The best of Hacker News - August 19, 2024

1.
Markov chains are funnier than LLMs

495 points

2.
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

430 points

3.
Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

352 points

4.
Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)

334 points

5.
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

331 points

6.
13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

301 points

7.
NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

293 points

8.
Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

258 points

9.
FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator

255 points

10.
Renderings Created with Only a Pencil

228 points

11.
Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place

201 points

12.
Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.

194 points

13.
Seven basic rules for causal inference

193 points

14.
The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)

180 points

15.
The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

179 points

16.
Micro-libraries should never be used

166 points

17.
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

148 points

18.
Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults

140 points

19.
Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]

140 points

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