top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-26

NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture

https://www.nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa-foia/declassification-transparency-initiatives/historical-releases/view/article/3880193/capt-grace-hopper-on-future-possibilities-data-hardware-software-and-people-1982/

2 years ago

Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/dokku/

2 years ago

Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor

https://cprimozic.net/blog/fixing-a-bug-in-google-chrome/

2 years ago

Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-employees-now-have-right-ignore-work-emails-calls-after-hours-2024-08-25/

2 years ago

Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better

https://www.gkogan.co/removing-stuff/

2 years ago

Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-dpa-imposes-a-fine-of-290-million-euro-on-uber-because-of-transfers-of-drivers-data-to-the-us

2 years ago

Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE

https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

2 years ago

★ 17.8k Lua Apache-2.0

Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

https://bannerify.co/tools/remove-bg

2 years ago

Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems

https://transactional.blog/blog/2024-erasure-coding

2 years ago

A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/08/07/chefs-say-a-dishwasher-can-make-or-break-a-restaurant-so-i-signed-up-for-a-shift/

2 years ago

Intel SGX Fuse Key0, a.k.a. Root Provisioning Key Was Extracted by Researchers

https://twitter.com/_markel___/status/1828112469010596347

2 years ago

Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp

https://lem-project.github.io/#

2 years ago

Using AI to fight insurance claim denials

https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/holden-karau-fight-health-insurance-appeal-claims-denials/

2 years ago

Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

https://linuxblog.io/linux-tiling-desktop-environments/

2 years ago

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-dinosaur-footprints-sides-atlantic-ocean.html

2 years ago

Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

https://blog.api-fiddle.com/posts/coolify-revolution

2 years ago

Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting

https://becomesovran.com/blog/server-setup-basics.html

2 years ago

Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/science/helen-fisher-dead.html

2 years ago

We found North Korean engineers in our application pile

https://www.cinder.co/blog-posts/north-korean-engineers-in-our-application-pile

2 years ago

DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage

https://www.propublica.org/article/realpage-lawsuit-doj-antitrustdoj-files-antitrust-suit-against-maker-of-rent-setting-algorithm

2 years ago

Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/senior-intel-cpu-architects-splinter-to-develop-risc-v-processors-veterans-establish-aheadcomputing

2 years ago

The End of Finale

https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-dorico-letter-from-president/

2 years ago

Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds

https://usbirdhistory.com/audubon-eating-americas-birds/

2 years ago

Rerun: Visualize Multimodal Data over Time

https://rerun.io

2 years ago

The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted

https://gizmodo.com/the-arrest-of-pavel-durov-is-a-reminder-that-telegram-is-not-encrypted-2000490960

2 years ago

Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so

https://buttondown.com/geoffreylitt/archive/your-pie-doesnt-need-to-be-original-unless-you/

2 years ago

Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1827695836832334169

2 years ago

Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/books/larissa-volokhonsky-richard-pevear.html

2 years ago

Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes

https://www.morling.dev/blog/leader-election-with-s3-conditional-writes/

2 years ago

Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/uber-loses-landmark-appeal-court-rules-drivers-are-employees-not-contractors/JDXF52QBBBHPJIQJNFNGYC4JOE/

2 years ago

Show HN: I published a book to save you from my software architecture mistakes

https://leanpub.com/master-software-architecture

2 years ago

Cleaning up after WWII (2017)

https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cleaning-up-after-wwii/

2 years ago

IOGraphica

https://iographica.com/

2 years ago

Uber fined €290M ($324M) in Netherlands for sending drivers' data to the US

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/dutch-privacy-watchdog-fines-uber-sending-drivers-data-us-2024-08-26/

2 years ago

Open-Source Cola

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_cola

2 years ago

Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357765

2 years ago

Pavel Durov is questioned on 12 charges [pdf]

https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf

2 years ago

Many FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-fda-ai-medical-devices-real.html

2 years ago

Judge who overturned verdict against Boeing bought and sold Boeing stock

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-boeing-zunum-lawsuit-stock-trade-accident-ethics-2024-8

2 years ago

Cops are using AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?

https://apnews.com/article/ai-writes-police-reports-axon-body-cameras-chatgpt-a24d1502b53faae4be0dac069243f418

2 years ago

What's New in SQLAlchemy 2.1?

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/21/changelog/migration_21.html

2 years ago

Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-adoption-and-why-the-linux-kernel-is-the-only-thing-that-matters/

2 years ago

US dismantles laptop farm used by undercover North Korean IT workers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-dismantles-laptop-farm-used-by-undercover-north-korean-it-workers/

2 years ago

A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us

https://www.techradar.com/pro/software-erosion-is-happening-all-around-us

2 years ago

Predicting the future of distributed systems

https://blog.colinbreck.com/predicting-the-future-of-distributed-systems/

2 years ago

Show HN: Strict interfaces and dep management for Python, written in Rust

https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach

2 years ago

★ 2.7k Rust MIT

The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010)

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

2 years ago

Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/

2 years ago

IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay

https://www.ft.com/content/4b18236f-f2f0-43eb-bb65-5f8d2f30a734

2 years ago

Intel Layoffs: Is Future U.S. Chip Independence in Trouble

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chips-act-and-intel

2 years ago

The Big Fringe Telescope

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01386

2 years ago

Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)

https://amodernist.com/texts/guix.html

2 years ago

Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models

https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/apple-to-upgrade-base-macs-to-16gb-ram-starting-from-m4-models-report-124082600272_1.html

2 years ago