May 26, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-26

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

1. Hurl, the Exceptional Language
   
   
2. Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots
   
   
3. Braid: Synchronization for HTTP
   
   
4. Understanding how the brain reads code versus language
   
   
5. Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
   
   
6. Never use a warning when you mean undo (2007)
   
   
7. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
   
   
8. Diffusion Models
   
   
9. How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
   
   
10. Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone
    
    
11. Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
    
    
12. Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server
    
    
13. Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all
    
    
14. GRC SpinRite
    
    
15. Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?
    
    
16. Electrically conductive bricks can replace fossil fuels in industrial processes
    
    
17. The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
    
    
18. Roman Emperors' Outrageously Lavish Dinner Parties
    
    
19. Big (O)Notation Every Developer Should Know
    
    
20. Maths proof of Langlands conjecture is so complex almost no one can explain it
    
    
21. How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?
    
    
22. Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers
    
    
23. Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
    
    
24. People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)
    
    
25. Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS
    
    
26. Taming floating-point sums
    
    
27. So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)
    
    
28. The accidental tyranny of user interfaces
    
    
29. The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf]
    
    
30. Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?