The best of Hacker News - August 20, 2024

1.
Toasts are bad UX

474 points

2.
Sourcegraph went dark

388 points

3.
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

382 points

4.
The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

377 points

5.
MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

361 points

6.
Zed AI

312 points

7.
Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

295 points

8.
Transformers for Ruby

293 points

9.
The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

256 points

10.
Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

232 points

11.
Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping

211 points

12.
Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

200 points

13.
Transformers in music recommendation

198 points

14.
Phrack 71

192 points

15.
US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

191 points

16.
Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring

183 points

17.
Lenticular Clock

182 points

18.
The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)

173 points

19.
'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

170 points

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