Hacker News on Friday, 20 October 2023

Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service(notes.valdikss.org.ru)

637 points by f311a 3 years ago | 257 comments

Blog post detailing discovery of a TLS man-in-the-middle interception of jabber.ru XMPP servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode using Let's Encrypt certificates.

Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts(nota-lang.org)

524 points by napsternxg 3 years ago | 195 comments

Homepage of Nota, a language for writing structured documents like academic papers and blog posts, with a live editable code example and rendered output.

The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue(pauladamsmith.com)

377 points by zaphar 3 years ago | 298 comments

Paul Smith's personal blog post recounting the October 2013 "tech surge" effort to fix the failing HealthCare.gov website, on its tenth anniversary.

In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)(colinmorris.github.io)

360 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 198 comments

Colin Morris's 2022 blog post exploring how to find the least viewed articles on Wikipedia using pageview data and the API.

Nakatomi Space(bldgblog.com)

347 points by sebg 3 years ago | 121 comments

BLDGBLOG essay by Geoff Manaugh examining how Die Hard's Nakatomi Plaza is navigated through walls, vents, and ducts, as a lens on architecture and space.

Progress on No-GIL CPython(lwn.net)

334 points by belter 3 years ago | 206 comments

LWN article by Jake Edge on progress toward making CPython's global interpreter lock optional under PEP 703, covering ABI concerns and naming of the no-GIL build.

Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better(utcc.utoronto.ca)

326 points by ingve 3 years ago | 210 comments

Chris Siebenmann's blog post on using extra Firefox profiles, one per site, to keep login cookies for annoying websites while browsing with JavaScript off elsewhere.

EU Commissioner as double agent of foreign interference(patrick-breyer.de)

306 points by deutschepost 3 years ago | 146 comments

Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral(vice.com)

306 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 174 comments

Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident(devever.net)

305 points by hlandau 3 years ago | 112 comments

Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit(krebsonsecurity.com)

279 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 137 comments

They can and will ruin everything you love(welcometohellworld.com)

251 points by cdme 3 years ago | 174 comments

"<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs(dgl.cx)

251 points by patrakov 3 years ago | 127 comments

F-Droid: Android FOSS app store(f-droid.org)

236 points by c0balt 3 years ago | 61 comments

22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)(wired.com)

231 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 160 comments

Hexagonal Grids (2013)(redblobgames.com)

228 points by novaRom 3 years ago | 53 comments

The shortest papers ever published (2016)(paperpile.com)

222 points by archielc 3 years ago | 70 comments

Flappy Bird implemented in TypeScript types(zackoverflow.dev)

215 points by joshmanders 3 years ago | 49 comments

Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds(arstechnica.com)

208 points by rntn 3 years ago | 101 comments

Geany 2.0 – Flyweight IDE(geany.org)

204 points by conductor 3 years ago | 86 comments

Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer"(red-gate.com)

186 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 126 comments

GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide(gnucash.org)

186 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 130 comments

The Unix Game(unixgame.io)

184 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 33 comments

Pepper X(en.wikipedia.org)

171 points by danny00 3 years ago | 96 comments

Inkscape Cloud Architect(github.com)

167 points by mipselaer 3 years ago | 65 comments

Find the date of your birthday in the number pi(mypiday.com)

157 points by Gedxx 3 years ago | 114 comments

Slack is retiring its status account on X(theverge.com)

157 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 125 comments

How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games(news.play.date)

156 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 49 comments

Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach(specfy.io)

155 points by h1fra 3 years ago | 86 comments

It's easy to screw up on breaking news. But you have to admit when you do(natesilver.net)

155 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 147 comments

Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?

143 points by cuuupid 3 years ago | 123 comments

Show HN: CFR[]: Very minimal drawing language with 5 commands: C, F, R, [, ](susam.net)

142 points by susam 3 years ago | 53 comments

Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms(factorio.com)

130 points by hlandau 3 years ago | 28 comments

AI tidies up Wikipedia's references and boosts reliability(nature.com)

129 points by clockworksoul 3 years ago | 69 comments

History of Tcl(tcl.tk)

121 points by uticus 3 years ago | 54 comments

Eclipse October 2023(gridstatus.io)

113 points by cwal37 3 years ago | 22 comments

OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition(ps-2.kev009.com)

111 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 53 comments

Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)(mkorostoff.github.io)

103 points by kinnth 3 years ago | 72 comments

Maps.fm: listen a podcast episode about that place on the map(maps.fm)

102 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 23 comments

Jon Stewart's Show on Apple Is Ending(nytimes.com)

101 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 89 comments

We caught technicians snooping on our personal devices(cbc.ca)

98 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 52 comments

Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested(economist.com)

96 points by andrewedstrom 3 years ago | 87 comments

A Brief Introduction to Military Pillboxes(heritagecalling.com)

96 points by chippy 3 years ago | 62 comments

Twenty-four hours in an invisible epidemic(pudding.cool)

91 points by dan-g 3 years ago | 24 comments

Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise(blog.cloudflare.com)

89 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 54 comments

Which Interpreters Are Faster, AST or Bytecode?(stefan-marr.de)

88 points by signa11 3 years ago | 16 comments

A physics milestone: Miniature particle accelerator works(phys.org)

81 points by croes 3 years ago | 14 comments

Solving the 100GB Game Download(venusoft.net)

80 points by monkeywork 3 years ago | 52 comments

Does Go Have Subtyping?(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

79 points by grep_it 3 years ago | 61 comments

Humming-Birds(c82.net)

79 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 20 comments

Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps(decentim.grafana.net)

79 points by andrey_utkin 3 years ago | 28 comments

In Plane Sight: Drug agents searching passengers for cash at airport gates(atlantanewsfirst.com)

78 points by c420 3 years ago | 36 comments

Cubic spline interpolation(eli.thegreenplace.net)

78 points by signa11 3 years ago | 25 comments

What's new in C# 12: overview(pvs-studio.com)

77 points by amalinovic 3 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: No Feed? Unlimited Productivity(github.com)

77 points by zukerpie 3 years ago | 43 comments

Useless Ruby sugar: Pattern matching(zverok.space)

72 points by ezekg 3 years ago | 45 comments

Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident (2006)(thespacereview.com)

71 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 17 comments

Everything Looks Like a Nail(wheresyoured.at)

69 points by zdw 3 years ago | 22 comments

Scaling to 15000 Functions and Beyond(openfaas.com)

66 points by alexellisuk 3 years ago | 44 comments

The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Proliferation of Right to Repair Laws(404media.co)

65 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 24 comments