Hacker News on Saturday, 10 August 2024

Susan Wojcicki has died(twitter.com)

570 points by grandmczeb 2 years ago | 288 comments

Tweet by Sundar Pichai announcing the death of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki after two years living with cancer.

Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video](youtube.com)

554 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 89 comments

YouTube video by Captain Disillusion debunking the viral David Beckham beach kicks clip and explaining the visual effects behind it.

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g(roitman.io)

465 points by signa11 2 years ago | 311 comments

A blog post explaining why π² is approximately equal to g (9.81 m/s²), tracing the connection to the historical seconds-pendulum definition of the metre.

I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust(chevyray.dev)

456 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 95 comments

Blog post by Chevy Ray describing how he used Rust tooling to create a megapack of 175 pixel fonts.

Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk(twitter.com)

449 points by dmitrygr 2 years ago | 116 comments

A Twitter/X post alleging that DEF CON failed to pay its badge hardware vendor and removed the badge firmware author from the stage during a talk.

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall(github.com)

376 points by dp-hackernews 2 years ago | 92 comments

GitHub repository for OpenSnitch, a GPL-licensed interactive application firewall for GNU/Linux inspired by Little Snitch.

EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention(eff.org)

342 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 92 comments

EFF Deeplinks post by Katitza Rodriguez outlining the organization's concerns about the UN draft Cybercrime Convention.

Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)(science.org)

283 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 165 comments

Building a highly-available web service without a database(blog.screenshotbot.io)

257 points by tdrhq 2 years ago | 152 comments

DEF CON's response to the badge controversy(old.reddit.com)

241 points by mmastrac 2 years ago | 233 comments

Caltech Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure Blood Pressure(caltech.edu)

235 points by crhulls 2 years ago | 72 comments

Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes(wired.com)

205 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 75 comments

Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool(deeplive.cam)

202 points by blini2077 2 years ago | 145 comments

Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement(entropicengineering.com)

197 points by tillulen 2 years ago | 113 comments

Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

193 points by msephton 2 years ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust(github.com)

187 points by imor80 2 years ago | 24 comments

Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)(jvns.ca)

175 points by misonic 2 years ago | 109 comments

The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how(rnz.co.nz)

164 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 58 comments

Antifragility in complex dynamical systems(nature.com)

161 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 87 comments

Someone's been messing with Python's floating point subnormals(moyix.blogspot.com)

160 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 48 comments

US FDA approves nasal spray alternative to EpiPen for allergic reactions(reuters.com)

151 points by sweca 2 years ago | 60 comments

AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile(chipsandcheese.com)

143 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 171 comments

Susan Wojcicki has died(facebook.com)

135 points by nmwnmw 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall(twitter.com)

129 points by nopakos 2 years ago | 73 comments

How the SNES Graphics System Works(fabiensanglard.net)

128 points by ingve 2 years ago | 7 comments

Apple. Apple Please(digipres.club)

118 points by ciclotrone 2 years ago | 29 comments

On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited(washingtonpost.com)

117 points by eevilspock 2 years ago | 127 comments

Interval parsing grammars for file format parsing (2023)(dl.acm.org)

100 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 23 comments

Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin for Rogue One(fxrant.blogspot.com)

95 points by trauco 2 years ago | 69 comments

"Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"(twitter.com)

85 points by FlamingMoe 2 years ago | 14 comments

Rodney Brooks’s Three Laws of Robotics(spectrum.ieee.org)

83 points by belter 2 years ago | 61 comments

ASCII 3D Renderer for JavaScript(github.com)

80 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 19 comments

New U.N. Cybercrime Treaty Unanimously Approved, Could Threaten Human Rights(scientificamerican.com)

79 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 28 comments

Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page(wall.org)

77 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages(discuss.python.org)

76 points by lumpa 2 years ago | 46 comments

Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers(cnn.com)

72 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 69 comments

Genetics solves a thorny problem: how plants have prickles(cosmosmagazine.com)

71 points by gmays 2 years ago | 16 comments

Evidence for ~12-h ultradian gene programs in humans(nature.com)

64 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 11 comments

Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts to Files(github.com)

62 points by weejewel 2 years ago | 13 comments

Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf](i.blackhat.com)

59 points by hdmoore 2 years ago | 15 comments

How the Totem Compass Works(totemlabs.com)

59 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Google Strategy Doc from Antitrust Proceedings(threadreaderapp.com)

58 points by harry8 2 years ago | 3 comments

A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts(berkeleyside.org)

56 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 32 comments

Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis(arun.is)

54 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 39 comments

Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here(theatlantic.com)

52 points by jtotheh 2 years ago | 34 comments

HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient(theguardian.com)

52 points by nithinj 2 years ago | 54 comments

Visualizing Complex Functions(vankessel.io)

51 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 9 comments

Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

49 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 3 comments

Pursuits That Can't Scale(workingtheorys.com)

48 points by zuhayeer 2 years ago | 10 comments

Moxie Marlinspike: Agile is killing software innovation(theregister.com)

48 points by signa11 2 years ago | 23 comments

Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions(markjgillespie.com)

46 points by ghub-mmulet 2 years ago | 7 comments

The spinning ATR plane crash in Brazil(philip.greenspun.com)

45 points by mhb 2 years ago | 19 comments

Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?

40 points by throwawayigd 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Tic-Tac-Toe Mysteries of Xerloc O'Xolmes(blog.zarfhome.com)

36 points by memalign 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Mac Is a Power Tool(daringfireball.net)

35 points by erickhill 2 years ago | 12 comments

Cancer Incidence by Country(ourworldindata.org)

34 points by gniv 2 years ago | 38 comments

Another Look at the Voynich Manuscript(theatlantic.com)

33 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 15 comments

Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56(nytimes.com)

31 points by alokedesai 2 years ago | 2 comments

Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website(thestaub.com)

30 points by echelon 2 years ago | 17 comments

Architectural Retrospectives: The Key to Getting Better at Architecting(infoq.com)

28 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 8 comments