top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-21

US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-judge-finds-israels-nso-group-liable-hacking-whatsapp-lawsuit-2024-12-21/

2 years ago

Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

https://github.com/malmeloo/FindMy.py

2 years ago

City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

2 years ago

Introducing S2

https://s2.dev/blog/intro

2 years ago

CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

https://github.com/samwho/spacer

2 years ago

A data table thousands of years old (2020)

https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020-08-12.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web

https://eonfall.com

2 years ago

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

2 years ago

Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual

https://recleudo.com/under-googles-watchfull-eye-getting-out-of-a-manual-site-reputation-abuse-penalty-and-continuing-business-as-usual/

2 years ago

Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/

2 years ago

Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)

https://code.dblock.org/2020/09/01/keep-a-changelog-at-work.html

2 years ago

Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2024-12-21-uint8-division.html

2 years ago

JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking

https://openjdk.org/jeps/483

2 years ago

The hydraulic systems of the Alhambra Palace [video]

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

2 years ago

Enum of Arrays

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2024-12-19-enum-of-arrays/

2 years ago

Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion

https://talktomehuman.com/demo

2 years ago

Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

2 years ago

Collatz’s Ant

https://gbragafibra.github.io/2024/12/21/collatz_ant.html

2 years ago

Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/why-apple-sends-spyware-victims-to-this-nonprofit-security-lab/

2 years ago

Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway

https://www.kannel.org/overview.shtml

2 years ago

A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) (2023)

https://gist.github.com/bssrdf/397900607028bffd0f8d223a7acdce7e

2 years ago

A new product that solves your tab hoarding problem and forgotten saved items

https://getstasher.com/

2 years ago

Spreadsheets 1/3 – Rye Language

https://ryelang.org/cookbook/working-with/spreadsheets/

2 years ago

AI Is the Black Mirror

https://nautil.us/ai-is-the-black-mirror-1169121/

2 years ago

Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.50.1.48.17791

2 years ago

'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek

https://www.boxingscene.com/the-beltline-ai-powered-judge-takes-boxing-a-step-closer-to-the-brave-new-world-it-appears-to-seek--200866

2 years ago

Train a Mnist VAE with C and CUDA

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/discussions/707

2 years ago

Why eating less slows ageing: this molecule is key

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04220-5

2 years ago

Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/business/dealbook/britannica-artificial-intelligence.html

2 years ago

'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html

2 years ago