It's 2024-08-11. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game | comment
CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon | comment
Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful' | comment
Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs | comment
Structured Outputs in the API | comment
Susan Wojcicki has died | comment
Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk | comment
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy | comment
Puppeteer Support for Firefox | comment
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers | comment
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime | comment
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs | comment
RLHF is just barely RL | comment
Prevention of HIV | comment
OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20 | comment
Please do not attempt to simplify this code | comment
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall | comment
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now | comment
Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out | comment
OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews | comment
Do quests, not goals | comment
Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts | comment
Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS | comment
USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation | comment
Official proposal for Type Unions in C# | comment
Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter | comment
Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright | comment
The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script | comment
DEF CON's response to the badge controversy | comment
Smashing idea: how East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike | comment
Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones | comment
Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election | comment
The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community | comment
Structured Outputs in the API | comment
Starting Hospice | comment
Susan Wojcicki has died | comment
No Salt | comment
Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk | comment
Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech | comment
Stop Killing Games | comment
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy | comment
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown | comment
Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters | comment
The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning | comment
Puppeteer Support for Firefox | comment
Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found | comment
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers | comment
Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane | comment
Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead | comment
macOS in Docker Container | comment
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime | comment
Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason | comment
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic | comment
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs | comment
Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission | comment
How I Program in 2024 | comment
RLHF is just barely RL | comment
Prevention of HIV | comment
How I Got My Laser Eye Injury | comment
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