Hacker News on Saturday, 20 July 2024

Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex(github.com)

550 points by vogu66 2 years ago | 166 comments

GitHub repository for Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system positioned as an easier-to-learn alternative to LaTeX.

Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data(kibty.town)

485 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 189 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing how they found a flaw in a16z's portfolio.a16z.com site using subdomain scanning and browser inspect element.

Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed(twitter.com)

480 points by pilfered 2 years ago | 607 comments

A post on X by Patrick Wardle sharing initial technical details on why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys driver crashed Windows machines.

10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023(miamiherald.com)

452 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 953 comments

Miami Herald article reporting that Cuba acknowledged about a million people emigrated in two years, 2022–2023, amid economic crisis.

Empathy for the user having sex with your software(docs.buttplug.io)

427 points by Kye 2 years ago | 94 comments

A page from the Buttplug.io developer guide discussing social and ethical considerations when building software that controls intimate hardware.

A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker(syscalls.mebeim.net)

377 points by halb 2 years ago | 62 comments

An interactive table of Linux kernel syscalls per architecture and kernel version, listing numbers, symbols, source definition locations, and Kconfig options.

Minuteman missile communications(computer.rip)

351 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 59 comments

A Computers Are Bad newsletter article by J. B. Crawford on the communications systems, including HICS, used for Minuteman missile sites.

How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?(matheducators.stackexchange.com)

239 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 111 comments

CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries(nytimes.com)

238 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 308 comments

No Uptime Hosting (2006)(nouptime.com)

232 points by Viraxi 2 years ago | 71 comments

Intel vs. Samsung vs. TSMC(semiengineering.com)

222 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 84 comments

Aro – Zig's new C compiler(github.com)

207 points by whatever3 2 years ago | 105 comments

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance(cloud.google.com)

182 points by radeeyate 2 years ago | 104 comments

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago(neowin.net)

181 points by taubek 2 years ago | 81 comments

Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe(psyche.co)

144 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 194 comments

A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)(pldb.io)

134 points by breck 2 years ago | 55 comments

1989 Networking: NetWare 386(os2museum.com)

131 points by supermatou 2 years ago | 72 comments

Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums(spectrum.ieee.org)

131 points by zdw 2 years ago | 109 comments

Mining JIT traces for missing optimizations with Z3(pypy.org)

119 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 39 comments

Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video(shape-of-motion.github.io)

118 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 45 comments

Doom on Playdate(devforum.play.date)

118 points by codetrotter 2 years ago | 28 comments

Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage(kiro7.com)

112 points by nullindividual 2 years ago | 136 comments

Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire(cambridge.org)

110 points by GeoAtreides 2 years ago | 47 comments

Converting Codebases with LLMs(blog.withmantle.com)

107 points by Osis 2 years ago | 70 comments

Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews(lapcatsoftware.com)

102 points by latexr 2 years ago | 41 comments

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say(theguardian.com)

94 points by rntn 2 years ago | 75 comments

Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit(eclecticlight.co)

86 points by zdw 2 years ago | 43 comments

Google's shortened links will stop working next year(theverge.com)

85 points by uladzislau 2 years ago | 36 comments

Exercise: Minesweeper in 100 lines of Ruby(radanskoric.com)

79 points by damir 2 years ago | 19 comments

Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage(techcrunch.com)

71 points by frays 2 years ago | 83 comments

'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search engine broken?(theguardian.com)

69 points by iainmerrick 2 years ago | 52 comments

Tenstorrent Unveils High-End Wormhole AI Processors, Featuring RISC-V(wccftech.com)

59 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?

58 points by imranhou 2 years ago | 37 comments

Argentina's economy is growing beyond expectations(semafor.com)

52 points by cwwc 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting

51 points by indulona 2 years ago | 19 comments

Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps(androidauthority.com)

50 points by meiraleal 2 years ago | 40 comments

300-Year-Old House Transported Piecemeal Japan to California, Then Reconstructed(wsj.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 30 comments

How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)(people.kernel.org)

44 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 9 comments

Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid national curfew(theguardian.com)

43 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 10 comments

Technical Details on Today's Outage(crowdstrike.com)

43 points by xjia 2 years ago | 33 comments

New Nano-Tech to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields(ibs.re.kr)

43 points by dockimbel 2 years ago | 6 comments

Sun is starting next solar cycle–despite being halfway through its current one(phys.org)

38 points by wglb 2 years ago | 11 comments

Prelude – a tiny CLI tool building context prompts from your code(github.com)

36 points by aerugo_ 2 years ago | 19 comments

What TeX Gets Right(newton.cx)

35 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads?(ludditus.com)

34 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 17 comments

Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?(conspicuouscognition.com)

34 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 27 comments

Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life's Happiest Times(scientificamerican.com)

33 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 35 comments

The Cheap 10GbE Switch Buyers Guide(servethehome.com)

33 points by transpute 2 years ago | 12 comments

Investing in Rust(lawfaremedia.org)

31 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 16 comments

When Smart Ships Divide by Zer0 – Stranding the USS Yorktown (2018)(medium.com)

30 points by smitty1e 2 years ago | 37 comments

Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)(starshiptitanic.com)

28 points by galapago 2 years ago | 14 comments

Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage(washingtonpost.com)

28 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: JSON-Threat-Protection Rust High-Performance Crate(github.com)

28 points by ADD-SP 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Luckfox Pico Mini B – Linux in a Thumbnail(taoofmac.com)

26 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Kingdom of Lydia minted gold, silver coins (2022)(egypttoday.com)

26 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 33 comments

Memory and ILP handling in 2D convolutions(riemani.ca)

25 points by pdziepak 2 years ago | 6 comments

Sonny Piers was removed from the GNOME Foundation board(discourse.gnome.org)

23 points by OmegaDungeon 2 years ago | 5 comments

A Physical instance of recursion, from 1936(en.wikipedia.org)

21 points by ajb 2 years ago | 7 comments

Teaching Programming with Basic(lackofimagination.org)

17 points by tie-in 2 years ago | 11 comments

Crowdstrike CEO was McAfee CTO when big glitch took down large part of Internet(twitter.com)

14 points by greatgib 2 years ago | 0 comments