top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-24

Dan Kaminsky has died

https://twitter.com/marcwrogers/status/1385961838735597572

5 years ago

Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/

5 years ago

Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released

http://www.tobyord.com/earth

5 years ago

Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository

https://blog.ryotak.me/post/homebrew-security-incident-en/

5 years ago

Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/01/newark-cops-with-reform-didnt-fire-a-single-shot-in-2020-moran.html

5 years ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging

https://buttondown.email/geoffreylitt/archive/starting-this-newsletter-print-debugging-byoc/

5 years ago

Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers

https://c9x.me/compile/bib/

5 years ago

You might as well timestamp it

https://changelog.com/posts/you-might-as-well-timestamp-it

5 years ago

‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock the world

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/25/insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world

5 years ago

Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56859357

5 years ago

The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-in-depth

5 years ago

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories

https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/ukraine-money-laundering/

5 years ago

Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff

https://nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dutch-mps-video-conference-deep-fake-imitation-navalnys-chief-staff

5 years ago

Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/gravity-based-batteries-try-beat-their-chemical-cousins-winches-weights-and-mine-shafts

5 years ago

The NCAA Erased My Career

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/brittany-collens-tennis-ncaa-university-of-massachusetts

5 years ago

InfiniTime 1.0

https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/22/its-time-infinitime-1-0/

5 years ago

A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick

https://alexomara.com/blog/a-silly-anti-disassembly-trick/

5 years ago

Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes

https://forensicnews.net/deutsche-bank-whistleblower-vanishes/

5 years ago

Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request

https://www.medianama.com/2021/04/223-twitter-mp-minister-censor/

5 years ago

Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/hackers-backdoor-corporate-password-manager-and-steal-customer-data

5 years ago