top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-02-04

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2019/07/29/browser-extensions

2 years ago

Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token

https://shyam.blog/posts/beyond-self-attention/

2 years ago

Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/52336/why-is-the-mouse-cursor-slightly-tilted-and-not-straight

2 years ago

Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-piracy-is-difficult-to-compete-against-and-growing-rapidly-240204/

2 years ago

Write code for the web

https://mrmr.io/apple/

2 years ago

Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

https://stract.com/

2 years ago

Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

https://philosophygeek.medium.com/why-g%C3%B6del-escher-bach-is-the-most-influential-book-in-my-life-49d785a4e428

2 years ago

How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days

https://aphyr.com/posts/368-how-to-replace-your-cpap-in-only-666-days

2 years ago

Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird

https://www.ifixit.com/News/90137/vision-pro-teardown-why-those-fake-eyes-look-so-weird

2 years ago

Plastic bag bans work

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/plastic-bans-work-billions-of-plastic-bags-were-avoided-in-the-us-alone/

2 years ago

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

2 years ago

Rolling Airframe Missile

https://www.navalgazing.net/RAM

2 years ago

Sapling: Experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text

https://github.com/kneasle/sapling

2 years ago

Rye: A Vision Continued

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/4/rye-a-vision/

2 years ago

AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET

https://www.avaloniaui.net/

2 years ago

How Doom didn't kill the Amiga

https://www.datagubbe.se/afb/

2 years ago

New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/

2 years ago

The first amateur radio station on the moon

https://www.arrl.org/news/the-first-amateur-radio-station-on-the-moon-js1ymg-is-now-transmitting

2 years ago

Acme Klein Bottle

https://www.kleinbottle.com/

2 years ago