The best of Hacker News - August 09, 2024

1.
Jake Seliger has died

746 points

2.
USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

382 points

3.
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

314 points

4.
How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months

268 points

5.
The Third Atomic Bomb

238 points

6.
.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

211 points

7.
Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

198 points

8.
Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

194 points

9.
Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP

182 points

10.
Maximal min() and max()

174 points

11.
How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis

171 points

12.
Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor

162 points

13.
In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality

149 points

14.
Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

139 points

15.
Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming

137 points

16.
Jepsen: Jetcd 0.8.2

133 points

17.
Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down California pipeline

131 points

18.
DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems

129 points

19.
Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework

127 points

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