top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-28

How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?

https://doubleagent.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/

2 years ago

503 upvotes – 209 comments

Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

2 years ago

415 upvotes – 409 comments

How to debug your battery design

https://github.com/ionworks/how-to-debug-your-battery

2 years ago

352 upvotes – 113 comments

How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/simultaneous-multithreading

2 years ago

334 upvotes – 129 comments

tolower() with AVX-512

https://dotat.at/@/2024-07-28-tolower-avx512.html

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 153 comments

The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decision-making/article/irrational-hungry-judge-effect-revisited-simulations-reveal-that-the-magnitude-of-the-effect-is-overestimated/61CE825D4DC137675BB9CAD04571AE58

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 212 comments

My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev

https://cprimozic.net/blog/tools-and-techniques-for-procedural-gamedev/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 20 comments

StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3

https://github.com/StreamPot/StreamPot

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js

https://statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app/

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 34 comments

My mental model of setf was wrong

https://simondobson.org/2024/07/27/my-mental-model-of-setf-was-wrong/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 91 comments

LeanDojo: Theorem Proving in Lean Using LLMs

https://leandojo.org/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 53 comments

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 101 comments

CalcGPT

https://calcgpt.io/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change

https://www.alertfor.com/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 81 comments

Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/perfectionism-one-of-the-biggest

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 132 comments

Don't blindly prefer `emplace_back` to `push_back` (2021)

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/03/push-back-emplace-back/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Stempad – Fast Online Scientific Writing

https://www.stempad.io/editor/85b7f0fc-c865-4011-89a8-216d8b88b249?copy=true

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 45 comments

Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021)

https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/higher-kind-poly.html

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 10 comments

Back to our roots

https://honnibal.dev/blog/back-to-our-roots

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local LLMs

https://github.com/CelVoxes/ceLLama

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer

https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments

Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedback Device [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqHgCx4Lk_w

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

It's not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/animals-change-social-habits-old-age-macaques-deer-sheep

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: ThinkPost – split-panel note taking & brainstorming app for devs

https://thinkpost.io

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

My Obsidian note-taking workflow

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidian-note-taking-workflow/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)

https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/gallery/2021/07/16/the-sun-motorway-is-65-years-old-a-short-story-of-an-extraordinary-infrastructure.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

SDcard wear leveling and translation layers (2014)

https://msreekan.com/2014/01/15/sdcard/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

An approach to the fundamental theory of physics

https://www.wolframphysics.org/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/digital-apartheid-gaza-unjust-content-moderation-request-israels-cyber-unit

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X's Policies

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/elon-musk-kamala-harris-deepfake.html

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

A List of companies that use Array Languages (J, K, APL, q)

https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Share of total health spending, by percentile

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1817249178017321257

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 118 comments

What Visa earnings tell us about the state of the payments industry

https://www.popularfintech.com/p/what-visa-earnings-really-tell-us

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 91 comments

Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2441154-why-many-studies-wrongly-claim-its-healthy-to-drink-a-little-alcohol/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 140 comments

An AI bot-war destroyed the online job market

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/28/everlasting-jobstoppers-how-an-ai-bot-destroyed-the-online-job-market/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Run Llama 3 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster

https://b4rtaz.medium.com/how-to-run-llama-3-405b-on-home-devices-build-ai-cluster-ad0d5ad3473b

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf (2010)

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/september-2010/dining-critic-tries-nutraloaf-the-prison-food-for-misbehaving-inmates/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 125 comments

Non-Obvious Prompt Engineering Guide

https://www.techsistence.com/p/non-obvious-prompt-engineering-guide

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 1 comments

Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating

https://www.gotghosted.fyi/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dangers-of-xylitol

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

Miraclecast – Miracast (WiFi Display) Implementation

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

What we would've done differently in the first year of bootstrapping our company

https://foundersconfidential418.substack.com/p/what-we-wouldve-done-differently

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Complex systems emerge from simple rules

https://tecnica.substack.com/p/complex-systems-emerge-from-simple

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

A man's brain is like a little empty attic (1887)

http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17736

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Schengen ain't what it used to be

https://www.savageevan.com/schengen/

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 61 comments

Tech companies can't find good employees, and it's their own fault

https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/tech-companies-cant-find-good-employees-its-their-own-fault.html

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 39 comments

How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/260342/what-can-a-time-traveler-use-to-generate-an-encryption-key-to-encrypt-informatio

2 years ago

50 upvotes – 67 comments

William James and a Theory of Thinking (2004) [pdf]

https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1129&context=jitta

2 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments
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