top 50% 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

828 upvotes – 409 comments

Toasts are bad UX

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

2 years ago

702 upvotes – 385 comments

Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

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

2 years ago

604 upvotes – 174 comments

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

587 upvotes – 220 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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

2 years ago

568 upvotes – 780 comments

The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

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

2 years ago

435 upvotes – 266 comments

Sourcegraph went dark

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

2 years ago

424 upvotes – 182 comments

Zed AI

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

2 years ago

401 upvotes – 280 comments

Transformers for Ruby

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

2 years ago

366 upvotes – 52 comments

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

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

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 114 comments

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

291 upvotes – 245 comments

Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

https://pragtical.dev/

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 106 comments

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

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

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 60 comments

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

235 upvotes – 96 comments

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

219 upvotes – 190 comments

Phrack 71

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

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 24 comments

Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

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

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 87 comments

Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

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

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 333 comments

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

204 upvotes – 68 comments

Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 33 comments

Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/12/exposure-to-the-suns-uv-radiation-may-be-good-for-you

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 195 comments

Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

Software possession for personal use

https://olano.dev/blog/software-possession-for-personal-use/

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 73 comments

Making database systems usable

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/08/making-database-systems-usable.html

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 154 comments

US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-strikes-down-biden-administration-ban-worker-noncompete-agreements-2024-08-20/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 147 comments

Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 111 comments

The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obX2WdINsZo

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 142 comments

$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/new-2gb-raspberry-pi-5-option-knocks-the-price-down-to-50/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 146 comments

On Writing Well

https://zodvik.com/posts/on-writing-well/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 37 comments

So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 40 comments

Launch HN: MinusX (YC S24) – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301448

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023)

https://www.thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2023/01/04/reflections-on-transducers/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829224001564

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Neo Geo Dev: Fixed Point Numbers

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/neo-geo-dev-fixed-point/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

An admittedly wandering defense of the SSO tax

https://ssoready.com/blog/from-the-founders/an-unpopular-perspective-on-the-sso-tax/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 95 comments

What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-08-20-deterministic-simulation-testing.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

6th-generation Waymo Driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo-driver/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 70 comments

Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI

https://www.wired.com/story/conde-nast-openai-deal/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 62 comments

Anger over sale of George Orwell archive

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/17/it-could-disappear-for-ever-anger-over-sale-of-george-orwell-archive

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 85 comments

Mike Lynch's co-defendant in fraud trial 'fatally struck' by car while jogging

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/mike-lynchs-co-defendant-in-us-trial-fatally-struck-by-car-while-jogging

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 86 comments

Copilot turns a court reporter into a child molester

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Copilot-turns-a-court-reporter-into-a-child-molester-9840612.html

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning

https://www.asomo.co/p/lego-capitalist-central-planning

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305272

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Shapez2 Released

https://shapez2.com/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-is-now-the-worst-buyout-for-banks-since-the-financial-crisis-3f4272cb

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-19/gm-to-cut-more-than-1-000-software-engineers-mostly-in-the-us

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: Visual Sudoku solver in the browser

https://sudoku.dotslashdan.com/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s--2X0kwe4Y

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

&udm=14 for Safari (iOS/iPadOS)

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/udm14-for-safari/id6520379591

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if needed

https://kokada.capivaras.dev/blog/quick-bits-go-automatically-downloads-a-newer-toolchain-if-needed/

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 72 comments
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