top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-24

Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport

2 years ago

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites

https://lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-probably-not-dumb/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342017

2 years ago

NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1827393397939634503

2 years ago

Hot Page – a graphical site builder

https://hot.page/

2 years ago

JavaScript dates are about to be fixed

https://docs.timetime.in/blog/js-dates-finally-fixed

2 years ago

Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)

https://github.com/JohnLaTwC/Shared/blob/master/Defenders%20think%20in%20lists.%20Attackers%20think%20in%20graphs.%20As%20long%20as%20this%20is%20true%2C%20attackers%20win.md

2 years ago

Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

https://www.buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit.html

2 years ago

Pipe Syntax in SQL

https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql/

2 years ago

Clojure Desktop UI Framework

https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI

2 years ago

Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra

https://terathon.com/blog/poor-foundations-ga.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query

https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb

2 years ago

Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library

https://github.com/nicbarker/clay

2 years ago

Consistently Making Wrong Decisions Whilst Writing Recreational C

https://amodernist.com/texts/fun-c.html

2 years ago

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-starliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/

2 years ago

Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/small-strings-in-rust

2 years ago

Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution

https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/japan-on-edge-of-euv-lithography-chip-making-revolution/

2 years ago

"Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows

https://www.voidtools.com/en-us/support/everything/

2 years ago

Julius: Open-source reimplementation of Caesar III

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius

2 years ago

Implementing React from Scratch

https://www.rob.directory/blog/react-from-scratch

2 years ago

Golang Interpreter Written in PHP

https://github.com/tuqqu/go-php

2 years ago

Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm

https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway/

2 years ago

AMD's Radeon 890M: Strix Point's Bigger iGPU

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/24/amds-radeon-890m-strix-points-bigger-igpu/

2 years ago

Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/

2 years ago

Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool

https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/firebuilder

2 years ago

The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)

https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principle.html

2 years ago

Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability

https://twitter.com/AdrianSumBond/status/1827105729859473773

2 years ago

Firewalling your code

https://lackofimagination.org/2024/08/firewalling-your-code/

2 years ago

The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/

2 years ago

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html

2 years ago

Shell.how: Explain Shell Commands

https://www.shell.how

2 years ago

Birds aren't real – how to create your own "bird"

https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/birds-aren-t-real-how-to-create-your-own-bird

2 years ago

Foundation for Human Vision Models

https://github.com/facebookresearch/sapiens

2 years ago

A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD

https://www.ci.cumberland.md.us/1787/Choose-Cumberland-Relocation-Program

2 years ago

Makefiles for Web Work (2022)

https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles

2 years ago

An Overview of Datalog (2010)

https://clojure.github.io/clojure-contrib/doc/datalog.html

2 years ago

CORS Is Stupid

https://kevincox.ca/2024/08/24/cors/

2 years ago

Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073

2 years ago

Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)

https://github.com/moxie0/knockknock

2 years ago

Out of Your Head

https://nautil.us/out-of-your-head-791745/

2 years ago

Carmack on Oculus, Minecraft, Meta and Microsoft

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1827363452194619692

2 years ago

Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022)

https://giansegato.com/essays/why-edtech-startups-dont-scale

2 years ago

Sabotage Confirmed at Norwegian Air Base

https://www.twz.com/air/sabotage-confirmed-at-norwegian-air-base

2 years ago