Hacker News on Saturday, 11 November 2023

It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian(krebsonsecurity.com)

841 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 312 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article reporting that Experian still lets identity thieves hijack consumer accounts by simply re-registering them with a different email address.

How I got here(pthorpe92.github.io)

790 points by low_tech_love 3 years ago | 314 comments

A personal blog post by Preston Thorpe, an incarcerated software developer in Maine, describing how he became a programmer and open source contributor while in prison.

Debugging tricks in the browser(alan.norbauer.com)

531 points by bkudria 3 years ago | 95 comments

A blog post listing dozens of lesser-known JavaScript debugging tricks using browser developer tools, such as conditional breakpoints.

Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time(staysaasy.com)

418 points by zdw 3 years ago | 250 comments

A Stay SaaSy blog post arguing that vague, imprecise requests from managers and executives cause teams to waste large amounts of time.

Qanat(en.wikipedia.org)

394 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 84 comments

Wikipedia article on qanats, underground channel systems originating in ancient Iran that transport water from aquifers to the surface in arid regions.

Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old(github.com)

335 points by D4ckard 3 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub repository for Spray, a small x86_64 Linux debugger for C programs with a simple CLI interface, built by a 17-year-old student.

Gnome Receives €1M from German Government(omgubuntu.co.uk)

315 points by denysonique 3 years ago | 218 comments

Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component(react-datasheet-grid.netlify.app)

291 points by nick-keller 3 years ago | 71 comments

Find bilingual baby names(mixedname.com)

272 points by higgins 3 years ago | 154 comments

Lost "Doctor Who" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC(theguardian.com)

267 points by wslh 3 years ago | 90 comments

Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022(threads.net)

247 points by healsdata 3 years ago | 106 comments

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)(dustri.org)

243 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 91 comments

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck(theregister.com)

243 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 151 comments

Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?(librearts.org)

190 points by sacrosanct 2 years ago | 209 comments

Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go(github.com)

182 points by philippta 3 years ago | 38 comments

Fourteen Years of Go(go.dev)

182 points by keyle 3 years ago | 209 comments

Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data(eff.org)

181 points by gslin 2 years ago | 78 comments

OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions(pthorpe92.github.io)

154 points by qsantos 2 years ago | 124 comments

RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks(phoronix.com)

143 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 7 comments

Archived YouTube Video Finder(findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca)

141 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 35 comments

When NASA Used an RC Tiger II to Drill into Space Shuttle Tires(tankhistoria.com)

141 points by latchkey 3 years ago | 64 comments

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default(phoronix.com)

139 points by istotex 3 years ago | 125 comments

6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video](youtube.com)

132 points by Turing_Machine 3 years ago | 20 comments

Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)(blog.google)

128 points by seanvelasco 3 years ago | 87 comments

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland(theregister.com)

128 points by gslin 3 years ago | 23 comments

CTF Writeup: Abusing select() to factor RSA(threadreaderapp.com)

127 points by moyix 2 years ago | 24 comments

Starship’s second flight test(spacex.com)

126 points by hi 3 years ago | 110 comments

Nicotine (2016)(gwern.net)

124 points by blitz_skull 3 years ago | 185 comments

Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)(ia.net)

118 points by greenSunglass 3 years ago | 79 comments

Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)(gmkeros.wordpress.com)

117 points by tosh 3 years ago | 70 comments

.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux(learn.microsoft.com)

107 points by tomaszs 3 years ago | 80 comments

Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda(cs.bham.ac.uk)

104 points by haltist 3 years ago | 6 comments

RFC 9420 – A Messaging Layer Security Overview(thestack.technology)

101 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 8 comments

Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (2015)(arxiv.org)

94 points by lisper 2 years ago | 40 comments

Passive radiative cooling ceramic with high solar reflectivity(cityu.edu.hk)

92 points by geox 3 years ago | 85 comments

It's OK if your code is just good enough(shiftmag.dev)

91 points by Vatavuk 2 years ago | 109 comments

LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land(theregister.com)

89 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 75 comments

New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft(mailbox.org)

89 points by New_California 2 years ago | 10 comments

SpaceX will launch the X-37B on a Falcon Heavy rocket Dec. 7(space.com)

87 points by doctorhandshake 2 years ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Generate pdf with gitbook or mdbook url(github.com)

86 points by lufeng 3 years ago | 31 comments

MOVEit global security incident(maine.gov)

86 points by toss1 3 years ago | 57 comments

Rats have an imagination, new research suggests(sciencedaily.com)

85 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 43 comments

Role play with large language models(nature.com)

83 points by m_kos 3 years ago | 64 comments

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better(quantamagazine.org)

78 points by digital55 3 years ago | 41 comments

Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’(theguardian.com)

76 points by hhs 3 years ago | 12 comments

'Super melanin' heals skin injuries from sunburn, chemical burns(medicalxpress.com)

75 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 5 comments

Google to Implement IETF's Message Layer Security (MLS) Specification RFC 9420(security.googleblog.com)

74 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: LLM Verified with Monte Carlo Tree Search(github.com)

73 points by namin 2 years ago | 11 comments

Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them(madison.com)

69 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 74 comments

Fedora Workstation 39(fedoraproject.org)

68 points by belter 2 years ago | 38 comments

Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized(hyperallergic.com)

68 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 11 comments

Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 percent on Google Play(theverge.com)

66 points by judiisis 3 years ago | 59 comments

Locks and Security (2005)(mattblaze.org)

64 points by jstrieb 3 years ago | 6 comments

FFmpeg 6.1 released(ffmpeg.org)

61 points by gyan 3 years ago | 17 comments

Yarn-Mistral-7B-128k(huggingface.co)

59 points by tosh 2 years ago | 13 comments

Lovecraft and Me – How cosmic horror gave me hope (2020)(yalereview.org)

57 points by bikenaga 3 years ago | 29 comments

Warner Bros Shelves Finished Coyote vs. Acme Film as Tax Write-Off(deadline.com)

57 points by shscs911 3 years ago | 54 comments

John von Neumann Interview [video](youtube.com)

56 points by openquery 2 years ago | 20 comments

Loading up on cheap cores with updated Milan Epycs(nextplatform.com)

55 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 28 comments

Computation of the n'th digit of pi in any base in O(n^2) (1997)(bellard.org)

55 points by akkartik 3 years ago | 29 comments