hackerNews

2

Hyundai car software update private keys came from easily Googleable sample code (programmingwithstyle.com)

650 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081521 125 comments

1

The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS (www.theverge.com)

610 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081515 381 comments

11

Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash (www.fiod.nl)

424 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081400 725 comments

5

Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer (www.insider.com)

412 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081500 376 comments

1

CEO Shadow Program (about.gitlab.com)

404 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081515 134 comments

5

Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions (knowledge.autodesk.com)

360 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081412 271 comments

8

Excel is pretty dang cool (buttondown.email)

355 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081400 241 comments

19

VLC media player banned in India (www.indiatoday.in)

288 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081406 156 comments

9

The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal (www.lexology.com)

281 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081409 46 comments

26

John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips (www.youtube.com)

257 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081415 262 comments

6

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles (matt-rickard.com)

245 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081412 200 comments

4

Cancer in the Cold (www.science.org)

239 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081412 95 comments

20

Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech Crashed in the Pacific Ocean (www.nbcboston.com)

226 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081403 185 comments

0

Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok (item?id=32437078)

216 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 317 comments

3

Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move (acoup.blog)

210 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081412 38 comments

7

Why StarCraft crashed frequently during development (2012) (www.codeofhonor.com)

207 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081500 110 comments

7

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included (zellij.dev)

205 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081418 97 comments

0

Starlink successfully hacked using $25 modchip (threatpost.com)

172 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 49 comments

1

Asdf Performance (stratus3d.com)

170 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081400 63 comments

30

PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero (blog.sonatype.com)

167 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081400 56 comments

12

Operating well – what I learned at Stripe (samgerstenzang.substack.com)

159 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081421 93 comments

18

Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high for soybeans (release.nass.usda.gov)

152 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081403 62 comments

13

Walking Tokyo for Seven Days (craigmod.com)

151 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081500 116 comments

33

Open-source tool to enforce privacy/security best-practices on Windows, macOS (github.com)

146 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081303 64 comments

29

Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout (frankgrecojr.medium.com)

143 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081400 84 comments

11

How to Get a PhD in Mathematics in a Timely Fashion [pdf] (sites.math.washington.edu)

142 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081500 59 comments

25

Researchers agree: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050 (www.helsinkitimes.fi)

141 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081403 241 comments

32

BART charges $6.20 to not ride BART (sf.streetsblog.org)

138 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081400 92 comments

18

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) (250bpm.com)

133 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081415 98 comments

9

MySQL Raytracer (www.pouet.net)

130 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081400 22 comments

12

The language that doesn't use 'no' (www.bbc.com)

129 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081400 211 comments

4

Improving Postgres Text Search Speed (www.charityapi.org)

128 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081415 56 comments

9

Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything (angg.twu.net)

128 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081412 9 comments

35

Suckless.org – software that sucks less (suckless.org)

122 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081400 102 comments

38

Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project? (item?id=32437173)

118 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081309 176 comments

14

NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012) (www.nerdylorrin.net)

117 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081400 93 comments

25

GHC 9.4.1 is now available (discourse.haskell.org)

111 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081312 45 comments

13

Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04 (rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog)

110 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081406 38 comments

0

Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York (apnews.com)

108 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 42 comments

16

A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment (news.mit.edu)

103 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081315 78 comments

10

The Bay Area's Lost Streetcars (sfstreetcars.co)

103 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081500 80 comments

27

Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken (www.plural.sh)

101 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081321 90 comments

16

Show HN: I will now send this to beginner programmers (headlinedev.xyz)

92 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081403 64 comments

6

Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works (www.quantamagazine.org)

90 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081406 13 comments

8

One more clue to the Moon’s origin (ethz.ch)

89 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081318 47 comments

52

Supabase Series B (supabase.com)

89 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081309 60 comments

16

Subreply (subreply.com)

87 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081403 66 comments

40

The Calvine UFO photograph (drdavidclarke.co.uk)

79 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081315 80 comments

23

Levitator 1: copter flys from the tips (www.youtube.com)

74 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081409 16 comments

38

Animal melting pot created by climate change could lead to new disease outbreaks (www.science.org)

67 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081403 79 comments

17

Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focus (item?id=32437234)

65 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081415 77 comments

39

Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why? (item?id=32444074)

63 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081400 122 comments

49

Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue (tauri.app)

61 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081321 25 comments

51

Models are sucking the fun out of fun (www.wordimagedesign.com)

60 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081318 69 comments

34

France Risks Winter Blackouts as Nuclear-Power Generation Stalls (www.wsj.com)

58 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081312 78 comments

16

Apple held up Telegram’s latest update over emoji (www.theverge.com)

58 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081503 50 comments

43

Startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned (techcrunch.com)

57 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081400 15 comments

86

Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents (therealnews.com)

57 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081406 75 comments

10

Can Applications Recover from Fsync Failures? (www.usenix.org)

56 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081409 40 comments

34

SQLite: Wal2 Mode Notes (www.sqlite.org)

54 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081306 11 comments

51

Apple asked for a cut of Facebook’s ad sales years before it stifled Facebook (www.theverge.com)

