Hacker News top 30 - 2024-07-31

1. Our audit of Homebrew blog.trailofbits.com - 91 comments 464 points
2. Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation? en.osm.town - 129 comments 366 points
3. Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users’ permission www.texastribune.org - 214 comments 347 points
4. Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine porffor.dev - 69 comments 325 points
5. A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece - 2023 nightingaledvs.com - 179 comments 321 points
6. C Macro Reflection in Zig jstrieb.github.io - 117 comments 283 points
7. Translating All C to Rust - TRACTOR www.darpa.mil - 227 comments 280 points
8. Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper 152334h.github.io - 134 comments 273 points
9. Fake job interviews are securities fraud www.bloomberg.com - 168 comments 246 points
10. Why doesn’t advice work? dynomight.substack.com - 276 comments 244 points
11. Launch HN: SSOReady - YC W24 – Making SAML SSO painless and open source github.com - 77 comments 235 points
12. Swift Homomorphic Encryption www.swift.org - 93 comments 232 points
13. The Truth About Linear Regression - 2015 www.stat.cmu.edu - 49 comments 232 points
14. Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact www.bristol.ac.uk - 52 comments 207 points
15. Meta Launches AI Studio in US ai.meta.com - 205 comments 181 points
16. Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? - 2022 siliconfolklore.com - 117 comments 177 points
17. FTC Wins Round Two in Its Non-Compete Ban Defense www.jdsupra.com - 73 comments 140 points
18. OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011 jbp.io - 47 comments 133 points
19. Canarytokens: Honeypot for critical credentials, get notified when they are used - 2015 canarytokens.org - 38 comments 129 points
20. Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag lock.cmpxchg8b.com - 24 comments 129 points
21. The lie of music discovery algorithms www.zeynepevecen.dev - 171 comments 125 points
22. Federal regulator says Amazon can be held responsible for faulty goods www.cnbc.com - 49 comments 120 points
23. find + mkdir is Turing complete ogiekako.vercel.app - 15 comments 119 points
24. JavaScript garbage collection and closures jakearchibald.com - 62 comments 118 points
25. How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip blog.gridstatus.io - 57 comments 99 points
26. Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS blog.gingerbeardman.com - 58 comments 97 points
27. Making Machines Move fly.io - 32 comments 97 points
28. Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser rendley.com - 42 comments 96 points
29. Azure Down? azure.status.microsoft - 20 comments 92 points
30. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization shwin.co - 59 comments 81 points