top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-08

Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes

https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/

2 years ago

No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead

https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/W3AVCT/

2 years ago

Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/08/boeing-to-plead-guilty-to-criminal-fraud-charge-stemming-from-737-max-crashes.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-javascript-simulating-20-000-000-particles

2 years ago

The Right Kind of Stubborn

https://paulgraham.com/persistence.html

2 years ago

DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)

https://sqlitebrowser.org/

2 years ago

C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04259

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app

https://github.com/onlook-dev/studio

2 years ago

Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-faces-millions-in-damages-and-a-permanent-injunction-240708/

2 years ago

Entering text in the terminal is complicated

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/08/readline/

2 years ago

Making my own wedding rings

https://geoff.greer.fm/2024/07/07/making-my-own-wedding-rings/

2 years ago

Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-admins-escape-house-arrest-after-judge-approves-u-s-extradition-240708/

2 years ago

Do Skis Get Blunt?

https://brooker.co.za/misc-blog/2024/01/23/skis.html

2 years ago

Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1dxmroj/zed_editor_automatically_downloads_binaries_and/

2 years ago

The Deadlock Empire: An Interactive Guide to Locks

https://deadlockempire.github.io

2 years ago

A Mini Monitor for a Pi

https://noamzeise.com/2024/07/05/mini-monitor.html

2 years ago

Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/geomys/

2 years ago

Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/8/24194281/affinity-creative-suite-six-month-free-trial-deal-announcement

2 years ago

Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11

https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra

2 years ago

Spot the Drowning Child (2015)

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/

2 years ago

For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-150-years-albertas-electricity-is-coal/

2 years ago

Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

https://www.theverge.com/24188282/roku-tv-update-motion-smoothing-turn-off

2 years ago

Show HN: I am building an open-source incident management platform

https://github.com/incidentalhq/incidental

2 years ago

Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model

https://research.roblox.com/tech-blog/2024/07/deploying-ml-for-voice-safety

2 years ago

Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner

https://plausible.io/

2 years ago

How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-forwarded-email-alias-generator/

2 years ago

Python Has Too Many Package Managers

https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/

2 years ago

There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative

https://creativerly.com/there-is-still-the-need-for-a-better-goodreads-alternative/

2 years ago

1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file

https://github.com/Osiris-Team/1JPM

2 years ago

NanoKVM: Affordable, Multifunctional, Nano RISC-V IP-KVM

https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM

2 years ago

Children's mental models of recursive LOGO programs (1985)

https://telearn.hal.science/hal-00190537/document

2 years ago

'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021)

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/04/01/it-s-like-i-drew-a-door-and-disappeared-through-it

2 years ago

Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-pop-up-ad-3458170/

2 years ago

Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server

https://github.com/victrixsoft/bashbro

2 years ago

Jujutsu: A Next Generation Replacement for Git

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/jujutsu-a-next-generation-replacement-for-git/

2 years ago

Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

https://imherefor.me/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a IMDB for all kinds of micro-creators

https://fanzine.world/

2 years ago

Making Python Less Random

https://healeycodes.com/making-python-less-random

2 years ago

Universal Code Execution by Chaining Messages in Browser Extensions

https://spaceraccoon.dev/universal-code-execution-browser-extensions/

2 years ago

Show HN: A fast OSS voice assistant

https://swift-ai.vercel.app/

2 years ago

Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy (2021)

https://nonzero.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-world-saving-idea-f4b

2 years ago

“Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept

https://www.thediff.co/archive/bullshit-jobs-is-a-terrible-curiosity-killing-concept/

2 years ago

Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissors

https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/

2 years ago

RE2 maintainer Paul Wankadia died

https://github.com/google/re2/issues/502

2 years ago

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? (2022)

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell/

2 years ago