July 15, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-15

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

1. Rust for Filesystems
   
   
2. We need visual programming. No, not like that
   
   
3. Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
   
   
4. Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
   
   
5. The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows
   
   
6. A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth
   
   
7. Virginia Woolf's list-making paved the way for her literary experiments
   
   
8. Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)
   
   
9. Lagrange: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points
   
   
10. Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
    
    
11. Clouds in Video Games
    
    
12. Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
    
    
13. "Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021)
    
    
14. General Theory of Neural Networks
    
    
15. Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
    
    
16. Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
    
    
17. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
    
    
18. Disqualified (1954)
    
    
19. Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
    
    
20. Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
    
    
21. Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers
    
    
22. Building the Bell System
    
    
23. Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
    
    
24. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
    
    
25. On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)
    
    
26. The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
    
    
27. Building and scaling Notion's data lake
    
    
28. Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
    
    
29. Mazeppa: A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages
    
    
30. Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint