925
346
How I got here
https://pthorpe92.github.io/intro/my-story/
a year ago
874
331
It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/
646
122
Debugging tricks in the browser
https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks
501
283
Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
https://staysaasy.com/startups/2023/11/10/imprecise-asks.html
423
100
Qanat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
393
129
Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old
https://github.com/d4ckard/spray
384
142
Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow
375
279
Gnome Receives €1M from German Government
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund
342
146
Lost "Doctor Who" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/11/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-owner-reluctant-to-hand-them-to-bbc
77
Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component
https://react-datasheet-grid.netlify.app/
339
202
Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/on_call/
314
179
Find bilingual baby names
https://mixedname.com/
302
111
Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
236
Fourteen Years of Go
https://go.dev/blog/14years
227
287
Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
https://librearts.org/2023/11/radical-redesign-of-gimp/
208
45
Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
https://github.com/philippta/flyscrape
195
102
Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data
185
40
Archived YouTube Video Finder
https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/
173
152
OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions
https://pthorpe92.github.io/ocaml/ocaml-first-thoughts/
172
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.0-Wayland-Default
168
171
.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-8
160
72
When NASA Used an RC Tiger II to Drill into Space Shuttle Tires
https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/tire-assault-vehicle/
159
30
6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lW3WHPtmKo
156
Starship’s second flight test
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2
155
93
Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search/
154
10
RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-RISC-V
150
25
New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft
https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft?nl=e
144
84
Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/
Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
https://ia.net/topics/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period
33
Privacy consultant challenges Meta under Ireland's computer abuse law
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/11/meta_youtube_criminal_charges/
260
Nicotine (2016)
https://gwern.net/nicotine
140
35
FFmpeg 6.1 released
http://www.ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr6.1
135
26
CTF Writeup: Abusing select() to factor RSA
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1723398619313603068.html
116
108
LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/lockbit_leaks_boeing_files/
115
9
RFC 9420 – A Messaging Layer Security Overview
https://www.thestack.technology/rfc9420-ietf-mls-standard/
114
It's OK if your code is just good enough
https://shiftmag.dev/code-quality-good-enough-2034/
6
Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/HoTT-UF-in-Agda-Lecture-Notes/HoTT-UF-Agda.html
113
Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231102162557.htm
112
56
Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (2015)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02423
110
76
MOVEit global security incident
https://www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/
109
14
'Super melanin' heals skin injuries from sunburn, chemical burns
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-super-melanin-skin-injuries-sunburn.html
Passive radiative cooling ceramic with high solar reflectivity
https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2023/11/10/new-cooling-ceramic-can-enhance-energy-efficiency-construction-sector-and-help-combat-global-warming-cityu-research
104
50
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-human-brain-perceives-small-numbers-better-20231109/
15
Show HN: LLM Verified with Monte Carlo Tree Search
https://github.com/namin/llm-verified-with-monte-carlo-tree-search
101
SpaceX will launch the X-37B on a Falcon Heavy rocket Dec. 7
https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-spacex-falcon-heavy-1st-launch-dec-2023
70
Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228850
96
41
Show HN: Generate pdf with gitbook or mdbook url
https://github.com/lufengd3/htmlbook2pdf
Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/oct/07/angus-deaton-interview-book-economics-in-america
92
85
Role play with large language models
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06647-8
89
73
Fedora Workstation 39
https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download/
Google to Implement IETF's Message Layer Security (MLS) Specification RFC 9420
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-towards-secure-and.html
88
18
Yarn-Mistral-7B-128k
https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Yarn-Mistral-7b-128k
128
Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 percent on Google Play
https://www.theverge.com/23954852/google-netflix-app-store-deal-play-10-percent-revshare
81
121
Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them
https://madison.com/news/local/phoneco-wisconsin-telephones-knappen-business/article_90116a8a-734c-11ee-a555-f74104c683cf.html
