top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-30

Our audit of Homebrew

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

4 months ago

845 upvotes – 184 comments

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

4 months ago

565 upvotes – 643 comments

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

https://porffor.dev/

4 months ago

477 upvotes – 138 comments

Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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

4 months ago

463 upvotes – 360 comments

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

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

4 months ago

430 upvotes – 160 comments

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/

4 months ago

426 upvotes – 247 comments

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

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

4 months ago

378 upvotes – 196 comments

Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

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

4 months ago

363 upvotes – 389 comments

Swift Homomorphic Encryption

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

4 months ago

322 upvotes – 122 comments

Why doesn't advice work?

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

4 months ago

320 upvotes – 320 comments

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

https://github.com/ssoready/ssoready

4 months ago

317 upvotes – 98 comments

A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization

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

4 months ago

310 upvotes – 18 comments

The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)

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

4 months ago

306 upvotes – 79 comments

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

https://www.embedding.io/

4 months ago

305 upvotes – 122 comments

Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper

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

4 months ago

303 upvotes – 150 comments

Fake job interviews are securities fraud

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

4 months ago

302 upvotes – 204 comments

C Macro Reflection in Zig

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

4 months ago

302 upvotes – 136 comments

Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

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

4 months ago

290 upvotes – 113 comments

Microjs

http://microjs.com/

4 months ago

274 upvotes – 60 comments

Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact

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

4 months ago

258 upvotes – 65 comments
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