Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-21
- Toasts are bad UX maxschmitt.me - 314 comments 521 points
- Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection promptarmor.substack.com - 115 comments 458 points
- MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract sparcopen.org - 137 comments 422 points
- The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown zarar.dev - 241 comments 390 points
- Zed AI zed.dev - 224 comments 336 points
- Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers - 1953 - video www.youtube.com - 106 comments 309 points
- Transformers for Ruby github.com - 37 comments 300 points
- US judge throws out FTC’s ban on non-compete agreements www.ft.com - 257 comments 269 points
- Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor pragtical.dev - 100 comments 239 points
- Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o openai.com - 85 comments 204 points
- I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company digipres.club - 64 comments 197 points
- The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? - 2018 jakevdp.github.io - 162 comments 184 points
- Why are Texas interchanges so tall? practical.engineering - 244 comments 172 points
- The U.S. Navy’s $100M checkbox - 2019 adrian3.com - 123 comments 171 points
- Exposure to the Sun’s UV radiation may be good for you www.economist.com - 166 comments 151 points
- Nasir Ahmed’s digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible spectrum.ieee.org - 39 comments 151 points
- Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine www.zen-browser.app - 41 comments 141 points
- US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker ‘Noncompete’ Agreements www.reuters.com - 114 comments 123 points
- The YouTube like button glows when you say “smash that like button” - video www.youtube.com - 110 comments 110 points
- Making database systems usable muratbuffalo.blogspot.com - 73 comments 97 points
- Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging astral.sh - 36 comments 90 points
- Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality www.sciencedirect.com - 42 comments 80 points
- Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI www.wired.com - 56 comments 78 points
- Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions github.com - 10 comments 77 points
- Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles www.ycombinator.com - 86 comments 75 points
- Launch HN: MinusX - YC S24 – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase news.ycombinator.com - 25 comments 73 points
- What’s the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? notes.eatonphil.com - 12 comments 73 points
- Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in fraud trial ‘fatally struck’ by car while jogging www.theguardian.com - 78 comments 69 points
- A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning www.asomo.co - 39 comments 68 points
- Reflecting on transducers in Scheme - 2023 www.thatgeoguy.ca - 25 comments 68 points
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