The best of Hacker News - August 26, 2024

1.
Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

1128 points

2.
NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture

614 points

3.
Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

602 points

4.
Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor

487 points

5.
Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

471 points

6.
Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better

441 points

7.
Linux Pipes Are Slow

313 points

8.
Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE

255 points

9.
Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes

224 points

10.
Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off

216 points

11.
Vim Racer

197 points

12.
Using AI to fight insurance claim denials

182 points

13.
Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible

177 points

14.
Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

172 points

15.
Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown

164 points

16.
Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra

161 points

17.
Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example

149 points

18.
Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

148 points

19.
Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway

148 points

20.
Ruby's official documentation just got a new look

145 points

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