top 50% 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

Ask HN: Vision Pro owners, are you still using it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872102

2 years ago

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/high-altitude-cave-used-by-tibetan-buddhists-yields-a-denisovan-fossil/

2 years ago

Bone tissue reparation using coral and marine sponges

https://web.stanford.edu/group/mota/education/Physics%2087N%20Final%20Projects/Group%20Gamma/bone.htm

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876568

2 years ago

Region-specific Machines pricing

https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-region-specific-machines-pricing/20690

2 years ago

The War on Estonian Forests (2022)

https://daveon.design/the-war-on-estonian-forests.html

2 years ago

"Superintelligence" 10 years later

https://www.humanityredefined.com/p/superintelligence10-years-later

2 years ago

Tell HN: BuildZoom posts jobs on HN, but no actual openings available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875814

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms

https://www.jogmekeebs.com

2 years ago

Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam

https://two-wrongs.com/map-of-pontypandy-in-fireman-sam.html

2 years ago

HE.net problem

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-July/225901.html

2 years ago

Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma

https://obrhubr.org/reverse-engineering-diploma

2 years ago

PowerToys Run: extensible quick launcher for power users

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

2 years ago

Kanban vs. Scrum: What's the difference?

https://www.leiga.com/post/kanban-vs-scrum

2 years ago

Ready Player Mode

https://lmno.lol/alvaro/ready-player-mode

2 years ago

The Origin of Ambergris (2012)

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2012/kemp_floating.html

2 years ago

Programmable Matter – 3D Catoms

https://www.programmable-matter.com/technology/3d-catoms

2 years ago

Apple is taking down VPN apps following the Russian censorship agency demands

https://www.le-vpn.com/le-vpn-removed-from-russian-app-store-roskomnadzor/

2 years ago

Air-Bus Hijacking: Silently Taking over Avionics Systems

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3626205.3659144

2 years ago

Do grayscale images take less space?

https://lu.sagebl.eu/notes/can-i-save-space-with-grayscale-jpegs/

2 years ago

My Gold Prospecting and Mining Pages

http://mdpub.com/gold/index.html

2 years ago

Bevy 0.14 – Data driven game engine

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-14/

2 years ago

MDN tool that tells you of security gaps in your website

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory/analyze

2 years ago

Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/04/apple-bows-to-kremlin-pressure-to-remove-leading-vpns-from-russian-appstore-en-news

2 years ago

Th64: Tiny Hash Function in C

https://github.com/tidwall/th64

2 years ago

CheriBSD

https://www.cheribsd.org

2 years ago