top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-08-29

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

4 months ago

2365 upvotes – 218 comments

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

https://ian.sh/tsa

4 months ago

2004 upvotes – 440 comments

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/advantage-air-ezone-tablet-diy-repair/

4 months ago

2001 upvotes – 478 comments

OpenAI is good at unminifying code

https://glama.ai/blog/2024-08-29-reverse-engineering-minified-code-using-openai

4 months ago

931 upvotes – 304 comments

Elasticsearch is open source, again

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

4 months ago

759 upvotes – 450 comments

Low Cost Mini PCs

https://lowcostminipcs.com/

4 months ago

701 upvotes – 336 comments

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rail-minister-peter-hendy-fired-gareth-dennis-engineer-safety-concerns-trains-london-euston-station/

4 months ago

529 upvotes – 295 comments

Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

https://brave.com/blog/related-website-sets/

4 months ago

511 upvotes – 311 comments

Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on

4 months ago

468 upvotes – 498 comments

Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits

https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-400-million-algorithmic-system-illegally-denied-thousands-of-peoples-medicaid-benefits-2000492529

4 months ago

450 upvotes – 119 comments

Can solar costs keep shrinking?

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/can-solar-costs-keep-shrinking

4 months ago

401 upvotes – 618 comments

HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/hdmi-forum-rejects-amds-hdmi-21-open-source-driver

4 months ago

344 upvotes – 177 comments

SDL3 new GPU API merged

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/9312

4 months ago

306 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator

https://github.com/remipch/solar_concentrator

4 months ago

296 upvotes – 87 comments

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial

https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial

4 months ago

284 upvotes – 88 comments

Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good

https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search

4 months ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

GNU Screen 5.0 Released

https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10668

4 months ago

252 upvotes – 124 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet

https://github.com/rscott2049/pico-rmii-ethernet_nce

4 months ago

237 upvotes – 65 comments

Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish

https://ibis-project.org/posts/farewell-pandas/

4 months ago

228 upvotes – 138 comments

Web Design Museum

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

4 months ago

228 upvotes – 41 comments
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