top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-27

Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-tour.html

8 months ago

971 upvotes – 261 comments

Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”

https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/

8 months ago

614 upvotes – 345 comments

Big data is dead (2023)

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

8 months ago

585 upvotes – 457 comments

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?

https://blog.ploetzli.ch/2024/should-i-use-jwt-for-authentication/

8 months ago

577 upvotes – 405 comments

Priced out of home ownership

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj66r4lvzzo

8 months ago

530 upvotes – 1246 comments

Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/ResumeTip.png

8 months ago

512 upvotes – 251 comments

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149

8 months ago

499 upvotes – 211 comments

Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14975

8 months ago

444 upvotes – 143 comments

Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene

https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

8 months ago

333 upvotes – 58 comments

A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/giant-structure-space-universe/

8 months ago

298 upvotes – 201 comments

Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/class-e-addresses-in-the-real-world

8 months ago

245 upvotes – 342 comments

Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071

8 months ago

239 upvotes – 61 comments

Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/possible-association-between-tattoos-and-lymphoma-revealed

8 months ago

217 upvotes – 201 comments

More Itertools

https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

8 months ago

206 upvotes – 49 comments

PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet

https://www.ericdaigle.ca/pctattletale-leaking-screen-captures/

8 months ago

195 upvotes – 79 comments

My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2024/05/PSU-burnout-and-torture-cracking-water

8 months ago

184 upvotes – 90 comments

Notepad Tab

https://notepadtab.com/

8 months ago

182 upvotes – 142 comments

xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

https://x.ai/blog/series-b

8 months ago

163 upvotes – 271 comments

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

https://lima-vm.io/

8 months ago

162 upvotes – 57 comments

Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

https://github.com/polachok/helix-gpui

8 months ago

150 upvotes – 76 comments
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