top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-30

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

https://github.com/privastead/privastead

2 years ago

551 upvotes – 165 comments

A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com

https://follow.agwa.name/notice/AoZSMI38xcA3TrN1sm

2 years ago

482 upvotes – 215 comments

Engineering Sleep

https://minjunes.ai/posts/sleep/index.html

2 years ago

459 upvotes – 193 comments

Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs

https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs

2 years ago

406 upvotes – 176 comments

If not React, then what?

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 738 comments

Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycrisp-apples-went-from-marvel-to-mediocre-8753117

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 307 comments

AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amd-disables-zen-4s-loop-buffer

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 141 comments

Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US

https://solarboi.com/2024/11/17/sol-ark-oem-disables-all-deye-inverters-in-the-us/

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 307 comments

Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system

https://blog.lucasholten.com/rust-query-announcement/

2 years ago

270 upvotes – 172 comments

You must read at least one book to ride

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-book-to-ride/

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 149 comments

A transport protocol's view of Starlink

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view-of-starlink/

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 38 comments

WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console

https://wasm4.org/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 40 comments

Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2024/11/29/Making-Screenshots-of-Test-Equipment.html

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

https://theconversation.com/an-83-year-old-short-story-by-borges-portends-a-bleak-future-for-the-internet-242998

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 102 comments

The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor

https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with-sci-fi-body-armor/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

Square roots and maxima

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/11/square-roots-and-maxima/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image

https://embear.ch/blog/drm-framebuffer

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

Gratitude despite the odds

https://mariakonnikova.substack.com/p/gratitude-despite-the-odds

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

Make the most of your burl

https://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Video_Pages/VideoMostOfBurl.html

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 48 comments

Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear (2017)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

Optimizing a Rust GPU matmul kernel

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/optimizing-matmul/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Thoughts on the software industry (2022)

https://linus.coffee/note/software-industry/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281343

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323#feature

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Kth: High-Performance Selection Algorithms for Go

https://github.com/tsenart/kth

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Large Language Models as Markov Chains

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/11/21/microsoft-accused-of-malware-like-bing-wallpaper-app/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-is-looking-to-hire-a-team-to-remotely-control-its-self-driving-robotaxis-2000530600

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 126 comments

Contradictions in photography advice

https://medium.com/@shacker/photography-contradictions-0566b7fce9fc

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 82 comments

Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort (2022)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09567976211044685?journalCode=pssa

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 71 comments

Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Color-Management-Nears

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Cause of rare devastating, autoimmune disease in Puerto Ricans–and possible cure

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-scientists-rare-devastating-autoimmune-disease.html

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 0 comments

The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY9mGJQFdyE

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281581

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments
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