top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-21

Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

2 years ago

So you think you know box shadows?

https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-not-to-use-box-shadows

2 years ago

Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1814343502886477857

2 years ago

Pin

https://without.boats/blog/pin/

2 years ago

What is the significance of the character "j" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)

https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/3748/what-is-the-significance-of-the-character-j-at-the-end-of-a-roman-numeral

2 years ago

rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++

https://rr-project.org/

2 years ago

X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

https://x.com/

2 years ago

User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/something-awful-forumite-achieves-posting-godhood-emerging-from-the-void-after-100000-hour-11-year-ban-to-continue-the-same-argument-from-2013/

2 years ago

Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-says-13th-and-14th-gen-mobile-cpus-are-crashing-but-not-due-to-the-same-bug-as-desktop-chips-chipmaker-blames-common-software-and-hardware-issues

2 years ago

When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

2 years ago

Txtai: Open-source vector search and RAG for minimalists

https://neuml.github.io/txtai/

2 years ago

Glisp: Graphical Lisp

https://glisp.app/commit:e7fbaae/

2 years ago

James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died

https://nitter.poast.org/GerardoMunck/status/1815059432382067053

2 years ago

"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack"

https://twitter.com/leighhoneywell/status/1814278230704111792

2 years ago

Show HN: Moocable – find people studying the same online course/book

https://moocable.com/

2 years ago

PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client

https://github.com/commandprompt/pgmanage

2 years ago

Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/making-a-home-together

2 years ago

Why Discover is no American Express

https://www.popularfintech.com/p/why-discover-is-no-american-express

2 years ago

An interactive guide to x86-64 assembly – moving data

https://halb.it/posts/x64-moving-data/

2 years ago

Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-os-is-now-available-for-raspberry-pi-5-4/

2 years ago

A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)

https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/

2 years ago

Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD

https://www.endeavorrx.com/

2 years ago

The data that powers AI is disappearing fast

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/technology/ai-data-restrictions.html

2 years ago

Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-9028

2 years ago

Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench

https://www.zettlr.com

2 years ago

Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis

https://codisec.com/veles/

2 years ago

Show HN: A fake SMTP server for software integration testing

https://fakemail.stream

2 years ago

Man of the Hole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole

2 years ago

Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/7/1.html

2 years ago

Prometheus metrics saves us from painful kernel debugging (2022)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusHostMetricsSaveUs

2 years ago

Mojeek – The alternative search engine that puts the people who use it first

https://www.mojeek.com/about/

2 years ago

French Acrobatic Artist’s Low-Gravity Invention

https://www.core77.com/posts/133036/Acrobatic-Artist-Bastien-Dausses-Incredible-Low-Gravity-Invention

2 years ago

Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027265

2 years ago

Why I left Google

https://fogknife.com/2024-07-21-why-i-left-google.html

2 years ago

When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort

https://www.lacrux.com/en/videos/when-eyesight-fades-and-climbing-provides-comfort/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Educative.io auto-renews without warning, refuses to provide refunds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026096

2 years ago

American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Open Textbooks

https://textbooks.aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

2 years ago

AI method rapidly speeds predictions of materials' thermal properties

https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-method-radically-speeds-predictions-materials-thermal-properties-0716

2 years ago

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

https://yieldcode.blog/post/lets-blame-the-dev-who-pressed-deploy/

2 years ago

Friendship and Social Fitness

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/friendship-and-social-fitness

2 years ago

G1 AR Glasses

https://www.evenrealities.com/g1

2 years ago

New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-recovery-tool-to-help-with-crowdstrike-issue-impacting/ba-p/4196959

2 years ago

"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)

https://www.righto.com/2008/07/maxwells-equations-of-software-examined.html

2 years ago

Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon [2022]

https://modzero.com/modlog/archives/2022/08/22/ridiculous_vulnerability_disclosure_process_with_crowdstrike_falcon_sensor/index.html

2 years ago