top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-04

Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers

https://www.securityweek.com/twilio-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-leak-33m-authy-user-phone-numbers/

2 years ago

Advantages of incompetent management

https://yosefk.com/blog/advantages-of-incompetent-management.html

2 years ago

Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/

2 years ago

SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

2 years ago

Batteries: How cheap can they get?

https://aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-how-cheap-can-they-get

2 years ago

The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

https://www.kitze.io/posts/saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever

2 years ago

The magic of small engineering teams

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/the-magic-of-small-engineering-teams

2 years ago

Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

https://corecursive.com/building-powershell-with-jeffrey-snover/

2 years ago

Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/fuzzy-dedup/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40878765

2 years ago

Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services

https://www.firezone.dev/blog/sans-io

2 years ago

Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes

https://lazamar.github.io/haskell-data-compression-with-huffman-codes/

2 years ago

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines

2 years ago

Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/06/kirigami-mechanical-computer/

2 years ago

Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion

https://boyuan.space/diffusion-forcing/

2 years ago

The sad state of property-based testing libraries

https://stevana.github.io/the_sad_state_of_property-based_testing_libraries.html

2 years ago

LivePortrait: A fast, controllable portrait animation model

https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

2 years ago

NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop

https://nexdock.com/

2 years ago

The Snapdragon X Elite's Adreno iGPU

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/07/04/the-snapdragon-x-elites-adreno-igpu/

2 years ago

Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1086643_en.html

2 years ago