Hacker News on Monday, 27 May 2024

Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero(blog.jgc.org)

925 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 246 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post on controlling the PixMob LED wristbands used at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour with a Flipper Zero.

Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”(ntietz.com)

560 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 308 comments

Blog post arguing that the ambiguous term "auth" should be replaced with "login" for authentication and "permissions" for authorization.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?(blog.ploetzli.ch)

536 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 367 comments

Blog essay by Henryk Plötz arguing that JSON Web Tokens should not be used as authentication/session tokens, explaining the reasons.

Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes(solipsys.co.uk)

436 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 207 comments

Screenshot of a tweet describing hidden white-on-white prompt-injection text added to a resume to game AI-based candidate screening.

Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems(arxiv.org)

413 points by belter 2 years ago | 138 comments

arXiv paper showing how Apple's Wi-Fi-based positioning system can be abused to geolocate over 2 billion BSSIDs worldwide and track device movements.

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack(mastodon.archive.org)

409 points by toomanyrichies 2 years ago | 166 comments

Social media post from the Internet Archive announcing archive.org is under a DDoS attack, with data unaffected but most services unavailable.

Priced out of home ownership(bbc.co.uk)

397 points by user20180120 2 years ago | 961 comments

BBC News article by Natalie Sherman about people being priced out of home ownership amid high housing costs.

Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene(github.com)

303 points by kaathewise 2 years ago | 47 comments

A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers(cosmosmagazine.com)

264 points by geox 2 years ago | 170 comments

Gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub(github.com)

231 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 57 comments

Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4(blog.benjojo.co.uk)

228 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 288 comments

Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners(arxiv.org)

216 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 57 comments

Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma(lunduniversity.lu.se)

196 points by belter 2 years ago | 176 comments

Notepad Tab(notepadtab.com)

167 points by gamekingro 2 years ago | 122 comments

My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water(tomscii.sig7.se)

166 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 74 comments

PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet(ericdaigle.ca)

154 points by nneonneo 2 years ago | 59 comments

More Itertools(more-itertools.readthedocs.io)

149 points by stereoabuse 2 years ago | 32 comments

Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor(github.com)

143 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 58 comments

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers(lima-vm.io)

136 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 45 comments

Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack(mastodon.archive.org)

124 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 12 comments

GTFL – A Graphical Terminal for Common Lisp(martin-loetzsch.de)

121 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 16 comments

British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed(bbc.co.uk)

118 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 87 comments

Is regulated BGP security coming?(blog.apnic.net)

109 points by superkuh 2 years ago | 85 comments

X.ai: $6B Series B(x.ai)

100 points by frisco 2 years ago | 124 comments

The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree(nymag.com)

94 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 45 comments

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)(swtch.com)

88 points by tosh 2 years ago | 2 comments

Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria(globalvoices.org)

80 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 57 comments

Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA(theconversation.com)

78 points by The-Old-Hacker 2 years ago | 46 comments

Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless(playpermissionless.substack.com)

78 points by jakobgreenfeld 2 years ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code

77 points by rkwz 2 years ago | 82 comments

How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?(wired.com)

73 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 323 comments

Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube(developers.google.com)

73 points by thefilmore 2 years ago | 18 comments

Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers(joannenova.com.au)

72 points by Jerry2 2 years ago | 33 comments

Alaska's Pristine Waterways Are Turning Orange(sciencealert.com)

70 points by laktak 2 years ago | 4 comments

Withdraw most of my ownership in favor of Mark(github.com)

66 points by madmax108 2 years ago | 15 comments

An adjustable filter that can prevent interference in the range 600 MHz to 6 GHz(blog.seas.upenn.edu)

64 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 13 comments

Testing quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri(academic.oup.com)

64 points by ilove_banh_mi 2 years ago | 27 comments

How we enabled ARM64 VMs(ubicloud.com)

60 points by ozgune 2 years ago | 10 comments

Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels into Identities(newyorker.com)

52 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 38 comments

Tesla 'self-driving' technology failed to detect a moving train ahead of a crash(nbcnews.com)

51 points by doener 2 years ago | 30 comments

My BDFL guiding principles (cURL) – daniel.haxx.se(daniel.haxx.se)

49 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 11 comments

Truth, Math, and Models (Part 8 in a series on the scientific method)(blog.rongarret.info)

49 points by lisper 2 years ago | 39 comments

Iconv, set the charset to RCE: Exploiting the glibc to hack the PHP engine(ambionics.io)

48 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ore Energy exits stealth mode unveils battery based on only iron, water and air(siliconcanals.com)

47 points by belter 2 years ago | 25 comments

Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women(bicycling.com)

44 points by dinosor 2 years ago | 35 comments

New Magic for Animations in CSS(chasem.co)

39 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 4 comments

Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based study(sciencedirect.com)

36 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 10 comments

AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)(aiweirdness.com)

31 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 32 comments

Priced Out of Homeownership(bbc.com)

30 points by belter 2 years ago | 29 comments

Braid-Text: Text Synchronization Libraries over Braid-HTTP(github.com)

25 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 3 comments

A venture capitalist walks into a bar(lcamtuf.substack.com)

24 points by zdw 2 years ago | 8 comments

We need 70% less coders as the AI handles most of the coding(old.reddit.com)

23 points by kristiandupont 2 years ago | 35 comments

Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality(forwork.meta.com)

22 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 37 comments

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map (2021)(princeton.edu)

21 points by sorentwo 2 years ago | 12 comments

Helix: A post-modern text editor(helix-editor.com)

18 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 5 comments

Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution; It May Become the Next Rule of Biology(popularmechanics.com)

17 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 5 comments

Wall Street is about to see its biggest trading change in years(cnn.com)

15 points by belter 2 years ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: My CEO has been "stealing" money from the company, what should we do?

13 points by micecof 2 years ago | 3 comments

ADHD traits were an advantage in evolution(washingtonpost.com)

12 points by ljlolel 2 years ago | 3 comments