top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-30

Our audit of Homebrew

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/07/30/our-audit-of-homebrew/

2 years ago

If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/28/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity

2 years ago

Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine

https://porffor.dev/

2 years ago

Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

https://shwin.co/blog/creativity-fundamentally-comes-from-memorization

2 years ago

Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?

https://en.osm.town/@Firefishy/112875549871566269

2 years ago

Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/30/texas-meta-facebook-biometric-data-settlement/

2 years ago

A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/

2 years ago

Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

https://www.darpa.mil/program/translating-all-c-to-rust

2 years ago

Swift Homomorphic Encryption

https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encryption/

2 years ago

Why doesn't advice work?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/advice

2 years ago

Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source

https://github.com/ssoready/ssoready

2 years ago

A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization

https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-quantization

2 years ago

The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)

https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/TALR/

2 years ago

Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs

https://www.embedding.io/

2 years ago

Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper

https://152334H.github.io/blog/scaling-exponents/

2 years ago

C Macro Reflection in Zig

https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/c-reflection-zig/

2 years ago

Fake job interviews are securities fraud

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-30/fake-job-interviews-are-securities-fraud

2 years ago

Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckdgp7r5y11o

2 years ago

Microjs

http://microjs.com/

2 years ago

Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/july/butterflies-static-electricity.html

2 years ago