top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-21

I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

https://switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it/

4 months ago

1492 upvotes – 419 comments

Calling All Hackers

https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article

4 months ago

674 upvotes – 253 comments

I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

https://medium.com/@thetateman/im-tired-of-fixing-customers-ai-generated-code-94816bde4ceb

4 months ago

541 upvotes – 330 comments

The semantic web is now widely adopted

https://csvbase.com/blog/13

4 months ago

455 upvotes – 259 comments

How to build a 50k ton forging press

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-50000-ton-forging

4 months ago

451 upvotes – 188 comments

Make Firefox Private Again

https://make-firefox-private-again.com/

4 months ago

445 upvotes – 333 comments

We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PJu2HhKsyTEJMxS9a/you-don-t-know-how-bad-most-things-are-nor-precisely-how

4 months ago

407 upvotes – 310 comments

US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/21/sacramento-hospital-patient-death-checked-out

4 months ago

405 upvotes – 220 comments

ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4

4 months ago

364 upvotes – 163 comments

Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

https://ostechnix.com/linux-market-share-july-2024-report/

4 months ago

358 upvotes – 378 comments

Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

https://www.midjourney.com/

4 months ago

342 upvotes – 174 comments

US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

https://www.ft.com/content/56770a82-3c3f-4739-9895-e2f97b6202b4

4 months ago

320 upvotes – 384 comments

Accident Forgiveness

https://fly.io/blog/accident-forgiveness/

4 months ago

310 upvotes – 300 comments

Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/21/harvest-season/

4 months ago

254 upvotes – 142 comments

Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid

https://blog.gridstatus.io/a-record-setting-day-in-ercot/

4 months ago

209 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM

https://github.com/hsfzxjy/handwriter.ttf

4 months ago

191 upvotes – 53 comments

SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring

https://box2d.org/posts/2024/08/simd-matters/

4 months ago

189 upvotes – 72 comments

The UX of HTML (2023)

https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/1/

4 months ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments

Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)

https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html

4 months ago

174 upvotes – 75 comments

Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/euclid-square-root-2-irrational.html

4 months ago

172 upvotes – 93 comments
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