Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2024-08-20

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1. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
   425 points by mfiguiere 22 hours ago | 504 comments

2. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)
   324 points by fanf2 15 hours ago | 139 comments

3. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
   313 points by ahubert 8 hours ago | 155 comments

4. FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator
   249 points by jstrieb 23 hours ago | 59 comments

5. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
   243 points by darknavi 4 hours ago | 113 comments

6. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
   243 points by Nydhal 12 hours ago | 85 comments

7. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
   230 points by tndl 10 hours ago | 108 comments

8. Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
   183 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 37 comments

9. Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
   171 points by zniturah 23 hours ago | 128 comments

10. Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
    144 points by savetz 21 hours ago | 20 comments

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