top 50% 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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Big data is dead (2023)

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

2 years ago

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?

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

2 years ago

Priced out of home ownership

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

2 years ago

Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes

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

2 years ago

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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

2 years ago

Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14975

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4

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

2 years ago

Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071

2 years ago

Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma

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

2 years ago

More Itertools

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

2 years ago

PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Notepad Tab

https://notepadtab.com/

2 years ago

xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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

2 years ago

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

https://lima-vm.io/

2 years ago

Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

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

2 years ago

Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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

2 years ago

British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpegg27g74do

2 years ago

GTFL – A Graphical Terminal for Common Lisp

http://www.martin-loetzsch.de/gtfl/

2 years ago

Is regulated BGP security coming?

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/23/is-regulated-bgp-security-coming/

2 years ago

Turning psychiatric labels into identities

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/why-were-turning-psychiatric-labels-into-identities

2 years ago

Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490608

2 years ago

How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?

https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-charging-stations-would-we-need-to-totally-replace-gas-stations/

2 years ago

Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria

https://globalvoices.org/2024/05/20/yerba-mate-south-americas-indigenous-tea-from-paraguay-to-syria/

2 years ago

The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/darling-58-american-chestnut-tree-mistake.html

2 years ago

Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube

https://developers.google.com/youtube/cobalt

2 years ago

Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

2 years ago

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

2 years ago

Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

https://playpermissionless.substack.com/p/twitter-is-now-attention-roulette

2 years ago

Ore Energy unveils battery based on only iron, water and air

https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/ore-energy-exits-stealth-mode-with-10m/

2 years ago

How we enabled ARM64 VMs

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/how-we-enabled-arm64-vms

2 years ago

My BDFL guiding principles

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/27/my-bdfl-guiding-principles/

2 years ago

Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA

https://theconversation.com/depression-schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder-linked-with-ancient-viral-dna-in-our-genome-new-research-230490

2 years ago

Tesla 'self-driving' technology failed to detect a moving train ahead of a crash

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-owner-says-cars-self-driving-mode-fsd-train-crash-video-rcna153345

2 years ago

Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine

https://www.ambionics.io/blog/iconv-cve-2024-2961-p1

2 years ago

ADHD traits were an advantage in evolution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/02/21/adhd-traits-advantage-evolution-humans/

2 years ago

Alaska's Pristine Waterways Are Turning Orange

https://www.sciencealert.com/alaskas-pristine-waterways-are-turning-a-shocking-orange

2 years ago

An adjustable filter that can prevent interference in the range 600 MHz to 6 GHz

https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/to-6g-and-beyond-penn-engineers-unlock-the-next-generation-of-wireless-communications/

2 years ago

Withdraw most of my ownership in favor of Mark

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/119611

2 years ago

Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a60412469/cycling-saddle-pain-women-surgery/

2 years ago

Testing quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae047/7682393

2 years ago