600
246
Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-silently-fixes-ios-zero-day-asks-bug-reporter-to-keep-quiet/
4 years ago
589
238
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/
516
158
How does apt render its fancy progress bar?
https://mdk.fr/blog/how-apt-does-its-fancy-progress-bar.html
491
347
What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-is-just-an-analytics-scam/
433
209
The 100 MHz 6502
http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/
395
152
The Frame.work Marketplace Opened
https://frame.work/marketplace
349
183
Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161491
324
54
GTFOBins
https://gtfobins.github.io/
304
388
Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-intellectuals-urge-state-to-keep-nuclear-plants-online/
275
85
Kape Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, Zenmate, and VPN “Review” Sites
https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/
270
107
Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
268
302
The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space
https://cosmicperspective.com/william-shatner-overview-effect-ns18/
258
121
Always Do Extra
http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.php
234
156
OVH is down along with its status page
https://status.ovh.com
227
22
Sketch Machine
https://sketchmachine.net/
226
269
Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22723998/windows-11-update-amd-ryzen-cpu-performance-worse
224
135
Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
https://github.com/janet-lang/janet
221
62
Container security best practices: Ultimate guide
https://sysdig.com/blog/container-security-best-practices/
214
410
U.S. inflation rate rises to 13-year high of 5.4%
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/us-inflation-1.6208981
198
124
GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptible VMs
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/spot-vms
189
75
Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2014)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/01/31/2001-a-space-odyssey/
187
58
Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (2017)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive
185
426
Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots amid schedule meltdown
https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-airlines-new-ceo-pilots-cancellations/
181
76
AI predicts accident hot-spots from satellite imagery and GPS data
https://www.unite.ai/ai-predicts-accident-hot-spots-from-satellite-imagery-and-gps-data/
179
321
Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat
https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2021/10/ricochet-anti-cheat-initiative-for-call-of-duty
177
415
Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/
166
55
Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
https://sixtyfps.io/blog/showing-guis-from-shell-scripts.html
165
The great executive-employee disconnect
https://futureforum.com/2021/10/05/the-great-executive-employee-disconnect/
148
Adventuron – Text Adventure Authoring in the Browser
https://adventuron.io/
145
104
Back to EU
https://adambird.com/posts/back-to-eu/
142
15
Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing
https://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/istc.html
140
27
Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021
https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html
139
77
Strike Date Set for 60k Film and Television Workers
https://iatse.net/strike-date-set-for-60000-film-and-television-workers/
138
31
Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/13/a-moment-that-changed-me-patrick-stewart-on-the-teacher-who-spotted-his-talent-and-saved-him
129
40
Wavelets allow researchers to transform and understand data
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-wavelets-allow-researchers-to-transform-and-understand-data-20211013/
128
IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VhNF_0I5c
126
Bitcoin Addiction Hospital
https://castlecraig.co.uk/treatment/behavioral-addictions/bitcoin-addiction-treatment
123
53
FreeBSD Audio
https://meka.rs/blog/2021/10/12/freebsd-audio/
70
Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code
https://goq2q.net/blog/tech/using-ascii-waveforms-to-test-real-time-audio-code
119
Lets talk about how NFTs are a giant scam
https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1445795667826208770
Software Sweatshop – Inside Billionaire Joe Liemandt's Empire
https://colinkeeley.com/blog/joe-liemandt-esw-capital-operating-manual
115
24
Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown
https://qwerty.dev/calendar-generator/
114
38
Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want
https://videodownloadtool.io
102
80
Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65
https://www.natecation.com/accredited-investor-investing-startups-series-65/
45
Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified
https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/pink-floyds-young-lust-explained-and-demystified/
97
96
Walgreens closing 5 San Francisco stores due to 'organized retail crime'
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Walgreens-closing-5-Sf-stores-crime-shoplifting-16527801.php
34
How to Get over Fear of Disappointing Others (FODO)
https://nickwignall.com/fear-of-disappointing-others/
88
82
TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
https://nurse.org/articles/texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-crisis-contracts/
84
101
Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/disabling-all-chat/
83
Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
https://remarkable.com/store/connect
42
Use of GitHub Enterprise
https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/59
81
99
Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-12/apple-poised-to-slash-iphone-production-goals-due-to-chip-crunch
Vast majority think life in SF Bay Area getting worse, want to leave, poll finds
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/poll-silicon-valley-leaving-grass-is-greener-movin-16527214.php
50
The Kingpin of Shanghai
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-kingpin-of-shanghai/
11
Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays)
https://github.com/apankrat/notes/tree/master/fast-case-conversion
Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams
https://blog.devgenius.io/microsoft-is-finally-ditching-electron-9e081757f9db?gi=bd4952a2226a
69
WebAuthn – The Passwordless Future
https://webauthn.io/
67
13
Premortems will keep your code alive
https://www.cobaltrobotics.com/premortems-and-postmortems/
66
37
Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/258006/is-mozilla-firefox-getting-sketchy
64
71
A threat analysis of sideloading [pdf]
https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps_A_Threat_Analysis_of_Sideloading.pdf
63
The Venus Project
https://www.thevenusproject.com/
SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
https://the-ken.com/greenmargins/when-the-suv-craze-goes-up-what-comes-down/
61
30
Find images from movies based on what you draw
https://huggingface.co/spaces/osanseviero/draw_to_search
60
21
Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved
https://macoy.me/blog/programming/InterfaceFriction
Kyshtym Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
US attorney details illegal acts, sealing the fate of the “nuclear Renaissance”
https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/us-attorney-details-illegal-acts-at-construction-projects-sealing-the-fate-of-the-nuclear-renaissance/
Time Millionaires
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/12/time-millionaires-meet-the-people-pursuing-the-pleasure-of-leisure
57
32
Nonconsenting prisoners are the source of many organ transplantations in China
https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(21)01375-1/fulltext?rss=yes
56
41
Depressed People See the World More Realistically
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-the-world-more-realistically
91
You Are Jeff Bezos
https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
Photoshop blocks opening banknote images
https://twitter.com/eliseswain/status/1448026533000617988
Ask HN: How is the Great Resignation affecting your company?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846796
8
State of Open Source: The UK in 2021
https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/
Dead-End SF Street Plagued with Confused Waymo Cars Trying to Turn Around
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/10/13/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes/
18
“Progress” by Aldous Huxley (1928)
https://atlasofplaces.com/essays/progress/