top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-23

Did you lose your AirPods?

https://alexyancey.com/lost-airpods/

2 years ago

1115 upvotes – 383 comments

DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

2 years ago

795 upvotes – 625 comments

17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist

https://torrentfreak.com/17-year-old-student-exposes-germanys-secret-pirate-site-blocklist-240822/

2 years ago

521 upvotes – 228 comments

We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=172443408727088&w=2

2 years ago

420 upvotes – 87 comments

SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99

https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 138 comments

Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/23/meta-cancels-high-end-headset/

2 years ago

357 upvotes – 526 comments

We need to liberate the Postcode Address File

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/secret-paf-report

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 312 comments

Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/23/anthropic-dangerous-direct-browser-access/

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 163 comments

Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/microsoft-formally-deprecates-the-39-year-old-windows-control-panel/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 492 comments

Adding 16 kb page size to Android

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.html

2 years ago

322 upvotes – 167 comments

The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute

https://sebastianmarines.com/post/journey-of-a-packet-exploring-networks-with-traceroute/

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 107 comments

Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3ez9v

2 years ago

305 upvotes – 156 comments

Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/09/21/chase-bank-small-business-nightmare/

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 263 comments

Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs

https://vega.github.io/vega/

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 41 comments

OpenSSH Backdoors

https://blog.isosceles.com/openssh-backdoors/

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 129 comments

BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time

https://electriccarsreport.com/2024/08/bmw-overtakes-tesla-in-european-ev-sales-for-first-time/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 323 comments

I lost my Google Play dev account

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1ezirdx/how_i_lost_my_google_play_dev_account_forever/

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 90 comments

Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist

https://nautil.us/confessions-of-a-theoretical-physicist-787199/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 207 comments

Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list

https://fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-owner-list/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Generating Mazes

https://healeycodes.com/generating-mazes

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms

https://github.com/CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 46 comments

EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications

https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

The staggering death toll of scientific lies

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368350/scientific-research-fraud-crime-jail-time

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 118 comments

My IRC client runs on Kubernetes

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/k8s-irc-client/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 127 comments

Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown

https://lwn.net/Articles/984502/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better

https://github.com/beac0n/ruroco

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 102 comments

How people with disabilities use the web

https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency

https://github.com/PlatformLab/NanoLog

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 71 comments

Modern Wardriving (2023)

https://simonroses.com/2023/12/modern-wardriving/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

https://github.com/BasedHardware/Omi

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 94 comments

Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/why-cutting-costs-is-expensive-how-9-hour-software-engineers-cost-boeing-billions-b76dbe571957

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

Launch HN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329750

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

Leveraging AI for efficient incident response

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/06/24/data-infrastructure/leveraging-ai-for-efficient-incident-response/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

Hacker Purity Test (1989)

http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 105 comments

SnapDiagram – Instantly Convert Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Digital with AI

https://snapdiagram.xyz/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 71 comments

Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 112 comments

GLP-1 therapy increases visceral adipose tissue metabolic activity

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.24126

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 118 comments

A symbol for the Fediverse

https://symbol.fediverse.info/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 80 comments

Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

https://apnews.com/article/airtag-mail-theft-apple-california-bf1f993430216f23efd1528ec0f6a19a

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 131 comments

Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs

https://github.com/ptrsr/pi-ci

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue

https://www.webcrumbs.org/frontend-ai

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 76 comments

Bit Twiddling Hacks (2009)

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/08/2024-08-09-news-media-alliance.md

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

Companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/microsoft_ai_copilots/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/ex-bank-ceo-gets-24-years-after-falling-for-crypto-scam-causing-bank-collapse/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is coming back in October

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/22/microsofts-controversial-windows-recall-feature-is-coming-back-in-october/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 96 comments

Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?

https://kguttag.com/2024/08/22/canon-r5-mk-ii-drops-pixel-shift-high-res-is-canon-missing-the-ai-big-picture/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 73 comments

Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer's disease mouse study

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/molecule-restores-cognition-memory-in-alzheimers-disease-model-mice

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs

https://www.newyorkdailyinquirer.com/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

AI training shouldn't erase authorship

https://justine.lol/history/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Wcurl Is Here

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments

Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/amazon-is-bricking-primary-feature-on-160-echo-device-after-1-year/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Kardinal – Building light-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments

https://kardinal.dev/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments
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