top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-07

Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores

2 years ago

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html

2 years ago

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/07/whats-new-in-ruby-on-rails-8.html

2 years ago

US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-antitrust-case-against-amazon-move-forward-2024-10-07/

2 years ago

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

https://twitter.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556

2 years ago

An e-waste dumping ground

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/10/05/g-s1-6411/electronics-public-health-waste-ghana-phones-computers

2 years ago

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon

https://edwardbenson.com/2024/10/google-ai-thinks-i-left-gatorade-on-the-moon

2 years ago

uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/6acf97bf51

2 years ago

Automating processes with software is hard

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/222-automating-processes-with-software

2 years ago

Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster

2 years ago

Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck

2 years ago

Fast B-Trees

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/smolderingly-fast-btrees/

2 years ago

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

https://aarol.dev/posts/go-contentlength/

2 years ago

Python 3.13.0 Is Released

https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html

2 years ago

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

2 years ago

Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't

https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/

2 years ago

Building a single-page app with Htmx

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx/

2 years ago

Hetzner Object Storage

https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

2 years ago

Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

https://zod.dev/

2 years ago

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atandt-verizon-reportedly-hacked-to-target-us-govt-wiretapping-platform/

2 years ago