July 5, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-05

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

1. I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize
   
   
2. Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
   
   
3. SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
   
   
4. Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe
   
   
5. Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye
   
   
6. Hydrothermal Environment Discovered Deep Beneath the Ocean
   
   
7. Analyzing my electricity consumption
   
   
8. The Snapdragon X Elite's Adreno iGPU
   
   
9. Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
   
   
10. The sad state of property-based testing libraries
    
    
11. Bone tissue reparation using coral and marine sponges
    
    
12. Oldest cave art found
    
    
13. Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works
    
    
14. General Electric HTRE-3 Nuclear Jet Engine
    
    
15. The Origins of DS_store (2006)
    
    
16. Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision
    
    
17. Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes
    
    
18. Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reefs
    
    
19. Should this be a map or 500 maps?
    
    
20. Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash
    
    
21. The joy of reading books you don't understand
    
    
22. Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
    
    
23. Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
    
    
24. Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers in Europe
    
    
25. Shipt's algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back
    
    
26. The Origin of Ambergris (2012)
    
    
27. Ready Player Mode
    
    
28. Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion
    
    
29. Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
    
    
30. How random are TOTP codes?