Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 24, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 24, 2024 :</p>
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PSChess – A Chess Engine in PostScript
Summary: PSChess is a chess engine developed in PostScript, allowing users to play chess against GhostScript, a PostScript interpreter. The project is structured in three files: logic_board.ps, logic_chess.ps, and drawing.ps. It has completed four out of five steps, with the final step being to run the program on a printer. The game board is represented by a PostScript string, and the game state is kept in a dictionary. PSChess implements the simplified evaluation function from Tomasz Michniewski for piece values and positions.
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TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl
Summary: TinySSH is a minimalistic SSH server with less than 100,000 words of code. It implements a subset of SSHv2 features and supports secure cryptography with a minimum of 128-bit security. TinySSH avoids older crypto methods and unsafe features like password or host-based authentication. It also doesn't use dynamic memory allocation. The project is currently in beta release.