top 10 hacker news stories for 2023-08-18

Ask vs. Guess Culture

https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture

3 years ago

Short session expiration does not help security

https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2023/08/16/session-timeout/

3 years ago

Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

https://news.gallup.com/poll/509543/saying-hello-linked-higher-wellbeing-limits.aspx

3 years ago

micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

https://micro-editor.github.io/

3 years ago

The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/deja-vu-fbi-proves-again-it-cant-be-trusted-section-702

3 years ago

GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

https://lwn.net/Articles/939981/

3 years ago

China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/18/china-property-developer-evergrande-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-us.html

3 years ago

Railway Oriented Programming

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

3 years ago

Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692503249595584526

3 years ago

Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly

https://moonbitlang.com/blog/first-announce/

3 years ago