688
134
I hacked my car
https://programmingwithstyle.com/posts/howihackedmycar/
2 years ago
630
393
The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23303411/zoom-defcon-root-access-privilege-escalation-hack-patrick-wardle
515
433
It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
https://www.su.se/english/news/it-s-raining-pfas-even-in-antarctica-and-on-the-tibetan-plateau-rainwater-is-unsafe-to-drink-1.620735
488
731
Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32448825
329
272
“Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory
https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/
323
118
Quirky computing books
https://github.com/fogus/thunks/blob/main/reading/quirkeys.org
309
372
Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/11/armed-man-holds-beirut-bank-staff-hostage-demands-savings
303
98
Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text
https://zmarshall.nl/static/eink-vnc.html
287
292
John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzr7hRXcwkw
251
326
Cast iron leet
https://erock.prose.sh/cast-iron-leet
240
40
What is TTY?
https://www.sobyte.net/post/2022-05/tty/
230
109
Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
http://extranetevolution.com/2020/07/autodesk-criticism-extends/
218
Show HN: A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/
215
43
2022 Oder Environmental Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Oder_environmental_disaster
212
112
Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)
https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft
206
101
Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/13/rufus-microsoft-is-blocking-windows-iso-downloads/
191
92
On being tired
https://jukkaniiranen.com/2022/02/on-being-tired/
188
285
Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-sees-tidal-shift-in-sentiment-toward-atomic-energy-a-05f47c3c-d20e-44dc-bd6d-1e1dbfb7f0cd
518
Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion
https://www.motortrend.com/news/evs-more-efficient-than-internal-combustion-engines/
181
120
Functional Reactive Programming
https://wiki.haskell.org/Functional_Reactive_Programming
180
62
Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)
https://thechefdojo.com/japanese-vegetable-cutting-techniques/
178
125
How to stay focused while working on your startup and having a 9 to 5
https://fernandopessagno.medium.com/6-ways-to-stay-focused-while-working-on-your-startup-and-having-a-9-to-5-fb0b2d2c8db3
167
190
Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible
https://github.com/erg-lang/erg
151
318
Researchers: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/science-and-technology/22012-researchers-agree-the-world-can-reach-a-100-renewable-energy-system-by-or-before-2050.html
147
59
How to get a PhD in mathematics in a timely fashion (2020) [pdf]
https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey/advice/timely.fashion.pdf
145
56
On a road to Prizren with a Free Software Phone
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/On_a_road_to_Prizren_with_a_Free_Software_Phone.html
143
Modern Malaise
https://ava.substack.com/p/modern-malaise
138
6
Efficient simulation through linear algebra
https://mht.wtf/post/sparse-solves/
133
148
Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453735
132
52
Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case
https://twitter.com/glaciereal/status/1558224006070673408
131
57
Improving Postgres text search speed
https://www.charityapi.org/post/improving-postgres-text-search-speed-7x-on-millions-of-records
127
21
Krunvm – Create MicroVMs from OCI Images
https://github.com/containers/krunvm
121
170
Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453544
119
107
Slab City reaches its boiling point
https://bluedotliving.com/slab-city-reaches-its-boiling-point/
108
27
A farmer’s hunch led to a lost monastery and a Neolithic surprise
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beaubec-monastery-ireland
106
88
The Bay Area's lost streetcars
https://sfstreetcars.co/
104
61
Split Brain Psychology
https://superbowl.substack.com/p/split-brain-psychology
45
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-controversial-plan-to-unleash-the-mississippi/
102
Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web
https://rocket-drone.lol
89
The Intel 80376 – A legacy-free i386 with a twist (2010)
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=460
100
15
Self-taught AI shows similarities to how the brain works
https://www.quantamagazine.org/self-taught-ai-shows-similarities-to-how-the-brain-works-20220811/
95
69
I will now send this to beginner programmers
https://headlinedev.xyz/2022/08/12/how-to-learn-to-program.html
77
Subreply
https://subreply.com/discover
91
30
First Eco-Friendly Filter Removing 'Microplastics in Water,'
https://www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/worlds-first-eco-friendly-filter-removing-microplastics-water-threat-humans-sea-without
84
26
DragonFlydb: Cache Design
https://dragonflydb.io/blog/2022/06/23/cache_design/
81
9
Heap Overflows on iOS ARM64
https://www.inversecos.com/2022/07/heap-overflows-on-ios-arm64-heap.html
79
School demands search of text messaging, outside of school
https://twitter.com/DrRachaelF/status/1558250615813263360
Ideas for DataScript 2
https://tonsky.me/blog/datascript-2/
78
UTC vs. UT1 time and other nuances (2020)
https://mperdikeas.github.io/utc-vs-ut1-time.html
28
Who Judges the Judges?
https://popehat.substack.com/p/who-judges-the-judges
85
Ban Bottled Water: Microplastics Reside in Them Globally
https://adetokunbo.substack.com/p/ban-bottled-water-microplastics-reside
74
35
EU endorses right to repair as a circular economy essential
https://www.ifixit.com/News/63690/eu-endorses-repair-as-environmental-win-repair-roundup-week-of-august-6
73
BRL-CAD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD
72
16
Moonray – open-source production renderer from DreamWorks
https://openmoonray.org/
14
Mysterious mass fish kill in Oder River: Climate change or poison?
https://www.dw.com/en/mysterious-mass-fish-kill-in-oder-river-climate-change-or-poison/a-62784099
