Hacker News on Friday, 29 March 2024

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise(openwall.com)

4122 points by rkta 2 years ago | 1526 comments

Andres Freund's oss-security mailing list post disclosing a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma tarballs 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 that compromises SSH servers.

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning(research.myshell.ai)

387 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 220 comments

MyShell research page introducing OpenVoice, an instant voice cloning method with style control and zero-shot cross-lingual cloning, linking to paper and code.

The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL(infisical.com)

287 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 264 comments

Ross Anderson has died(alecmuffett.com)

267 points by mstef 2 years ago | 30 comments

Santa Barbara's collective memory, sold for kindling(independent.com)

260 points by shortformblog 2 years ago | 69 comments

Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'(english.elpais.com)

241 points by geox 2 years ago | 199 comments

The rev.ng decompiler goes open source(rev.ng)

229 points by quic_bcain 2 years ago | 53 comments

Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway(guacamole.apache.org)

190 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 38 comments

Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem(dzombak.com)

185 points by ingve 2 years ago | 62 comments

Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension(golem.ph.utexas.edu)

184 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 149 comments

Arraymancer – Deep learning Nim library(github.com)

183 points by archargelod 2 years ago | 26 comments

Vultr Just Betrayed Us(mwl.io)

168 points by zdw 2 years ago | 77 comments

Overlay networks based on WebRTC(github.com)

163 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 45 comments

When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first(hbr.org)

160 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 125 comments

Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go(github.com)

147 points by caust1c 2 years ago | 47 comments

Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews

134 points by philena 2 years ago | 122 comments

A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics, if it can be built(science.org)

130 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 83 comments

Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay(hindenburgresearch.com)

120 points by hampelm 2 years ago | 29 comments

Banner blindness(en.wikipedia.org)

118 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 97 comments

Can Demis Hassabis save Google?(bigtechnology.com)

105 points by laurex 2 years ago | 102 comments

Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds(yosefk.com)

99 points by luu 2 years ago | 34 comments

Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit(lwn.net)

96 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 31 comments

Awk as a major systems programming language, revisited (2018)(skeeve.com)

96 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 14 comments

Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products(news.mit.edu)

94 points by gmays 2 years ago | 75 comments

Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters(qwenlm.github.io)

89 points by GaggiX 2 years ago | 7 comments

Thirty Seven(thirty-seven.org)

88 points by samsullivan 2 years ago | 48 comments

School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere(nytimes.com)

86 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 247 comments

Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)(harpers.org)

85 points by robtherobber 2 years ago | 12 comments

Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git(lwn.net)

85 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 8 comments

The history of lead pencils and their lack of any lead (2021)(pensunlimited.co.uk)

84 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 47 comments

Two hundred reasons to not use Azure(mastodon.social)

80 points by empuxr 2 years ago | 24 comments

A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school(sfchronicle.com)

78 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 47 comments

Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab(computerworld.com)

74 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 57 comments

James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds(tomorrowsworldtoday.com)

73 points by the__prestige 2 years ago | 66 comments

Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps(livescience.com)

70 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 35 comments

EEG channels with low-cost PiEEG device(pieeg.com)

70 points by ron_87 2 years ago | 29 comments

Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity(phys.org)

69 points by ryanblakeley 2 years ago | 44 comments

Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?(newyorker.com)

68 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 107 comments

Facebook: We install a root CA on the device and MitM all SSL traffic(documentcloud.org)

63 points by typeofhuman 2 years ago | 10 comments

SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard(pvk.ca)

57 points by mrh57 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: An adventure game in Z80 assembly for CP/M and ZX Spectrum(github.com)

56 points by stevekemp 2 years ago | 6 comments

Reddit shares plunge 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close(cnbc.com)

51 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

AutoBNN: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting(blog.research.google)

49 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 1 comments

Typesetting the LaTeX Way (2013)(chriscummins.cc)

48 points by tosh 2 years ago | 5 comments

TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

47 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Appamor.d – Full set of AppArmor profiles (~ 1500 profiles)(github.com)

45 points by CHEF-KOCH 2 years ago | 4 comments

Project Wayfield – The JDK Wayland Desktop on Linux [video](inside.java)

44 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 16 comments

Maersk names first vessel of its large methanol-enabled fleet "Ane Maersk"(maersk.com)

43 points by doener 2 years ago | 43 comments

When Bacteria Are Beautiful(nautil.us)

42 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments

Nine writers on their Adderall use and experiences(pioneerworks.org)

42 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 33 comments

Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study(theguardian.com)

41 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ways of Seeing by John Berger(ways-of-seeing.com)

40 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 4 comments

Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices(openai.com)

39 points by Josely 2 years ago | 9 comments

Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete(theconversation.com)

39 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 8 comments

Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor(boehs.org)

38 points by internetter 2 years ago | 1 comments

SSPL Is Bad(ssplisbad.com)

37 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 36 comments

RSS Feed Organization Strategies and New Feed Cost(yukinu.com)

36 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 8 comments

Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons(news.wsu.edu)

36 points by gmays 2 years ago | 15 comments

Porting the GCLC to the Web(blog.ubavic.rs)

35 points by ubavic 2 years ago | 1 comments