top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-08

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

2 years ago

JSON5 – JSON for Humans

https://json5.org/

2 years ago

Cold Email Handbook

https://www.za-zu.com/blog/playbook

2 years ago

Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

https://cut-the-crab.streamlit.app/

2 years ago

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)

https://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm

2 years ago

Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair

https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/the-25000-tom-evans-pre-amp-repair-and-a-copyright-strike/

2 years ago

UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

2 years ago

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241204-uk-bans-daytime-tv-ads-for-cereals-muffins-and-burgers

2 years ago

Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad-sweida-daraa-homs-hts-qatar-7f65823bbf0a7bd331109e8dff419430

2 years ago

Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance

https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-pc-performance-3504716/

2 years ago

One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/12/05/john-kinsel-used-his-own-language-to-fool-the-japanese

2 years ago

How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?

https://gizmodo.com/how-much-do-i-need-to-change-my-face-to-avoid-facial-recognition-2000533755

2 years ago

Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format

https://www.infochunk.com/schannel/index.html

2 years ago

SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/e8346d0a889c89ec8a78e65abc33257a6c6fb81a/src/os.h

2 years ago

Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/hacking-brian-krebs-snowflake-waifu-49b87fce

2 years ago

Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/03/airline-informant-received-thousands-passenger-cash-seizures/

2 years ago

Librebooting the ThinkPad T480

https://ezntek.com/posts/librebooting-the-thinkpad-t480-20241207t0933/

2 years ago

China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert

https://sand-boarding.com/china-builds-green-wall-taklamakan-desert/

2 years ago

Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-browsing-negative-content-online-makes-mental-health-struggles-worse-1205

2 years ago

The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction

https://www.justinmath.com/the-necessity-of-grinding-through-concrete-examples-before-jumping-up-a-level-of-abstraction/

2 years ago