The best of Hacker News - June 27, 2024

1.
Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work

432 points

2.
25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

411 points

3.
Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

390 points

4.
Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

313 points

5.
200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

274 points

6.
Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

264 points

7.
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes

257 points

8.
A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves

256 points

9.
Next gen 3D metal printing

243 points

10.
Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs

238 points

11.
Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]

225 points

12.
Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

224 points

13.
Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

208 points

14.
ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses

186 points

15.
DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)

185 points

16.
Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections

184 points

17.
CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4

182 points

18.
GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022)

180 points

19.
Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version

179 points

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