top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-10

Susan Wojcicki has died

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

2 years ago

721 upvotes – 452 comments

Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]

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

2 years ago

613 upvotes – 108 comments

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

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

2 years ago

534 upvotes – 177 comments

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

https://roitman.io/blog/91

2 years ago

509 upvotes – 330 comments

I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust

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

2 years ago

487 upvotes – 110 comments

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

2 years ago

408 upvotes – 101 comments

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

370 upvotes – 96 comments

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

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

2 years ago

301 upvotes – 169 comments

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

287 upvotes – 178 comments

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

274 upvotes – 268 comments

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

269 upvotes – 79 comments

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

https://deeplive.cam

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 168 comments

Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

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

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 84 comments

"Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"

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

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 101 comments

Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement

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

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 158 comments

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

219 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust

https://github.com/supabase/pg_replicate

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 28 comments

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

209 upvotes – 75 comments

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

207 upvotes – 167 comments

Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

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

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 192 comments

US FDA approves nasal spray alternative to EpiPen for allergic reactions

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-approves-first-nasal-spray-allergic-reactions-2024-08-09/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 84 comments

Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds

https://www.popsci.com/technology/rivian-zonal-electrical-architecture/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 107 comments

Antifragility in complex dynamical systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-024-00014-y

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/10/amds-strix-point-zen-5-hits-mobile/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 228 comments

Apple. Apple Please

https://digipres.club/@misty/112927898002214724

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 60 comments

Susan Wojcicki has died

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qe2ZMcs9Bz4K1SPt/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 2 comments

How the SNES Graphics System Works

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_ppus_how/index.html

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 8 comments

On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/10/front-porch-forum-vermont-research-new-public/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 159 comments

Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts to Files

https://github.com/WeeJeWel/node-google-backup

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Rodney Brooks’s Three Laws of Robotics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rodney-brooks-three-laws-robotics

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

New U.N. Cybercrime Treaty Unanimously Approved, Could Threaten Human Rights

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0724--un-cybercrime/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Interval parsing grammars for file format parsing (2023)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3591264

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/06/hal-hickel-on-creating-tarkin.html

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 82 comments

Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/ai-price-algorithms-realpage/679405/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf]

https://i.blackhat.com/BH-US-24/Presentations/REVISED02-US24_Moore_Secure_Shells_in_Shambles_Wednesday.pdf

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

ASCII 3D Renderer for JavaScript

https://github.com/kciter/ascii-3d-renderer.js

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results

https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/common-lisp-community-survey-2024-results/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 95 comments

PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

http://wall.org/%7Elarry/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

The Mac Is a Power Tool

https://daringfireball.net/2024/08/the_mac_is_a_power_tool

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/health/marijuana-head-and-neck-cancer-wellness/index.html

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 137 comments

Moxie Marlinspike: Agile is killing software innovation

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/marlinspike/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

How the Totem Compass Works

https://www.totemlabs.com/post/how-the-totem-compass-works

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis

https://arun.is/blog/shanghai-cars/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 85 comments

The Shameful Defenestration of Tim

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions

https://markjgillespie.com/Research/harnack-tracing/index.html

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/08/09/a-worker-from-berkeleys-urban-ore-has-opened-a-museum-celebrating-wingnuts

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Genetics solves a thorny problem: how plants have prickles

https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/thorns-prickles-roses-plants/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212099

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 159 comments

Visualizing Complex Functions

https://vankessel.io/visualizing-complex-functions

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Ruby on Rails 7.2 Released

https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.0

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Strategy Doc from Antitrust Proceedings

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1821554841786683554.html

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments
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