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Hacker News (18 Aug 2023)

  1. Ask vs. Guess Culture

    906 points • 472 comments • aug 18, 2023

  2. Short session expiration does not help security

    679 points • 409 comments • aug 18, 2023

  3. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

    496 points • 312 comments • aug 18, 2023

  4. micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

    366 points • 302 comments • aug 18, 2023

  5. The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702

    335 points • 126 comments • aug 18, 2023

  6. GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

    325 points • 149 comments • aug 18, 2023

  7. Railway Oriented Programming

    324 points • 165 comments • aug 18, 2023

  8. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

    314 points • 336 comments • aug 18, 2023

  9. Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly

    305 points • 152 comments • aug 18, 2023

  10. Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

    298 points • 375 comments • aug 18, 2023