top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-17

Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam

https://romanzipp.com/blog/no-you-cant-use-your-6299-canon-camera-as-a-webcam

2 years ago

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/supreme-court-rules-to-uphold-tiktok-ban.html

2 years ago

So you want to build your own data center

https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one

2 years ago

Is the world becoming uninsurable?

https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/is-the-world-becoming-uninsurable

2 years ago

Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/investigating-an-evil-rj45-dongle

2 years ago

Brood War Korean Translations

https://blog.sourcedive.net/brood-war-korean-translations/

2 years ago

417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make

https://petapixel.com/2025/01/16/417-megapixel-andromeda-galaxy-panorama-took-over-a-decade-to-make/

2 years ago

Thoughts on a month with Devin

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html

2 years ago

Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/lets-talk-about-ai-and-end-to-end-encryption/

2 years ago

Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study

https://www.nutraingredients-asia.com/Article/2025/01/07/higher-potassium-intake-at-dinner-linked-to-fewer-sleep-disturbances/

2 years ago

Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams

https://docs.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/gui-for-editing-mermaid-class-diagrams

2 years ago

Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock

https://oddlama.org/blog/bypassing-disk-encryption-with-tpm2-unlock/

2 years ago

General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/technology/general-motors-driving-data-settlement.html

2 years ago

Trusting clients is probably a security flaw

https://liberda.nl/weblog/trust-no-client/

2 years ago

Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

https://apnews.com/article/drug-prices-medicare-biden-trump-aae2271614f5959b484e5f081313f2e1

2 years ago

Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42735767

2 years ago

Branchless UTF-8 Encoding

https://cceckman.com/writing/branchless-utf8-encoding/

2 years ago

Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design

https://games.productartistry.com/games/dark-patterns

2 years ago

The Family Bass - Music with an NES

https://www.linusakesson.net/music/family-bass/index.php

2 years ago

'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15zgvnvk4do

2 years ago