Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Marketing to Engineers (2001)
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Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
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Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
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Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
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SDL3 new GPU API merged
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AnandTech Farewell
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CIEL Is an Extended Lisp
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
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Maker Skill Trees
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Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
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UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
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OpenAI is good at unminifying code
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Low Cost Mini PCs
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Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
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Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
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Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
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Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
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The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
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The Monospace Web
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Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
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A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
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Faster CRDTs (2021)
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ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor
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Diffusion models are real-time game engines
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COSMIC Alpha Released
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Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Clojure Desktop UI Framework
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Vim Racer
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Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE
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Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU
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Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
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Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
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Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick
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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
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Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
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Linux Pipes Are Slow
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TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
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Writing a Rust compiler in C
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Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
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Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
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Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
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NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
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Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
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JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)
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Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
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Strandbeest
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Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
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Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
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Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
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Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Accident Forgiveness
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I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
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Adding 16 kb page size to Android
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Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles
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Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
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We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus
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Did you lose your AirPods?
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Hot Page – a graphical site builder
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NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad
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Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files
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Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
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Python’s Preprocessor
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Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
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We need to liberate the Postcode Address File
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17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist
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SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
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Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1
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How to build a 50k ton forging press
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Make Firefox Private Again
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Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
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US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died
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I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
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A deep dive into how linkers work (2008)
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Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
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What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
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Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
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Artificial intelligence is losing hype
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The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)
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Transformers for Ruby
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Zed AI
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Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
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Calling All Hackers
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The semantic web is now widely adopted
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ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
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I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
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Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
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Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
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13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
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Sourcegraph went dark
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Toasts are bad UX
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Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
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Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
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MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
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Leaving Neovim for Zed
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Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue
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NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
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Mike Mageek is dead
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Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M
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Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
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Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
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Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
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Games People Play with Cash Flow (2020)
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Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
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Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
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Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
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Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
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FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)
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Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
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Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Using a list to manage executive function
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\"Frost crack\" sounds may come from sky, not trees
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Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
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Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition
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VanillaJSX.com
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X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
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Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
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Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]
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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
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CockroachDB license change
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One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One
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ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library
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CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
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CSS Grid Areas
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk
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PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser
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Aristotle – How to live a good life
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MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker
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Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)
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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
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Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]
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How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
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How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
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Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy
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Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite
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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
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Galois Theory
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention
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Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
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The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
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I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
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Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged
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Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
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Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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Inside the \"3 billion people\" national public data breach
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GitHub Is Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees
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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
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Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
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Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
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NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon
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Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig
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Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
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Google Pixel 9 Pro
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All of Earth's water in a single sphere
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Isometric Projection in Game Development
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It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis
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How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
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Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer
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US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
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Okay, I Like WezTerm
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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
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Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync
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Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
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Repair and Remain (2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Caltech Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure Blood Pressure
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DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
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Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)
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I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
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Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
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OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
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Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
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Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
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CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for \"most epic fail\" at defcon
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Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Third Atomic Bomb
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Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
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.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
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Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP
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Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)
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Building a highly-available web service without a database
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Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk
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Susan Wojcicki has died
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A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
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OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
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Public Work: a search engine for public domain images
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A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film
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How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability
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Do quests, not goals
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Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative
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USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation
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OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews
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Jake Seliger has died
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Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams
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Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
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Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
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NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025
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Prevention of HIV
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Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
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RLHF is just barely RL
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I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
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LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
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East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
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Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
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The real \"Wolf of Wall Street\" sales script
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Please do not attempt to simplify this code
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How French Drains Work
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Medieval
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Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
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Puppeteer Support for Firefox
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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'
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Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS
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A new type of neural network is more interpretable
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Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
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No Salt
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Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic
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Ending production of Chromecast
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Structured Outputs in the API
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Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
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Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
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Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming
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How I Program in 2024
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Starting Hospice
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Stop Killing Games
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How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner
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Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
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Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
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Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I Made an Extended Version of Vimtutor – Introducing Vimtutor Sequel
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Primitive Recursive Functions for a Working Programmer
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Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review
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Clang vs. Clang
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Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle
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Make your electronics tamper-evident
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Open Source Farming Robot
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How I Use \"AI\"
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Porting My JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason
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WhenFS: Calender Is Now a File System
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
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Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere
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Show HN: Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash
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What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
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ArchiveTeam Warrior
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The future of kdb+?
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p5.js
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Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
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\"We ran out of columns\"
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How to build quickly
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s
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Robot dentist performs first human procedure
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
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Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images
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Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
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Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
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Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC
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Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
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The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
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The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
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Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs
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I prefer rST to Markdown
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Just disconnect the internet
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Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
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How I got my laser eye injury
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I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go
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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
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Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
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CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
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Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)
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The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
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Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
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Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
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Our audit of Homebrew
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`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete
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macOS in QEMU in Docker
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Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
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