Timeline of the xz open source attack(research.swtch.com)
967 points by todsacerdoti | 431 comments
Russ Cox's blog post giving a detailed timeline of the social engineering behind the xz/liblzma backdoor attack by "Jia Tan".
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The xz attack shell script(research.swtch.com)
553 points by todsacerdoti | 279 comments
Russ Cox blog post analyzing the shell script portion of the 2024 xz/liblzma backdoor, explaining how it injected malicious code into the build.
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
535 points by seanisom | 151 comments
A former Adobe engineer introduces Renderlet, a WebAssembly-based cross-platform graphics framework, and demos running the Rive 2D renderer on its Wander GPU runtime.
CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians(dekuliutesla.github.io)
469 points by smusamashah | 122 comments
Project page for CityGaussian, a research paper on real-time high-quality rendering of large-scale scenes using 3D Gaussian splatting, from CAS researchers.
Low Cost Robot Arm(github.com)
457 points by pbrowne011 | 228 comments
GitHub repository for a low-cost robot arm, containing hardware design files, pictures, and Python code for Dynamixel servo control.
7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth(earthquake.usgs.gov)
430 points by throwaway598 | 150 comments
USGS interactive map of magnitude 2.5+ earthquakes in the past day, centered on a cluster of quakes near Hualien, Taiwan.
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores(gizmodo.com)
417 points by walterbell | 571 comments
Gizmodo article reporting that Amazon Fresh grocery stores are moving away from the 'Just Walk Out' cashierless checkout technology.
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy(longform.asmartbear.com)
375 points by duck | 178 comments
Jason Cohen essay on A Smart Bear arguing that simply avoiding the common causes of startup failure is most of a winning strategy.
Anonymous public voicemail inbox(afterthebeep.tel)
370 points by unixispower | 95 comments
A website presenting a public voicemail inbox for the number 1-442-667-2337, letting visitors play anonymous messages left by callers in a retro Windows-style interface.
Los Alamos Chess(en.wikipedia.org)
247 points by nanna | 95 comments
Debian Git Monorepo(blog.liw.fi)
207 points by pabs3 | 136 comments
How the XZ Backdoor Works(lwn.net)
171 points by chmaynard | 56 comments
KraftCloud(github.com)
101 points by ashvardanian | 29 comments
I am not a supplier (2022)(softwaremaxims.com)
88 points by MaysonL | 21 comments
Artificio de Juanelo(en.wikipedia.org)
86 points by benbreen | 10 comments
Calling Haskell from Swift(alt-romes.github.io)
83 points by romes | 13 comments
Our tools shape our selves(aeon.co)
74 points by lermontov | 58 comments
Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)
72 points by tmalsburg2 | 41 comments
Microchess for the Kim-1 (2006)(benlo.com)
70 points by jonbaer | 18 comments
Ask HN: Is AngelList Legit?
68 points by throwaway2948 | 37 comments
John Barth has died(nytimes.com)
59 points by Jun8 | 20 comments
Easy Mode Rust(llogiq.github.io)
51 points by thunderbong | 31 comments
Surveilling Alone(thenewatlantis.com)
47 points by crapvoter | 39 comments