Hacker News on Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

910 points by MallocVoidstar 3 years ago | 322 comments

Mozilla Bugzilla entry for bug 148624, where Firefox tooltips persisted in the foreground when the browser was in the background, resolved fixed after 22 years.

The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps(cloud.google.com)

694 points by tomzur 3 years ago | 425 comments

Google Cloud blog post describing how Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, which peaked above 398 million requests per second.

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art(eliot.blog)

484 points by ea016 3 years ago | 173 comments

A blog post describing how the author built a 42-inch E Ink frame to display generative AI art in the PhotoRoom office.

Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves(news.rice.edu)

348 points by geox 3 years ago | 105 comments

Rice University news release about a magnetoelectric material that can directly stimulate neural tissue and reconnect severed nerves.

The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack(cloud.google.com)

335 points by jsnell 3 years ago | 96 comments

Google Cloud blog post explaining how the HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack technique works, using stream cancellation to generate record-breaking request floods.

Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started(arxiv.org)

325 points by fbartos 3 years ago | 220 comments

arXiv paper reporting 350,757 coin flips showing fair coins land on the same side they started slightly more often than chance.

Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players(macrumors.com)

304 points by tosh 3 years ago | 597 comments

Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification(rechargenews.com)

287 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 228 comments

Postgres: The next generation(redmonk.com)

263 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 73 comments

Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users(blog.google)

259 points by vdelitz 3 years ago | 528 comments

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system(minitokyo3d.com)

237 points by quyleanh 3 years ago | 75 comments

Simulation Islands(box2d.org)

236 points by AshleysBrain 3 years ago | 12 comments

A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don't(ntietz.com)

219 points by SerCe 3 years ago | 97 comments

The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)(tom7.org)

215 points by akeck 3 years ago | 37 comments

US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices(thedrive.com)

212 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 345 comments

How Netflix uses Java(infoq.com)

204 points by ivanche 3 years ago | 169 comments

Replit's new AI Model now available on Hugging Face(blog.replit.com)

198 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 43 comments

Scheme in the browser: A Hoot of a tale(spritely.institute)

173 points by nickmain 3 years ago | 11 comments

AI hype is built on flawed test scores(technologyreview.com)

166 points by antondd 3 years ago | 168 comments

C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

165 points by pkapka 3 years ago | 131 comments

HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability Results in Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks(blog.cloudflare.com)

162 points by kayfox 3 years ago | 51 comments

Isambard Kingdom Brunel(en.wikipedia.org)

148 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 101 comments

Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business(cnbc.com)

146 points by cebert 3 years ago | 74 comments

Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days(status.cloud.google.com)

143 points by talonx 3 years ago | 86 comments

Geospatial data science with Julia(juliaearth.github.io)

141 points by juliohm 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines(construction-physics.com)

138 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 94 comments

Going faster by duplicating code(voidstar.tech)

135 points by voidstarcpp 3 years ago | 53 comments

Building a collaborative pixel art editor with CRDTs(jakelazaroff.com)

132 points by jakelazaroff 3 years ago | 19 comments

Wayfire 0.8(wayfire.org)

130 points by eirikurh 3 years ago | 57 comments

Chuck Feeney has died(cnn.com)

126 points by anotherhue 3 years ago | 42 comments

HAProxy is not affected by the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack(haproxy.com)

124 points by nickramirez 3 years ago | 24 comments

ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers(elevenlabs.io)

113 points by beriboy 3 years ago | 44 comments

Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)(lego.com)

112 points by sakjur 3 years ago | 54 comments

GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month(thurrott.com)

107 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 146 comments

Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC(openapistack.co)

106 points by anttiviljami 3 years ago | 61 comments

Google wins reprieve from $32M verdict in Sonos patent fight(reuters.com)

106 points by tjlav5 3 years ago | 38 comments

Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity(applemagazine.com)

103 points by sundarurfriend 3 years ago | 62 comments

Copycat nutrient leaves pancreatic tumors starving, may inform cancer treatment(medicalxpress.com)

103 points by wglb 3 years ago | 12 comments

Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness(accesstoinsight.org)

102 points by rajlego 3 years ago | 40 comments

2000Ad announces retirement of John M. Burns(2000ad.com)

100 points by gandalfian 3 years ago | 20 comments

Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992) [pdf](cse.buffalo.edu)

99 points by nanna 3 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: I learned to code and built a crypto analytics platform(tradingdigits.io)

97 points by buckwhitzer 3 years ago | 66 comments

Canada plans to regulate search and social media use of AI(michaelgeist.ca)

82 points by markdog12 3 years ago | 59 comments

Archaeologists extract DNA of ancient Israelites(haaretz.com)

78 points by wslh 3 years ago | 103 comments

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack(blog.cloudflare.com)

76 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 14 comments

John Carmack: Be an Open Source Absolutist(twitter.com)

74 points by hardmaru 3 years ago | 34 comments

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis(resobscura.substack.com)

73 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 26 comments

Analysis of the California Delete Act(tomkemp.ai)

72 points by robbiet480 3 years ago | 35 comments

Researchers find pre-Columbian agave plants persisting in Arizona landscapes(phys.org)

69 points by wglb 3 years ago | 10 comments

Polar Signals Cloud: Always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling(polarsignals.com)

67 points by MetalMatze 3 years ago | 18 comments

Finnish president says undersea pipeline, cables damaged by 'external activity'(apnews.com)

64 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 44 comments

HyperAttention: Long-Context Attention in Near-Linear Time(arxiv.org)

61 points by kelseyfrog 3 years ago | 10 comments

JSONB – Request for evaluation and comment(sqlite.org)

60 points by polyrand 3 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Standalone Jdk.compiler, Java Compiler Framework and Tree API(github.com)

59 points by kohlschuetter 3 years ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: How do you tell if something has a keylogger implemented

59 points by laserstrahl 3 years ago | 45 comments

Official CLI Tool for the Internet Archive(archive.org)

57 points by latexr 3 years ago | 7 comments

Lit 3 Release Announcement(lit.dev)

57 points by meiraleal 3 years ago | 17 comments

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release(theregister.com)

55 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 32 comments

Intermediate Graphics Library, a cross-platform GPU abstraction library by Meta(github.com)

54 points by coffeeaddict1 3 years ago | 28 comments

Finnish Government to Make Announcement on Gas Pipeline Leak in Gulf of Finland(yle.fi)

54 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 37 comments