Hacker News on Friday, 18 August 2023

Ask vs. Guess Culture(jeanhsu.substack.com)

844 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 448 comments

A Substack essay by Jean Hsu on the clash between ask culture and guess culture in making and responding to requests, at home and at work.

Short session expiration does not help security(sjoerdlangkemper.nl)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 388 comments

Blog post by Sjoerd Langkemper arguing that short session expiration times in web applications do not meaningfully improve security.

Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing(news.gallup.com)

443 points by RickJWagner 3 years ago | 294 comments

Article reporting Gallup research finding that routinely greeting about six neighbors is associated with the highest wellbeing outcomes.

The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702(eff.org)

321 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 123 comments

EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.

micro – A Modern Alternative to nano(micro-editor.github.io)

315 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 244 comments

China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan(cnbc.com)

292 points by donsupreme 3 years ago | 283 comments

Railway Oriented Programming(fsharpforfunandprofit.com)

287 points by jchook 3 years ago | 146 comments

GIL removal and the Faster CPython project(lwn.net)

282 points by signa11 3 years ago | 129 comments

Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago(twitter.com)

270 points by mikkohypponen 3 years ago | 333 comments

Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly(moonbitlang.com)

268 points by dlib 3 years ago | 107 comments

Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python(github.com)

265 points by generichuman 3 years ago | 89 comments

TypeScript Is Surprisingly OK for Compilers(matklad.github.io)

260 points by Fudgel 3 years ago | 206 comments

Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well(medium.com)

240 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 214 comments

2009scape(2009scape.org)

222 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 3 years ago | 99 comments

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness(research.swtch.com)

215 points by bumbledraven 3 years ago | 396 comments

Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers(ibraheem.ca)

214 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 34 comments

Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush your ability to stand up to them(techdirt.com)

209 points by rntn 3 years ago | 136 comments

FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang(github.com)

209 points by arpanetus 3 years ago | 117 comments

London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades(londonist.com)

192 points by susam 3 years ago | 162 comments

Why your blog still needs RSS(journal.paoloamoroso.com)

189 points by imadj 3 years ago | 95 comments

Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot(arstechnica.com)

176 points by quantified 3 years ago | 100 comments

Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge(quantamagazine.org)

173 points by nsoonhui 3 years ago | 78 comments

Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres(tembo.io)

172 points by revskill 3 years ago | 34 comments

WTF is going on with R7RS Large?(dpk.io)

170 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 107 comments

Career advice for young system programmers(glaubercosta-11125.medium.com)

166 points by signa11 3 years ago | 137 comments

Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show(techcrunch.com)

162 points by JoachimS 3 years ago | 130 comments

Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out(theintercept.com)

162 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 116 comments

New motherboard improves old CRT television(hackaday.com)

159 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 58 comments

Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files(twitter.com)

150 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 95 comments

Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed(fortomorrow.org)

148 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 59 comments

Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model(bmj.com)

146 points by pfdietz 3 years ago | 138 comments

Zaum(en.wikipedia.org)

145 points by areoform 3 years ago | 42 comments

Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse(businessinsider.com)

143 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 132 comments

Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group(theguardian.com)

138 points by cassianoleal 3 years ago | 89 comments

Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (2002)(ftp.gnu.org)

128 points by cdrt 3 years ago | 115 comments

Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl(zetter.substack.com)

125 points by 8organicbits 3 years ago | 102 comments

FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization(vermaden.wordpress.com)

124 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 27 comments

Meaningful exits for founders (2016)(medium.com)

121 points by freediver 3 years ago | 73 comments

Morris Chang founded TSMC, the most valuable company in Asia(abc.net.au)

119 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 83 comments

You probably don’t need to fine-tune LLMs(tidepool.so)

117 points by gk1 3 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs(github.com)

115 points by harshithmul 3 years ago | 33 comments

The Plumber Problem(hypercritical.co)

115 points by zdw 3 years ago | 216 comments

A 100GW phased laser array for interstellar lightsail propulsion (2021)(opg.optica.org)

99 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 70 comments

Metazooa(metazooa.com)

95 points by furtively 3 years ago | 19 comments

Microplastics detected in the marine air from Norway to the high Arctic(scienceswitch.com)

93 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 86 comments

The Atlas of Economic Complexity(atlas.cid.harvard.edu)

91 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 27 comments

Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next(nature.com)

88 points by rntn 3 years ago | 50 comments

ARM’s Neoverse N2: Cortex A710 for Servers(chipsandcheese.com)

85 points by zdw 3 years ago | 67 comments

Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers(statnews.com)

83 points by leotravis10 3 years ago | 107 comments

Helidon Níma: A Java microservices framework based on virtual threads(helidon.io)

82 points by philonoist 3 years ago | 102 comments

Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than 2 weeks(science.org)

82 points by spenczar5 3 years ago | 39 comments

My job search story(medium.com)

80 points by romafirst3 3 years ago | 51 comments

Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code(leebriggs.co.uk)

76 points by jaxxstorm 3 years ago | 39 comments

The PolymurHash universal hash function(github.com)

74 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 11 comments

YC Library(ycombinator.com)

73 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 19 comments

Fixing the TPM: Hardware Security Modules Done Right(loup-vaillant.fr)

71 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 63 comments

ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private?(restoreprivacy.com)

70 points by elashri 3 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Saf – simple, reliable, rsync-based, battle tested, rounded backup(github.com)

70 points by binaryapparatus 3 years ago | 22 comments

Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance(phoronix.com)

67 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 35 comments

The Cost of Good Movies(soaringtwenties.substack.com)

66 points by flannery 3 years ago | 39 comments