top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-20

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2 years ago

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-breached-again-through-stolen-access-tokens/

2 years ago

Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations

2 years ago

Syncthing Android App Discontinued

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

2 years ago

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html

2 years ago

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

https://www.polygon.com/board-games/467103/kurt-vonnegut-ghq-lost-board-game-publisher-interview

2 years ago

WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

https://wifi-solver.com

2 years ago

Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

https://github.com/drasi-project/drasi-platform

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765

2 years ago

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/microsoft-said-it-lost-weeks-of-security-logs-for-its-customers-cloud-products/

2 years ago

The AI Investment Boom

https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-ai-investment-boom

2 years ago

Bitwarden is no longer free software

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

2 years ago

Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html

2 years ago

How to do distributed locking (2016)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

2 years ago

Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

https://www.takeourword.com/TOW146/page4.html

2 years ago

The IPv6 Transition

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/ipv6-transition.html

2 years ago

The best darn grid shader yet (2023)

https://bgolus.medium.com/the-best-darn-grid-shader-yet-727f9278b9d8

2 years ago

Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645302200292X

2 years ago

Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

https://www.rubinghscience.org/surv/euroweights1.html

2 years ago

VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

https://versatiles.org/

2 years ago