Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-18
- Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player mpv.io - 235 comments 542 points
- Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store twitter.com - 194 comments 531 points
- Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely github.com - 185 comments 481 points
- X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum fortune.com - 392 comments 447 points
- Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time - pdf files.eric.ed.gov - 99 comments 275 points
- X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge’s content orders www.reuters.com - 426 comments 273 points
- Blockbuster Video VHS insert template github.com - 29 comments 220 points
- Just use Postgres mccue.dev - 221 comments 212 points
- Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out www.csoonline.com - 114 comments 186 points
- Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones arstechnica.com - 129 comments 176 points
- Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC? news.ycombinator.com - 263 comments 174 points
- Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program github.com - 11 comments 173 points
- Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ www.theverge.com - 183 comments 172 points
- Xapian: Open source search engine library xapian.org - 39 comments 157 points
- FlightAware Leaks Customer Data - Name, Email Addresses and Passwords loyaltylobby.com - 51 comments 145 points
- Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word? joel.tools - 72 comments 131 points
- Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google tinystruggles.com - 96 comments 106 points
- pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA motherduck.com - 12 comments 105 points
- China’s manufacturers are going broke www.economist.com - 165 comments 104 points
- NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users www.cnet.com - 65 comments 101 points
- Releasing everyone’s SSN and the hacks used to acquire them github.com - 48 comments 100 points
- An unordered list of things I miss in Go kokada.capivaras.dev - 119 comments 98 points
- Hacking with PDF - 2022 0xcybery.github.io - 11 comments 96 points
- The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life proton.me - 34 comments 95 points
- How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI www.justinmath.com - 16 comments 95 points
- Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables blog.sylver.dev - 4 comments 84 points
- Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage newatlas.com - 35 comments 80 points
- AMD’s Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug www.techradar.com - 20 comments 80 points
- Toothpaste Null-Terminator dunkels.com - 57 comments 75 points
- DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model arxiv.org - 29 comments 75 points
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