top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-11

We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/

2 years ago

1624 upvotes – 367 comments

Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510103

2 years ago

1098 upvotes – 495 comments

Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

https://nochlin.com/blog/6-techniques-i-use-to-create-a-great-user-experience-for-shell-scripts

2 years ago

412 upvotes – 275 comments

The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023)

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dc-dc-voltage-conversion

2 years ago

392 upvotes – 154 comments

The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out

https://blog.freecad.org/2024/09/10/the-first-release-candidate-of-freecad-1-0-is-out/comment-page-1/#comments

2 years ago

379 upvotes – 207 comments

AppleWatchAmmeter

https://github.com/jp3141/AppleWatchAmmeter

2 years ago

339 upvotes – 68 comments

A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

https://ctrl-c.club/~captain/posts/2024-08-29-holy-smokes-I-Just-released-a-minigolf-game-for-palmos-in-2024.html

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 95 comments

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)

https://larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer/

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 133 comments

How economical is your local Taco Bell?

https://taconomical.com

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 338 comments

Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app

https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/feeld-dating-app-nudes-data-publicly-available/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 140 comments

SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance

https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/04/15/sqlite-on-rails-the-how-and-why-of-optimal-performance/

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 96 comments

David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way

https://herbertlui.net/david-chang-on-the-long-hard-stupid-way/

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 169 comments

Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

https://netflixtechblog.com/noisy-neighbor-detection-with-ebpf-64b1f4b3bbdd

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 64 comments

I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet

https://rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 283 comments

Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/findloop/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 51 comments

A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs

https://restofworld.org/2024/electric-vehicle-conversions-uruguay/

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 166 comments

Why Oxide Chose Illumos

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 170 comments

The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors

https://kristoff.it/blog/first-html-lsp/

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 70 comments

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/ferdinand-mount/one-way-traffic

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 135 comments

OpenSSH Keystroke Obfuscation Bypass

https://crzphil.github.io/posts/ssh-obfuscation-bypass/

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 25 comments

Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown

https://jina.ai/news/reader-lm-small-language-models-for-cleaning-and-converting-html-to-markdown/?nocache=1

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs

https://github.com/felafax/felafax

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 52 comments

Max Headroom and the World of Pseudo-CGI (2013)

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/max-headroom-and-the-strange-world-of-pseudo-cgi-82745.html

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 94 comments

Radicle 1.0 – A local-first, P2P alternative to GitHub

https://radicle.xyz/2024/09/10/radicle-1.0.html

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/mistral-releases-pixtral-its-first-multimodal-model/

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Scientists use magnetic nanotech to safely rewarm frozen tissues for transplant

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-scientists-magnetic-nanotech-safely-rewarm.html

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 36 comments

Building the same app using various web frameworks

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/web-frameworks/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 146 comments

Android now allows apps to block sideloading

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-apps-to-block-sideloading-and-push-a-google-play-version/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 184 comments

Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023)

https://columbialawreview.org/content/on-algorithmic-wage-discrimination/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 101 comments

Yaak is now open source

https://yaak.app/blog/now-open-source

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 42 comments

Building a browser using Servo as a web engine

https://servo.org/blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-to-spot-nasas-solar-sail-demonstration-streaking-through-the-night-sky-180985052/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2024-09-09/cia-chile-scandal-50

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: How much is 13B euros?

https://howmuchis13billioneuros.com

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 95 comments

Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511506

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 83 comments

Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates

https://restofworld.org/2024/kenya-uber-rate-cards-fuel-prices/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 104 comments

Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries

https://binsider.dev/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/11/civo_vmware_research/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

New Feature Alert: Access Archived Webpages Directly Through Google Search

https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new-feature-alert-access-archived-webpages-directly-through-google-search/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/09/10/boars-head-listeria-outbreak-inspection/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 108 comments

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cellular-secret-to-resisting-the-pressure-of-the-deep-sea-20240909/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

The Podcast Index

https://podcastindex.org/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Denial of Robert Roberson's Application for Relief in Shaken Baby Innocence Case

https://innocenceproject.org/breaking-attorney-statement-response-to-denial-of-robert-robersons-application-for-habeas-relief-in-shaken-baby-innocence-case/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Facebook uses Australian adults public photos/posts to train AI, without opt-out

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming

https://www.darrenhorrocks.co.uk/why-copilot-making-programmers-worse-at-programming/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507784

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 77 comments

Tailwind CSS vs. Pico CSS (2022)

https://edofic.com/posts/2022-01-18-tailwind-vs-pico/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Clace – Application Server with support for scaling down to zero

https://github.com/claceio/clace

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

My Homelab Setup

https://arslan.io/2024/09/10/my-homelab-setup/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

We verify the correctness of a spreadsheet engine

https://rowzero.io/blog/property-based-testing

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

ZX Spectrum Documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' Gets London Premiere

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/09/zx-spectrum-documentary-the-rubber-keyed-wonder-gets-london-premiere-next-month

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers

https://www.iso20022js.com/guides/how-to-send-swift

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments
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