The best of Hacker News - August 21, 2024

1.
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

1095 points

2.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

1045 points

3.
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

811 points

4.
Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

715 points

5.
Calling All Hackers

532 points

6.
The semantic web is now widely adopted

424 points

7.
Bug squash: An underrated interview question

413 points

8.
ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

337 points

9.
Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

294 points

10.
The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)

280 points

11.
How to build a 50k ton forging press

250 points

12.
Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible

224 points

13.
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died

223 points

14.
Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

221 points

15.
On finishing projects

212 points

16.
Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

202 points

17.
Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

192 points

18.
Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging

167 points

19.
Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore

154 points

20.
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM

150 points

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