top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-03-30

XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

2 years ago

1323 upvotes – 810 comments

Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blobdiff;f=CMakeLists.txt;h=d2b1af7ab0ab759b6805ced3dff2555e2a4b3f8e;hp=76700591059711e3a4da5b45cf58474dac4e12a7;hb=328c52da8a2bbb81307644efdb58db2c422d9ba7;hpb=eb8ad59e9bab32a8d655796afd39597ea6dcc64d

2 years ago

538 upvotes – 313 comments

Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782

2 years ago

535 upvotes – 128 comments

Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

2 years ago

526 upvotes – 341 comments

IrfanView

https://www.irfanview.com/

2 years ago

520 upvotes – 330 comments

Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

https://danverbraganza.com/writings/an-easier-way-to-replace-a-duvet-cover

2 years ago

467 upvotes – 256 comments

Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)

https://bitbashing.io/gc-for-systems-programmers.html

2 years ago

396 upvotes – 267 comments

Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing

https://tableplus.com/blog/2024/03/how-we-deal-with-ddos.html

2 years ago

320 upvotes – 192 comments

Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/

2 years ago

301 upvotes – 58 comments

Notes on El Salvador

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/03/30/notes-on-el-salvador/

2 years ago

281 upvotes – 202 comments

About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024

https://tailscale.com/blog/tls-outage-20240307

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 123 comments

Paint.net

https://www.getpaint.net/

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 107 comments

Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept

https://github.com/tatut/pgprolog

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

Git as a debugging tool

https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2023-02-13-git-debug/

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 76 comments

Mamba Explained

https://thegradient.pub/mamba-explained/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 44 comments

Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16

https://veloren.net/blog/release-0-16/

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 17 comments

How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform

https://graphite.dev/blog/github-monopoly-on-code-hosting

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 152 comments

Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/us/iowa-spill-fish-kill.html

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 24 comments

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/there-is-no-point-in-my-being-other-than-honest-with-you-on-toni-morrisons-rejection-letters/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 73 comments

Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?

https://medium.com/@magda7817/why-has-figma-reinveted-the-wheel-with-postgresql-3a1cb2e9297c

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 91 comments
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