1113
559
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
https://mpv.io/
2 years ago
816
255
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
608
223
Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
https://twitter.com/organicmapsapp/status/1824727403580596260
497
311
Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3480918/design-flaw-has-microsoft-authenticator-overwriting-mfa-accounts-locking-users-out.html
488
440
X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/14/x-ordered-to-pay-550000-to-irish-employee-fired-for-not-replying-to-elon-musk-yes-or-resign-extremely-hardcore-ultimatum/
378
131
Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505647.pdf
344
615
X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-close-operations-brazil-effective-immediately-2024-08-17/
340
86
Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
https://github.com/rfinnie/blockbuster
295
24
Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
https://github.com/chrxh/alien
257
358
Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275342
236
228
Just use Postgres
https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres
233
103
Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?
https://joel.tools/smarter/
215
135
FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)
https://loyaltylobby.com/2024/08/16/flightaware-leaks-customer-data-name-email-addresses-passwords/
202
83
I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)
https://legendofworlds.com/blog/4
198
231
Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
https://tinystruggles.com/posts/google_postmortem/
189
47
Slackdump
https://github.com/rusq/slackdump
187
192
Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai
186
30
pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
https://motherduck.com/blog/pg_duckdb-postgresql-extension-for-duckdb-motherduck/
181
144
Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/epic-games-store-and-fortnite-arrive-on-eu-iphones/
179
12
Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables
https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-1-listing-tables
172
43
Xapian: Open source search engine library
https://xapian.org/
155
275
An unordered list of things I miss in Go
https://kokada.capivaras.dev/blog/an-unordered-list-of-things-i-miss-in-go/
150
32
How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI
https://www.justinmath.com/how-to-get-from-high-school-math-to-cutting-edge-ml-ai/
129
64
Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/nutrient-dna-damage/
123
210
China's manufacturers are going broke
https://www.economist.com/business/2024/08/08/chinas-manufacturers-are-going-broke
122
Hacking with PDF (2022)
https://0xcybery.github.io/blog/hacking-with-pdf
116
DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07541
28
The weird of function-local types in Rust
https://elastio.github.io/bon/blog/the-weird-of-function-local-types-in-rust
115
67
The secret lives of snowblowers
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-secret-lives-of-snowblowers
111
20
Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)
https://outlandnish.com/hacks/ditch-the-sim-rig-use-your-car-instead/
110
46
The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
https://proton.me/blog/wifi-surveillance
105
69
NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-tor-users/
100
50
Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them
https://github.com/PatrickJS/everyone-ssn-usa
92
76
Toothpaste Null-Terminator
https://dunkels.com/adam/sentinel-toothpaste/
88
31
AMD's Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/amds-ryzen-cpus-might-be-slower-in-pc-games-due-to-a-weird-windows-11-bug-and-while-theres-a-fix-you-absolutely-shouldnt-use-it
54
The Vala Language (2017)
https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/
84
Batteryless OP-1
https://shred.zone/cilla/page/503/batteryless-op-1.html
80
16
Stressed mouse brain sends gut messages that reduce beneficial bacteria levels
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-mouse-brain-stress-messages-gut.html
79
7
David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vfI-WSP8Q
74
Spring-rs is a microservice framework in Rust inspired by Java's spring-boot
https://github.com/spring-rs/spring-rs
73
75
'Kafkaesque': bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/17/bank-blocks-cash-transfer-ai-scam-fraud
72
57
Brain found to store three copies of every memory
https://newatlas.com/biology/brain-three-copies-memory/