2365
218
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
2 years ago
2004
440
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
https://ian.sh/tsa
2001
478
Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/advantage-air-ezone-tablet-diy-repair/
931
304
OpenAI is good at unminifying code
https://glama.ai/blog/2024-08-29-reverse-engineering-minified-code-using-openai
759
450
Elasticsearch is open source, again
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again
701
336
Low Cost Mini PCs
https://lowcostminipcs.com/
529
296
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/
511
311
Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
https://brave.com/blog/related-website-sets/
468
498
Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on
119
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
401
618
Can solar costs keep shrinking?
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/can-solar-costs-keep-shrinking
344
177
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
306
122
SDL3 new GPU API merged
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/9312
87
Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator
https://github.com/remipch/solar_concentrator
284
88
Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial
253
79
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search
252
124
GNU Screen 5.0 Released
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10668
237
65
Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet
https://github.com/rscott2049/pico-rmii-ethernet_nce
228
138
Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
https://ibis-project.org/posts/farewell-pandas/
41
Web Design Museum
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
227
51
Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app
https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
214
84
New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings
194
145
Blood Disorder: Unveiling the Mystery of My Poisoning in Sweden
https://rattvisan.blog/2024/07/28/yes-i-was-poisoned-by-my-wife-a-software-engineer-of-top3-us-company/
193
33
Show HN: A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News
https://hn.trieve.ai/
189
89
Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393458
82
Firewall rules: not as secure as you think
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/08/firewall-rules-not-as-secure-as-you.html
179
Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
https://blog.karliner.net/posts/threads-enables-fediverse-replies/
178
81
Google Closure Library has been archived
https://github.com/google/closure-library
143
Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-prove-that-heat-destroys-entanglement-20240828/
175
47
Docusaurus – Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content
https://docusaurus.io/
171
58
How I learned to stop worrying and love userspace networking
https://friendshipcastle.zip/blog/glaceon
169
71
Visit Bletchley Park
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/
160
182
Update on Llama adoption
https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-usage-doubled-may-through-july-2024/
156
123
Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387062
63
DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source
https://github.com/duckduckgo/macos-browser
281
Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS
https://paulromer.net/escaping-from-anaconda/
134
155
How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/how-intel-missed-the-iphone-xscale
131
44
KDE Asking for Donations
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-in-plasma/
126
What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf
42
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022)
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/
JPMorgan's Python training for business analysts and traders
https://github.com/jpmorganchase/python-training
121
24
Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)
https://collidingscopes.github.io/ascii/
120
78
Floating points between zero and one
https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/floating-points-between-zero-and-one
118
Type 2 diabetes drug associated with 35% lower risk of dementia, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/28/type-2-diabetes-drug-associated-with-35-lower-risk-of-dementia-study-finds
115
114
Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k
https://bivens.plaintip.com/index.php/google-incognito/
111
140
FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system
https://lwn.net/Articles/985210/
106
157
Brazil top court threatens to suspend X within 24 hours
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-top-court-elon-musk-de-moraes-028f7a9f65e3bf355518bbe9d1fbe564
104
35
Launch HN: Patchwork (YC S24) – Automatically add structured logs to your code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391931
102
Memos: stick private notes on your email
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/introducing-memos/
98
127
Telegram founder charged with wide range of crimes in France
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/business/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-charged.html
95
Two Dots Too Many (2008)
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73
94
22
100M Token Context Windows
https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows
93
50
From Julia to Rust (2021)
https://miguelraz.github.io/blog/juliatorust/index.html
90
32
Docker-OSX image removed after Apple reports copyright infringement
https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/799
86
83
Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple's AI Scraping
https://www.wired.com/story/applebot-extended-apple-ai-scraping/
99
Retiring from the Rust for Linux Project – Wedson Almeida Filho
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
85
20
The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/https://news.ycombinator.com/