52 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081321 4 comments

46

Byte Magazine Volume 12 Number 09: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (1987) (archive.org)

50 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081312 7 comments

10

1959 Santa Susana meltdown (www.kcrw.com)

49 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081400 50 comments

27

Stop using DICT dictionary apps (such as GNOME/MATE Dictionary) (www.ctrl.blog)

49 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081406 51 comments

62

Ask HN: Why are Distributed Systems so Polarizing? (item?id=32439601)

48 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081309 60 comments

44

Choosing Julia, Matlab, Python or R in economics? (cepr.org)

47 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081406 52 comments

17

Naming Things Is Hard (www.fastruby.io)

44 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081321 24 comments

48

Anonymous poop gifting site hacked, customers exposed (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

43 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081318 8 comments

23

The trouble with 64-bit DMA in Linux (lwn.net)

42 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081400 17 comments

26

The copy and swap idiom in C++ (www.sandordargo.com)

41 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081318 41 comments

46

After 35 years missing, an Air Force captain mysteriously reappeared in Bay Area (www.sfgate.com)

41 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081321 9 comments

23

US Navy Radio Communications – 1950s and 1960s (www.navy-radio.com)

40 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081400 13 comments

47

Man who took hostages demanding his own money becomes public hero in Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)

40 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081321 3 comments

25

Burn All GIFs (2000) (web.archive.org)

39 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081315 35 comments

64

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop (www.theregister.com)

39 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081306 36 comments

57

Non-Believers (podviaznikov.com)

36 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081321 14 comments

33

Constructive and obsessive criticism in science (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

36 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081318 22 comments

45

I modified Firefox's memory allocator to improve responsiveness on macOS (twitter.com)

31 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081312 4 comments

24

Danielle Steel's Production Function (dev.lareviewofbooks.org)

31 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081400 11 comments

44

Poland deploys troops as dead fish pile up on river bank in toxic disaster (www.washingtonpost.com)

29 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081403 14 comments

61

Record US productivity slump in first half of 2022 risks higher inflation (www.piie.com)

28 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 3 comments

0

Objective-S: A general purpose programming language (objective.st)

28 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081309 21 comments

61

Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 in Office 2021 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

28 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081318 0 comments

0

Is it classist to be against fast fashion? (putthison.com)

26 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 70 comments

62

Why Microsoft removed time zone world map feature from Windows (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com)

25 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081400 4 comments

56

NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware (www.theregister.com)

24 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081309 12 comments

37

Twingate Architecture Overview (docs.twingate.com)

24 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081400 4 comments

86

Cannabis use associated with lower Covid severity among hospitalized patients (jcannabisresearch.biomedcentral.com)

22 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081315 15 comments

90

The Summer of NIMBY in Silicon Valley's Poshest Town (www.nytimes.com)

21 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081306 0 comments

0

Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’ (nypost.com)

21 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 16 comments

0

Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages (item?id=32438251)

20 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 14 comments

0

Texas paid this company to mine Bitcoin during an ongoing energy crisis (www.pcgamer.com)

20 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 4 comments

0

Tom Mitchell: Machine Learning textbook is now a free to download (twitter.com)

20 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 3 comments

0

The unclear future for gifted-and-talented education (www.wsj.com)

19 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 18 comments

77

Controversy Erupts over Video of FSD Tesla Striking Child Mannequin (www.thedrive.com)

18 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081315 2 comments

0

Tornado Cash Dev Arrested (decrypt.co)

17 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 2 comments

0

Salman Rushdie attacked onstage at New York event (www.theguardian.com)

17 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 2 comments

88

Polio Has Been Detected in New York City Wastewater, Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

17 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 3 comments

25

A RedMonk Conversation: API Authentication (redmonk.com)

17 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081409 0 comments

82

Ask HN: What is the best password manager for business use? (item?id=32438752)

16 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081306 28 comments

46

Show HN: Merle, an IoT framework written in Go (www.merliot.org)

15 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081321 4 comments

0

Wikipedia’s Credibility Is Toast (wikipediocracy.com)

15 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 3 comments

61

US approves Google plan to let political emails bypass Gmail spam filter (arstechnica.com)

15 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 10 comments

0

A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn (www.washingtonpost.com)

15 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081309 13 comments

67

Why Polio (Poliomyelitis), Once Nearly Eradicated, Is Rebounding (www.bloomberg.com)

15 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081318 2 comments

42

The Marginal Advantage (2007) (tl.net)

14 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081309 0 comments

89

Musk's SpaceX to Launch Top Secret Spy Satellites for US Gov: Report (www.businessinsider.com)

14 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 5 comments

0

Ask HN: How about a modern phone that actually lasts? (item?id=32443924)

14 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081309 39 comments

0

Tesla‘s Autopilot Scam (www.youtube.com)

13 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

Meta injecting code into websites to track its users, research says (www.theguardian.com)

13 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising (www.axios.com)

13 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 21 comments

68

Weird stuff found in redesigned macOS Ventura System Settings app (twitter.com)

13 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081315 6 comments

35

Finding performance problems: profiling or logging? (pythonspeed.com)

