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Dan Kaminsky has died
https://twitter.com/marcwrogers/status/1385961838735597572
4 years ago
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238
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/
409
131
Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released
http://www.tobyord.com/earth
387
90
Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
https://blog.ryotak.me/post/homebrew-security-incident-en/
353
243
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
349
354
The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
https://buttondown.email/geoffreylitt/archive/starting-this-newsletter-print-debugging-byoc/
339
88
Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
https://c9x.me/compile/bib/
307
198
You might as well timestamp it
https://changelog.com/posts/you-might-as-well-timestamp-it
306
323
‘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
299
187
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56859357
277
125
The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-in-depth
268
116
Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories
https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/ukraine-money-laundering/
265
110
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
226
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
222
98
The NCAA Erased My Career
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/brittany-collens-tennis-ncaa-university-of-massachusetts
212
67
InfiniTime 1.0
https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/22/its-time-infinitime-1-0/
211
38
A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick
https://alexomara.com/blog/a-silly-anti-disassembly-trick/
200
59
Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes
https://forensicnews.net/deutsche-bank-whistleblower-vanishes/
196
45
Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request
https://www.medianama.com/2021/04/223-twitter-mp-minister-censor/
178
114
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
170
40
Mal – Make a Lisp
https://github.com/kanaka/mal
26
FFmpeg Cheat Sheet
https://gist.github.com/steven2358/ba153c642fe2bb1e47485962df07c730
152
77
Sisters with Transistors
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sisters-with-transistors-movie-review-2021
144
15
Clever Hack Finds Mystery CPU Instructions
https://www.eejournal.com/article/clever-hack-finds-mystery-cpu-instructions/
132
119
Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-22/subsurface
32
Scalability, but at What Cost [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf
130
17
Common interface for Linux NIC statistics
https://people.kernel.org/kuba/common-interface-for-nic-statistics
120
37
The Art of Mathematics in Chalk
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-mathematics-in-chalk/
171
Toronto carpenter builds 'tiny shelters' for the homeless. The city isn't happy
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/04/23/toronto-carpenter-tiny-shelters-homeless-covid19-240482
168
Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56840379
128
Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago
https://okcfox.com/news/local/oklahoma-woman-charged-with-felony-for-not-returning-vhs-tape-21-years-ago
107
214
And the winner is…who cares?
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/04/24/and-the-winner-iswho-cares
New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/get-involved/news/organ-donation-law-change-due-to-come-into-effect-in-england-on-20th-may/
106
25
Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility
https://www.jocas.lt/blog/post/intro-to-lucene-grep/
105
52
Looks like you are typing while in full screen
https://imgur.com/a/QsOwh4k
104
46
Brexit’s top donor outed as Bitfinex, Tether parent shareholder
https://protos.com/bitfinex-tether-digfinex-shareholder-harborne-brexit-bankroller/
103
14
Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
https://github.com/oakes/ansiwave
101
29
Riot extorts League of Legends legacy version fan project?
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/mx77lo/riot_extorts_league_of_legends_legacy_version_fan/
95
18
The Evolution of Forth
https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/
93
35
Show HN: Emojicons
https://emojicons.netlify.app/
31
William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019)
https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/pioneering-sci-fi-author-william-gibson-predicts-in-1997-how-the-internet-will-change-our-world.html
85
49
Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft
83
36
Viewpoints Research Institute concluded its operations at the beginning of 2018
http://www.vpri.org/
81
126
College as a Marriage Market
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28688
7
The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/05/the-silent-type-on-possibly-being-bob-dylans-son/
78
58
Renderman
https://renderman.pixar.com/
9
Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II
https://www.qurium.org/forensics/dark-ops-undercovered-episode-ii-eliminalia-analysis-of-fake-dmca-complaints/
76
16
OpenSourceFPGA Launches Foundation to Accelerate Adoption of Programmable Logic
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210408005158/en/Open-Source-FPGA-Launches-Foundation-to-Accelerate-Widespread-Adoption-of-Programmable-Logic
Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts