top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-25

Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

https://decripto.org/en/arrest-of-pavel-durov-charges-of-terrorism-fraud-and-child-pornography-he-did-not-cooperate-with-the-authorities-he-risks-20-years-in-prison/

2 years ago

733 upvotes – 829 comments

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/

2 years ago

596 upvotes – 583 comments

Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing

https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311

2 years ago

453 upvotes – 407 comments

Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)

https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

2 years ago

433 upvotes – 265 comments

Strandbeest

https://www.strandbeest.com/

2 years ago

421 upvotes – 107 comments

Writing a Rust compiler in C

https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer/

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 223 comments

Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

https://gregsramblings.com/stupid-but-useful-ai-tricks-creating-calendar-entries-from-an-image-using-anthropic-claude-35

2 years ago

367 upvotes – 170 comments

Vim Racer

https://vim-racer.com/

2 years ago

351 upvotes – 86 comments

Linux Pipes Are Slow

https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 166 comments

Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/24/pipe-syntax-in-sql/

2 years ago

328 upvotes – 182 comments

TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them

https://ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 111 comments

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 127 comments

Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes

https://github.com/flxzt/rnote

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 30 comments

Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off

https://reason.com/2024/08/23/albuquerques-police-chief-thinks-cops-have-a-5th-amendment-right-to-leave-their-body-cameras-off/

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 146 comments

Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 165 comments

The art of programming and why I won't use LLM

https://kennethnym.com/blog/why-i-still-wont-use-llm/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 282 comments

Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5028551/insurance-therapy-therapist-mental-health-coverage

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 187 comments

Ruby in Jupyter Notebook

https://nbviewer.org/github/SciRuby/sciruby-notebooks/blob/master/getting_started.ipynb

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 55 comments

Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown

http://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2024/08/pi-pico-2-extreme-teardown.html

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 34 comments

Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example

https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Stripe-Data-vs-Open%E2%80%90Source-Alternatives:-a-MRR-example

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 69 comments
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