The best of Hacker News - June 22, 2024

1.
KidPix

914 points

2.
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]

377 points

3.
Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F

284 points

4.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

254 points

5.
Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

254 points

6.
Software design gets worse before it gets better

224 points

7.
Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust

222 points

8.
Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955

220 points

9.
Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website

204 points

10.
CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux

198 points

11.
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

195 points

12.
HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma

183 points

13.
I kind of like rebasing

180 points

14.
How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?

173 points

15.
Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

162 points

16.
20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU

159 points

17.
The hacking of culture and the creation of socio-technical debt

159 points

18.
Own Constant Folder in C/C++

153 points

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