651
402
US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
https://digit.so36.net/Data/20221227_HIP_EBSP_IBIS.pdf
3 years ago
584
570
Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145536902/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm
565
346
Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/850a408e04d5414e67d308a2b5847378
546
473
Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/illegal-desi-call-centres-behind-10-billion-loss-to-americans-in-2022/articleshow/96501320.cms
464
167
CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/afghanistan-biometrie
459
317
I'm done with Google
https://deijin.bearblog.dev/im-done-with-google/
453
226
All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adapters/
425
285
What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/
373
185
Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016)
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/
334
177
BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
https://www.borgbackup.org
326
147
Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
https://lite-xl.com/
303
217
I have reached Vim nirvana
https://www.maxwellrules.com/misc/nvim_jupyter.html
298
71
Notepad Calculator
https://notepadcalculator.com/
275
73
Show HN: Dog API
https://dogapi.dog
269
82
Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code
https://www.juliensobczak.com/inspect/2022/05/30/anki-srs.html
265
84
Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare
https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed
255
212
Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/30000-year-old-indigenous-cave-drawings-in-australia-have-been-destroyed-180981363/
252
205
Amazon packages burn in India, final stop in broken recycling system
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycling-pollution/
214
85
Extending Python with Rust
https://maxwellrules.com/programming/rusty-python.html
210
86
Experimental Rust Feature: Safer Interoperable ABI
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105586
209
59
Numba: A High Performance Python Compiler
https://numba.pydata.org/
183
6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
https://www.onxmaps.com/onx-access-initiatives/corner-crossing-report
195
208
Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world
https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/women-like-working-with-people-men-like-working-with-things-all-across-the-world-64485
191
58
A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
https://thevaluable.dev/guide-terminal-shell-console/
64
Clipboard: Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, all from the terminal
https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard
174
122
Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153548
171
37
Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/109587022002246891
162
131
Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019)
https://www.apidura.com/journal/freedom-to-roam-in-scotland-everything-you-need-to-know/
161
110
Massive Southwest Airlines disruption leaves customers stranded
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/flight-cancellations-christmas-2022-winter-storm/index.html
159
76
Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (2015)
https://www.brooklynbarmenus.com
157
Hydrochloric acid is more complicated than you think
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/acid-personalities
151
44
Petrichor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
146
31
How to Annotate Everything
https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html
141
358
Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-falls-again-toward-longest-losing-streak-in-more-than-4-years-01672140610
121
EmailTriager
https://www.emailtriager.com/
135
61
Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law
https://official.resource.org/@carlmalamud/109582097911957160
127
107
Microsoft fined $64M by France over cookies used in Bing searches
https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/compliance/microsoft-fined-64-million-by-france-over-cookies-used-in-bing-searches
126
33
86Box – Low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software
https://86box.net/
124
Three things for the next 100 years of Computer Science
https://but-her-flies.bearblog.dev/3-things-for-the-next-100-years-of-computer-science/
237
Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program
https://www.thefp.com/p/scheduled-to-die-the-rise-of-canadas
114
Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/27/social-security-job-titles-disabled-applicants-obsolete/
112
14
Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”
https://coroot.com/blog/minimizing-observability-tax
108
49
Visually symmetric words
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/12/27/visually-symmetric-words/
Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online
106
25
Beaker Browser is now archived
https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md
104
196
Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.513474/full
46
Ask HN: What happened to Magic, the text-message concierge?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148402
18
Accelerating zk-SNARKs - MSM and NTT algorithms on FPGAs with Hardcaml
https://blog.janestreet.com/zero-knowledge-fpgas-hardcaml/
103
26
2k-year-old Mayan civilization discovered in northern Guatemala
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-huge-year-old-mayan-civilization-northern.html
101
78
Iranian women compete at chess tournament without hijab: media reports
https://www.newarab.com/news/iranian-women-compete-chess-tournament-without-hijab
99
189
Tesla stock marks lowest close in years as investors worry about Musk’s focus
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/27/tesla-stock-drops-lowest-close-years-elon-musk
88
Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147090
Data of 30M Indian Railways users is up for sale on a dark forum
https://breached.vc/Thread-Selling-INDIA-RAILWAYS-30-Million-User-Invoices-2022
98
56
Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Toon Is Set to Be Public Property
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/business/mickey-mouse-disney-public-domain.html
97
The Zen anti-interpretation of quantum mechanics (2021)
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5359
90
47
Hogmanay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay
83
39
A New Old Idea; Permacomputing
https://systemstack.dev/2022/12/new-old-computer/
81
How RISC-V Timer Interrupts Work
https://danielmangum.com/posts/risc-v-bytes-timer-interrupts/
79
70
Putin gives eight gold rings to presidents of CIS countries, keeps ninth
https://theins.ru/en/news/258195/
72
Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01431-y
What a $1M Retirement Looks Like in America
https://www.wsj.com/articles/heres-what-a-1-million-retirement-looks-like-in-america-11671890735
23
GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users
https://twitter.com/kchironis/status/1607496457942335489
74
29
How Not to Measure Latency (2015)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generator-is-probably-lying-to-you-take-the-red-pi.html
17
Unmasking Meta's Bad News Strategy
https://memo.co/blog/unmasking-metas-bad-news-strategy/
1
Tesla Drops Out of the 10 Biggest U.S. Public Companies
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-price-market-cap-tsla-51672162042