The best of Hacker News - August 14, 2024

1.
GitHub was down

427 points

2.
Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

346 points

3.
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

336 points

4.
Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]

313 points

5.
Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)

223 points

6.
Why we picked AGPL

222 points

7.
An open-source flow battery kit

221 points

8.
Grok-2 Beta Release

204 points

9.
Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)

199 points

10.
How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)

180 points

11.
Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

177 points

12.
From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer

174 points

13.
Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code

173 points

14.
You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses

171 points

15.
DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

166 points

16.
Show HN: Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster

159 points

17.
Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers

159 points

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