July 4, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-04

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

1. Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes
   
   
2. Should this be a map or 500 maps?
   
   
3. Fly.io initiates Region-specific Machines pricing
   
   
4. Shipt's Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back
   
   
5. Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision
   
   
6. Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash
   
   
7. Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services
   
   
8. Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion
   
   
9. Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
   
   
10. The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand
    
    
11. Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms
    
    
12. Kanban vs. Scrum: What's the Difference?
    
    
13. Stonehenge Archer
    
    
14. The Origins of DS_store (2006)
    
    
15. The Sphere
    
    
16. A practical introduction to constraint programming using CP-SAT and Python
    
    
17. GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome
    
    
18. The Cheapest NAS
    
    
19. Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me
    
    
20. Engine Sound Simulator
    
    
21. Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City
    
    
22. The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania
    
    
23. Ask HN: Where to Sell Vintage Computers
    
    
24. Bugs, drugs and electric venom: is this the most deadly library in the world?
    
    
25. Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf]
    
    
26. Making a Linux-managed network switch
    
    
27. Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
    
    
28. A Git story: Not so fun this time
    
    
29. Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
    
    
30. Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser