top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-10-10

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148624

2 years ago

The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/

2 years ago

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art

https://eliot.blog/e-ink-frame

2 years ago

Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves

https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/rice-engineered-material-can-reconnect-severed-nerves

2 years ago

Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/liebreich-oil-sector-is-lobbying-for-inefficient-hydrogen-cars-because-it-wants-to-delay-electrification-/2-1-1033226?zephr_sso_ott=XwKh7x

2 years ago

Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153

2 years ago

The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack

2 years ago

Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/valve-confirms-counter-strike-2-no-macos/

2 years ago

Postgres: The next generation

https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-generation-investing-in-the-next-generation-of-committers/

2 years ago

Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-default-google-accounts/

2 years ago

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system

https://minitokyo3d.com

2 years ago

A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don't

https://ntietz.com/blog/forefront-of-innovation/

2 years ago

Simulation Islands

https://box2d.org/posts/2023/10/simulation-islands/

2 years ago

The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)

http://tom7.org/zelda/

2 years ago

How Netflix uses Java

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/10/java-at-netflix-bakker/

2 years ago

US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices

https://www.thedrive.com/news/us-sues-ebay-for-allowing-sale-of-more-than-300000-emissions-defeat-devices

2 years ago

C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/252023/why-does-c-use-the-asterisk-for-pointers

2 years ago

AI hype is built on flawed test scores

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/30/1078670/large-language-models-arent-people-lets-stop-testing-them-like-they-were/

2 years ago

HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/

2 years ago

Scheme in the browser: A Hoot of a tale

https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-wireworld-in-browser.html

2 years ago