July 18, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-18

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

1. Ask HN: What's Prolog Like in 2024?
   
   
2. Jailbreaking RabbitOS
   
   
3. Panic at the Job Market
   
   
4. Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013)
   
   
5. TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
   
   
6. A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows
   
   
7. The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
   
   
8. SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat
   
   
9. A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
   
   
10. Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves
    
    
11. Just Use MSYS2 You Say?
    
    
12. NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
    
    
13. Little Languages (1986) [pdf]
    
    
14. Ask HN: Any way to borrow compute from Apple M1
    
    
15. Show HN: Product Hunt for Music
    
    
16. Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands
    
    
17. Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
    
    
18. Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool
    
    
19. The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland
    
    
20. Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Customer Success Manager (San Francisco)
    
    
21. Launch HN: Traceloop (YC W23) – Detecting LLM Hallucinations with OpenTelemetry
    
    
22. Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)
    
    
23. Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
    
    
24. Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission
    
    
25. Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits
    
    
26. What can TypeScript learn from Zig? What can Zig learn from TypeScript?
    
    
27. Intel's CPUs Are Failing, Ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs [video]
    
    
28. Who Killed the World?
    
    
29. Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
    
    
30. Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design