top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-11

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/

5 years ago

1245 upvotes – 194 comments

Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/europe-guarantee-right-to-repair-ifixit/

5 years ago

1014 upvotes – 356 comments

Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731566

5 years ago

945 upvotes – 184 comments

70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-videos-and-posts-leaked-by-security-researchers/

5 years ago

892 upvotes – 951 comments

Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55615214

5 years ago

657 upvotes – 1261 comments

Ubiquiti Networks Breach

https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904

5 years ago

647 upvotes – 467 comments

Steam's login method is kinda interesting

https://owlspace.xyz/cybersec/steam-login/

5 years ago

523 upvotes – 226 comments

Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL

https://hakibenita.com/sql-anomaly-detection

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 47 comments

Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 250 comments

China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report

https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibaba-ant-group-54444

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 353 comments

iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphone_7_with_dead_nand_netbooting/

5 years ago

455 upvotes – 131 comments

YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-bans-steve-bannon-war-room-podcast-rudy-giuliani-comments-2021-1

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 897 comments

My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions

https://anderstrier.dk/2021/01/11/my-isp-is-killing-my-idle-ssh-sessions-yours-might-be-too/

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 240 comments

My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network

https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/decentralized-wishlist/

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 262 comments

Malware on My Android Phone

https://www.beust.com/weblog/malware-on-my-android-phone/

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 231 comments

Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released

https://www.newkerala.com/news/2021/4866.htm

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 184 comments

FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/fbi-warns-of-plans-for-nationwide-armed-protests-next-week/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 370 comments

We need a new media system

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-media-system

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 283 comments

Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/idaho-internet-provider-blocks-facebook-and-twitter/293-867cc22b-fb90-4142-a296-8d800d2a03fb

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 242 comments

Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill

https://polandin.com/51388314/justice-minister-announces-online-freedom-of-speech-bill

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 362 comments

Working Off-Grid Efficiently

https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 142 comments

Getting Started with Signal

https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-01-11-getting-started-with-signal/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 213 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/hyundai-buys-boston-dynamics

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 121 comments

Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-says-it-is-removing-all-content-mentioning-stop-the-steal-11610401305

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 412 comments

Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems

https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/why-haskell-for-production/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 291 comments

The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 208 comments

How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021

https://khashtamov.com/en/how-to-become-a-data-engineer/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 137 comments

The Confusing World of USB

https://fabiensanglard.net/nousb/index.html

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 145 comments

Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/1/parler-llc-v-amazon-web-services-inc/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 450 comments

Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?

http://ka7oei.blogspot.com/2020/12/intruder-at-top-of-20-meter-amateur-band.html

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 183 comments

A bit on scaling chess.com's database

https://unstructed.tech/2021/01/11/your-legacy-database-is-outgrowing-itself/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 90 comments

Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 90 comments

The great bicycle boom of 2020

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/the-great-bicycle-boom-of-2020.html

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 152 comments

Are Experts Real?

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/01/11/are-experts-real/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 158 comments

Parler Databases Disclosed

https://twitter.com/bitburner/status/1348558563019427842

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 149 comments

Setting goals for 2021 – A brief guide about personal goal setting

https://blog.doit.io/goal-setting/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00913

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 222 comments

XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 152 comments

Runtime improvement for Minimum Cut algorithm first time in 25 years (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01145

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading?

https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/83341/what-is-a-gamma-squeeze-in-the-context-of-stock-trading

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 138 comments

Getting Started with Brave

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035410812-Quickstart-guide-New-to-Brave-Start-here-

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 154 comments

Governments spurred the rise of solar power

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/how-governments-spurred-the-rise-of-solar-power

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 162 comments

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

CD Projekt Red is under investigation

https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/cd-projekt-red-is-under-investigation-by-polands-office-of-competition-and-consumer-protection/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 238 comments

Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017)

https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by-Default-08-14

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 145 comments

Blërg, a microblogging platform

https://blerg.cc/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Thumbnail.ai – Just paste a blog post link and get a thumbnail

https://thumbnail.ai/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 71 comments

Addressing the threat from investments that finance CCP military (2020)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/11/17/2020-25459/addressing-the-threat-from-securities-investments-that-finance-communist-chinese-military-companies

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 97 comments

RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

Ron Paul blocked from posting on Facebook

https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/1348694943905308672

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

Stanford pulls plug on the return of freshmen and sophomores to campus

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/10/stanford-pulls-plug-on-the-return-of-freshmen-and-sophomores-to-campus/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

OpenSocial Specification

https://github.com/OpenSocial/spec/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin: Be prepared to lose all your money, FCA warns consumers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/11/bitcoin-be-prepared-to-lose-all-your-money-fca-warns-consumers-risk-productis-cryptoassets

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 130 comments

Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated

https://www.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10161497935914522/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-55571080

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 146 comments

Invisible Internet Project (I2P)

https://geti2p.net/en/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Hear the ISS

https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/how-to-hear-the-iss/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

https://peertube2.cpy.re/videos/watch/04af977f-4201-4697-be67-a8d8cae6fa7a

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments
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