1492
419
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/
2 years ago
674
253
Calling All Hackers
https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article
541
330
I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
https://medium.com/@thetateman/im-tired-of-fixing-customers-ai-generated-code-94816bde4ceb
455
259
The semantic web is now widely adopted
https://csvbase.com/blog/13
451
188
How to build a 50k ton forging press
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-50000-ton-forging
445
334
Make Firefox Private Again
https://make-firefox-private-again.com/
407
310
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
405
220
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
364
162
ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4
358
378
Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
https://ostechnix.com/linux-market-share-july-2024-report/
342
173
Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
https://www.midjourney.com/
320
384
US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements
https://www.ft.com/content/56770a82-3c3f-4739-9895-e2f97b6202b4
300
Accident Forgiveness
https://fly.io/blog/accident-forgiveness/
254
142
Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/21/harvest-season/
209
Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
https://blog.gridstatus.io/a-record-setting-day-in-ercot/
191
53
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
https://github.com/hsfzxjy/handwriter.ttf
189
72
SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring
https://box2d.org/posts/2024/08/simd-matters/
183
92
The UX of HTML (2023)
https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/1/
174
75
Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)
https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
172
93
Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/euclid-square-root-2-irrational.html
168
286
Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
https://www.pv-tech.org/australian-government-approves-aapowerlink-project-to-export-solar-to-singapore/
154
34
Show HN: Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service
https://github.com/Permify/permify
150
13
Degas: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars
https://initialneil.github.io/DEGAS
148
68
Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-hawking-wrong-about-extremal-black-holes-20240821/
144
36
GPU utilization can be a misleading metric
https://trainy.ai/blog/gpu-utilization-misleading
387
Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
https://aeon.co/essays/euphemisms-are-like-underwear-best-changed-frequently
141
8
Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language
https://jaspervdj.be/posts/2024-08-21-turnstyle.html
140
73
“YOLO” is not a valid hash construction
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/08/21/yolo-is-not-a-valid-hash-construction/
138
62
Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-security-reward-program-winding-down-3472376/
136
108
Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust)
https://pwy.io/posts/mimalloc-cigarette/
281
Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ler-ares-industries-building-low-cost-cruise-missiles
134
55
ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/arcticdb/
131
122
Code review antipatterns
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/code-review-antipatterns/
153
Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/
130
18
Peng – A minimal Rust-based quadrotor simulation pipeline
https://github.com/makeecat/Peng
128
64
Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale
https://spectrum.ieee.org/electrostatic-motor
125
48
Techniques for safe garbage collection in Rust
https://kyju.org/blog/rust-safe-garbage-collection/
114
52
Kill the Newsletter: Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
111
Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/21/cryptocurrency-shan-hanes-pig-butchering-scam.html
107
76
Random Thoughts about Unity
https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/
106
115
Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO
https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/08/async-hazard-mmap/
101
44
Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby
24
Launch HN: Outerport (YC S24) – Instant hot-swapping for AI model weights
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312079
91
Self-Supervised Learning for Videos
https://www.lightly.ai/post/self-supervised-learning-for-videos
89
Revisiting the Classics: Jensen's Inequality (2023)
https://francisbach.com/jensen-inequality/
88
Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/eli-lilly-weight-loss-drug-cuts-risk-of-developing-diabetes-in-trial.html
87
9
A Comparison of Arenas in Rust
https://donsz.nl/blog/arenas/
17
Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Postgres
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-postgres-style
86
79
IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/mike_lynch_dead/
25
How the SNES Graphics System Works
https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_ppus_how/
78
70
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/
How WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo
77
190
Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41315330
Moom 4: Next-generation window manager
https://manytricks.com/blog/?p=6385
74
AMD and FreeBSD Begin Collaborating over OS Improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2024-Improvements
Russia: Citizens must turn off home surveillance because Ukrainians are coming
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/russia_memo_ukraine_invasion/
65
21
Calling for a Vote of No Confidence in the Python Steering Council
https://discuss.python.org/t/calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confidence/61557
102
U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/business/economy/us-jobs-economy.html