👋 Today in HN - 2024-03-31
Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:
- Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
- Guess My RGB
- xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
- How Read-Intensive is The Kernel's Use of RCU?
- Ask HN: How bad is the xz hack?
- Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic
- Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai
- Mathematician Who Made Sense of the Universe's Randomness Wins Math's Top Prize
- Cognition Labs Seeks $2B Valuation
- Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed
- Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
- XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
- How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)
- Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)
- Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
- World Backup Day
- Linear Algebra of Types
- specmatic: transform API specs into executable contracts
- About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
- An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array
- Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters
- Light and Infrared Radiation
- Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
- Mamba Explained
- Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
- Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)
- Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept
- Git as a debugging tool
- IrfanView
- Hadrius (YC W23) – Founding Engineer for fastest growing compliance software
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