787
580
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 months ago
681
150
Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html
545
280
What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/07/whats-new-in-ruby-on-rails-8.html
444
221
US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-antitrust-case-against-amazon-move-forward-2024-10-07/
415
420
Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
https://twitter.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556
400
295
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
367
194
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
292
128
uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/6acf97bf51
286
107
Automating processes with software is hard
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/222-automating-processes-with-software
282
298
Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster
272
32
Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck
271
64
Fast B-Trees
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/smolderingly-fast-btrees/
115
How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
https://aarol.dev/posts/go-contentlength/
268
132
Python 3.13.0 Is Released
https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html
265
334
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
254
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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/
252
143
Building a single-page app with Htmx
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx/
248
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Hetzner Object Storage
https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/
242
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Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
https://zod.dev/
234
59
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/
218
95
Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e848ewnlno
203
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California bans sell-by dates
https://www.foodandwine.com/california-bans-sell-by-dates-8723111
199
633
Is the attack helicopter dead?
https://hushkit.net/2024/10/07/is-the-attack-helicopter-dead/
197
51
Warm Handoffs
https://luckymike.dev/posts/warm-handoffs/
174
71
Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly
https://wasmer.io/posts/clang-in-browser
161
137
Fun with Go Iterators
https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/fun-with-iterators/
154
79
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/summary/
29
Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words
https://github.com/THUDM/LongWriter
152
127
Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)
https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html
151
47
Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone
https://wigle.net/
149
52
Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/10/07/
148
Day Rates (2023)
https://davesmyth.com/day-rates
146
352
Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel
https://spectrum.ieee.org/fukushima-reactor
141
93
ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/
130
38
Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet
https://gist.github.com/rmtbb/e42d870a59a7f98091e734674831072b
122
72
Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices
https://nutritionprices.com/
119
99
Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/137/rust-is-rolling-off-the-volvo-assembly-line
98
Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
https://nonzero.substack.com/p/sam-altman-goes-full-emperor
31
50 Years of Queries
https://cacm.acm.org/research/50-years-of-queries/
111
49
Google Will Track Your Location 'Every 15 Minutes'–'Even with GPS Disabled'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/10/05/google-new-location-tracking-warning-pixel-9-pro-pixel-9-pro-xl-pixel-9-pro-fold/
106
74
Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6MK5Wpx4o
40
Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/streaming-industry-has-unprecedented-surveillance-manipulation-capabilities/
105
44
Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command
https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook
101
33
How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/private-intelligence/
Every change breaks someone's workflow (2013)
https://xkcd.com/1172/
30
Trap – Transformers in APL
https://github.com/BobMcDear/trap
34
A Photo of the Moon
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/darya-kawa-mirza-moon-photos/
94
3
EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2024_in_dublin_ireland
46
Gboard Double Sided Version
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-doublesided
Is AWS S3 having an outage?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111
90
66
Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766704
68
How a Gas Compressor Station Works
https://kimray.com/training/how-gas-compressor-station-works
45
Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766551
88
65
What is "founder mode"?
https://tomblomfield.com/post/763715798246227968/what-is-founder-mode
86
Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
https://serverlessai.dev/
Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DaemonizationAndRestarts
85
25
Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2024/09/puppylinux/
84
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Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/06/alleged-m4-macbook-pro-unboxing-video/
83
13
Gunter's Space Page
https://space.skyrocket.de/index.html
81
Octothorpes: Hashtags for the Open Internet
https://octothorp.es/docs
9
Show HN: GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC
https://github.com/archiewood/gosql
92
Do not use secrets in environment variables
https://www.nodejs-security.com/blog/do-not-use-secrets-in-environment-variables-and-here-is-how-to-do-it-better
24
A Language of Beautiful Impurity
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language-of-beautiful-impurity
77
43
Self-experiment with L-theanine: effect on sleep and cognition
https://metasophi.com/blog/does-l-theanine-work-for-me/
76
12
The SQLite Amalgamation
https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html