top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-27

Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230

https://github.com/xairy/lights-out

2 years ago

1042 upvotes – 521 comments

Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actureunlock&hl=en_US

2 years ago

817 upvotes – 381 comments

The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/11/the-capacitor-that-apple-soldered-incorrectly-at-the-factory/

2 years ago

536 upvotes – 259 comments

Rails is better low code than low code

https://radanskoric.com/articles/rails-is-better-low-code-than-low-code

2 years ago

496 upvotes – 242 comments

You can use C-Reduce for any language

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/creduce/

2 years ago

472 upvotes – 113 comments

QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/

2 years ago

438 upvotes – 421 comments

I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-google-cloud-run

2 years ago

354 upvotes – 424 comments

Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/hacker-in-snowflake-extortions-may-be-a-u-s-soldier/

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 194 comments

London's 850-year-old food markets to close

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje050wz22qo

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 278 comments

Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub

https://github.com/bjesus/teatime

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 55 comments

Spotify has shut down several API endpoints

https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 290 comments

Student rocket group shatters amateur space record

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/11/usc-student-rocket-group-shatters-international-amateur-space-record/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 234 comments

Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll

https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/first-letters-found-in-new-scroll

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256093

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Feels Like Paper

https://www.lukasmoro.com/paper

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 83 comments

Murderbot, she wrote

https://www.wired.com/story/murderbot-she-wrote-martha-wells/

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 181 comments

Janet for Mortals (2023)

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-for-mortals/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 66 comments

Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience

https://kerkour.com/aws-s3-vs-cloudflare-r2-price-performance-user-experience

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 135 comments

Rust in QEMU Roadmap

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 176 comments

Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State

https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-professor-marshall-brain-dies-alleges-retaliation-for-ethics-complaints/article_152e5c80-ac2e-11ef-8b3f-036ac3c8d9bf.html

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 148 comments

Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-cm5-2-3x-faster-drop-upgrade-mostly

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 113 comments

Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ruzie-tussen-ziekenhuis-en-farma-industrie-over-goedkeuring-kankermedicijn

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 154 comments

MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016)

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/AluminumBikeProject.html

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 149 comments

ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/isps-say-their-excellent-customer-service-is-why-users-dont-switch-providers/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 133 comments

Forced to upgrade

https://herman.bearblog.dev/forced-to-upgrade/

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 296 comments

How IBM invented the automated fab

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-fabrication

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 43 comments

SSH Artwork

https://github.com/villasv/ssh-artwork

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 29 comments

The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/genji-ko/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 10 comments

Float Self-Tagging

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16544

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 2 comments

Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system

https://lithub.com/how-the-ancient-sumerians-created-the-worlds-first-writing-system/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 188 comments

The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-opposite-of-documentation-is-superstition/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 84 comments

The US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/publishers-are-absolutely-terrified-preserved-video-games-would-be-used-for-recreational-purposes-so-the-us-copyright-office-has-struck-down-a-major-effort-for-game-preservation/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 180 comments

Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine

https://volfpeter.github.io/htmy/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 87 comments

Inferring neural activity before plasticity for learning beyond backpropagation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01514-1

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 48 comments

Emacs arbitrary code execution and how to avoid it

https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-11-27-emacs-aritrary-code-execution-and-how-to-avoid-it.html

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 147 comments

OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/26/openai-sora-ai-video-model-artists-protest/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 131 comments

TrunkVer

https://trunkver.org/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 113 comments

Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260179

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 37 comments

DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model

https://www.ruliad.co/news/introducing-deepthought8b

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 104 comments

Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/structured_editing_and_incremental_parsing.html

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 54 comments

How to print your Guild Wars 2 character

https://stuff.tamius.net/sacred-texts/2024/09/18/how-to-print-your-guild-wars-2-character-or-any-game-really/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 21 comments

Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library

https://devclass.com/2024/11/27/redis-inc-seeks-control-over-future-of-rust-redis-rs-client-library-amid-talk-of-trademark-threat/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/fine-ill-play-with-skiplists/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

I Got an IP Address

https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024/11/26/getting-an-ip-address.md

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 9 comments

Cursed Linear Types in Rust

https://geo-ant.github.io/blog/2024/rust-linear-types-use-once/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10955

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/TypeHintsMaybeNotForMe

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 204 comments

Executing ARM Jazelle (JVM Bytecode) on the Wii's Starlet

https://github.com/thamugadi/jazelle-wii

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

How Blackjack Works (2007)

https://www.blackjackincolor.com/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 56 comments

Launch HN: Keep (YC W23) – AIOps and alert management

https://github.com/keephq/keep

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events

https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/30/jech-2024-222795

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Device-detector: Universal Device Detection library from User Agent

https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

See how a lab-grown diamond is made

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/how-lab-grown-diamonds-made-manufactured/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

Google Rules of Machine Learning (2018)

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/just-five-companies-produce-nearly-25-percent-all-plastic-waste-worldwide

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 142 comments

Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg

https://steelcm.com/blog/generating-video-sprites-using-ffmpeg/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

OpenWrt Community question: What do you want to see in OpenWrt?

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/community-question-what-do-you-want-to-see-in-openwrt/216706

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/11/27/to-stay-on-the-farm-more-and-more-farmers-are-working-extra-jobs/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 103 comments

Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-27/us-antitrust-watchdog-launches-broad-microsoft-investigation

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/26/python-packaging-metadata/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated

https://originality.ai/blog/ai-content-published-linkedin

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments
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