top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-20

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

2 years ago

1422 upvotes – 872 comments

Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

https://sidekick.kagi.com/

2 years ago

739 upvotes – 165 comments

Let's Build the GPT Tokenizer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduSFxRajkE

2 years ago

640 upvotes – 51 comments

LED Matrix Earrings

https://mitxela.com/projects/ledstud

2 years ago

615 upvotes – 84 comments

In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)

https://danluu.com/simple-architectures/

2 years ago

590 upvotes – 436 comments

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/02/ssds-have-become-ridiculously-fast.html

2 years ago

589 upvotes – 417 comments

Planner programming blows my mind

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/picat/

2 years ago

412 upvotes – 72 comments

Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

https://proxiesapi.com/articles/web-scraping-in-python-the-complete-guide

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 146 comments

Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/microsoft-is-spying-on-users-of-its-ai-tools.html

2 years ago

367 upvotes – 146 comments

Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly

https://mary.codes/blog/programming/translating_openstreetmaps_to_HTML5_canvas_rust_wasm/

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 36 comments

WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering

https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2024/02/19/webkit-switching-to-skia-for-2d-graphics-rendering/

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 173 comments

Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust

https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 154 comments

Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight

https://news.delta.com/eclipse-viewing-30000-feet-delta-offer-path-totality-flight

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 223 comments

A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters

https://samwho.dev/bloom-filters/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 54 comments

ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/asml-dethrones-applied-materials-becomes-worlds-largest-fab-tool-maker-analyst

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 125 comments

AI your home on street view

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/02/ai-your-home-on-street-view.html

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 61 comments

Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Audio-SDK-Fully-Open

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 62 comments

Hetzner GPU Server

https://robot.hetzner.com/order/index/culture/en_GB

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 157 comments

DJI – The ART of obfuscation

https://blog.quarkslab.com/dji-the-art-of-obfuscation.html

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 119 comments

Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 264 comments

Stonelifting Etiquette

https://liftingstones.org/articles/stonelifting-etiquette

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 103 comments

Why is Prettier rock solid?

https://mrmr.io/til/prettier/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 156 comments

Rotten Apple

https://adactio.com/journal/20888

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 214 comments

Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours

https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/warning-14-000-bigquery-charge-in-2-hours/2715

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 193 comments

LlamaCloud and LlamaParse

https://blog.llamaindex.ai/introducing-llamacloud-and-llamaparse-af8cedf9006b

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 82 comments

Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/court-blocks-1-billion-copyright-ruling-that-punished-isp-for-its-users-piracy/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 88 comments

UI is a function of your organization

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/ui-fn-org/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks

https://www.ft.com/content/4114454c-a924-4929-85f4-5360b2b871c6

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 281 comments

Don't fall for the latest changes to the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python

https://github.com/hyperdiv/hyperdiv

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 83 comments

Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35B stock deal

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/capital-one-considers-acquisition-discover-financial-bloomberg-says-2024-02-19/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442296

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 153 comments

Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/02/19/faculty-group-calls-on-yale-to-make-teaching-distinct-from-activism/

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 311 comments

Updating Gov.uk’s crown

https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/19/updating-gov-uks-crown/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 180 comments

Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/why-is-no-one-making-a-new-version

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 182 comments

Video Game Module for Flipper Zero

https://shop.flipperzero.one/products/video-game-module-for-flipper-zero

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 68 comments

YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 85 comments

Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space

http://arighi.blogspot.com/2024/02/writing-scheduler-for-linux-in-rust.html

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

Moore's Scofflaws

https://oxide.computer/blog/moores-scofflaws

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 100 comments

Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/walmart-agrees-to-buy-vizio-to-grow-ad-business.html

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 145 comments

Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/your-fingerprints-can-be-recreated-from-the-sounds-made-when-you-swipe-on-a-touchscreen-researchers-new-side-channel-attack-can-reproduce-partial-fingerprints-to-enable-attacks

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/life-in-the-time-of-zika/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 93 comments

Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturn-largest-moon-uninhabitable.html

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 108 comments

Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/there-may-be-a-dark-mirror-universe-within-ours-where-atoms-failed-to-form-new-study-suggests

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 98 comments

Learning resources for curious software engineers

https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 14 comments

Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-February/000117.html

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 110 comments

X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-Clear-Out-Old-Compilers

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 111 comments

Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442368

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

Yulia Navalnaya’s X account was suspended

https://news.sky.com/story/alexei-navalnys-wife-yulia-navalnaya-has-x-social-media-account-suspended-13076185

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 112 comments

My Favorite Statistical Measure: Hoeffding's D

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/hoeffdings_d_explainer

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

Martin Kleppmann talk on local-first (LoFi)

https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3kltpvnts622e

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)

https://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 86 comments

Re2c

https://re2c.org/index.html

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 41 comments

HexWalk – Hex Editor/Viewer/Analyzer

https://github.com/gcarmix/HexWalk

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts

https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/keyboard-shortcuts-userscripts/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

TCP Puzzlers (2016)

https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/tcp-puzzlers

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else hate company "hack days"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447342

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS

https://www.swiftmail.io

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 102 comments

Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/20/vietnam_id_cards_dna/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation

https://gala3d.github.io/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Winteracter – The Fortran GUI Toolset

https://www.winteracter.com/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00481-2

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

We're moving to a post-entertainment society

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments
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