The best of Hacker News - August 25, 2024

1.
Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

610 points

2.
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

393 points

3.
Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)

368 points

4.
Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)

346 points

5.
Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this

326 points

6.
Strandbeest

320 points

7.
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing

270 points

8.
Writing a Rust compiler in C

239 points

9.
Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)

210 points

10.
Consistently Making Wrong Decisions Whilst Writing Recreational C

198 points

11.
TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them

190 points

12.
Implementing React from Scratch

169 points

13.
Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm

164 points

14.
Golang Interpreter Written in PHP

163 points

15.
The art of programming and why I won't use LLM

161 points

16.
AMD's Radeon 890M: Strix Point's Bigger iGPU

145 points

17.
Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)

145 points

18.
Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022)

145 points

19.
Show HN: Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service

143 points

20.
Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? (2009)

140 points

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