top 50% 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

China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert

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

2 years ago

Librebooting the ThinkPad T480

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

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

The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood

https://shreyans.org/fatherhood

2 years ago

CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop

https://www.lumafield.com/article/new-vs-used-sawstop

2 years ago

Show HN: A portable hash map in C

https://github.com/e-dant/salmagundi

2 years ago

JSON parsers that can accept comments

https://douglascrockfordisnotyourdad.technomancy.us/

2 years ago

Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4

https://hackerone.com/reports/2887487

2 years ago

Black Hat Rust

https://github.com/skerkour/black-hat-rust

2 years ago

1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project

https://lellep.xyz/blog/failed-data-science-project.html

2 years ago

Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's

https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/3/

2 years ago

The Myth of Bananaland

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-bananaland

2 years ago

An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/viganella-italy-fake-manmade-sun/

2 years ago

The Starlark Programming Language

https://starlark-lang.org/

2 years ago

Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

2 years ago

Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel

https://www.wsj.com/tech/marvell-ai-chip-manufacturing-faa89cb6

2 years ago

Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/1999263

2 years ago

0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations

https://wetw0rk.github.io/posts/0x01-killing-windows-kernel-mitigations/

2 years ago

The world of tomorrow

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-world-of-tomorrow/

2 years ago

"All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/12/all-you-base-are-belong-to-us.html

2 years ago

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for buying crack made by Sheriff's Office

https://cbs12.com/news/local/broward-county-to-vacate-convictions-for-people-who-bought-crack-made-by-sheriffs-office-supreme-court-reverse-sting-1993-ruling-state-attorney

2 years ago

The Rules of Programming (2023)

https://www.therulesofprogramming.com

2 years ago

The marvelous disappearing capacitor

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-marvelous-disappearing-capacitor

2 years ago

Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions

https://unseen-japan.com/tokyo-university-chinese-students-tiananmen/

2 years ago

Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage

https://theconversation.com/taxpayers-spend-22-more-per-patient-to-support-medicare-advantage-the-private-alternative-to-medicare-that-promised-to-cost-less-241997

2 years ago

SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM

https://blog.succinct.xyz/introducing-sp1/

2 years ago

Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability

https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-injection

2 years ago

Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241203-deepfakes-weaponised-to-target-pakistan-s-women-leaders

2 years ago

Show HN: Replace CAPTCHAs with WebAuthn passkeys for bot prevention

https://github.com/singlr-ai/nocaptcha

2 years ago

Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-EFI-Zboot-Gzip-Zstd

2 years ago

Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents

https://gizmodo.com/landlords-are-using-ai-to-raise-rents-and-cities-are-starting-to-push-back-2000535519

2 years ago

GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113603951027289464

2 years ago