Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-20
- 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted github.com - 168 comments 398 points
- The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud berthub.eu - 173 comments 353 points
- Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C - 2021 blog.reverberate.org - 142 comments 339 points
- Launch HN: Sorcerer - YC S24 – Weather balloons that collect more data news.ycombinator.com - 125 comments 292 points
- Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet snats.xyz - 99 comments 270 points
- Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place netboot.xyz - 46 comments 225 points
- The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile www.righto.com - 99 comments 154 points
- Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults sociologicalscience.com - 177 comments 146 points
- AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products www.aisnakeoil.com - 147 comments 113 points
- The Dying Computer Museum ascii.textfiles.com - 21 comments 112 points
- Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday thingswemake.com - 15 comments 112 points
- Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly andadinosaur.com - 44 comments 109 points
- Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS jvns.ca - 26 comments 106 points
- Lenticular Clock www.instructables.com - 22 comments 106 points
- Music recommendation system using transformer models research.google - 43 comments 103 points
- Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional www.techdirt.com - 57 comments 100 points
- LLMs know more than what they say arjunbansal.substack.com - 12 comments 95 points
- ‘Rare species’ not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera phys.org - 23 comments 92 points
- Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives www.theverge.com - 40 comments 89 points
- Artificial intelligence is losing hype www.economist.com - 97 comments 84 points
- On the cruelty of really teaching computing science - 1988 www.cs.utexas.edu - 45 comments 79 points
- Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM ollama.com - 24 comments 79 points
- Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin cardinal.kx.studio - 21 comments 77 points
- $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU arstechnica.com - 34 comments 76 points
- Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead? news.ycombinator.com - 51 comments 72 points
- The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android www.epicgames.com - 48 comments 66 points
- Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration ably.com - 13 comments 65 points
- What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg noahkagan.com - 90 comments 64 points
- The bizarre siege behind Stockholm Syndrome www.bbc.com - 41 comments 63 points
- Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively? news.ycombinator.com - 43 comments 61 points
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