The best of Hacker News - September 01, 2024

1.
Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

1972 points

2.
Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

381 points

3.
Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps

247 points

4.
Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

230 points

5.
Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime

224 points

6.
The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection

221 points

7.
Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them

219 points

8.
Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation

200 points

9.
How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients

186 points

10.
The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

180 points

11.
WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner

179 points

12.
Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

179 points

13.
Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger

170 points

14.
Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)

161 points

15.
Client-side QR code generator with SVG output

159 points

16.
Einstein's Other Theory of Everything

158 points

17.
Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews

155 points

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