March 10, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-03-10

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. Windows 1.0 site – everything there is to know about the first Windows version
   
   
2. S3 is files, but not a filesystem
   
   
3. Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
   
   
4. Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
   
   
5. Using LLMs to Generate Fuzzers
   
   
6. Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web
   
   
7. Pipexec – Handling pipe of commands like a single command
   
   
8. The No Symbol: The History of the Red Circle-Slash
   
   
9. Monodraw
   
   
10. Trapped in the Ivory Basement (2021)
    
    
11. The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'
    
    
12. Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
    
    
13. Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
    
    
14. U.S. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry into Boeing
    
    
15. The Programmer's Apprentice Project: A Research Overview (1987) [pdf]
    
    
16. Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
    
    
17. 1brc merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
    
    
18. My Clients, the Liars
    
    
19. Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a Growth Engineer (remote)
    
    
20. Numbers every programmer should know
    
    
21. Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound
    
    
22. Activision QA Workers Vote to Form Largest US Video Game Worker Union to Date
    
    
23. Scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
    
    
24. 4D Knit Dress
    
    
25. An all-optical general-purpose CPU and optical computer architecture
    
    
26. I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value
    
    
27. What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist
    
    
28. E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
    
    
29. What Monks Know about Focus
    
    
30. Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts