top 50% 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

9 months ago

671 upvotes – 594 comments

The New Internet

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

9 months ago

517 upvotes – 305 comments

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/

9 months ago

391 upvotes – 728 comments

Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob

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

9 months ago

337 upvotes – 194 comments

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/

9 months ago

324 upvotes – 167 comments

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/

9 months ago

321 upvotes – 191 comments

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

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

9 months ago

309 upvotes – 109 comments

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?

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

9 months ago

276 upvotes – 84 comments

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

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

9 months ago

274 upvotes – 65 comments

Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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

9 months ago

250 upvotes – 205 comments

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks

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

9 months ago

237 upvotes – 51 comments

How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries

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

9 months ago

218 upvotes – 96 comments

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

https://github.com/jodigiordano/gg

9 months ago

205 upvotes – 65 comments

Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

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

9 months ago

203 upvotes – 35 comments

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/

9 months ago

193 upvotes – 50 comments

Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient

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

9 months ago

192 upvotes – 154 comments

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/

9 months ago

189 upvotes – 92 comments

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

9 months ago

182 upvotes – 509 comments

A simple procedural animation technique [video]

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

9 months ago

182 upvotes – 23 comments

Decline of Indian vultures

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

9 months ago

165 upvotes – 119 comments

Driving Compilers

https://fabiensanglard.net/dc/

9 months ago

161 upvotes – 8 comments

There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a

9 months ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration

http://blog.asleson.org/2024/07/24/bcachefs-an-introduction/exploration/

9 months ago

156 upvotes – 183 comments

Repulsive Shells [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDM6bCt1Gic

9 months ago

155 upvotes – 19 comments

Call the compiler, fax it your code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25-pRhpY

9 months ago

150 upvotes – 36 comments

Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

https://blog.zulip.com/2024/07/25/zulip-9-0-released/

9 months ago

139 upvotes – 90 comments

Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?

https://blog.poisson.chat/posts/2024-07-26-adt-history.html

9 months ago

131 upvotes – 71 comments

A hash table by any other name

https://lwn.net/Articles/972580/

9 months ago

127 upvotes – 38 comments

Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-no-recall-for-raptor-lake-cpus-microcode-wont-fix-affected-units

9 months ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

Skip and Arc'teryx built a futuristic exoskeleton

https://www.fastcompany.com/91159743/skip-and-arcteryx-built-an-amazing-new-exoskeleton-heres-what-its-like-to-walk-in-it

9 months ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork

https://github.com/patched-codes/patchwork

9 months ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]

https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/univ.pdf

9 months ago

114 upvotes – 62 comments

Funtoo Linux is shutting down

https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/5182-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/

9 months ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022)

https://siboehm.com/articles/22/CUDA-MMM

9 months ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

How Mihoyo's monetization works

https://moonbearmusings.com/lets-talk-about-how-mihoyos-monetization-works/

9 months ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)

https://mcognetta.github.io/posts/leetcode-random-seed/

9 months ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether

https://fika.bar/blogs/paoramen/fear-of-over-engineering-has-killed-engineering-altogether-01J3MM2Y3RGK8AZWYHHFJMAGJJ

9 months ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb

https://www.alandalusylahistoria.com/?p=4902

9 months ago

97 upvotes – 95 comments

Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?

https://blog.val.town/blog/node-spawn-performance/

9 months ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080172

9 months ago

94 upvotes – 107 comments

Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source

https://apexsurplus.com

9 months ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Beyond Clean Code

https://tobeva.com/articles/beyond/

9 months ago

93 upvotes – 91 comments

MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-350-sustainable-real-estate-spring-2023/

9 months ago

93 upvotes – 133 comments

How Clang compiles a function (2018)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1605

9 months ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

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9 months ago

90 upvotes – 0 comments

The evolution of Ruby's Range class

https://zverok.space/blog/2024-07-26-range-evolution.html

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

Where should visual programming go?

https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/

9 months ago

85 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Word Slicer

https://wordslicer.com

9 months ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Database of All Funded Startups

https://old.reddit.com/r/b2b_sales/comments/1ecgw9g/a_database_of_all_startups_who_received_funding/

9 months ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work

https://aeon.co/essays/what-hannah-arendt-proposed-as-an-alternative-to-authenticity

9 months ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)

https://nonpolynomial.com/2023/10/30/how-to-beg-borrow-steal-your-way-to-a-cross-platform-bluetooth-le-library/

9 months ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (1996)

https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/03/captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing.html

9 months ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

https://raytracing.github.io

9 months ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/us-solar-production-soars-by-25-percent-in-just-one-year/

9 months ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

DARPA Brings Next-Gen US Microelectronics Manufacturing Closer to Reality

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-07-18

9 months ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments
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