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Top of Month - Aug 2024

1. AnandTech Farewell
   (30 Aug 2024 | 3025 points | Comments)

2. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
   (14 Aug 2024 | 2741 points | Comments)

3. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
   (29 Aug 2024 | 2365 points | Comments)

4. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
   (29 Aug 2024 | 2004 points | Comments)

5. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
   (29 Aug 2024 | 2001 points | Comments)

6. "We ran out of columns"
   (3 Aug 2024 | 1641 points | Comments)

7. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
   (21 Aug 2024 | 1492 points | Comments)

8. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
   (27 Aug 2024 | 1436 points | Comments)

9. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
   (1 Aug 2024 | 1234 points | Comments)

10. Starting Hospice
    (5 Aug 2024 | 1209 points | Comments)

11. Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
    (24 Aug 2024 | 1175 points | Comments)

12. Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
    (12 Aug 2024 | 1168 points | Comments)

13. Diffusion models are real-time game engines
    (28 Aug 2024 | 1149 points | Comments)

14. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
    (22 Aug 2024 | 1145 points | Comments)

15. Did you lose your AirPods?
    (23 Aug 2024 | 1115 points | Comments)

16. Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
    (17 Aug 2024 | 1113 points | Comments)

17. Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
    (31 Aug 2024 | 970 points | Comments)

18. Jake Seliger has died
    (9 Aug 2024 | 960 points | Comments)

19. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
    (5 Aug 2024 | 959 points | Comments)

20. NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
    (26 Aug 2024 | 946 points | Comments)

21. OpenAI is good at unminifying code
    (29 Aug 2024 | 931 points | Comments)

22. Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
    (26 Aug 2024 | 922 points | Comments)

23. Medieval
    (6 Aug 2024 | 880 points | Comments)

24. Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
    (15 Aug 2024 | 853 points | Comments)

25. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
    (18 Aug 2024 | 840 points | Comments)

26. Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
    (20 Aug 2024 | 828 points | Comments)

27. Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
    (11 Aug 2024 | 821 points | Comments)

28. Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
    (17 Aug 2024 | 816 points | Comments)

29. The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
    (2 Aug 2024 | 800 points | Comments)

30. DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
    (23 Aug 2024 | 795 points | Comments)

31. How I got my laser eye injury
    (1 Aug 2024 | 792 points | Comments)

32. Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
    (1 Aug 2024 | 780 points | Comments)

33. Structured Outputs in the API
    (6 Aug 2024 | 764 points | Comments)

34. You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
    (24 Aug 2024 | 760 points | Comments)

35. Elasticsearch is open source, again
    (29 Aug 2024 | 759 points | Comments)

36. How French Drains Work
    (6 Aug 2024 | 755 points | Comments)

37. All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
    (13 Aug 2024 | 753 points | Comments)

38. Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
    (1 Aug 2024 | 738 points | Comments)

39. Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
    (5 Aug 2024 | 738 points | Comments)

40. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
    (25 Aug 2024 | 733 points | Comments)

41. Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
    (7 Aug 2024 | 731 points | Comments)

42. There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
    (12 Aug 2024 | 728 points | Comments)

43. Susan Wojcicki has died
    (10 Aug 2024 | 721 points | Comments)

44. Open Source Farming Robot
    (3 Aug 2024 | 714 points | Comments)

45. Toasts are bad UX
    (20 Aug 2024 | 702 points | Comments)

46. Low Cost Mini PCs
    (29 Aug 2024 | 701 points | Comments)

47. I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
    (8 Aug 2024 | 700 points | Comments)

48. How to build quickly
    (3 Aug 2024 | 697 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
    (7 Aug 2024 | 694 points | Comments)

50. Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
    (1 Aug 2024 | 683 points | Comments)

51. Calling All Hackers
    (21 Aug 2024 | 674 points | Comments)

52. Prevention of HIV
    (7 Aug 2024 | 667 points | Comments)

53. Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
    (14 Aug 2024 | 667 points | Comments)

54. Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
    (14 Aug 2024 | 665 points | Comments)

55. SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
    (12 Aug 2024 | 661 points | Comments)

56. Puppeteer Support for Firefox
    (7 Aug 2024 | 655 points | Comments)

57. Do quests, not goals
    (8 Aug 2024 | 649 points | Comments)

58. Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
    (26 Aug 2024 | 645 points | Comments)

59. LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
    (8 Aug 2024 | 643 points | Comments)

60. Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
    (27 Aug 2024 | 639 points | Comments)

61. Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
    (6 Aug 2024 | 634 points | Comments)

62. Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
    (8 Aug 2024 | 634 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
    (24 Aug 2024 | 634 points | Comments)

64. Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
    (31 Aug 2024 | 631 points | Comments)

65. How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
    (14 Aug 2024 | 628 points | Comments)

66. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
    (19 Aug 2024 | 618 points | Comments)

67. Repair and Remain (2022)
    (12 Aug 2024 | 615 points | Comments)

68. Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
    (10 Aug 2024 | 613 points | Comments)

69. The Monospace Web
    (27 Aug 2024 | 612 points | Comments)

70. Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
    (17 Aug 2024 | 608 points | Comments)

71. Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
    (20 Aug 2024 | 604 points | Comments)

72. A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
    (27 Aug 2024 | 602 points | Comments)

73. Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
    (31 Aug 2024 | 598 points | Comments)

74. Moments in Chromecast's history
    (6 Aug 2024 | 597 points | Comments)

75. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
    (25 Aug 2024 | 596 points | Comments)

76. Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
    (14 Aug 2024 | 588 points | Comments)

77. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
    (20 Aug 2024 | 587 points | Comments)

78. Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
    (2 Aug 2024 | 579 points | Comments)

79. NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
    (24 Aug 2024 | 578 points | Comments)

80. Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
    (8 Aug 2024 | 570 points | Comments)

81. Artificial intelligence is losing hype
    (20 Aug 2024 | 568 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
    (5 Aug 2024 | 565 points | Comments)

83. Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
    (12 Aug 2024 | 564 points | Comments)

84. .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
    (9 Aug 2024 | 563 points | Comments)

85. How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner
    (5 Aug 2024 | 556 points | Comments)

86. I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
    (21 Aug 2024 | 541 points | Comments)

87. VanillaJSX.com
    (16 Aug 2024 | 538 points | Comments)

88. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk
    (10 Aug 2024 | 534 points | Comments)

89. UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
    (29 Aug 2024 | 529 points | Comments)

90. Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
    (26 Aug 2024 | 527 points | Comments)

91. Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
    (4 Aug 2024 | 525 points | Comments)

92. I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
    (13 Aug 2024 | 525 points | Comments)

93. GitHub was down
    (14 Aug 2024 | 525 points | Comments)

94. Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
    (18 Aug 2024 | 525 points | Comments)

95. 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
    (23 Aug 2024 | 521 points | Comments)

96. The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
    (2 Aug 2024 | 519 points | Comments)

97. No Salt
    (6 Aug 2024 | 519 points | Comments)

98. Google Pixel 9 Pro
    (13 Aug 2024 | 514 points | Comments)

99. East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
    (6 Aug 2024 | 512 points | Comments)

100. Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
     (29 Aug 2024 | 511 points | Comments)