707
257
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
https://uss-la-ca135.org/60/1960Judkins-Knott.html
3 years ago
597
128
Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
https://sadservers.com/
578
192
Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-discontinuing-mindstorms-end-of-2022/
551
236
SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
https://rambo.codes/posts/2022-10-25-sirispy-ios-bug-allowed-apps-to-eavesdrop
531
290
Disabling the Intel Management Engine
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine
452
463
Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims
https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-self-driving-claims-sources-2022-10-26/
451
316
Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/10/video-gaming-may-be-associated-with-better-cognitive-performance-in-children
378
667
Most people don’t finish online job applications
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/most-people-never-finish-online-job-applications.aspx
295
Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8
https://jott.live/markdown/py3.11_vs_3.8
376
322
Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory
https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/25/could-consciousness-be-a-memory-system-new-theory-says-yes/
353
149
PayPal restores to its TOS $2,500 charge for any post they don't like
https://twitter.com/jeremyknauff/status/1584919295225729028
336
150
The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)
https://www.wired.com/1997/12/es-attention/
317
80
Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33346568
137
Oracle Contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK
https://www.graalvm.org/2022/openjdk-announcement/
281
476
Test scores are not irrelevant
https://dynomight.net/are-tests-irrelevant/
247
205
Most buildings at MIT campus are remaining closed to the public
https://twitter.com/jack_b_reid/status/1556735206547066880
228
53
Writing systemd units that stop gracefully before shutdown
https://www.psdn.io/posts/systemd-shutdown-unit/
99
Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/epoch.html
220
209
The hotel I booked online became a homeless shelter and no one told me
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/travel/tripped-up-hotel-booking.html
303
Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/10/17/rooftop-wind-energy-innovation-claims-50-more-energy-than-solar-at-same-cost/
218
64
How to request removal of your contact info from Google search results
https://blog.google/products/search/a-new-search-tool-to-help-control-your-online-presence/
215
246
The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal?
https://commit.pizza/2022/10/16/the-only-way-of-being-anonymous-in-sweden-is-illegal/
212
111
Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)
https://icculus.org/ut99-emscripten/
202
Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]
https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_news/Meta-Reports-Third-Quarter-2022-Results-2022.pdf
200
136
uWebSockets
https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets
197
98
Ring0VBA – Getting Ring0 Using a Word Document
https://disrel.com/posts/Ring0VBA-Getting-Ring0-Using-a-Goddamn-Word-Document/
181
91
Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)
https://thenextweb.com/news/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good
177
Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33343603
175
245
DontBuyDell.com
https://dontbuydell.com
167
29
IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-engine/
163
101
Robot Framework: generic open source automation framework
https://robotframework.org/
157
182
Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/
156
Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23423637/apple-app-store-tax-boosted-social-media-posts
166
Brave New Trusted Boot World
https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html
155
112
Vim After 15 Years (2017)
https://blog.langworth.com/vim3
152
85
Building software to last forever
https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-forever/
139
158
Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23422349/nvidia-rtx-4090-power-cables-connectors-melting-burning
88
Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of ‘radiation storms’
https://theconversation.com/radioactive-traces-in-tree-rings-reveal-earths-history-of-unexplained-radiation-storms-193080
48
TCP Connection Repair
https://lwn.net/Articles/495304/
135
713
The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution
130
56
Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03688
122
Decompilation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
https://github.com/rrika/cdcEngineDXHR
118
288
U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-interest-rates-jump-716-highest-since-2001-2022-10-26/
117
185
DIY gadgets that could keep your energy bill down
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62900202
10
Making a change to SQLite source code
https://brunocalza.me/making-a-change-to-sqlite-source-code/
115
55
Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
https://blog.cloudflare.com/partial-cloudflare-outage-on-october-25-2022/
108
71
Elites tried to monopolize hunting
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-elites-tried-to-monopolize-hunting/
54
Launch HN: Idemeum (YC S21) – Passwordless access to apps and infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33346183
106
67
Early-life low-calorie sweetener consumption disrupts memory function in rats
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/157714
105
59
SpaceX launches Starlink ‘flat high-performance’ dish for moving vehicles
https://teslanorth.com/2022/10/25/spacex-launches-starlink-flat-high-performance-dish-for-internet-in-moving-vehicles/
51
Flying the Unflyable Plane: The near crash of Air Astana flight 1388
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/flying-the-unflyable-the-near-crash-of-air-astana-flight-1388-88878e2eb3c4
102
15
Metaballs (2017)
https://varun.ca/metaballs/
244
Galactic settlement of low-mass stars as a resolution to the Fermi paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10656
37
Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23424316/app-store-gambling-ads-listings-apple-developers
Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/google-profits-plummet-27-percent-in-q3-2022-earnings-report/
90
66
Where else in London are there pylons?
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/10/londons-pylons.html
87
20
Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta
86
25
Exploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company
https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2022/10/exploring-the-richness-and-variety-of-letters-sent-to-the-east-india-company.html
76
Germany Is Dismantling a Wind Farm to Make Way for a Coal Mine
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germany-Is-Dismantling-A-Wind-Farm-To-Make-Way-For-A-Coal-Mine.html
7
Podman Release v4.3.0
https://podman.io/releases/2022/10/22/podman-release-v4.3.0.html
74
35
Dyalog: Escrow
http://www.dyalog.com/escrow.htm
Artificial Intelligence: The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)
https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7
73
14
GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-says-github-now-has-a-1b-arr-90m-active-users/
72
8
Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/ford-vw-backed-argo-ai-is-shutting-down/
21
Phar Lap FrontRunner – The Winning DOS Desktop for Windows
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/phar-lap-frontrunner
32
I got a Netflix cache server. 262TB
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ye1izd/i_got_a_netflix_cache_server_262tb/
65
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056
52
Show HN: Villagers – A group travel app
https://villagersapp.com/
