top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-11-08

Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

2 weeks ago

642 upvotes – 92 comments

Mitochondria Are Alive

https://www.asimov.press/p/mitochondria

2 weeks ago

638 upvotes – 389 comments

Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities

https://jhftss.github.io/A-New-Era-of-macOS-Sandbox-Escapes/

2 weeks ago

582 upvotes – 190 comments

Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742

2 weeks ago

527 upvotes – 114 comments

I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

2 weeks ago

381 upvotes – 232 comments

We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix

https://pushtoprod.substack.com/p/netflix-terrifying-concurrency-bug

2 weeks ago

344 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web

https://asterogue.com

2 weeks ago

331 upvotes – 95 comments

FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-ending-use-oral-phenylephrine-otc-monograph-nasal-decongestant-active-ingredient-after

2 weeks ago

303 upvotes – 508 comments

After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/fda-proposes-ditching-common-decongestant-for-being-completely-useless/

2 weeks ago

299 upvotes – 3 comments

Rust for tokenising and parsing

https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/rust-pldev/

2 weeks ago

285 upvotes – 295 comments

It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-4974964

2 weeks ago

281 upvotes – 258 comments

Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d-an-exploration-of-drawing-as-programming-language-featuring-ideas-from-lambda-calculus/overview/

2 weeks ago

246 upvotes – 55 comments

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/safe-ai-champ-anthropic-teams-up-with-defense-giant-palantir-in-new-deal/

2 weeks ago

239 upvotes – 184 comments

LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21228

2 weeks ago

236 upvotes – 53 comments

Principles for product velocity

https://ssoready.com/blog/from-the-founders/methodology-is-bullshit/

2 weeks ago

226 upvotes – 132 comments

Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

https://mlumiste.com/technical/liveportrait-compression/

2 weeks ago

225 upvotes – 140 comments

Notes on Guyana

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/11/08/notes-on-guyana/

2 weeks ago

210 upvotes – 140 comments

How to find exploits in video games

https://shalzuth.com/Blog/FindingExploitsInGames

2 weeks ago

188 upvotes – 32 comments

Making Electronic Calipers

https://kevinlynagh.com/calipertron/

2 weeks ago

181 upvotes – 69 comments

My Notes on Apple Math Notes

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-5

2 weeks ago

178 upvotes – 67 comments
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