top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-28

In loving memory of square checkbox

https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

a year ago

1967 upvotes – 505 comments

Pandoc

https://pandoc.org

a year ago

822 upvotes – 292 comments

Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

a year ago

540 upvotes – 429 comments

I looked through attacks in my access logs

https://nishtahir.com/i-looked-through-attacks-in-my-access-logs-heres-what-i-found/

a year ago

516 upvotes – 284 comments

"If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

https://nitter.d420.de

a year ago

503 upvotes – 359 comments

New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

a year ago

468 upvotes – 322 comments

I need to grow away from these roots

https://www.vitling.xyz/i-need-to-grow-away-from-these-roots/

a year ago

459 upvotes – 83 comments

Appearances of MIT in Anime

https://anime.mit.edu/resources/mit_in_anime

a year ago

305 upvotes – 84 comments

Ruby's exceptional creatures

https://www.exceptionalcreatures.com/

a year ago

286 upvotes – 118 comments

I hacked a train toilet

https://www.devever.net/~hl/traintoilet

a year ago

267 upvotes – 177 comments

German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028

a year ago

263 upvotes – 176 comments

Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira

http://www.bartkira.com

a year ago

247 upvotes – 34 comments

General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/revisiting-candle-flicker-leds-now-with-integrated-timer/

a year ago

237 upvotes – 182 comments

Variable Fonts

https://v-fonts.com/

a year ago

233 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39171079

a year ago

227 upvotes – 280 comments

When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)

https://madned.substack.com/p/when-the-r-goes-missing-from-r-and

a year ago

218 upvotes – 104 comments

Two handy GDB breakpoint tricks

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/01/28/

a year ago

212 upvotes – 36 comments

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station

https://www.agenciasinc.es/en/News/Antarctic-fungi-survive-Martian-conditions-on-the-International-Space-Station

a year ago

209 upvotes – 144 comments

Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older

https://fortune.com/2024/01/22/moodys-red-flags-shell-companies-directors-123-years-old/

a year ago

182 upvotes – 63 comments

Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f

a year ago

179 upvotes – 140 comments
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