The best of Hacker News - August 13, 2024

1.
All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

439 points

2.
SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

401 points

3.
Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig

370 points

4.
Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]

305 points

5.
Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks

259 points

6.
The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology

245 points

7.
A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final

242 points

8.
Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged

232 points

9.
Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

218 points

10.
EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention

208 points

11.
The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

188 points

12.
What you learn by making a new programming language

184 points

13.
Someone's been messing with Python's floating point subnormals

179 points

14.
Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

175 points

15.
Antifragility in complex dynamical systems

167 points

16.
AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis

164 points

17.
Go 1.23 Released

158 points

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