top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-06-04

Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems

2 years ago

An animated introduction to Fourier series

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicycles

2 years ago

A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/112557248794707738

2 years ago

Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

https://gothamist.com/news/things-the-guys-who-stole-my-phone-have-texted-me-to-try-to-get-me-to-unlock-it

2 years ago

I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

https://nelson.cloud/i-am-so-sick-of-leetcode-style-interviews/

2 years ago

Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)

https://digilent.com/blog/why-do-electronic-components-have-such-odd-values/

2 years ago

Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis

https://tree-diffusion.github.io/

2 years ago

Some notes on influenceering

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/some-notes-on-influenceering

2 years ago

Win for copyright user rights in Canada: Digital locks do not trump fair dealing

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/huge-win-for-copyright-user-rights-in-canada-federal-court-rules-digital-lock-rules-do-not-trump-fair-dealing/

2 years ago

Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets

https://emildziewanowski.com/flat-planets/

2 years ago

Entropy, a CLI that scans files to find high entropy lines (might be secrets)

https://github.com/EwenQuim/entropy

2 years ago

macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/

2 years ago

Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

https://unherd.com/2024/05/dont-be-terrified-of-pale-fire/

2 years ago

Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines

https://github.com/Nike-Inc/koheesio

2 years ago

Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming

https://github.com/jstrieb/poker-chipper

2 years ago

Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html

2 years ago

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/975565/bcce68a68d82d63a/

2 years ago

Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

https://scottarc.blog/2024/06/02/encryption-at-rest-whose-threat-model-is-it-anyway/

2 years ago

Influencer cartels manipulate social media

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-influencer-cartels-manipulate-social-media-fraudulent-behaviour-hidden-plain

2 years ago

Research as leisure activity

https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity

2 years ago