Hacker News on Sunday, 31 March 2024

Guess my RGB(susam.net)

582 points by talonx 2 years ago | 136 comments

A browser game where players move R, G, and B hex sliders to guess the page's background color.

Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic(documentcloud.org)

381 points by wordhydrogen 2 years ago | 138 comments

Court filing in Klein v. Meta alleging Facebook's In-App Action Panel program used SSL man-in-the-middle techniques via Onavo to intercept Snapchat, YouTube and Amazon analytics traffic.

A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024(xomedia.io)

306 points by xoneill 2 years ago | 193 comments

Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance(github.com)

291 points by imbnwa 2 years ago | 105 comments

Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux(github.com)

275 points by buserror 2 years ago | 77 comments

Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler(github.com)

261 points by faebi 2 years ago | 62 comments

Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

251 points by thih9 2 years ago | 174 comments

A proposal to add signals to JavaScript(github.com)

242 points by beeman 2 years ago | 241 comments

Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video](youtube.com)

230 points by nickburns 2 years ago | 127 comments

Ross Anderson(schneier.com)

214 points by zdw 2 years ago | 15 comments

XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams(rheaeve.substack.com)

214 points by lamontcg 2 years ago | 107 comments

Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX(github.com)

205 points by mpereira 2 years ago | 114 comments

The illusion of being stuck(the-simulation-strategists.beehiiv.com)

179 points by benoitmalige 2 years ago | 96 comments

Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get and build cppfront?(hsutter.github.io)

178 points by cyber1 2 years ago | 139 comments

Can GPT optimize my taxes? An experiment in letting the LLM be the UX(finedataproducts.com)

171 points by mmacpherson 2 years ago | 63 comments

A. K. Dewdney has died(lfpress.remembering.ca)

156 points by schoen 2 years ago | 38 comments

How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)(sfgate.com)

150 points by smcin 2 years ago | 99 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)(buttondown.email)

146 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 47 comments

Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed(blog.rust-lang.org)

144 points by tison 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game(truncate.town)

143 points by liambigelow 2 years ago | 93 comments

Zoomable Circles, a Svelte component for hierarchical data(npmjs.com)

140 points by whb101 2 years ago | 38 comments

Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)(nytimes.com)

136 points by morphle 2 years ago | 35 comments

Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners(twitter.com)

133 points by illyism 2 years ago | 51 comments

How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope(huiwenn.github.io)

126 points by jxmorris12 2 years ago | 131 comments

InternLM2(arxiv.org)

121 points by milliondreams 2 years ago | 21 comments

The xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story(rigor-mortis.nmrc.org)

121 points by luu 2 years ago | 64 comments

Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?

119 points by reilly3000 2 years ago | 79 comments

PaperBack: How to store arbitrary data on A4 sheets of paper (2007)(ollydbg.de)

113 points by ubutler 2 years ago | 31 comments

Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)(sites.google.com)

112 points by okl 2 years ago | 26 comments

Adaptive RAG – dynamic retrieval methods adjustment(arxiv.org)

110 points by milliondreams 2 years ago | 31 comments

The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project(davidrevoy.com)

86 points by cab404 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure(focumon.com)

84 points by GodotX 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai(ragdoll-studio.vercel.app)

84 points by bschmidt1 2 years ago | 19 comments

Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?(nature.com)

79 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 62 comments

Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth(futurism.com)

77 points by flyaway123 2 years ago | 51 comments

Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times for AMD Zen 4(phoronix.com)

77 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 12 comments

Dr. Katalin Karikó (2021)(glamour.com)

76 points by fsndz 2 years ago | 16 comments

Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models(arxiv.org)

76 points by milliondreams 2 years ago | 6 comments

World Backup Day(worldbackupday.com)

76 points by unnervingduck 2 years ago | 39 comments

Skin in the Game(lucumr.pocoo.org)

66 points by smitty1e 2 years ago | 52 comments

2023 was one of the safest years in commercial aviation(askthepilot.com)

65 points by qubitcoder 2 years ago | 62 comments

Programming Beyond Paradigms(micahcantor.com)

64 points by hydroxideOH- 2 years ago | 51 comments

Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders(msn.com)

60 points by tiff_seattle 2 years ago | 39 comments

Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes(cell.com)

57 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 39 comments

A kinematically coupled, nanometer-resolution piezo focus stage(bunniestudios.com)

55 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles(rmit.edu.au)

55 points by geox 2 years ago | 35 comments

A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars for Years(thedrive.com)

53 points by aloukissas 2 years ago | 26 comments

Cognition Labs Seeks $2B Valuation(wsj.com)

52 points by atomlib 2 years ago | 45 comments

Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment(androidpolice.com)

50 points by franczesko 2 years ago | 38 comments

Original Pirate Material(historytoday.com)

49 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 23 comments

YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious(chipp.in)

48 points by CHEF-KOCH 2 years ago | 26 comments

How Read-Intensive is The Kernel's Use of RCU?(paulmck.livejournal.com)

47 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 5 comments

Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit(theins.ru)

46 points by dilyevsky 2 years ago | 37 comments

Documentation as code: Principles, workflow, and challenges(tabnine.com)

39 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 11 comments

Indian investigators ask Apple to access Delhi chief minister's phones(indianexpress.com)

38 points by dagmx 2 years ago | 7 comments

Apple TV's Fantastic "Silo" Plays Out Like Great Sci-Fi Literature (2023)(rogerebert.com)

38 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 21 comments

The Human Hemisphere (2015)(radicalcartography.net)

37 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 4 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of VMs in hacker pedagogy(hiandrewquinn.github.io)

37 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2 years ago | 36 comments

How Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)(github.com)

37 points by morenatron 2 years ago | 15 comments

Free shipping isn’t really free (2020)(theatlantic.com)

35 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 38 comments