| 1. | | 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted (github.com/wasi-master) |
| 618 points by darknavi on Aug 19, 2024 | 263 comments |
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| 2. | | Markov chains are funnier than LLMs (emnudge.dev) |
| 525 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 18, 2024 | 233 comments |
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| 3. | | The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud (berthub.eu) |
| 456 points by ahubert on Aug 19, 2024 | 251 comments |
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| 4. | | The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com) |
| 272 points by magnat on Aug 19, 2024 | 175 comments |
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| 5. | | Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable (matthewball.co) |
| 466 points by mfiguiere on Aug 19, 2024 | 561 comments |
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| 6. | | Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data |
| 365 points by tndl on Aug 19, 2024 | 172 comments |
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| 7. | | Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet (snats.xyz) |
| 296 points by Nydhal on Aug 19, 2024 | 110 comments |
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| 8. | | FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator (github.com/matthewkukanich) |
| 282 points by jstrieb on Aug 19, 2024 | 65 comments |
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| 9. | | Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) (reverberate.org) |
| 366 points by fanf2 on Aug 19, 2024 | 160 comments |
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| 10. | | NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues (arstechnica.com) |
| 314 points by geerlingguy on Aug 18, 2024 | 449 comments |
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| 11. | | Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions (esotericsoftware.com) |
| 128 points by diggan on Aug 16, 2024 | 54 comments |
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| 12. | | Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS (jvns.ca) |
| 147 points by hasheddan on Aug 19, 2024 | 34 comments |
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| 13. | | Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly (andadinosaur.com) |
| 144 points by goranmoomin on Aug 19, 2024 | 73 comments |
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| 14. | | Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment (nelhage.com) |
| 393 points by edran on Aug 15, 2024 | 240 comments |
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| 15. | | Seven basic rules for causal inference (pedermisager.org) |
| 218 points by RafelMri on Aug 16, 2024 | 67 comments |
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| 16. | | The Quantum Butterfly Effect (lanl.gov) |
| 81 points by lr0 on Aug 15, 2024 | 30 comments |
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| 17. | | Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe" (archive.org) |
| 164 points by savetz on Aug 19, 2024 | 30 comments |
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| 18. | | Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M (theblock.co) |
| 360 points by svenfaw on Aug 18, 2024 | 214 comments |
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| 19. | | Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday (thingswemake.com) |
| 116 points by debo_ on Aug 19, 2024 | 17 comments |
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| 20. | | Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place (netboot.xyz) |
| 288 points by thunderbong on Aug 19, 2024 | 65 comments |
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| 21. | | How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made (washingtonpost.com) |
| 108 points by perihelions on Aug 16, 2024 | 43 comments |
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| 22. | | The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK (mobeigi.com) |
| 98 points by mobeigi on Aug 19, 2024 | 32 comments |
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| 23. | | Can a Rust binary use incompatible versions of the same library? (github.com/brannondorsey) |
| 84 points by braxxox on Aug 18, 2024 | 85 comments |
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| 24. | | Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin (kx.studio) |
| 93 points by iscream26 on Aug 19, 2024 | 47 comments |
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| 25. | | LLMs know more than what they say (arjunbansal.substack.com) |
| 148 points by nqnielsen on Aug 19, 2024 | 18 comments |
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| 26. | | Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration (ably.com) |
| 90 points by amnonbc on Aug 19, 2024 | 18 comments |
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| 27. | | The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device (vfxblog.com) |
| 65 points by gelstudios on Aug 19, 2024 | 4 comments |
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| 28. | | Renderings Created with Only a Pencil (core77.com) |
| 234 points by surprisetalk on Aug 16, 2024 | 64 comments |
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| 29. | | The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell (5280.com) |
| 51 points by gmays on Aug 19, 2024 | 2 comments |
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| 30. | | Prompt Caching (anthropic.com) |
| 173 points by fallinditch on Aug 18, 2024 | 68 comments |
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