top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-09-09

Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/lab-grown-diamonds/

2 months ago

881 upvotes – 490 comments

James Earl Jones has died

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/james-earl-jones-dead-darth-vader-lion-king-1236138656/

2 months ago

670 upvotes – 182 comments

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645323

2 months ago

664 upvotes – 326 comments

Why GitHub won

https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/

2 months ago

652 upvotes – 504 comments

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design

2 months ago

648 upvotes – 609 comments

iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-debuts-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max/

2 months ago

614 upvotes – 1675 comments

FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/09/ftc-pushed-to-crack-down-on-companies-that-ruin-hardware-via-software-updates-or-annoying-paywalls/

2 months ago

493 upvotes – 218 comments

Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

https://www.matthewball.co/all/fansprofitandloss

2 months ago

447 upvotes – 807 comments

Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project

https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod

2 months ago

421 upvotes – 54 comments

Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/

2 months ago

361 upvotes – 241 comments

B-Trees and Database Indexes

https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes

2 months ago

351 upvotes – 79 comments

Transparenttextures.com

https://www.transparenttextures.com

2 months ago

312 upvotes – 40 comments

AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature/

2 months ago

281 upvotes – 159 comments

ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her

https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/alex-morgan-ai-generated-recap-mention.html

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 159 comments

Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide

https://blog.intigriti.com/hacking-tools/hacking-misconfigured-aws-s3-buckets-a-complete-guide

2 months ago

259 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-hearing-study-shares-preliminary-insights-on-tinnitus/

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 161 comments

Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00087041.2024.2325761#abstract

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 32 comments

Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/4Ly2yj78aM

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 65 comments

Apple Watch Series 10

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-10/

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 456 comments

DuckDB 1.1.0 Released

https://duckdb.org/2024/09/09/announcing-duckdb-110.html

2 months ago

203 upvotes – 39 comments
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