top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-20

Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex

https://github.com/typst/typst

2 years ago

Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data

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

2 years ago

10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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

2 years ago

Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

2 years ago

Empathy for the user having sex with your software

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

2 years ago

A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker

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

2 years ago

Minuteman missile communications

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

No Uptime Hosting (2006)

https://nouptime.com/

2 years ago

Intel vs. Samsung vs. TSMC

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

2 years ago

Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

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

2 years ago

Aro – Zig's new C compiler

https://github.com/Vexu/arocc

2 years ago

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video

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

2 years ago

Converting Codebases with LLMs

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

2 years ago

A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)

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

2 years ago

Doom on Playdate

https://devforum.play.date/t/doom-on-playdate/852

2 years ago

Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-dog-vacuum

2 years ago

1989 Networking: NetWare 386

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/1989-networking-netware-386/

2 years ago

Google's shortened links will stop working next year

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201734/google-url-link-shortening-service-shut-down-support

2 years ago

Mining JIT traces for missing optimizations with Z3

https://pypy.org/posts/2024/07/mining-jit-traces-missing-optimizations-z3.html

2 years ago

Technical Details on Today's Outage

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/technical-details-on-todays-outage/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014806

2 years ago

Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/human-parasites-in-the-roman-world-health-consequences-of-conquering-an-empire/6464BDBB5D4B8EC0B08C503B6ECD1B7B

2 years ago

Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016373

2 years ago

Exercise: Minesweeper in 100 lines of Ruby

https://radanskoric.com/experiments/minesweeper-100-lines-of-clean-ruby

2 years ago

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/main.html

2 years ago

Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/07/20/managing-classic-mac-os-resources-in-resedit/

2 years ago

'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-search-engine-broken

2 years ago

Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/20/microsoft-says-8-5m-windows-devices-were-affected-by-crowdstrike-outage/

2 years ago

Argentina's economy is growing beyond expectations

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/19/2024/argentinas-economy-is-growing-beyond-expectations

2 years ago

Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-apps-play-store-3462390/

2 years ago

Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Featuring RISC-V

https://wccftech.com/tenstorrent-wormhole-ai-processors-risc-v-phenomenal-price-to-performance-value/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41018096

2 years ago

Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?

https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/are-people-too-flawed-ignorant-and

2 years ago

The Luckfox Pico Mini B – Linux in a Thumbnail

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/07/20/1800

2 years ago

Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid national curfew

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/20/bangladesh-police-given-shoot-on-sight-orders-amid-national-curfew

2 years ago

How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)

https://people.kernel.org/gustavoars/how-to-use-the-new-counted_by-attribute-in-c-and-linux

2 years ago