946
479
Ask vs. Guess Culture
https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture
3 years ago
696
419
Short session expiration does not help security
https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2023/08/16/session-timeout/
505
319
Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
https://news.gallup.com/poll/509543/saying-hello-linked-higher-wellbeing-limits.aspx
383
324
micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
https://micro-editor.github.io/
347
131
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
339
156
GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
https://lwn.net/Articles/939981/
334
382
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
332
166
Railway Oriented Programming
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/
318
408
Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692503249595584526
313
152
Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
https://moonbitlang.com/blog/first-announce/
300
231
TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/17/typescript-is-surprisingly-ok-for-compilers.html
291
99
Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python
https://github.com/Textualize/textual
285
246
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
265
543
C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
https://research.swtch.com/ub
257
117
2009scape
https://2009scape.org/
254
155
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/
249
38
Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers
https://ibraheem.ca/posts/too-many-web-servers/
114
Why your blog still needs RSS
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-your-blog-still-needs-rss
228
204
Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/18/gedmatch-dna-police-forensic-genetic-genealogy/
223
172
FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang
https://github.com/IBM/fp-go
221
214
London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades
https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/aerial-london-then-and-now
213
191
Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/worldcoin-in-kenya/
206
Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge
https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/
196
108
Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/
123
Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files
https://twitter.com/kom_256/status/1692225622091706389
194
159
Career advice for young system programmers
https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/career-advice-for-young-system-programmers-c7443f2d3edf
190
122
WTF is going on with R7RS Large?
http://dpk.io/r7rswtf
188
67
New motherboard improves old CRT television
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/16/new-motherboard-improves-old-crt-television/
187
37
Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres
https://tembo.io/blog/introducing-pg-later/
181
183
Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
https://www.businessinsider.com/return-to-office-remote-work-from-home-commute-companies-climate-2023-8
73
You probably don’t need to fine-tune an LLM
https://www.tidepool.so/2023/08/17/why-you-probably-dont-need-to-fine-tune-an-llm/
168
63
Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed
https://fortomorrow.org/explore-solutions/sargablock
163
145
Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/17/who-panel-aspartame-diet-coke-guidelines
160
46
Zaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaum
Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj-2022-074520
148
143
Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (2002)
https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/coreutils-4.5.4/html_node/coreutils_149.html
144
The Plumber Problem
https://hypercritical.co/2023/08/18/the-plumber-problem
29
FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/
140
129
Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl
https://zetter.substack.com/p/radiation-spikes-at-chernobyl-a-mystery
132
39
Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs
https://github.com/poozlehq/poozle
87
Meaningful exits for founders (2016)
https://medium.com/strong-words/meaningful-exits-for-founders-4c3b2baba6b4
128
Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/News_and_notes
197
Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers
https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/health-ceo-salaries-compensation/
116
88
Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNmUNvnB04
115
Microplastics detected in the marine air from Norway to the high Arctic
https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/18/microplastics-detected-in-the-marine-air-from-norway-to-the-high-arctic/
109
16
The PolymurHash universal hash function
https://github.com/orlp/polymur-hash
107
83
Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02552-2
106
89
A 100GW phased laser array for interstellar lightsail propulsion (2021)
https://opg.optica.org/josab/viewmedia.cfm?uri=josab-38-5-1477&html=true
103
32
The Atlas of Economic Complexity
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
102
56
Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-117-Chrome-116-Bench
100
97
ARM’s Neoverse N2: Cortex A710 for Servers
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/18/arms-neoverse-n2-cortex-a710-for-servers/
43
Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2023/08/17/structuring-iac
98
25
Serde has started shipping precompiled binaries with no way to opt out
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538
94
YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37178388
92
24
YC Library
https://www.ycombinator.com/library
Helidon Níma: A Java microservices framework based on virtual threads
https://helidon.io/nima
Show HN: Saf – simple, reliable, rsync-based, battle tested, rounded backup
https://github.com/dusanx/saf
84
ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private?
https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-data-requests-user-logs/
85
Fixing the TPM: Hardware Security Modules Done Right
https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/hsm-done-right
78
61
The Cost of Good Movies
https://soaringtwenties.substack.com/p/the-real-cost-of-good-movies-and
77
179
Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger
https://abc7news.com/cruise-driverless-car-sffd-fire-truck-accident/13666936/
19
Soundproofing my studio
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/soundproofing-my-studio-whats-wall
71
59
A testimony of “guilt-by-association” harassment in astronomy
https://hxstem.substack.com/p/a-testimony-of-guilt-by-association
70
93
Artists have forgotten how to draw
https://unherd.com/2023/08/artists-have-forgotten-how-to-draw/
Tell HN: Gmail rate limiting emails from AWS SES
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175503
66
6
New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2313/
65
Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/moderna-ceo-made-400m-last-year-2435x-the-median-salary-of-employees/
62
Blue-light filtering spectacles probably make no difference to sleep quality
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-blue-light-filtering-spectacles-difference-eye.html
Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-never-traveler-culture-cmb/index.html
14
Emulating the 6502 CPU in C++ (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJgsuQoy9bc
60
31
Astronomers Find Star Is a Powerful Magnet
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-strange-star-is-a-powerful-magnet/
36
How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?
https://thibautbarrere.com/2022/09/09/implementing-a-disk-cache-for-elixir-req
72
Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy
https://tutanota.com/blog/facebook-instagram-adtracking-ends
11
Pines’ demon observed as a 3D acoustic plasmon in Sr2RuO4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06318-8
58
It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/dont-supersize-me-the-case-for-small-electric-cars-instead-of-big-suvs/
57
7
WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/winrar-flaw-lets-hackers-run-programs-when-you-open-rar-archives/
