Hacker News on Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Our audit of Homebrew(blog.trailofbits.com)

778 points by zdw 2 years ago | 160 comments

Trail of Bits blog post describing its security audit of Homebrew's brew CLI and related repositories, written jointly with the Homebrew maintainers.

Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine(porffor.dev)

458 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 128 comments

Homepage of Porffor, an experimental from-scratch JavaScript engine that compiles JS ahead-of-time to WebAssembly or native code.

Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?(shwin.co)

424 points by shw1n 2 years ago | 332 comments

A July 2024 blog post by Ashwin Mathews arguing that creativity stems from memorizing patterns, citing systems for DJ transitions and humor.

Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission(texastribune.org)

342 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 207 comments

Texas Tribune article reporting that Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit over using facial recognition on users' biometric data without consent.

Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?(en.osm.town)

305 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 95 comments

If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity(strongtowns.org)

305 points by philips 2 years ago | 365 comments

A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)(nightingaledvs.com)

304 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 174 comments

Swift Homomorphic Encryption(swift.org)

302 points by yAak 2 years ago | 108 comments

Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)(darpa.mil)

297 points by steveklabnik 2 years ago | 249 comments

The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)(stat.cmu.edu)

294 points by sebg 2 years ago | 71 comments

Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source(github.com)

290 points by ucarion 2 years ago | 87 comments

C Macro Reflection in Zig(jstrieb.github.io)

288 points by jstrieb 2 years ago | 124 comments

A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization(newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com)

274 points by raymond_goo 2 years ago | 16 comments

Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post(bbc.com)

272 points by Archelaos 2 years ago | 108 comments

Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper(152334h.github.io)

270 points by 152334H 2 years ago | 134 comments

Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact(bristol.ac.uk)

239 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 59 comments

Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection(tunglevo.com)

233 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 89 comments

Why doesn't advice work?(dynomight.substack.com)

230 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 256 comments

Fake job interviews are securities fraud(bloomberg.com)

227 points by ioblomov 2 years ago | 141 comments

Microjs(microjs.com)

217 points by breck 2 years ago | 43 comments

Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

199 points by janvdberg 2 years ago | 48 comments

Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget(arxiv.org)

197 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 22 comments

Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)(siliconfolklore.com)

196 points by edward 2 years ago | 123 comments

Lewis Lapham has died(nytimes.com)

181 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 55 comments

Divers discover Roman mosaic(smithsonianmag.com)

171 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 43 comments

Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?(sports.yahoo.com)

162 points by phkx 2 years ago | 303 comments

Meta Launches AI Studio in US(ai.meta.com)

150 points by pizzathyme 2 years ago | 176 comments

Building static binaries with Go on Linux(eli.thegreenplace.net)

148 points by ingve 2 years ago | 49 comments

Canarytokens: Honeypot for critical credentials, get notified when they are used (2015)(canarytokens.org)

126 points by Kovah 2 years ago | 38 comments

The lie of music discovery algorithms(zeynepevecen.dev)

119 points by zeynepevecen 2 years ago | 154 comments

All I Know About Certificates – Certificate Authority(pixelstech.net)

115 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 16 comments

Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web(orca-app.dev)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 78 comments

OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of server heap and existed since 2011(jbp.io)

111 points by belter 2 years ago | 36 comments

FTC Wins Round Two in Its Non-Compete Ban Defense(jdsupra.com)

111 points by lynndotpy 2 years ago | 34 comments

Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are(cohost.org)

109 points by injuly 2 years ago | 153 comments

JavaScript garbage collection and closures(jakearchibald.com)

104 points by jaffathecake 2 years ago | 58 comments

Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

96 points by msephton 2 years ago | 57 comments

Complex life forms existed 1.5B years earlier than believed, study finds(abcnews.go.com)

96 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser(rendley.com)

92 points by bgrigore 2 years ago | 37 comments

How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip(blog.gridstatus.io)

92 points by kmax12 2 years ago | 55 comments

Ngtop – Request analytics from the Nginx access logs(github.com)

90 points by facundo_olano 2 years ago | 17 comments

Making Machines Move(fly.io)

89 points by itunpredictable 2 years ago | 27 comments

Early Bookcases, Cupboards and Carousels(blog.lostartpress.com)

82 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf] (2023)(browncs1951x.github.io)

72 points by nextos 2 years ago | 13 comments

Functional programming languages should be better at mutation than they are(cohost.org)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 62 comments

Quint(quint-lang.org)

68 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 16 comments

Video is a language for making movies(lang.video)

66 points by bedits 2 years ago | 42 comments

Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?(npr.org)

59 points by geox 2 years ago | 43 comments

Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage(bbc.co.uk)

56 points by paulcjh 2 years ago | 46 comments

CSC ServiceWorks laundry machine coin bypass (2023)(michael.orlitzky.com)

56 points by Luc 2 years ago | 43 comments

Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town(noemamag.com)

53 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 37 comments

ActivityPub's Evan Prodromou (currently developing E2EE) hit by truck:((evanp.me)

48 points by maverick74 2 years ago | 4 comments

Third-party cookies have got to go(w3.org)

46 points by botanical 2 years ago | 30 comments

Federal regulator says Amazon can be held responsible for faulty goods(cnbc.com)

43 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 12 comments

Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking a question only CEO could answer(fortune.com)

40 points by sebazzz 2 years ago | 39 comments

Metaphysical Experiments Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality(quantamagazine.org)

39 points by Gooblebrai 2 years ago | 39 comments

Monetization and Monopolies: How the Internet You Loved Died(radicalcontributions.substack.com)

38 points by jfil 2 years ago | 21 comments

White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now(wdtn.com)

36 points by plinkplonk 2 years ago | 14 comments

Astronomical Accidents, and the Proxima Centauri 'Signal' That Wasn't(centauri-dreams.org)

32 points by JPLeRouzic 2 years ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for your local Docker containers(trayce.dev)

30 points by pntest 2 years ago | 2 comments