Hacker News on Friday, 2 June 2023

Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time(brute.fail)

626 points by mike_d 3 years ago | 231 comments

Brute.Fail is a live feed showing real-time SSH and other login attempts by attackers guessing usernames and passwords against honeypot servers.

California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working(wsj.com)

404 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 948 comments

Wall Street Journal article on California spending $17 billion on homelessness without reducing it, focusing on Oakland's Wood Street encampment.

Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases(kotaku.com)

357 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 358 comments

Kotaku article reporting that Reddit's new API pricing threatens to shut down third-party Reddit apps on iOS and Android.

Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)(github.com)

347 points by sirnicolaz 3 years ago | 98 comments

GitHub repository by mame for a Ruby quine program that still reproduces itself even after any single character is deleted.

27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)(mcgst.com)

320 points by bishopsmother 3 years ago | 227 comments

A blog post on McGST by Shaun McGill reflecting on using the 1993 Psion 3a handheld computer 27 years after its release.

How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap(andrewheiss.com)

310 points by sebg 3 years ago | 84 comments

Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems(bihealth.org)

291 points by phnofive 3 years ago | 182 comments

He made linear algebra fun(news.mit.edu)

290 points by bikenaga 3 years ago | 43 comments

Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation”(github.com)

253 points by j4nek 3 years ago | 129 comments

Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf](bmj.com)

250 points by siraben 3 years ago | 136 comments

System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake(blog.system76.com)

243 points by airhangerf15 3 years ago | 74 comments

The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer(the-analog-thing.org)

240 points by uticus 3 years ago | 121 comments

Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

229 points by shreyshnaccount 3 years ago | 191 comments

Speed running Monkey Island(grumpygamer.com)

213 points by mepian 3 years ago | 59 comments

Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown(forbes.com)

196 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 194 comments

Tomb Raider(filfre.net)

183 points by barryvan 3 years ago | 91 comments

Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years(ukragroconsult.com)

181 points by unboxedvariable 3 years ago | 137 comments

Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan(usa.kaspersky.com)

173 points by madmanweb 3 years ago | 95 comments

My approach to building large technical projects(mitchellh.com)

173 points by akalin 3 years ago | 19 comments

North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories(electrek.co)

171 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 92 comments

Render a neural network into CUDA/HIP code(github.com)

158 points by fzliu 3 years ago | 58 comments

A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)(wired.com)

143 points by tysone 3 years ago | 92 comments

Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy(axios.com)

133 points by tln 3 years ago | 96 comments

In vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong(nature.com)

130 points by areoform 3 years ago | 90 comments

Witch – macOS window switcher replacement(manytricks.com)

125 points by jackdh 3 years ago | 148 comments

Keyd: Linux Key Remapper(github.com)

121 points by gigatexal 3 years ago | 72 comments

Netflix Shareholders Vote to Reject Executive Pay Packages(nytimes.com)

119 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 90 comments

Effect of repeated low-level red light on myopia prevention(jamanetwork.com)

113 points by rq1 3 years ago | 66 comments

Undetectable Watermarks for Language Models(eprint.iacr.org)

111 points by cryptohell 3 years ago | 56 comments

The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom(wired.com)

109 points by brk 3 years ago | 215 comments

Using Google’s code history to write more code(ai.googleblog.com)

107 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 71 comments

Speeduino – Arduino based engine management(github.com)

107 points by canbus 3 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Mercury – Convert Jupyter notebooks to web apps(runmercury.com)

106 points by pplonski86 3 years ago | 27 comments

PostgreSQL and SQL:2023(peter.eisentraut.org)

106 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 28 comments

Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds(skybox.blockadelabs.com)

106 points by gaws 3 years ago | 47 comments

M.U.L.E. Online(puzzud.itch.io)

105 points by panic 3 years ago | 30 comments

Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits(mattb.nz)

104 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 120 comments

Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame(popsci.com)

100 points by berkeleyjunk 3 years ago | 88 comments

Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust(eventhelix.com)

97 points by signa11 3 years ago | 4 comments

Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows(github.com)

96 points by sertraline 3 years ago | 110 comments

Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr(cnn.com)

93 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 41 comments

StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content(openletter.mousetail.nl)

91 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 75 comments

Kenneth Anger has died(dangerousminds.net)

90 points by royalroad 3 years ago | 29 comments

Woman with untreated TB finally in custody – held in “negative pressure” room(arstechnica.com)

87 points by notamy 3 years ago | 87 comments

Deep-brain stimulation during sleep strengthens memory: study(uclahealth.org)

85 points by gmays 3 years ago | 16 comments

SiFive Gives Its WorldGuard Security Model to the RISC-V Community(allaboutcircuits.com)

79 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 26 comments

Health System in Minnesota Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt(nytimes.com)

73 points by lxm 3 years ago | 82 comments

Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences(economist.com)

71 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 108 comments

Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia(lukemerrick.com)

67 points by lukemerrick 3 years ago | 22 comments

Solid state active cooling on a Mini PC(theregister.com)

66 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 62 comments

Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it(gist.github.com)

64 points by yzdbgd 3 years ago | 39 comments

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana (2021)(open.edu)

64 points by gdss 3 years ago | 5 comments

Profit-Price Spiral: Excess Profits Fuelling Inflation, Not Wages(futurework.org.au)

62 points by bacheaul 3 years ago | 36 comments

AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning: A Workshop(terrytao.wordpress.com)

57 points by ftxbro 3 years ago | 4 comments

Damped Springs (2012)(ryanjuckett.com)

56 points by ingve 3 years ago | 15 comments

US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’(thehill.com)

56 points by c420 3 years ago | 37 comments

How Malicious extensions hide running arbitrary code(palant.info)

56 points by supermatou 3 years ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Local implementation of text-to-3D using Shap-E(github.com)

53 points by kedzkiest 3 years ago | 8 comments

Turing Trains(cr31.co.uk)

53 points by pubby 3 years ago | 5 comments

Sketch of a Post-ORM(borretti.me)

51 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 53 comments