top 10 hacker news stories for 2023-08-27

Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

https://ericdraken.com/pfsense-decrypt-ad-traffic/

a year ago

1198 upvotes – 626 comments

Prisoners of Google Android development

https://solutional.ee/blog/2023-08-26-Prisoners-of-Google-Android-Development.html

a year ago

427 upvotes – 310 comments

A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells

https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/Article/2023/August/Scientists-find-way-to-wipe-a-cells-memory-to-reprogram-it-as-a-stem-cell

a year ago

407 upvotes – 109 comments

If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1695596853864321055

a year ago

374 upvotes – 209 comments

111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude

https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/2964/5599

a year ago

341 upvotes – 259 comments

Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

https://thehustle.co/where-do-fonts-come-from/

a year ago

327 upvotes – 168 comments

Overthewire.org

https://overthewire.org/wargames/

a year ago

326 upvotes – 49 comments

Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/study-carbon-offsets-arent-doing-their-job-overstate-impact/

a year ago

316 upvotes – 220 comments

Lie still in bed

https://ognjen.io/lie-still-in-bed/

a year ago

275 upvotes – 234 comments

Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html

a year ago

270 upvotes – 147 comments
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