13 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

82

Meditation App Calm Lays Off 20% of Staff (www.wsj.com)

12 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081303 3 comments

0

Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway (www.tomshardware.com)

12 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 7 comments

0

Code Free or Die(): Why Hackers Are So Often Libertarians (2008) (web.archive.org)

12 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081309 4 comments

65

1969: German Mineral Water Companies introduced a uniform glass bottle (twitter.com)

12 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081312 2 comments

0

The Economic Inefficiency of Gift Giving: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents (fs.blog)

11 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 4 comments

0

UN trade body calls for halting cryptocurrency rise in developing countries (news.un.org)

11 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 10 comments

0

Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says (techcrunch.com)

11 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 4 comments

31

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals (www.nature.com)

11 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081406 3 comments

0

Visidata 2.9.1 Released– Excel/CSV/JSON/SQLite/Parquet in the Terminal (TUI/CLI) (github.com)

10 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 2 comments

59

Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe (www.nature.com)

10 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081321 0 comments

0

Gmail gets approval to move forward with plan to ruin its spam filter (www.androidpolice.com)

9 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 2 comments

63

Work from Office (www.profgalloway.com)

9 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 7 comments

74

Johnson and Johnson to replace talc-based powder with cornstarch (www.bbc.com)

9 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 5 comments

0

Art Twitter's backlash over use of AI art by The Atlantic (twitter.com)

9 points first seen 2022081309 last seen 2022081309 3 comments

69

Ask HN: Where do you buy your eBooks or have eBook subscriptions? (item?id=32442549)

8 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 14 comments

56

Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws (krebsonsecurity.com)

8 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081312 0 comments

0

Rivian’s Losses Nearly Triple to $1.7B (www.wsj.com)

7 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 2 comments

0

Supergiant Betelgeuse had a never-before-seen eruption (www.cnn.com)

7 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 0 comments

82

Top words ranked by average number of HN upvotes when contained in the title (twitter.com)

7 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 2 comments

84

What does ‘splooting’ mean? And why are New York’s squirrels doing it? (www.washingtonpost.com)

7 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081315 0 comments

89

Samsung Heir Wins Presidential Pardon, May Rejoin Board (www.bloomberg.com)

7 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081318 0 comments

0

Alleged Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam (www.theverge.com)

7 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081315 3 comments

84

JuiceFS 1.0 GA with 24 month LTS – a Posix, HDFS, S3 compliant cloud file system (juicefs.com)

7 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081321 0 comments

72

Facebook testing end-to-end encryption as a default on Messenger (therecord.media)

7 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

79

Building the Ultimate Remote Office in Thailand (blog.jurn.io)

6 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081303 0 comments

0

Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision (www.newscientist.com)

6 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

‘pink slime’ journalism exploits our faith in local news (www.washingtonpost.com)

6 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 2 comments

0

On the disincentives in the new healthcare law (marginalrevolution.com)

6 points first seen 2022081303 last seen 2022081303 0 comments

52

Fast Font Loading Techniques (2015) (davidwalsh.name)

6 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081312 4 comments

0

Effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force (www.vox.com)

6 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 0 comments

30

Real World Schema Exploring with Azimutt (www.i-programmer.info)

6 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081403 0 comments

0

The Big Bang didn't happen (iai.tv)

5 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 2 comments

78

VC fund decks that close LPs (www.signatureblock.co)

5 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081309 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Favorite audio book for long drives? (item?id=32446779)

5 points first seen 2022081315 last seen 2022081315 17 comments

73

Synthetic Hydrogel Composite with More Strength, Wear Resistance Than Cartilage (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

5 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081400 0 comments

0

Show HN: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise) (item?id=32442707)

4 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 8 comments

0

Ask HN: Why are comments disabled for the Rushie stabbing story on BBC? (item?id=32442285)

4 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 2 comments

0

The Perfect Professional Headshot Is Worth $1k, and Maybe Even a Job (www.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081312 0 comments

0

Would you quit a job three months in? (item?id=32444496)

4 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081312 12 comments

0

Hyundai using key from tutorial to sign software update (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081318 0 comments

0

The Truth Curve and the Build Curve (giffconstable.com)

3 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

System.css, a design system to build retro inspired interface (github.com)

3 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

On Prolog and the Occur Check Problem (1989) (dl.acm.org)

3 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

Tencent is a success story bedevilled by the splinternet (www.economist.com)

3 points first seen 2022081300 last seen 2022081300 0 comments

0

Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying America (www.tabletmag.com)

3 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 0 comments

0

Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy (papers.ssrn.com)

3 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 0 comments

0

Intro to Sales for Software Engineers (blog.versemedical.com)

3 points first seen 2022081306 last seen 2022081306 0 comments

0

Germany and Poland search for cause of mass fish die-off in river Oder (www.reuters.com)

3 points first seen 2022081312 last seen 2022081312 0 comments

0

Tabs and Makefile (beebo.org)

3 points first seen 2022081321 last seen 2022081321 0 comments

14

Taktile (YC S20) Is Hiring Front End Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2022081318 last seen 2022081403 0 comments