Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 14, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 14, 2024 :</p>
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Winning a hackathon, losing my sanity
Summary: Jerome Paulos and his friend Ben won JumboHack, a hackathon at Tufts University, with their project that generates a Spotify Wrapped-like summary of students' dining habits by scraping Tufts' meal plan portal. Despite facing challenges with the software and security measures, they successfully designed a vivid and bold product that attracted hundreds of students to use it within days.
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The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
Summary: "The Good Soldier Švejk" is the most famous work by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek and the best-known Czech novel. It satirizes bureaucracy, the military, and war, following the adventures of antihero Josef Švejk during World War I. The novel has been translated into 60 languages and has inspired plays, films, comic books, restaurants, an opera, TV adaptations, and more.