The best of Hacker News - July 07, 2024

1.
The Origins of DS_store (2006)

541 points

2.
Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision

442 points

3.
Why Bridges Don't Sink

355 points

4.
YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable

304 points

5.
Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)

287 points

6.
I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

210 points

7.
Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)

206 points

8.
Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services

193 points

9.
Show HN: Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell

151 points

10.
Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?

151 points

11.
Show HN: Execute JavaScript in a WebAssembly QuickJS sandbox

148 points

12.
Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

141 points

13.
High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil

140 points

14.
Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro

139 points

15.
The internet is already over (2022)

131 points

16.
Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool

127 points

17.
Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

127 points

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