top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-10

Susan Wojcicki has died

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588

2 years ago

Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]

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

2 years ago

Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk

https://twitter.com/mightymogomra/status/1822119942281650278

2 years ago

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g

https://roitman.io/blog/91

2 years ago

I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust

https://chevyray.dev/blog/creating-175-fonts/

2 years ago

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

2 years ago

EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/effs-concerns-about-un-draft-cybercrime-convention

2 years ago

Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dimethylcadmium

2 years ago

Building a highly-available web service without a database

https://blog.screenshotbot.io/2024/08/10/building-a-highly-available-web-service-without-a-database/

2 years ago

DEF CON's response to the badge controversy

https://old.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1ep00ln/def_cons_response_to_the_badge_controversy/

2 years ago

Caltech Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure Blood Pressure

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-team-develops-first-noninvasive-method-to-continually-measure-true-blood-pressure

2 years ago

Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool

https://deeplive.cam

2 years ago

Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

https://www.wired.com/story/infrared-laser-microphone-keystroke-surveillance/

2 years ago

"Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"

https://twitter.com/Amy_K_Nelson/status/1822318185556648348

2 years ago

Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement

https://www.entropicengineering.com/defcon-32-statement

2 years ago

Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/08/10/stapler-i-remade-a-32-year-old-classic-macintosh-app/

2 years ago

Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust

https://github.com/supabase/pg_replicate

2 years ago

Someone's been messing with Python's floating point subnormals

https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html

2 years ago

Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/08/06/go-structs-copied-on-assignment/

2 years ago

Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

2 years ago