top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-26

A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/zurich-bern-consider-billboard-bans-after-vernier-outlaws-visual-pollution

2 years ago

The New Internet

https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet

2 years ago

Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/26/europe-tech-regulation-apple-meta-google-competition/

2 years ago

Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob

https://github.com/devrim/cloudflare-noip

2 years ago

Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

https://reason.com/2024/07/26/courts-close-the-loophole-letting-the-feds-search-your-phone-at-the-border/

2 years ago

Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/07/26/zen-5s-2-ahead-branch-predictor-unit-how-30-year-old-idea-allows-for-new-tricks/

2 years ago

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/10/three-cultures-bayes-subjective-objective-pragmatic/

2 years ago

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?

https://jlongster.com/why-chromaticity-shape

2 years ago

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

2 years ago

Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/blog/stripe-acquires-lemon-squeezy

2 years ago

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks

https://eieio.games/essays/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/

2 years ago

How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries

https://dhashe.com/how-to-build-highly-debuggable-c-binaries.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems

https://github.com/jodigiordano/gg

2 years ago

Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-proof-settles-geometric-langlands-conjecture-20240719/

2 years ago

Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/crooks-bypassed-googles-email-verification-to-create-workspace-accounts-access-3rd-party-services/

2 years ago

Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient

https://newatlas.com/medical/maglev-titanium-heart-bivacor/

2 years ago

STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/

2 years ago

A simple procedural animation technique [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfh_rv6khY

2 years ago

France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/26/france-s-high-speed-trains-struck-by-malicious-acts_6699471_7.html

2 years ago

Decline of Indian vultures

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo

2 years ago