Hacker News on Tuesday, 19 September 2023

Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor(twitter.com)

1135 points by moyix 3 years ago | 547 comments

A tweet by cryptographer Matthew Green sharing a Snowden document excerpt naming Cavium as a SIGINT-enabled CPU vendor, used in routers like the UniFi USG3.

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)

1065 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 182 comments

Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a statistics department that could not send email farther than about 500 miles, traced to a sendmail misconfiguration and timeouts.

Fixing for loops in Go 1.22(go.dev)

536 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 380 comments

Go Blog post by David Chase and Russ Cox explaining the per-iteration for loop variable scoping change previewed in Go 1.21 and shipping in Go 1.22.

I digitalized Berlin's registration form(nicolasbouliane.com)

489 points by nicbou 3 years ago | 289 comments

Nicolas Bouliane's project page for a 2023 tool that helps people fill out Berlin's Anmeldung address registration form online.

We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score(ifixit.com)

385 points by fraXis 3 years ago | 261 comments

iFixit article by Kyle Wiens announcing it is retroactively lowering iPhone repairability scores because Apple's systematic parts pairing undermines design improvements.

YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform(nytimes.com)

335 points by mhb 3 years ago | 642 comments

New York Times article on YouTube suspending Russell Brand's ability to earn ad revenue on the platform; the page loaded as a captcha check.

Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022

277 points by tmaly 3 years ago | 172 comments

Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers(lichess.org)

276 points by promiseofbeans 3 years ago | 145 comments

The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary(torrentfreak.com)

254 points by HieronymusBosch 3 years ago | 86 comments

Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol(signal.org)

247 points by dm 3 years ago | 104 comments

How many medical studies are faked or flawed?(web.archive.org)

247 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 203 comments

VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III(vcmi.eu)

245 points by vitabenes 3 years ago | 72 comments

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement(fsf.org)

233 points by TMM2K 3 years ago | 131 comments

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)(eranstiller.com)

232 points by gslin 3 years ago | 126 comments

Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader(pressprogress.ca)

224 points by toomanyrichies 3 years ago | 170 comments

OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps(twitter.com)

217 points by Hooopo 3 years ago | 159 comments

Circles do not exist(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

212 points by ingve 3 years ago | 176 comments

64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?(tigerbeetle.com)

199 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 309 comments

JDK 21 Release Notes(jdk.java.net)

196 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 100 comments

GraalVM for JDK 21(medium.com)

194 points by fniephaus 3 years ago | 65 comments

Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer(fx.wtf)

189 points by medv 3 years ago | 61 comments

Java 21 Released(mail.openjdk.org)

175 points by mkurz 3 years ago | 103 comments

U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme(science.org)

165 points by tokai 3 years ago | 205 comments

Your WiFi Can See You(mrereports.substack.com)

163 points by nunodio 3 years ago | 64 comments

George Orwell Complete Works(george-orwell.org)

152 points by muragekibicho 3 years ago | 38 comments

A small community of unofficial Apple technicians in Cuba(restofworld.org)

145 points by donohoe 3 years ago | 42 comments

Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

143 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 144 comments

Show HN: Cheq UPI – India's first UPI payments app for foreigners(chequpi.com)

142 points by sudshekhar 3 years ago | 91 comments

Headsets Delayed into 2024(simulavr.com)

141 points by chungus 3 years ago | 62 comments

Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services(blog.google)

137 points by meetpateltech 3 years ago | 68 comments

My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia(ounapuu.ee)

134 points by hddherman 3 years ago | 19 comments

How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers(stephen.fm)

133 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 19 comments

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I(resobscura.substack.com)

130 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 85 comments

Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits(cleanenergyrevolution.co)

121 points by unsolved73 3 years ago | 104 comments

Improving your online privacy: An update(blog.ovalerio.net)

118 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 35 comments

A basic guide to using Asian names(asiamediacentre.org.nz)

114 points by bear_with_me 3 years ago | 134 comments

Graph Neural Networks use graphs when they shouldn't(arxiv.org)

112 points by Pseudomanifold 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub

111 points by tomasreimers 3 years ago | 38 comments

Intel Xeon Max 9480 Deep-Dive 64GB HBM2e Onboard Like a GPU or AI Accelerator(servethehome.com)

107 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 67 comments

Getting into Pinball(tynan.com)

106 points by jeffreyrogers 3 years ago | 74 comments

Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98(twitter.com)

104 points by DantesKite 3 years ago | 61 comments

UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill(bbc.co.uk)

103 points by phab 3 years ago | 52 comments

A closer look at BookCorpus, a key dataset in machine learning(towardsdatascience.com)

98 points by Kaibeezy 3 years ago | 29 comments

MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says(reviewjournal.com)

92 points by gmays 3 years ago | 68 comments

Lies my calculator and computer told me (1987) [pdf](stewartcalculus.com)

91 points by seanhunter 3 years ago | 46 comments

The Maintainer of the Nvidia Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns(phoronix.com)

89 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 16 comments

Always Bump Downwards (2019)(fitzgeraldnick.com)

89 points by tjalfi 3 years ago | 64 comments

Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C(github.com)

88 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 8 comments

Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue(theverge.com)

87 points by skilled 3 years ago | 44 comments

Apache Pinot 1.0(pinot.apache.org)

85 points by PeterCorless 3 years ago | 27 comments

The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics(arxiv.org)

85 points by arbesman 3 years ago | 23 comments

Programming is hard(myme.no)

85 points by ingve 3 years ago | 77 comments

Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products(ec.europa.eu)

83 points by pseudotrash 3 years ago | 22 comments

The physical process that powers a new type of generative AI(quantamagazine.org)

82 points by digital55 3 years ago | 11 comments

Gitlab Critical Security Release: 16.3.4 and 16.2.7(about.gitlab.com)

82 points by mirzap 3 years ago | 35 comments

Web apps are better than no apps(molodtsov.me)

80 points by imadj 3 years ago | 116 comments

GCC Preparing to Introduce “-Fhardened” Security Hardening Option(phoronix.com)

80 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 41 comments

Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics (2022)(scylladb.com)

78 points by 0xedb 3 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres(hydra.so)

78 points by coatue 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence(symphony.run)

77 points by jrmyphlmn 3 years ago | 28 comments