May 11, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-11

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

1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
   
   
2. So We've Got a Memory Leak
   
   
3. Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard
   
   
4. Jim Simons has died
   
   
5. The Derivative of a Number
   
   
6. Unix and Multics
   
   
7. Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
   
   
8. Pyramid3D Real-time Graphics Processor (1997) [pdf]
   
   
9. Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
   
   
10. Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
    
    
11. Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition
    
    
12. ENIAC Simulator
    
    
13. London's history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital
    
    
14. Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
    
    
15. Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in Sales, Engineering, HR in Austria
    
    
16. The Foundation of a Generic Theorem Prover (1989) [pdf]
    
    
17. Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
    
    
18. Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
    
    
19. Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
    
    
20. Life-like particle system
    
    
21. One Minute Park
    
    
22. Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
    
    
23. Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
    
    
24. Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
    
    
25. Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
    
    
26. I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
    
    
27. A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space
    
    
28. Seeking Ideas for Preschool/School Projects
    
    
29. New mirror that can be flexibly shaped improves X-ray microscopes
    
    
30. Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)