top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-19

Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

https://kibty.town/blog/arc/

2 years ago

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/

2 years ago

FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance

2 years ago

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/real-time-linux-is-officially-part-of-the-kernel-after-decades-of-debate/

2 years ago

3K free SVG icons for popular brands

https://simpleicons.org/

2 years ago

GitHub notification emails used to send malware

https://ianspence.com/blog/2024-09/github-email-hijack/

2 years ago

Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS

https://github.com/MightyMoud/sidekick

2 years ago

Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)

https://ittavern.com/visual-guide-to-ssh-tunneling-and-port-forwarding/

2 years ago

Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-antenna-transparent-window

2 years ago

Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41588200

2 years ago

Pivotal Tracker will shut down

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/2024-09-18-end-of-life

2 years ago

Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html

2 years ago

Digital signatures and how to avoid them

https://neilmadden.blog/2024/09/18/digital-signatures-and-how-to-avoid-them/

2 years ago

Zb: An Early-Stage Build System

https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/09/zb-early-stage-build-system/

2 years ago

Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

https://github.com/dragostis/chili

2 years ago

Diatom Arrangements

https://www.trebeljahr.com/posts/diatoms

2 years ago

Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)

https://risk-engineering.org/concept/Rasmussen-practical-drift

2 years ago

Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions

https://playground.numscript.org/

2 years ago

Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis

https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/113162099798398758

2 years ago

Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590682

2 years ago

DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/

2 years ago

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/american-health-system-ranks-last

2 years ago

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

2 years ago

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/christophe-lebold-leonard-cohen-book/679573/

2 years ago

Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-09-18/regret-how-to-overcome

2 years ago

The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/29/theres-a-reason-your-columbia-shirt-has-a-tiny-pocket-near-your-waistline/

2 years ago

Show HN: CNC Microscopy for Fun

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/cnc-microscopy/

2 years ago

Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-astronomers-biggest-black-hole-jets.html

2 years ago

Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft

https://www.space.com/secret-satellites-caught-on-camera

2 years ago

Support for IPv6

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-support-for-ipv6/

2 years ago

Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation

2 years ago

We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours

https://blog.skyvern.com/how-we-accidentally-burned-through-200gb-of-proxy-bandwidth-in-6-hours/

2 years ago

Netflix's Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflixs-key-value-data-abstraction-layer-1ea8a0a11b30

2 years ago

Avian flu detected in wastewater from 10 Texas cities

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/h5n1-avian-flu-virus-detected-wastewater-10-texas-cities

2 years ago

Say No to the Paywall of PCI-E Bifurcation

https://www.grayxu.cn/wiki/pcie-bifurcation/

2 years ago

Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights

https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/economy/722542/beirut-airport-bans-pagers-walkie-talkies-on-all-f

2 years ago

Smart Goose Deterrent System

https://irowbot.duckdns.org:1776/goose/SGDS.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590754

2 years ago

It's Okay to Abandon Things

https://netninja.com/2024/02/05/its-okay-to-abandon-things/

2 years ago

OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks

https://www.opennms.com/opennms-feature-list/

2 years ago

JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses (2015)

https://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html

2 years ago

Long-Covid R&D is collapsing: investors won't fund, scientifically challenging

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-development/RD-long-COVID-collapsing/102/i30

2 years ago

Seeing Like a Network

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/seeing-like-a-network

2 years ago

Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2024/tnw/quantum-researchers-cause-controlled-wobble-in-the-nucleus-of-a-single-atom

2 years ago

YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248391/youtube-pause-ads-widely-rolling-out

2 years ago

Tech jobs have dried up

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-jobs-artificial-intelligence-cce22393

2 years ago

Show HN: An Elliptic Curve-Based Secure Chat, Written Using Rust and Protobuf

https://github.com/vaktibabat/ecurvechat

2 years ago

Apple's new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/apples-new-macos-sequoia-update-is-breaking-some-cybersecurity-tools/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is it wrong not wanting career progression beyond senior?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594527

2 years ago

Pediatricians created the peanut allergy epidemic

https://www.wsj.com/health/how-pediatricians-created-the-peanut-allergy-epidemic-952831c4

2 years ago

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2024/09/human-genome-stored-on-everlasting-memory-crystal-.page

2 years ago

House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248137/am-radio-bill-house-energy-commerce-ev-interference

2 years ago

How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard

https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/how-to-measure-progress-in-a-software

2 years ago

Tech Jobs Have Dried Up–-and Aren't Coming Back Soon

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-jobs-artificial-intelligence-cce22393

2 years ago