.avabear.xyz/p/actually-everyones-life-is-weird
The broligarchs are trying to have their way
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tech-bro-male-billionaire-anti-democratic/679267/
2
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell
https://www.5280.com/the-charming-eccentric-blessed-life-of-lee-maxwell/
0
Show HN: Automated lead gen generator for SaaS
https://www.loom.com/share/08350ac1d12942b791c2aaad4def24c3