top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-15

PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

https://axleos.com/building-a-gps-receiver-part-1-hearing-whispers/

2 years ago

Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)

https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-1-embezzlers-are-nice-people

2 years ago

T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs

https://tmo.report/2024/04/t-mobile-employees-across-the-country-receive-cash-offers-to-illegally-swap-sims/

2 years ago

Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/phone-conversations-with-law-enforcement-can-be-recorded-without-their-consent-court-says-36640808

2 years ago

Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available

https://neon.tech/blog/neon-ga

2 years ago

A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel

2 years ago

Ramanujan's lost notebook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%27s_lost_notebook

2 years ago

An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/15/1244501055/tinnitus-hearing-loss-ringing-ear-noise

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-cybertruck-production-halted-ac750c17

2 years ago

We are moving to General Availability

https://supabase.com/ga

2 years ago

Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-lay-off-more-than-10-its-staff-electrek-reports-2024-04-15/

2 years ago

Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40041954

2 years ago

Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)

https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/

2 years ago

Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP

https://newatlas.com/medical/sleep-apnea-mouthguard-cpap-blood-pressure/

2 years ago

A shrub in Nepal supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Japan

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/world/asia/nepal-japan-yen-argeli.html

2 years ago

Learning about distributed systems: where to start? (2020)

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/06/learning-about-distributed-systems.html

2 years ago

Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs

2 years ago

RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg99042.html

2 years ago

Web-based Turbo Pascal compiler

https://github.com/lkesteloot/turbopascal

2 years ago

WizardLM 2

https://wizardlm.github.io/WizardLM2/

2 years ago

Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40046774

2 years ago

The purge of German science in 1933

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0

2 years ago

A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)

https://ahgamut.github.io/2021/07/13/ape-python/

2 years ago

An open-source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization (2022)

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2022/08/08/achieving-a-completely-open-source-implementation-of-apple-code-signing-and-notarization/

2 years ago

Google Common Lisp Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml

2 years ago

Procrastination can be caused by anxiety

https://solvingprocrastination.com/anxiety/

2 years ago

US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/security_in_brief/

2 years ago

Computer-generated holography with ordinary display

https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-49-8-1876

2 years ago

The hero tax: Why 'selfless' workers are professionally exploited

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240409-heroic-jobs-earn-less-money

2 years ago

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/opinion_microsoft_sovereignty/

2 years ago

TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

2 years ago

Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles

https://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/nathan-tolbert-pushes-the-limitations-of-new-games-on-old-consoles/

2 years ago

Getting the Grid to Net Zero

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-inverter

2 years ago

The Making of Side 7: Gundam Evolution private server project

https://1379.tech/the-making-of-side-7-gundam-evolution-private-server-project/

2 years ago

How much memory does a graph take?

https://jazco.dev/2024/04/15/in-memory-graphs/

2 years ago

Do we need to store all that telemetry?

https://mattklein123.dev/2024/04/10/do-you-need-to-store-that-telemetry/

2 years ago

Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

https://www.limitless.ai/

2 years ago

Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68788690

2 years ago

Cycloidal marine propellers: Efficient thrust in any direction

https://newatlas.com/marine/abb-dynafin-marine-propulsion/

2 years ago

Better adb shell

https://github.com/matan-h/adb-shell

2 years ago

Lawyer divorces wrong couple through dropdown selection error

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/firm-pledges-full-support-to-lawyer-over-online-divorce-mistake/5119365.article

2 years ago

XZ Utils review notes

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/review.html

2 years ago

50% discount on OpenAI pricing if you submit a batch and give them up to 24h

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1779932174592167965

2 years ago

Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-feat-of-engineering

2 years ago

Framework's software and firmware have been a mess, but it's working on them

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

2 years ago

Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95

https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/windows-95-printer-hack

2 years ago

FBI Opens Criminal Investigation into Baltimore Bridge Collapse

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-fbi-investiagation-58188d524035c756872603055f309c78

2 years ago

Simplified Technical English

https://www.asd-ste100.org/

2 years ago

Control Linux based distros using hand gestures using OpenCV, GTK, Mediapipe

https://github.com/flying-pizza-69/GestureX

2 years ago

EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values

https://europe.autonews.com/environmentemissions/eu-data-shows-phevs-emit-350-more-co2-tested-values

2 years ago

Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021)

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/histomap/

2 years ago

SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket will go for its 20th launch tonight

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/spacexs-most-flown-reusable-rocket-will-go-for-its-20th-launch-tonight/

2 years ago

WD launches 4TB SD card

https://www.techradar.com/pro/wd-launches-enormous-4tb-sd-card-for-creative-pros-smashes-world-record-for-largest-removable-memory-card-to-smithereens-at-twice-the-capacity-of-biggest-microsd-cards

2 years ago

To Build Muscle, It's the Sets That Count

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/strength-training-non-responders/

2 years ago

RocketStar tests fusion-enhanced in-space propulsion process

https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/space/rocketstar-tests-fusion-enhanced-in-space-propulsion-process.html

2 years ago

From L3 to seL4: 20 years of L4 microkernels (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoaFc5-1Rk

2 years ago

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing

https://101wildlifecrossing.org/

2 years ago

The demise of email forwarding is getting closer

https://talk.tidbits.com/t/the-demise-of-email-forwarding-is-getting-closer/27315

2 years ago

Challenging software projects some programmers should try

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/03/28/programming-projects-ideas

2 years ago

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (2022)

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/

2 years ago

Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

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

2 years ago

Open-source passive radar taken down for regulatory reasons (2022)

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/19/open-source-passive-radar-taken-down-for-regulatory-reasons/

2 years ago

Why No IPv6?

https://whynoipv6.com/

2 years ago

Scientists solve long-standing mystery surrounding the moon's 'lopsided' geology

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-mystery-moon-lopsided-geology.html

2 years ago

Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometers-engineer-new-tools-to-wrangle-spacecraft-orbits-20240415/

2 years ago

'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/15/uk-video-rental-shops

2 years ago

Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster

https://savannahostrowski.com/posts/raspberry-pi-cluster/

2 years ago

The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than usual

https://twitter.com/lbjfancamcoop/status/1779262898314903675

2 years ago