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522
Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
https://github.com/xairy/lights-out
5 months ago
817
380
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
536
259
The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/11/the-capacitor-that-apple-soldered-incorrectly-at-the-factory/
493
242
Rails is better low code than low code
https://radanskoric.com/articles/rails-is-better-low-code-than-low-code
472
113
You can use C-Reduce for any language
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/creduce/
438
421
QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/
354
424
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-google-cloud-run
350
194
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/
317
278
London's 850-year-old food markets to close
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje050wz22qo
307
55
Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub
https://github.com/bjesus/teatime
293
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Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api
282
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Student rocket group shatters amateur space record
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/11/usc-student-rocket-group-shatters-international-amateur-space-record/
27
Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/first-letters-found-in-new-scroll
275
94
Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256093
265
83
Show HN: Feels Like Paper
https://www.lukasmoro.com/paper
243
180
Murderbot, she wrote
https://www.wired.com/story/murderbot-she-wrote-martha-wells/
241
66
Janet for Mortals (2023)
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-for-mortals/
226
135
Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience
https://kerkour.com/aws-s3-vs-cloudflare-r2-price-performance-user-experience
224
175
Rust in QEMU Roadmap
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
214
148
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
197
Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-cm5-2-3x-faster-drop-upgrade-mostly
155
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
195
MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016)
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/AluminumBikeProject.html
186
132
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/
184
43
How IBM invented the automated fab
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-fabrication
296
Forced to upgrade
https://herman.bearblog.dev/forced-to-upgrade/
29
SSH Artwork
https://github.com/villasv/ssh-artwork
172
10
The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/genji-ko/
170
2
Float Self-Tagging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16544
164
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Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system
https://lithub.com/how-the-ancient-sumerians-created-the-worlds-first-writing-system/
154
The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-opposite-of-documentation-is-superstition/
146
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/
87
Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine
https://volfpeter.github.io/htmy/
145
49
Inferring neural activity before plasticity for learning beyond backpropagation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01514-1
139
147
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
138
131
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/
37
Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260179
TrunkVer
https://trunkver.org/
134
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DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model
https://www.ruliad.co/news/introducing-deepthought8b
133
54
Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/structured_editing_and_incremental_parsing.html
130
21
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/
124
65
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/
120
15
Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists
https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/fine-ill-play-with-skiplists/
111
9
I Got an IP Address
https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024/11/26/getting-an-ip-address.md
106
22
Cursed Linear Types in Rust
https://geo-ant.github.io/blog/2024/rust-linear-types-use-once/
101
36
Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10955
98
204
Python type hints may not be not for me in practice
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/TypeHintsMaybeNotForMe
95
26
Executing ARM Jazelle (JVM Bytecode) on the Wii's Starlet
https://github.com/thamugadi/jazelle-wii
Launch HN: Keep (YC W23) – AIOps and alert management
https://github.com/keephq/keep
56
How Blackjack Works (2007)
https://www.blackjackincolor.com/
93
16
Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events
https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/30/jech-2024-222795
90
41
Device-detector: Universal Device Detection library from User Agent
https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector
See how a lab-grown diamond is made
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/how-lab-grown-diamonds-made-manufactured/
84
7
Google Rules of Machine Learning (2018)
https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml
82
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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
80
24
Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg
https://steelcm.com/blog/generating-video-sprites-using-ffmpeg/
78
67
Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-27/us-antitrust-watchdog-launches-broad-microsoft-investigation
68
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
103
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/