The best of Hacker News - August 27, 2024

1.
DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

766 points

2.
Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

485 points

3.
Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick

362 points

4.
Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V

337 points

5.
Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems

274 points

6.
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor

268 points

7.
Clojure Desktop UI Framework

264 points

8.
The Monospace Web

245 points

9.
The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim

227 points

10.
Intel SGX Fuse Key0, a.k.a. Root Provisioning Key Was Extracted by Researchers

222 points

11.
Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?

218 points

12.
U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news

206 points

13.
Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library

193 points

14.
Faster CRDTs (2021)

192 points

15.
"Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

185 points

16.
New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China's 'Volt Typhoon'

183 points

17.
Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

173 points

18.
Ruby in Jupyter Notebook

173 points

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