top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-11

How I got here

https://pthorpe92.github.io/intro/my-story/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Debugging tricks in the browser

https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks

2 years ago

Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time

https://staysaasy.com/startups/2023/11/10/imprecise-asks.html

2 years ago

Qanat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat

2 years ago

Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old

https://github.com/d4ckard/spray

2 years ago

Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022

https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow

2 years ago

Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component

https://react-datasheet-grid.netlify.app/

2 years ago

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/on_call/

2 years ago

Find bilingual baby names

https://mixedname.com/

2 years ago

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)

https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html

2 years ago

Fourteen Years of Go

https://go.dev/blog/14years

2 years ago

Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?

https://librearts.org/2023/11/radical-redesign-of-gimp/

2 years ago

Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go

https://github.com/philippta/flyscrape

2 years ago

Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

2 years ago

Archived YouTube Video Finder

https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/

2 years ago

OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions

https://pthorpe92.github.io/ocaml/ocaml-first-thoughts/

2 years ago

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.0-Wayland-Default

2 years ago

.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-8

2 years ago

When NASA Used an RC Tiger II to Drill into Space Shuttle Tires

https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/tire-assault-vehicle/

2 years ago

6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lW3WHPtmKo

2 years ago

Starship’s second flight test

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2

2 years ago

Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search/

2 years ago

RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-RISC-V

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)

https://ia.net/topics/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period

2 years ago

Privacy consultant challenges Meta under Ireland's computer abuse law

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/11/meta_youtube_criminal_charges/

2 years ago

Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)

https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/

2 years ago

Nicotine (2016)

https://gwern.net/nicotine

2 years ago

FFmpeg 6.1 released

http://www.ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr6.1

2 years ago

CTF Writeup: Abusing select() to factor RSA

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1723398619313603068.html

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

RFC 9420 – A Messaging Layer Security Overview

https://www.thestack.technology/rfc9420-ietf-mls-standard/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

It's OK if your code is just good enough

https://shiftmag.dev/code-quality-good-enough-2034/

2 years ago

Rats have an imagination, new research suggests

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231102162557.htm

2 years ago

Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (2015)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02423

2 years ago

MOVEit global security incident

https://www.maine.gov/moveit-global-data-security-incident/

2 years ago

'Super melanin' heals skin injuries from sunburn, chemical burns

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-super-melanin-skin-injuries-sunburn.html

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-human-brain-perceives-small-numbers-better-20231109/

2 years ago

Show HN: LLM Verified with Monte Carlo Tree Search

https://github.com/namin/llm-verified-with-monte-carlo-tree-search

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228850

2 years ago

Show HN: Generate pdf with gitbook or mdbook url

https://github.com/lufengd3/htmlbook2pdf

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Role play with large language models

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06647-8

2 years ago

Fedora Workstation 39

https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Yarn-Mistral-7B-128k

https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Yarn-Mistral-7b-128k

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

John von Neumann Interview [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbllFHBQM4

2 years ago

Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/10/car-right-to-repair/

2 years ago

Warner Bros shelves finished ‘Coyote vs. Acme’, takes $30M tax write-off

https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-shelved-warner-bros-discovery-writeoff-david-zaslav-1235598676/

2 years ago