top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-09-07

Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

https://massgrave.dev/blog/keyhole

2 years ago

WebP: The WebPage Compression Format

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/webp-the-webpage-compression-format/

2 years ago

The "email is authentication" pattern

https://rubenerd.com/the-email-is-authentication-pattern/

2 years ago

Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452

2 years ago

Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html

2 years ago

A Post-Google World?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-post-google-world

2 years ago

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/

2 years ago

Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

https://hnbooks.pieterma.es

2 years ago

Things to know about the Great Wave

https://www.artic.edu/articles/1139/10-things-to-know-about-the-great-wave

2 years ago

CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress

https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/

2 years ago

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/

2 years ago

A new rare high-rank elliptic curve, and an orchard of Diophantine equations

https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/two-items-a-new-rare-high-rank-elliptic-curve-and-a-beautifully-organised-orchard-of-diophantine-equations/

2 years ago

DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2032%20-%20Enrique%20Nissim%20Krzysztof%20Okupski%20-%20AMD%20Sinkclose%20Universal%20Ring-2%20Privilege%20Escalation.pdf

2 years ago

The PERQ Computer

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html

2 years ago

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/

2 years ago

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide

https://subtledigressions.substack.com/p/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-and-a-pulitzer

2 years ago

Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive

https://athikerpictures.org/

2 years ago

Ford patents in-car system that eavesdrops so it can play you ads

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-in-vehicle-advertising-patent/

2 years ago

Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/asynchronous-io-the-next-billion-dollar-mistake/

2 years ago

What's new in C++26 (part 1)

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2024/09/06/whats-new-in-c26-part-1/

2 years ago