845
184
Our audit of Homebrew
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/07/30/our-audit-of-homebrew/
2 years ago
565
643
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
477
138
Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
https://porffor.dev/
463
360
Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
https://shwin.co/blog/creativity-fundamentally-comes-from-memorization
430
160
Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
https://en.osm.town/@Firefishy/112875549871566269
426
247
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/
378
196
A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
363
389
Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)
https://www.darpa.mil/program/translating-all-c-to-rust
322
122
Swift Homomorphic Encryption
https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encryption/
320
321
Why doesn't advice work?
https://dynomight.substack.com/p/advice
317
98
Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source
https://github.com/ssoready/ssoready
310
18
A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization
https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-quantization
306
79
The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)
https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/TALR/
305
Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs
https://www.embedding.io/
303
150
Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper
https://152334H.github.io/blog/scaling-exponents/
302
136
C Macro Reflection in Zig
https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/c-reflection-zig/
204
Fake job interviews are securities fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-30/fake-job-interviews-are-securities-fraud
290
113
Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckdgp7r5y11o
274
60
Microjs
http://microjs.com/
258
65
Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/july/butterflies-static-electricity.html
243
91
Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
https://www.tunglevo.com/note/crafting-interpreters-with-rust-on-garbage-collection/
227
55
Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/slowterm.html
224
141
Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/
208
27
Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15811
197
Lewis Lapham has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/lewis-h-lapham-dead.html
189
209
Meta Launches AI Studio in US
https://ai.meta.com/ai-studio/
186
44
Divers discover Roman mosaic
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/underwater-marble-floor-mosaic-discovered-off-the-coast-of-naples-180984772/
61
Building static binaries with Go on Linux
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/building-static-binaries-with-go-on-linux/
174
329
Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
https://sports.yahoo.com/paris-olympics-2024-is-a-slow-swimming-pool-impeding-world-records-133347713.html
152
42
Canarytokens: Honeypot for critical credentials, get notified when they are used (2015)
https://canarytokens.org/nest/
193
The lie of music discovery algorithms
https://www.zeynepevecen.dev/writing/music
149
48
OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011
https://jbp.io/2024/06/27/cve-2024-5535-openssl-memory-safety.html
143
77
FTC Wins Round Two in Its Non-Compete Ban Defense
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ftc-wins-round-two-in-its-non-compete-4112148/
142
83
AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers
https://repost.aws/questions/QUshILm0xbTjWJZSD8afYVgA/codecommit-cannot-create-a-repository
140
Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are
https://cohost.org/prophet/post/7083950-functional-programmi
139
26
All I Know About Certificates – Certificate Authority
https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1722045726-All-I-Know-About-Certificates----Certificate-Authority
Federal regulator says Amazon can be held responsible for faulty goods
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/30/cpsc-says-amazon-responsible-for-faulty-goods-sold-on-its-marketplace.html
69
JavaScript garbage collection and closures
https://jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-collection-and-closures/
90
Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web
https://orca-app.dev/index.html
129
53
Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser
https://rendley.com/
120
20
Ngtop – Request analytics from the Nginx access logs
https://github.com/facundoolano/ngtop
115
68
Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/07/30/taking-command-of-the-context-menu-in-macos/
Quint
https://quint-lang.org/
84
How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
https://blog.gridstatus.io/ercot-nuclear-trip/
104
38
Making Machines Move
https://fly.io/blog/machine-migrations/
100
14
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf] (2023)
https://browncs1951x.github.io/static/files/hitchhikersguide.pdf
99
Complex life forms existed 1.5B years earlier than believed, study finds
https://abcnews.go.com/International/complex-life-forms-existed-15-billion-years-earlier/story?id=112377072
95
107
What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/07/play-streets-children-adults/679258/
93
Azure Down?
https://azure.status.microsoft/it-it/status
17
Early Bookcases, Cupboards and Carousels
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/07/28/early-bookcases-cupboards-and-carousels/
85
116
Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/07/26/g-s1-13534/ozempic-biggest-side-effect-denmark-pharmastate
56
Video: A Language for Making Movies
https://lang.video/
72
1
Functional programming languages should be better at mutation
https://cohost.org/prophet/post/7083950-functional-programming
71
Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality
https://www.quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments-test-hidden-assumptions-about-reality-20240730
CSC ServiceWorks laundry machine coin bypass (2023)
https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/csc_serviceworks_laundry_machine_coin_bypass.xhtml
70
62
Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking a question only CEO could answer
https://fortune.com/2024/07/27/ferrari-deepfake-attempt-scammer-security-question-ceo-benedetto-vigna-cybersecurity-ai/
67
White Dudes for Harris Rally Raises Millions but Then Sees X Account Suspended
https://deadline.com/2024/07/white-dudes-harris-rally-twitter-x-account-suspended-elon-musk-1236026283/
Third-party cookies have got to go
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/third-party-cookies-have-got-to-go/
64
11
Kagi LLM Benchmarking Project
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html
57
Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c903e793w74o
36
Blood test for colon cancer screening approved by US regulators
https://apnews.com/article/colon-cancer-blood-test-fda-guardant-a2c2cda2cdaa52f081860f0faed1e5cf
White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-white-house-says-no-need-to-restrict-open-source-artificial-intelligence-at-least-for-now/
34
Delta to Seek Damages from CrowdStrike
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/delta-hires-david-boies-to-seek-damages-from-crowdstrike-microsoft-.html
59
ActivityPub's Evan Prodromou (currently developing E2EE) hit by truck:(
https://evanp.me/2024/07/26/health-update/