The best of Hacker News - July 04, 2024

1.
Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers

448 points

2.
The joy of reading books you don't understand

346 points

3.
Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C

333 points

4.
Should this be a map or 500 maps?

256 points

5.
Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

249 points

6.
Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

238 points

7.
The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

236 points

8.
Shipt's algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back

231 points

9.
Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes

192 points

10.
Batteries: How cheap can they get?

183 points

11.
Analyzing my electricity consumption

172 points

12.
Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser

171 points

13.
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash

170 points

14.
Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion

168 points

15.
Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production

160 points

16.
The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service

155 points

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