top 20 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

TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers

https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/17/typescript-is-surprisingly-ok-for-compilers.html

3 years ago

Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python

https://github.com/Textualize/textual

3 years ago

Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/do-one-thing-and-do-it-well-886b11a5d21

3 years ago

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness

https://research.swtch.com/ub

3 years ago

2009scape

https://2009scape.org/

3 years ago

Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/18/with-hr-3557-broadband-monopolies-are-pushing-a-bill-that-would-crush-your-towns-ability-to-stand-up-to-them/

3 years ago

Why your blog still needs RSS

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-your-blog-still-needs-rss

3 years ago

Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers

https://ibraheem.ca/posts/too-many-web-servers/

3 years ago

Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/18/gedmatch-dna-police-forensic-genetic-genealogy/

3 years ago

FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang

https://github.com/IBM/fp-go

3 years ago