895
9
Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems
2 years ago
601
88
An animated introduction to Fourier series
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicycles
540
191
A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/112557248794707738
480
287
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
468
603
I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
https://nelson.cloud/i-am-so-sick-of-leetcode-style-interviews/
444
157
Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)
https://digilent.com/blog/why-do-electronic-components-have-such-odd-values/
401
Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis
https://tree-diffusion.github.io/
263
99
Some notes on influenceering
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/some-notes-on-influenceering
248
54
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/
246
48
Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets
https://emildziewanowski.com/flat-planets/
243
136
Entropy, a CLI that scans files to find high entropy lines (might be secrets)
https://github.com/EwenQuim/entropy
229
112
macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/
224
160
Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
https://unherd.com/2024/05/dont-be-terrified-of-pale-fire/
217
73
Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines
https://github.com/Nike-Inc/koheesio
213
69
Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming
https://github.com/jstrieb/poker-chipper
205
259
Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html
204
258
Debian's /tmpest in a teapot
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/975565/bcce68a68d82d63a/
199
168
Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
https://scottarc.blog/2024/06/02/encryption-at-rest-whose-threat-model-is-it-anyway/
193
Influencer cartels manipulate social media
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-influencer-cartels-manipulate-social-media-fraudulent-behaviour-hidden-plain
189
37
Research as leisure activity
https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity
183
55
New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-glimpses-volcanic-world-telescope-images.html
180
94
Night-vision lenses so thin and light that we can all see in the dark
https://newatlas.com/technology/night-vision-thin-light-lens/
178
63
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
https://alexwlchan.net/2024/creating-a-safari-webarchive/
175
105
Intel's Lion Cove Architecture Preview
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/03/intels-lion-cove-architecture-preview/
174
10
The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
https://gamehistory.org/atari-2600-tarzan/
119
CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/co2-ventilation-research-virus-airborne-life-haddrell-celebs/
147
35
Show HN: PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-call investigation documents
https://github.com/DrDroidLab/PlayBooks
146
158
Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21425/intel-lunar-lake-architecture-deep-dive-lion-cove-xe2-and-npu4
123
126
Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-shut-down-google-one-vpn-on-june-20-here-are-some-alternatives/
28
xLSTM code release by NX-AI
https://github.com/NX-AI/xlstm
121
56
Building a serverless secured dead drop
https://ayende.com/blog/201153-B/building-a-serverless-secured-dead-drop
114
44
Show HN: Huewords, a Word and Logic Puzzle
https://huewords.snellman.net/
111
13
Particle accelerators for the microchip era
https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=particle-accelerators-for-the-microchip-era
110
49
An Overview of the Starlark Language
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/an-overview-of-starlark
107
Show HN: Web Development with Htmx, Type-Guided Components, Pure Python
https://getludic.dev/docs/
104
18
Implementing the Goodfellow GANs paper
https://ym2132.github.io/GenerativeAdversarialNetworks_Goodfellow
101
TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature
https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall
100
Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571500
109
Study shows most doctors endorsing drugs on X are paid to do so
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-doctors-endorsing-drugs-paid.html
98
20
Atash Behram – Types of Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atash_Behram
46
Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-kit-available-now-at-70/
97
113
Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M crypto money laundering plot
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg66xe59zyeo
96
40
Attacking Android Binder
https://androidoffsec.withgoogle.com/posts/attacking-android-binder-analysis-and-exploitation-of-cve-2023-20938/
95
22
Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular
https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-data-management-startup-tabular-in-bid-for-ai-clients-829e5bcf
68
Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site
https://technicalwriting.dev/a11y/skip.html
90
Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it's so awesome)
https://tomhultonharrop.com/mathematics/graphics/2023/08/06/reverse-z.html
86
61
How to chop off bytes of an UTF-8 string to fit into a small slot and look nice
https://domm.plix.at/perl/2024_06_chopping_utf8.html
85
11
New vestiges of the first life on Earth discovered
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-vestiges-life-earth-saudi-arabia.html
3
Architectures for Central Server Collaboration
https://mattweidner.com/2024/06/04/server-architectures.html
84
43
Chang'e-6: Moon dark side samples collected and launched into lunar orbit
https://spacenews.com/change-6-moon-samples-collected-and-launched-into-lunar-orbit/
83
34
Mozilla Builders Accelerator 2024
https://future.mozilla.org/builders/
81
50
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
https://situational-awareness.ai/
78
4
Herbie: Optimize Floating-Point Expressions
https://herbie.uwplse.org/demo/
77
30
Air Canada ordered to pay couple $2k. Instead, it's taking them to court
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-court-cta-1.7220964
42
Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security 'disaster'
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues
72
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/
70
ShadowFinder: Find possible locations of shadows around the world
https://github.com/bellingcat/ShadowFinder
ChatGPT Is Down
https://status.openai.com/incidents/rs49lmsh6xxw
67
124
America's commute to work is getting longer and longer
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/americas-commute-to-work-is-getting-longer-and-longer-0fbf79c3
7
Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits (2020)
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/bit-twiddling-addition-with-unknown-bits/
SpaceX received FAA approval for Starship flight 4
https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID173891218620231102140506.0001%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue?modalOpened=true
66
6
FFmpeg Asks Intel for a Server
https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1798045928521368031
64
21
CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening gap with the workers they oversee
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ceos-hefty-pay-raises-2023-widening-gap-workers-110769837
Security researcher discovers Microsoft's Recall tool is woefully insecure
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-should-recall-windows-recall-security-researcher-finds-microsofts-new-ai-tool-woefully-insecure
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic-hurricane-season-looms-can-ai-forecast-models-help/
91
The largest solar farm just came online in China
https://electrek.co/2024/06/04/worlds-largest-solar-farm-china/
62
Show HN: Shortbread App – AI-powered, romantic comics for women
https://www.shortbreadapp.com/
25
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/
60
The state of SourceHut and our plans for the future
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-06-04-status-and-plans/
59
Rare and Amusing Insults, Volume 2
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/top-10-rare-and-amusing-insults-vol-2
58
53
Deception abilities emerged in large language models
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2317967121
57
Elon Musk reportedly diverted AI chips from Tesla to X
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24171165/elon-musk-tesla-x-nvidia-ai-chips-divert
17
Regular, Recursive, Restricted
https://matklad.github.io/2024/06/04/regular-recursive-restricted.html
1
Microsoft violates children's privacy – but blames your local school
https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school
Job openings fall to lowest level since February 2021
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-openings-fall-to-lowest-level-since-february-2021-141149453.html
38
Musk ordered Nvidia to ship AI chips reserved for Tesla to X/xAI
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-ship-ai-chips-reserved-for-tesla-to-x-xai.html
52
Harvard's Largest Faculty Division Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/harvard-diversity-statements.html
41
Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450M round
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-salesforce-double-down-ai-152311241.html
71
Excess mortality across the Western World since the Covid pandemic
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282
