top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-28

In loving memory of square checkbox

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

2 years ago

Pandoc

https://pandoc.org

2 years ago

Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

2 years ago

I looked through attacks in my access logs

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

2 years ago

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

https://nitter.d420.de

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

I need to grow away from these roots

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

2 years ago

Appearances of MIT in Anime

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

2 years ago

Ruby's exceptional creatures

https://www.exceptionalcreatures.com/

2 years ago

I hacked a train toilet

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

2 years ago

German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

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

2 years ago

Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira

http://www.bartkira.com

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Variable Fonts

https://v-fonts.com/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Two handy GDB breakpoint tricks

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks

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

2 years ago