Hacker News on Friday, 26 January 2024

Portable EPUBs(willcrichton.net)

551 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 213 comments

Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.

Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system(github.com)

480 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 242 comments

GitHub repository for Oasis, a small statically-linked Linux system built with musl.

ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire(apnews.com)

423 points by xbar 2 years ago | 1091 comments

AP News article on the International Court of Justice's preliminary ruling in South Africa's genocide case, ordering Israel to prevent deaths in Gaza without ordering a ceasefire.

Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit(skii.dev)

379 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 120 comments

A blog post describing how the author found and exploited a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on chess.com.

The rise of batteries in six charts(rmi.org)

254 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 245 comments

CNC lasers for cutting and engraving(jacquesmattheij.com)

253 points by jacquesm 2 years ago | 131 comments

Untranslatable(untranslatable.co)

244 points by hk__2 2 years ago | 82 comments

ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s(jacobfilipp.com)

241 points by rpastuszak 2 years ago | 123 comments

Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos(platoedu.org)

229 points by kirill5pol 2 years ago | 74 comments

Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)(blog.danieljanus.pl)

226 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported(vancouverisawesome.com)

222 points by voisin 2 years ago | 54 comments

How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer(blog.awais.io)

214 points by ahussain 2 years ago | 164 comments

Multi-database support in DuckDB(duckdb.org)

203 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 37 comments

AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux(phoronix.com)

199 points by pella 2 years ago | 59 comments

The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set(quantamagazine.org)

181 points by limbicsystem 2 years ago | 70 comments

I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)(peterkrautzberger.org)

176 points by pyjamafish 2 years ago | 129 comments

PinePhone review after a month of daily driving(yaky.dev)

164 points by yaky 2 years ago | 137 comments

TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator(tinysa.org)

163 points by transpute 2 years ago | 54 comments

Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal(bbc.co.uk)

162 points by physicsguy 2 years ago | 74 comments

Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements(webkit.org)

158 points by ingve 2 years ago | 57 comments

Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100(techradar.com)

154 points by wslh 2 years ago | 110 comments

How French was medieval England?(historytoday.com)

152 points by drdee 2 years ago | 196 comments

Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108(suzuki-music.co.jp)

143 points by runamuck 2 years ago | 81 comments

Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays(bleepingcomputer.com)

137 points by daviddavis 2 years ago | 79 comments

Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today(grognardia.blogspot.com)

127 points by wyclif 2 years ago | 65 comments

The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video](youtube.com)

124 points by Prcmaker 2 years ago | 49 comments

Understanding the world science fiction convention(antipope.org)

124 points by cstross 2 years ago | 26 comments

iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more(9to5mac.com)

123 points by microflash 2 years ago | 75 comments

Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development(cps.ca)

122 points by pella 2 years ago | 160 comments

A New Hampshire cafe owner sued Meta for deleting his account and won(seacoastonline.com)

121 points by ayoubd 2 years ago | 54 comments

The things nobody wants to pay for(lwn.net)

120 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 90 comments

The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers(nature.com)

116 points by rntn 2 years ago | 37 comments

Google Pixel phones unusable after January 2024 system update(bleepingcomputer.com)

110 points by buildbot 2 years ago | 119 comments

Phones Track Everything but Their Role in Car Wrecks(nytimes.com)

107 points by strict9 2 years ago | 125 comments

Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use(theconversation.com)

99 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 80 comments

WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters(wasmcloud.com)

99 points by brooksmtownsend 2 years ago | 68 comments

Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media(cbc.ca)

96 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 71 comments

Plant patents sow fear among small growers(theguardian.com)

96 points by mikro2nd 2 years ago | 42 comments

2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn(spectrum.ieee.org)

95 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 38 comments

Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard(twitter.com)

95 points by mkmk 2 years ago | 49 comments

US agencies warn companies: Don’t delete Slack or Signal chats(news.bloomberglaw.com)

94 points by hhs 2 years ago | 93 comments

On Proprioception, the Sixth Sense of Storytelling (2022)(themillions.com)

91 points by wawayanda 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz(alzheimersbuddy.com)

84 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 66 comments

'They're knowingly addicting kids': the attorney challenging social media firms(theguardian.com)

80 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 37 comments

Mozilla says Apple's new browser rules are 'as painful as possible' for Firefox(theverge.com)

79 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 37 comments

As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California(eia.gov)

78 points by aresant 2 years ago | 137 comments

Rich People Don't Talk to Robots(downtownjoshbrown.com)

75 points by HR01 2 years ago | 59 comments

How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background(news.mit.edu)

70 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 79 comments

Tailwind Isn't for Me(spicyweb.dev)

69 points by ellinoora 2 years ago | 78 comments

A man who collects lost pet posters(ameliatait.substack.com)

68 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 47 comments

BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation(developer.apple.com)

67 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 81 comments

Skulls reveal scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital(science.org)

62 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 43 comments

A Terribly Serious adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford(washingtonpost.com)

62 points by pepys 2 years ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How to Get into Quantitative Trading?

62 points by P6Rs4r 2 years ago | 36 comments

Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research(arxiv.org)

61 points by sebg 2 years ago | 39 comments

Google's New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet(nymag.com)

60 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 66 comments

Developmental timing of trauma associated with depressive symptoms in adulthood(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

60 points by rendx 2 years ago | 7 comments

Understanding Mesh Allocator(veera.app)

60 points by signa11 2 years ago | 10 comments

The cancer that some doctors don't want to call cancer(wsj.com)

59 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 57 comments

Nobody Cares About Your Git History(spin.atomicobject.com)

57 points by ingve 2 years ago | 57 comments