Hacker News on Saturday, 29 June 2024

Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers(github.com)

573 points by wsc981 2 years ago | 111 comments

GitHub repository for ImHex, an open-source cross-platform hex editor aimed at reverse engineers and programmers.

Inside a $1 radar motion sensor(10maurycy10.github.io)

547 points by nothacking_ 2 years ago | 88 comments

A blog post examining the inner workings of the cheap RCWL-0516 microwave radar motion sensor module that sells for about a dollar.

A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago(mbuffett.com)

493 points by marcusbuffett 2 years ago | 289 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer lists advice he would give his younger self, such as fixing recurring team problems at their root.

Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative(github.com)

477 points by Pi9h 2 years ago | 184 comments

GitHub repository for Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation tool positioned as an alternative to Confluence and Notion.

Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws(memorycorruption.net)

443 points by memcorruption 2 years ago | 113 comments

A security research blog post explaining how Lua bytecode flaws in the game Factorio can be exploited for memory corruption and remote code execution.

LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing(github.com)

346 points by ingve 2 years ago | 69 comments

GitHub repository for LosslessCut, a GPL-licensed cross-platform app for lossless video and audio cutting and editing built on FFmpeg.

Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm(ethz.ch)

294 points by jeroenvlek 2 years ago | 45 comments

FUTO Keyboard(keyboard.futo.org)

276 points by richardboegli 2 years ago | 229 comments

AirPods fast connect security vulnerability(blogs.gnome.org)

274 points by memalign 2 years ago | 68 comments

The economics of writing technical books(architectelevator.com)

264 points by raju 2 years ago | 86 comments

Python toolkit for quantitative finance(github.com)

263 points by tzury 2 years ago | 53 comments

How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins(rachelbythebay.com)

244 points by zoidb 2 years ago | 120 comments

Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor(github.com)

222 points by kaladin-jasnah 2 years ago | 105 comments

Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive(smithsonianmag.com)

191 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 32 comments

Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)(jcs.org)

166 points by edward 2 years ago | 65 comments

The super effectiveness of Pokémon embeddings using only raw JSON and images(minimaxir.com)

147 points by minimaxir 2 years ago | 22 comments

Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War(smithsonianmag.com)

142 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 147 comments

The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s(mentalfloss.com)

134 points by gmays 2 years ago | 39 comments

Trilobites killed by volcanic ash(bristol.ac.uk)

131 points by geox 2 years ago | 21 comments

Neo Geo Architecture: A practical analysis(copetti.org)

131 points by zdw 2 years ago | 30 comments

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio(swissinfo.ch)

130 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 131 comments

All web "content" is freeware(rubenerd.com)

127 points by imadj 2 years ago | 71 comments

It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use(propelauth.com)

112 points by carlual 2 years ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad(skypath.io)

112 points by oron 2 years ago | 54 comments

Anatomy of a cryptocurrency scam(practicalsecurity.substack.com)

109 points by atilla_bilgic 2 years ago | 67 comments

The Operational Wargame Series: The best game not in stores now (2021)(nodicenoglory.com)

103 points by cl42 2 years ago | 55 comments

How I overcame my addiction to sugar(josem.co)

101 points by josem 2 years ago | 138 comments

Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists(phys.org)

96 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 37 comments

Artificial Needles to Real Haystacks: Improving Retrieval Capabilities in LLMs(arxiv.org)

92 points by veryluckyxyz 2 years ago | 18 comments

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity(en.wikipedia.org)

87 points by luu 2 years ago | 107 comments

OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game(openloco.io)

78 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait(cnbc.com)

69 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 41 comments

Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models(theregister.com)

69 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 55 comments

I'm Terrified of Old People(guzey.com)

68 points by barry-cotter 2 years ago | 91 comments

The Flexipede Revisited(chilton-computing.org.uk)

68 points by timthorn 2 years ago | 2 comments

Redbox Owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Files for Chapter 11(deadline.com)

65 points by jrflowers 2 years ago | 54 comments

CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study(grsecurity.net)

64 points by __bjoernd 2 years ago | 6 comments

Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering(bbc.com)

61 points by atombender 2 years ago | 25 comments

AMD MI300x GPUs with GEMM tuning improves throughput and latency by up to 7.2x(nscale.com)

60 points by latchkey 2 years ago | 43 comments

Open source is neither a community nor a democracy(world.hey.com)

59 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 37 comments

Text for Proofing Fonts (2020)(typography.com)

59 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids(pickcode.io)

57 points by csmeyer 2 years ago | 13 comments

Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit(businessinsider.com)

52 points by A4ET8a8uTh0 2 years ago | 38 comments

Alphatab.net(alphatab.net)

51 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 1 comments

We Launched the Largest Real-Time Global CO2 Map(airgradient.com)

51 points by ahaucnx 2 years ago | 16 comments

Small Businesses in Crisis as Rising Numbers Unable to Pay Rent(newsweek.com)

49 points by rolph 2 years ago | 39 comments

U++ – Cross-Platform App Development Framework(ultimatepp.org)

49 points by squarefoot 2 years ago | 18 comments

Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?(jacky.wtf)

48 points by jackyalcine 2 years ago | 36 comments

Study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed (2015)(retractionwatch.com)

47 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 31 comments

Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers (2023)(textiles-lab.github.io)

45 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 16 comments

For the record: You just ordered me to cause a expensive outage(theregister.com)

43 points by gsky 2 years ago | 7 comments

Warren Buffett donates record $5.3B Berkshire shares to charity(reuters.com)

40 points by alexcos 2 years ago | 10 comments

Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners(texty.org.ua)

38 points by dralley 2 years ago | 5 comments

Microsofts AI boss thinks its perfectly OK to steal content if its on open web(theverge.com)

38 points by avivallssa 2 years ago | 19 comments

Framework Laptop 16, six months later(theverge.com)

37 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 32 comments

Microsoft pauses Windows 11 update as it's sending some PCs into infinite reboot(techradar.com)

36 points by miles 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ticketmaster has begun warning customers about data breach(stackdiary.com)

36 points by tgol 2 years ago | 1 comments

Open-LLM performances are plateauing(huggingface.co)

35 points by marban 2 years ago | 5 comments

Edelman's Steps Toward a Conscious Artifact (2021)(arxiv.org)

35 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 18 comments

To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun”(lareviewofbooks.org)

34 points by dredmorbius 2 years ago | 12 comments