top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-07

Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

https://massgrave.dev/blog/keyhole

2 years ago

638 upvotes – 296 comments

WebP: The WebPage Compression Format

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

2 years ago

552 upvotes – 203 comments

The "email is authentication" pattern

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

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 452 comments

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

328 upvotes – 402 comments

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

316 upvotes – 37 comments

A Post-Google World?

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

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 165 comments

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

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

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 282 comments

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

https://hnbooks.pieterma.es

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 61 comments

Things to know about the Great Wave

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

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 90 comments

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

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

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 24 comments

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 192 comments

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

197 upvotes – 20 comments

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

195 upvotes – 30 comments

The PERQ Computer

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

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 102 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

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

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

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

170 upvotes – 102 comments

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

158 upvotes – 152 comments

Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive

https://athikerpictures.org/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?

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

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 159 comments

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

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

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 165 comments

The Hindenburg’s Interior

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hindenburg-interior-photos/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 104 comments

Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC

https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/07/conservative-gc-can-be-faster-than-precise-gc

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 90 comments

The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)

http://www.theradiohistorian.org/fm/fm.html

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

Browsing Hacker News in the Terminal

https://hnterm.ggerganov.com/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Documenting Dance: Keeping Score (2017)

https://adafrobinson.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/keeping-score/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/06/google_rust_c_code_language/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 149 comments

Enumerate all the subdomains for a domain name

https://www.merklemap.com/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-starliner-leaves-crew-behind-returns-to-earth/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known

https://www.theringer.com/2024/8/30/24231888/importance-of-exercise-medical-intervention-cardiovascular-health

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive

https://www.artbasel.com/stories/jeremy-couillard-video-games-mit-list-visual-arts-center-critique-contemporary-life-digital-landscapes

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 63 comments

Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OSThreadsAlwaysExpensive

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Why children perceive time slower than adults

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240906-does-time-go-slower-for-children

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize work as a solo developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41473997

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

my-new-rust-binary-search

https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/my-new-rust-binary-search

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 67 comments
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