top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-20

Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex

https://github.com/typst/typst

7 months ago

649 upvotes – 187 comments

Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data

https://www.kibty.town/blog/a16z/

7 months ago

552 upvotes – 225 comments

10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article290249799.html

7 months ago

546 upvotes – 1126 comments

Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

7 months ago

518 upvotes – 141 comments

Empathy for the user having sex with your software

https://docs.buttplug.io/docs/dev-guide/intro/buttplug-ethics/

7 months ago

513 upvotes – 127 comments

A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker

https://syscalls.mebeim.net/?table=x86/64/x64/latest

7 months ago

407 upvotes – 64 comments

Minuteman missile communications

https://computer.rip/2024-07-20-minuteman-missile-communications.html

7 months ago

387 upvotes – 66 comments

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

7 months ago

294 upvotes – 147 comments

CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/crowdstrike-outage.html

7 months ago

279 upvotes – 379 comments

No Uptime Hosting (2006)

https://nouptime.com/

7 months ago

251 upvotes – 78 comments

How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?

https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/27964/how-to-choose-a-textbook-that-is-pedagogically-optimal-for-oneself

7 months ago

251 upvotes – 121 comments

Intel vs. Samsung vs. TSMC

https://semiengineering.com/intel-vs-samsung-vs-tsmc/

7 months ago

243 upvotes – 92 comments

Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

https://psyche.co/ideas/public-toilets-are-vanishing-and-thats-a-civic-catastrophe

7 months ago

241 upvotes – 296 comments

Aro – Zig's new C compiler

https://github.com/Vexu/arocc

7 months ago

221 upvotes – 123 comments

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/google-distributed-cloud-air-gapped-appliance-is-ga

7 months ago

195 upvotes – 108 comments

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/cash-global-it-outage-cashless-society-dangers-payment-choice-alliance

7 months ago

161 upvotes – 120 comments

Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/siblings-miss-crucial-life-extending-treatment-seattle-childrens-because-crowdstrike-outage/Y5EMEXGGQJE7PHDEAEKCWG6U4M/

7 months ago

155 upvotes – 169 comments

Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video

https://shape-of-motion.github.io/

7 months ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

Converting Codebases with LLMs

https://blog.withmantle.com/code-conversion-using-ai/

7 months ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)

https://pldb.io/blog/JohnOusterhout.html

7 months ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments
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