Hacker News on Sunday, 21 January 2024

Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks(flipperzero.one)

589 points by thatxliner 2 years ago | 272 comments

Product homepage for Flipper Zero, a portable multi-tool device for geeks that interacts with radio protocols, RFID, NFC, and hardware interfaces.

NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars(phys.org)

370 points by Tommstein 2 years ago | 124 comments

Phys.org news article reporting that NASA has regained contact with its Ingenuity mini-helicopter on Mars after a communications loss.

Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop(id.uni-lj.si)

333 points by jesprenj 2 years ago | 215 comments

University of Ljubljana IDportal password reset page, noted for password rules banning SQL keywords like select, insert, update, delete, drop.

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers(bitbytebit.substack.com)

333 points by recroad 2 years ago | 151 comments

A Substack post by Zarar Siddiqi sharing lessons from a year of startup life, arguing that backlog size shrinks the more often a team talks to customers.

Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies(hitregbroke.com)

277 points by methou 2 years ago | 215 comments

Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers(phys.org)

266 points by birriel 2 years ago | 49 comments

Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home(nj.com)

241 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 133 comments

Collision Detection (2015)(jeffreythompson.org)

207 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 79 comments

Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?(blog.tidelift.com)

195 points by sillystuff 2 years ago | 65 comments

Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age(nationalgeographic.com)

194 points by prmph 2 years ago | 121 comments

Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop(sharedrop.io)

186 points by linkdd 2 years ago | 100 comments

Learn Datalog Today(learndatalogtoday.org)

178 points by tosh 2 years ago | 47 comments

C23: A Slightly Better C(lemire.me)

170 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 129 comments

On the dimensionality of spacetime (1997) [pdf](space.mit.edu)

165 points by niklasbuschmann 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Case for Rust in the base system(mail-archive.freebsd.org)

159 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 99 comments

Google Is Tracking You Even in Incognito Mode, New Disclaimer Is Up(news.abplive.com)

159 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 128 comments

How far could the sun possibly be?(profmattstrassler.com)

149 points by cwillu 2 years ago | 102 comments

Keeping a long shell history(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

146 points by ingve 2 years ago | 79 comments

Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)(klimer.eu)

141 points by pangey 2 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Nutrient insights through your grocery receipts(nutri.adrianstobbe.com)

137 points by elchead 2 years ago | 54 comments

A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself(spectrum.ieee.org)

131 points by jruohonen 2 years ago | 108 comments

Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command(web3isgoinggreat.com)

127 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 97 comments

I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist(old.reddit.com)

126 points by luu 2 years ago | 109 comments

Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector(hboehm.info)

121 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 114 comments

The math exams of my life(andreinc.net)

116 points by lordnacho 2 years ago | 69 comments

How a baker survived the Titanic by getting drunk (2022)(nationalpost.com)

116 points by b0ner_t0ner 2 years ago | 76 comments

Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference(shkspr.mobi)

105 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 124 comments

Can You Live Code a Church Organ? [video](youtube.com)

105 points by emsign 2 years ago | 28 comments

Why is everything so ugly?(nplusonemag.com)

101 points by lucabenazzi 2 years ago | 162 comments

'Cozy' relationship between Boeing and U.S. draws scrutiny amid 737 MAX 9 mess(text.npr.org)

98 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 39 comments

The question of poverty vs. instability(robkhenderson.com)

98 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 79 comments

Common Lisp's block / return-from and unwind-protect(axisofeval.blogspot.com)

98 points by bshanks 2 years ago | 31 comments

Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces(taipy.io)

92 points by nevodavid 2 years ago | 60 comments

NASA unlocks $1B canister of asteroid dust(theguardian.com)

92 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 41 comments

TextAnalysisTool.NET(textanalysistool.github.io)

89 points by gadiyar 2 years ago | 33 comments

Vistex CEO Sanjay Shah dies on stage after freak accident(news.com.au)

88 points by cwsx 2 years ago | 53 comments

Show HN: Pfuzz, a web fuzzer following the Unix philosophy(github.com)

84 points by codesoap 2 years ago | 22 comments

Taito's Mini-Vaders: Why Should Dottori Have All the Fun?(nicole.express)

84 points by zdw 2 years ago | 7 comments

The growing inequality of who gets to work from home(hbr.org)

80 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 139 comments

What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems (2022)(adrianco.medium.com)

73 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 20 comments

Reverse Engineering the TouchBar Screen and MIPI DSI Primer [video](youtube.com)

73 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 6 comments

Marketing for Product-Obsessed Developers(marclou.beehiiv.com)

71 points by marclou 2 years ago | 16 comments

Google has no visionary leaders and a pervasive sense of nihilism(twitter.com)

70 points by vhiremath4 2 years ago | 29 comments

How to build your own injection molding machine (2023)(machinedesign.com)

68 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 22 comments

The SuperH-3, part 1: Introduction (2019)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

67 points by ksec 2 years ago | 28 comments

SVG images can contain JavaScript(github.com)

66 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 31 comments

Wind River Linux(windriver.com)

64 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 39 comments

Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 2)(mobiledevmemo.com)

60 points by computer23 2 years ago | 40 comments

Trunk-Based Development(trunkbaseddevelopment.com)

59 points by DLion 2 years ago | 76 comments

Gem adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class(github.com)

46 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 33 comments

American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be(yaleclimateconnections.org)

46 points by rntn 2 years ago | 56 comments

Houthi anti-ship missile systems: getting better all the time(iiss.org)

46 points by nradov 2 years ago | 46 comments

OpenAI suspends bot developer for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips(washingtonpost.com)

45 points by marban 2 years ago | 38 comments

Tiny Baroque Prints Once Served as Edible Prayers(atlasobscura.com)

41 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 6 comments

Potential Microbiome Links to Skin Aging(today.ucsd.edu)

40 points by gmays 2 years ago | 21 comments

Gemini: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints [pdf](cs.rice.edu)

36 points by mlerner 2 years ago | 10 comments

Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp(arstechnica.com)

34 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 39 comments

The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)(spectrum.ieee.org)

33 points by areoform 2 years ago | 5 comments

Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss(arstechnica.com)

32 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Huawei claims HarmonyOS NEXT kernel is more efficient than Linux(notebookcheck.net)

31 points by radeeyate 2 years ago | 37 comments