top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-24

Zenbleed

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html

3 years ago

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

3 years ago

Attention Is Off By One

https://www.evanmiller.org/attention-is-off-by-one.html

3 years ago

40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-gimli-glider/

3 years ago

Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

https://projectionlab.com/

3 years ago

Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/

3 years ago

The Fall of Stack Overflow

https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

3 years ago

Have attention spans been declining?

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/

3 years ago

U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption

https://therecord.media/senate-dea-bill-targets-end-to-end-encryption-requires-companies-to-report-drugs

3 years ago

Inkscape 1.3

https://inkscape.org/news/2023/07/23/inkscape-launches-version-13-focus-organizing-work/

3 years ago

Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

3 years ago

When did people stop being drunk all the time?

https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk

3 years ago

Driver.js: Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more

https://driverjs.com/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846965

3 years ago

The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (2011)

https://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/threethings.html

3 years ago

People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pneumatic-tube-table-phone-flirting-berlin

3 years ago

Debian riscv64

https://blog.aurel32.net/welcome-debian-riscv64.html

3 years ago

Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity

https://www.pcgamer.com/your-ubisoft-account-can-be-suspended-and-subsequently-permanently-deleted-for-inactivity-taking-your-games-library-with-it/

3 years ago

A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2

https://brev.dev/blog/fine-tuning-llama-2

3 years ago

It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/17/standing-out/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

https://map.henryn.xyz

3 years ago

The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/the-ibm-mainframe-how-it-runs-and-why-it-survives/

3 years ago

Python: Overlooked core functionalities

https://erikvandeven.medium.com/python-uncovering-the-overlooked-core-functionalities-54590420c225

3 years ago

Elixir is still safe

https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe

3 years ago

Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey

https://adamfuhrer.com/pen-plotting-experiments

3 years ago

Mark Watson's Lisp books

https://github.com/mark-watson/free-older-books-and-software/tree/main/opencontent

3 years ago

Court strikes down limits on filming of police in Arizona

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-cant-limit-filming-of-police-a7a7ad0fe5b421d416ec3477d0795707

3 years ago

Bruce Lee and Me

https://kareem.substack.com/p/bruce-lee-and-me

3 years ago

Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2693757&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

3 years ago

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS

https://jessems.com/posts/2023-07-22-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sequence-diagrams-in-mermaidjs

3 years ago

Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/byron-bay-data-breach-victim-adidas-nab-us-court-action-damages/102575726

3 years ago

Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3n3j/backdoor-in-police-radios-tetra-burst

3 years ago

Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools

https://vscode.dev/

3 years ago

Wind and solar will be 25% of U.S. generating capacity within three years

https://electricenergyonline.com/article/energy/category/climate-change/82/1033617/wind-solar-will-be-25-of-total-u-s-generating-capacity-within-three-years-as-they-grow-by-over-100-gw-.html

3 years ago

Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md

3 years ago

Apple Vision Pro developer kit

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/developer-kit/

3 years ago

Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games

https://boilingsteam.com/bitsummit-2023-steam-decks-everywhere-no-vr-and-impressive-indie-games/

3 years ago

A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir

https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/breakdown-of-http-clients-in-elixir/

3 years ago

Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/advanced-performance-extensions-apx.html

3 years ago

RNA editing is common in behaviorally sophisticated coleoid cephalopods (2017)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28388405/

3 years ago

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [pdf]

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

3 years ago

Emotions: A Code Book

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/emotions-a-code-book

3 years ago

How capacity planners credibly estimate application performance

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595862

3 years ago

Chicago’s Railroad Problem

https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/chicagos-railroad-problem/

3 years ago

X, the moonshot factory

https://x.company/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Artie (YC S23) – Real time data replication to data warehouses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847569

3 years ago

Atari has launched collectible arcade circuit boards of retro classics

https://retrododo.com/atari-collectible-arcade-circuit-boards/

3 years ago

Wasm_of_OCaml

https://github.com/ocaml-wasm/wasm_of_ocaml

3 years ago

NAT Types

https://www.roxlu.com/2021/070/nat-types

3 years ago

Ask HN: What books or courses do you know similar to "From Nand to Tetris"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36853931

3 years ago

Meta-Transformer: A unified framework for multimodal learning

https://kxgong.github.io/meta_transformer/

3 years ago

Autoenshittification

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

3 years ago

Electric Y Combinator – Electric Clojure

https://dustingetz.electricfiddle.net/electric-fiddle.essay!Essay/electric-y-combinator

3 years ago

Intel AVX10: The Successor to AVX-512

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10

3 years ago

The magnificence of the bluefin tuna

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-magnificence-of-the-bluefin-tuna

3 years ago

HP 45 (and 35 and 80) Calculator Emulator

https://sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.html

3 years ago

SVG Chromium bug is more than 10 years old

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109212

3 years ago

Changing the Android captive portal page (2020)

https://www.encrypted.at/android-captive-portal/

3 years ago