Hacker News on Sunday, 18 August 2024

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Markov chains are funnier than LLMs(emnudge.dev)

477 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 211 comments

A blog post arguing that Markov chain text generators produce funnier output than large language models because they are less predictable.

Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV(github.com)

453 points by edward 2 years ago | 73 comments

GitHub repository for dasel, a Go CLI tool and package to select, put and delete data in JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files and convert between them.

Bug squash: An underrated interview question(blog.jez.io)

373 points by jez 2 years ago | 211 comments

Blog post describing the "bug squash" software engineering interview, where candidates find and fix a bug in an unfamiliar repository.

Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue(github.com)

350 points by jeeybee 2 years ago | 110 comments

GitHub repository for PgQueuer, a Python library that uses PostgreSQL and LISTEN/NOTIFY to implement an efficient job queue.

Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M(theblock.co)

325 points by svenfaw 2 years ago | 156 comments

The Block news article on a lawsuit alleging Google took three months to remove a scam app from its store that stole over $5 million in crypto.

Mike Mageek is dead(fudzilla.com)

318 points by dannyobrien 2 years ago | 58 comments

Fudzilla news post by Nick Farrell reporting the death of tech journalist Mike Magee ("Mageek"), co-founder of The Register and The Inquirer.

Leaving Neovim for Zed(stevedylan.dev)

289 points by mxstbr 2 years ago | 252 comments

Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1(github.com)

279 points by jbreckmckye 2 years ago | 60 comments

NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues(arstechnica.com)

278 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 384 comments

Algorithms we develop software by(grantslatton.com)

221 points by xal 2 years ago | 88 comments

How the OCaml type checker works (2022)(okmij.org)

207 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 37 comments

Getting back into C programming for CP/M(kevinboone.me)

204 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 92 comments

The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)(personal.utdallas.edu)

171 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 97 comments

Prompt Caching(docs.anthropic.com)

151 points by fallinditch 2 years ago | 59 comments

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

136 points by Intralexical 2 years ago | 18 comments

Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.(projects.propublica.org)

135 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 26 comments

UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite(theguardian.com)

135 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 105 comments

Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry(surveillancewatch.io)

121 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 26 comments

The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep(biorxiv.org)

120 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 44 comments

Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more(greenwichtime.com)

119 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 175 comments

Micro-libraries should never be used(bvisness.me)

116 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 104 comments

A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other(engadget.com)

116 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 369 comments

On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)(kitchensoap.com)

115 points by rspivak 2 years ago | 94 comments

I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs(theguardian.com)

106 points by iechoz6H 2 years ago | 68 comments

Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it(arxiv.org)

105 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 63 comments

CSS adds vertical centering in 2024(build-your-own.org)

102 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads(github.com)

99 points by baalimago 2 years ago | 74 comments

Bold Edit: An editor written by power users(bold-edit.com)

96 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 46 comments

Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil(status.proton.me)

96 points by davikr 2 years ago | 68 comments

When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95(terinstock.com)

93 points by caust1c 2 years ago | 28 comments

Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again(nitter.lucabased.xyz)

89 points by o999 2 years ago | 48 comments

Noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set(quuxplusone.github.io)

88 points by signa11 2 years ago | 64 comments

Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib(independent.co.uk)

88 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 96 comments

The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK(mobeigi.com)

84 points by mobeigi 2 years ago | 21 comments

Why isn't Colorado's snowpack ending up in the Colorado River?(phys.org)

82 points by wglb 2 years ago | 38 comments

17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations(npr.org)

79 points by rntn 2 years ago | 17 comments

Alain Delon has died(theguardian.com)

75 points by xnhbx 2 years ago | 19 comments

Can a Rust binary use incompatible versions of the same library?(github.com)

74 points by braxxox 2 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes(grugnotes.com)

74 points by keizo 2 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: I Made a Website for Problems(theproblemplatform.com)

69 points by hippough 2 years ago | 43 comments

Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings(airgradient.com)

63 points by ahaucnx 2 years ago | 29 comments

Convert Markdown files to RSS feed(github.com)

63 points by Rush2112 2 years ago | 17 comments

Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer(complexsystemspodcast.com)

57 points by vikrum 2 years ago | 34 comments

How did divers manage to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline? We went to find out(cbc.ca)

52 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 38 comments

EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public(eff.org)

52 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 12 comments

Interposer to fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS week rollover problem(tomverbeure.github.io)

48 points by zdw 2 years ago | 10 comments

Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus(labrujulaverde.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 5 comments

A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs(secnigma.wordpress.com)

46 points by nixass 2 years ago | 14 comments

NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour(science.nasa.gov)

45 points by mywacaday 2 years ago | 13 comments

Fear Not the Association of Types(gavinleroy.com)

44 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 12 comments

Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction?(americanbar.org)

41 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 5 comments

Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller – The Hustle(thehustle.co)

37 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 39 comments

'Virtually intact' wreck believed to be Royal Navy warship torpedoed in WWI(theguardian.com)

36 points by SonOfKyuss 2 years ago | 23 comments

Map of the World's Emotional Temperature(news.gallup.com)

33 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 14 comments

Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy(reuters.com)

33 points by petethomas 2 years ago | 35 comments

How we communicate signals seniority(yuezhao.substack.com)

32 points by yuezhao 2 years ago | 30 comments

Ask HN: What was your biggest startup fail?

32 points by spikey_sanju 2 years ago | 37 comments

Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry(newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

32 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 23 comments

Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?

30 points by purple-leafy 2 years ago | 25 comments