The best of Hacker News - August 15, 2024

1.
Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

637 points

2.
Galois Theory

335 points

3.
Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

318 points

4.
Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

249 points

5.
CockroachDB license change

241 points

6.
Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

241 points

7.
Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite

240 points

8.
CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

231 points

9.
Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious

217 points

10.
Firedancer: Language for 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns

183 points

11.
Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing

173 points

12.
Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)

171 points

13.
Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)

170 points

14.
Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index

161 points

15.
The Syndicated Actor Model

159 points

16.
Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript

157 points

17.
Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic

156 points

18.
Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh

143 points

19.
Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems

142 points

20.
0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)

137 points

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