Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader
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FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
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SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
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Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
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A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization
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If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity
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C Macro Reflection in Zig
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A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
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Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
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Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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SVG Triangle of Compromise
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Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
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Tritone Substitutions
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How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood
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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
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tolower() with AVX-512
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ps aux written in bash without forking
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Movable tree CRDTs and Loro's implementation
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CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
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Running One-man SaaS for 9 Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The secret of Minecraft (2014)
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Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
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Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
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Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA
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Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)
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Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool
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Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
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How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
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How to debug your battery design
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The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
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Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?
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The New Internet
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Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks
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Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence
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Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
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SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
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An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Generating sudokus for fun and no profit
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My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)
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A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
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Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
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Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community
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Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
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Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
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Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)
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A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG
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Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
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Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text
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Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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Every company should be owned by its employees
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Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
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CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France
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Reverse Engineering for Everyone
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AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
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Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
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Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs
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The Unix Pipe Card Game
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Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
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You can opt out of airport face scans
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Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
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Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
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Large Enough – Mistral AI
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Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform
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Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
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What Is Entropy?
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Copying is the way design works
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July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs
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Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
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The Elegance of the ASCII Table
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Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
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Open source AI is the path forward
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Intent to end OCSP service
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)
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Pin
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Jiff: Datetime library for Rust
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Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
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Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
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Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling
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Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
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No More Blue Fridays
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Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones
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Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
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How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?
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A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker
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Minuteman missile communications
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Empathy for the user having sex with your software
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Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
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What is the significance of the character \"j\" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)
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rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
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So you think you know box shadows?
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Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications
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10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]
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Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
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AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
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Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout
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I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
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Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
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Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
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No Uptime Hosting (2006)
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Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
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USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
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What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
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Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
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Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
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Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues
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FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
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Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
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Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
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Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
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A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
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SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat
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Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare
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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
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The Objects of Our Life (1983)
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Mistral NeMo
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
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Story points are pointless, measure queues
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Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
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XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
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Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
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The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
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Panic at the Job Market
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TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
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Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL violations
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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
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The Mafia of Pharma Pricing
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Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
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The Delusion of the Polygraph
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Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
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Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, has died
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For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
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The Engineer’s Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the Transformer Model
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Codestral Mamba
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I am starting an AI+Education company
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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We need visual programming. No, not like that
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
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Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
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Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
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Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)
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How to Know When It's Time to Go
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Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
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Rust for Filesystems
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Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation
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The Illustrated AlphaFold
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Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
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Give people something to link to
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Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
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Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
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Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
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No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
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After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS
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Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
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Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust
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Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
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Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)
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Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
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Optimizing the Lichess Tablebase Server
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Crafting Interpreters
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Use a work journal
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Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)
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Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
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Shelley Duvall has died
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FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision
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WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
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Physics-Based Deep Learning Book
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Using S3 as a Container Registry
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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
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Windows NT for Power Macintosh
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Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python
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Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery
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RouteLLM: A framework for serving and evaluating LLM routers
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Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
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Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
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An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
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Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
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Engineering principles for building financial systems
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Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation
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The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library
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MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use
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Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
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Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
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How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers
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Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space
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AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
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Vision language models are blind
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Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator
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Zed on Linux Is Here
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Entering text in the terminal is complicated
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C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
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Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
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DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
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Making my own wedding rings
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Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
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The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science
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PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
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Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
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Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
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The internet is already over (2022)
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Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript
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Do Skis Get Blunt?
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Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
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Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
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Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
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Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
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The Right Kind of Stubborn
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No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)
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The magic of small engineering teams
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Advantages of incompetent management
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Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
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How to think in writing
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Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services
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Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
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A reawakening of systems programming meetups
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Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works
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Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
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Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool
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Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
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Let's stop counting centuries
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PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
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Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
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Radio Garden
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Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
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First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back
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Should this be a map or 500 maps?
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Analyzing my electricity consumption
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Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes
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Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash
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SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
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Insights from over 10,000 comments on \"Ask HN: Who Is Hiring\" using GPT-4o
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Batteries: How cheap can they get?
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I have no constructor, and I must initialize
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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City
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Engine Sound Simulator
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Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
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The Cheapest NAS
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AI's $600B Question
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Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision
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The joy of reading books you don't understand
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Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
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The Origins of DS_store (2006)
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Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Git story: Not so fun this time
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Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)
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Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
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Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks
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With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
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Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
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Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
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Why Bridges Don't Sink
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I Received an AI Email
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Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
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My Python code is a neural network
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Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
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Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
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Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs
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Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
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Why is Chile so long?
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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
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Meta 3D Gen
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-07-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
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How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed
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Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
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Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes
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Cities Need More Trees
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RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
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My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
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Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
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Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
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The economics of writing technical books
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FUTO Keyboard
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Python toolkit for quantitative finance
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Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative
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AirPods fast connect security vulnerability
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Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor
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Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
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Weekend projects: getting silly with C
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Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
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