1112
308
We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
https://www.ifixit.com/News/102368/victory-is-sweet-we-can-now-fix-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines
a month ago
936
188
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2024/10/25/before-you-buy-a-domain-name-first-check-to-see-if-its-haunted/
825
965
Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington-post-endorsement-of-kamala-harris-.html
712
480
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation
572
252
Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk
440
371
Care Doesn't Scale
https://stevenscrawls.com/care-doesnt-scale/
406
273
Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance
https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/rust-in-non-rust-servers.md
324
331
Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/with-apple-intelligence-on-the-horizon-a-quarter-of-smartphone-owners-are-unimpressed-by-ai/
316
105
The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/brain-waste-clearance-system-shown-people-first-time
296
162
In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/10/11/regenerative-farming-practices-require-unlearning-past-advice/
283
167
Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
https://www.thariq.io/blog/entropix/
263
183
Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-plastic-chemical-phthalate-dna-breakage.html
254
87
Battleships Logic Puzzle
https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
54
A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/25/a-deep-dive-into-linuxs-new-mseal-syscall/
83
Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/05_logic/
228
135
Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html
214
45
Debian’s “secret” sauce
https://lwn.net/Articles/990177/
203
47
Universal optimality of Dijkstra via beyond-worst-case heaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11793
194
64
OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging
https://github.com/open-feature
185
56
SELinux bypasses
https://klecko.github.io/posts/selinux-bypasses/
179
53
Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/24/claude-analysis-tool/
158
70
Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941845
155
38
Show HN: Trench – Open-source analytics infrastructure
https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/trench
149
156
Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o
147
84
Cerebras Inference now 3x faster: Llama3.1-70B breaks 2,100 tokens/s
https://cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-inference-3x-faster
145
34
OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent
https://microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/
144
90
Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers
https://gitlip.com/blog/infinite-git-repos-on-cloudflare-workers
130
37
Astronomers discover complex carbon molecules in interstellar space
https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-discover-complex-carbon-molecules-in-interstellar-space
122
17
High-resolution postmortem human brain MRI at 7 tesla
https://pulkit-khandelwal.github.io/exvivo-brain-upenn/
121
393
Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-outselling-almost-every-other-ev-in-us-2024-10
120
33
U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-consumer-watchdog-cautions-businesses-on-surveillance-of-workers-8262bee3
125
Unsafe Rust is harder than C
https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/
116
27
Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/ancient-dna-sheds-light-on-well-man-from-norse-saga/
117
Federal investigators probe Tether
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/federal-investigators-probe-cryptocurrency-firm-tether-a13804e5
114
94
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets
https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948
78
Law Enforcement Undermines Tor
https://marx.wtf/2024/10/10/law-enforcement-undermines-tor/
97
Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje03dq2pyyo
Electro-agriculture: Revolutionizing farming for a sustainable future
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(24)00429-X
91
35
Ask HN: Namecheap charged my card, didn't deliver, then upped the price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949455
49
Elon Musk's Conversations with Vladimir Putin
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187
88
212
Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/investing-to-bring-the-waymo-driver-to-more-riders/
82
103
Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability
https://composio.dev/blog/claude-computer-use/
77
25
How not to sort by average rating (2009)
https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html
76
36
UnitedHealth says data of 100M stolen in Change Healthcare hack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unitedhealth-says-data-of-100-million-stolen-in-change-healthcare-hack/
73
Florida Eases Licensing Requirements for Foreign Trained Doctors
https://www.murthy.com/2024/10/17/florida-eases-licensing-requirements-for-foreign-trained-doctors/
72
California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Middle School Math (2023)
https://reason.com/2023/10/04/california-state-guidelines-discourage-schools-from-offering-advanced-middle-school-math/
LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/libnsfb/
41
Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/
60
Rsbuild – A Better Vite?
https://rsbuild.dev/
