744

XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

273

Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?

271

Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects

268

IrfanView

243

Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

203

Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)

161

Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing

137

Guess my RGB

137

Notes on El Salvador

135

Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic

128

Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]

121

How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform

118

About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024

113

Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor

102

Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5

100

How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)

93

DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)

90

Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124

89

Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained

87

Type Inference Was a Mistake

86

The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees

83

Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)

75

Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept

75

The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs

73

Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be

69

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

68

Why Ireland's housing bubble burst

57

Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

57

How well can LLMs write COBOL?

55

Mathematician Who Made Sense of the Universe's Randomness Wins Math's Top Prize

54

Git as a debugging tool

54

US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS

53

20 years ago Far Cry was released

53

Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed

52

Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth

50

20 Years of Gmail

44

Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser

43

Mamba Explained

42

White space killed an enterprise app (2019)

41

Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch

40

World Backup Day

40

Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes

40

From scratch OpenGL and shaders with raw Xlib

40

Brilliant Pebbles (2001)

39

Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?

39

The Mongolian Meta

39

Ask HN: Going from CTO to Developer?

38

OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio

36

Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job?

34

The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998)

34

X confirms plans for NSFW Communities

31

An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array

31

How the Atlantic Went from Broke to Profitable in Three Years

31

Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70

28

Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays

28

TSMC was founded by Morris Chang when he was 55 years old

28

The Ken Thompson Hack

26

Models all the way down

24

A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars for Years

24

Original Pirate Material

22

App scans your pile of Lego and uses ML to suggest projects

21

Rustic UI: Crafting the Future of UX

21

NetBSD 10.0 Released

20

Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai

20

Black Holes Are Even Weirder Than You Imagined

18

Eternal September

16

A kinematically coupled, nanometer-resolution piezo focus stage

15

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Using Old Phones as Servers

14

Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16

13

AT&T confirms data breach and resets customer passcodes

13

Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library

13

Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel

13

Tesla engineers don't have engineering degrees or even common sense apparently

12

AT&T Says Personal Information from 73M Customers Leaked on the Dark Web

12

Unlocking the NES (For Former Dawn) (2022)

11

Tom's Essay (2008)

11

KasmVNC – WASM Based VNC Server and Client

10

Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went

8

Delirium Tremens

8

Tiny orchid flowers pollinated by tiny flies

8

Reducing Wealth Inequality: The Wealth Time Limit

8

Linear Algebra of Types (2019)

8

Spacing the Cans

7

Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]

7

Landlock: Unprivileged Access Control

7

Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world)

7

Robotic police dog shot, credited with averting bloodshed

7

Pacemaker powered by light: new research

6

Marissa Mayer's Startup

6

The Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing

6

1 in every 13 bridges in America is in 'poor' condition

6

Benchmarking LLMs against human expert-curated biomedical knowledge graphs

5

Bacon – a background Rust code checker

4

Xz.git: Fix Linux Landlock Feature Test in Autotools

4

The Human Hemisphere (2015)

4

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law

4

Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

4

Bananas as a Macroeconomic Indicator

3

Light and Infrared Radiation (2018)

3

Navy to Test Microwave Anti-Drone Weapon at Sea in 2026