Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-26

  1. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn decripto.org - 711 comments 621 points
  2. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? blog.cryptographyengineering.com - 420 comments 467 points
  3. Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids’ sick days by a third - 2023 yle.fi - 222 comments 365 points
  4. Strandbeest www.strandbeest.com - 86 comments 338 points
  5. Lidl’s Cloud Gambit: Europe’s Shift to Sovereign Computing horovits.medium.com - 257 comments 299 points
  6. Writing a Rust compiler in C notgull.net - 133 comments 274 points
  7. TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them ntietz.com - 94 comments 245 points
  8. Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less - 2021 slate.com - 148 comments 212 points
  9. The art of programming and why I won’t use LLM kennethnym.com - 235 comments 172 points
  10. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? - 2009 www.raphkoster.com - 55 comments 167 points
  11. Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes github.com - 18 comments 157 points
  12. Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours www.reuters.com - 122 comments 156 points
  13. Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off reason.com - 96 comments 154 points
  14. Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible www.npr.org - 148 comments 140 points
  15. Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better www.gkogan.co - 68 comments 135 points
  16. We found North Korean engineers in our application pile www.cinder.co - 88 comments 132 points
  17. Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act twitter.com - 88 comments 116 points
  18. Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them www.vox.com - 98 comments 110 points
  19. Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting becomesovran.com - 39 comments 103 points
  20. Linux Pipes Are Slow qsantos.fr - 41 comments 101 points
  21. Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors www.tomshardware.com - 27 comments 98 points
  22. Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors www.nzherald.co.nz - 64 comments 91 points
  23. Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why? law.stackexchange.com - 29 comments 91 points
  24. European iPhones are more fun now www.theverge.com - 91 comments 88 points
  25. How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers - 2019 www.apmreports.org - 108 comments 83 points
  26. From Datalog to SVG inconvergent.net - 1 comments 79 points
  27. Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young - 2006 www.shamusyoung.com - 15 comments 73 points
  28. Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown electronupdate.blogspot.com - 22 comments 72 points
  29. Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics theconversation.com - 93 comments 68 points
  30. Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security www.schneier.com - 14 comments 68 points