top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-31

Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-llms-from-the-ground-up

4 months ago

970 upvotes – 136 comments

Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

https://martin.wojtczyk.de/2024/08/31/is-my-vision-that-bad-no-its-just-a-bug-in-apples-calculator/

4 months ago

631 upvotes – 395 comments

Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26rsf/buy_borrow_die_explained/

4 months ago

598 upvotes – 475 comments

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

http://tom7.org/harder/

4 months ago

425 upvotes – 72 comments

Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232561/brazil-x-ban-sending-people-bluesky

4 months ago

420 upvotes – 743 comments

EU ChatControl is back on the agenda

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/113055345076289453

4 months ago

299 upvotes – 264 comments

This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2024/08/31/this-month-in-servo/

4 months ago

288 upvotes – 23 comments

Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/tesla-sentry-mode-police-evidence-19731000.php

4 months ago

283 upvotes – 660 comments

Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

4 months ago

256 upvotes – 64 comments

Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+

https://fortune.com/2024/08/29/nvidia-jensen-huang-ai-customers/

4 months ago

236 upvotes – 234 comments

Routed Gothic Font

https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

4 months ago

208 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

https://blocks.md

4 months ago

193 upvotes – 77 comments

WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner

https://github.com/aceberg/WatchYourLAN

4 months ago

189 upvotes – 26 comments

Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs

https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576

4 months ago

184 upvotes – 66 comments

Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian

https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/

4 months ago

177 upvotes – 213 comments

Client-side QR code generator with SVG output

https://fietkau.software/qr

4 months ago

176 upvotes – 31 comments

Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/08/iron-as-an-inexpensive-storage-medium-for-hydrogen.html

4 months ago

160 upvotes – 101 comments

My fake job in Y2K preparedness

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/the-contingency-contingent/

4 months ago

151 upvotes – 96 comments

The Threat to OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatgpt-nvidia-apple-facebook-383943d1

4 months ago

150 upvotes – 152 comments

Making an atomic trampoline [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLX1-tNnvEo

4 months ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments
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