top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-20

Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

https://www.zen-browser.app/

2 years ago

Toasts are bad UX

https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux

2 years ago

Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai-via

2 years ago

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

2 years ago

Artificial intelligence is losing hype

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-is-losing-hype

2 years ago

The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

https://zarar.dev/anatomy-of-a-mental-breakdown/

2 years ago

Sourcegraph went dark

https://eric-fritz.com/articles/sourcegraph-went-dark/

2 years ago

Zed AI

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-ai

2 years ago

Transformers for Ruby

https://github.com/ankane/transformers-ruby

2 years ago

Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug

2 years ago

The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)

https://adrian3.com/blog/2019/2019-09-28-The-US-Navys-100-million-dollar-checkbox.php

2 years ago

Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

https://pragtical.dev/

2 years ago

Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible

https://spectrum.ieee.org/compression-algorithms

2 years ago

Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/windows-0-day-was-exploited-by-north-korea-to-install-advanced-rootkit/

2 years ago

The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2018/09/13/waiting-time-paradox/

2 years ago

Phrack 71

http://phrack.org/issues/71/1.html

2 years ago

Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-fine-tuning/

2 years ago

Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/8/19/why-are-texas-interchanges-texas-so-tall

2 years ago

I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company

https://digipres.club/@foone/112990331505043510

2 years ago

Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo

2 years ago