The best of Hacker News - August 22, 2024

1.
I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

474 points

2.
Make Firefox Private Again

395 points

3.
What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care

343 points

4.
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

262 points

5.
A deep dive into how linkers work (2008)

243 points

6.
Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

227 points

7.
Designing my own watch (2020)

212 points

8.
Python's Preprocessor

205 points

9.
Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid

203 points

10.
Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email

202 points

11.
Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)

182 points

12.
SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring

181 points

13.
Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

173 points

14.
Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)

167 points

15.
Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational

167 points

16.
Hardware Virtualization

154 points

17.
Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes

142 points

18.
Making database systems usable

142 points

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