Hacker News on Monday, 8 July 2024

Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes(conduition.io)

2119 points by miki123211 2 years ago | 680 comments

A blog post by Conduition explaining how Ticketmaster's SafeTix rotating barcodes work and how to reverse engineer them using Chrome DevTools.

No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead(pretalx.com)

731 points by zdw 2 years ago | 385 comments

DevConf.cz 2024 talk page with embedded video proposing replacing traditional boot loaders like GRUB with the Linux kernel itself.

Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript(dgerrells.com)

489 points by rustystump 2 years ago | 61 comments

Blog post describing how the author simulated 20 million particles in JavaScript using shared array buffers and multithreading, with an interactive demo.

The Right Kind of Stubborn(paulgraham.com)

487 points by urs 2 years ago | 211 comments

Paul Graham's July 2024 essay distinguishing persistence from obstinacy and arguing they are different kinds of behavior.

Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes(cnbc.com)

469 points by dblitt 2 years ago | 483 comments

CNBC news article reporting that Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy fraud charge tied to the 737 Max crashes, paying a $243.6 million fine and accepting a monitor.

C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading(arxiv.org)

343 points by chris_overseas 2 years ago | 200 comments

arXiv paper presenting C++ design patterns and benchmarks for low-latency code in high-frequency trading, including a Disruptor pattern implementation.

DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)(sqlitebrowser.org)

323 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 54 comments

Homepage of DB Browser for SQLite, an open source visual tool for creating, searching, and editing SQLite database files on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app(github.com)

292 points by hoakiet98 2 years ago | 67 comments

Entering text in the terminal is complicated(jvns.ca)

253 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 171 comments

Making my own wedding rings(geoff.greer.fm)

253 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 113 comments

Do Skis Get Blunt?(brooker.co.za)

235 points by luu 2 years ago | 168 comments

Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction(torrentfreak.com)

235 points by mistercheph 2 years ago | 122 comments

Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent(old.reddit.com)

204 points by gantengx 2 years ago | 125 comments

Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm(words.filippo.io)

193 points by mmcloughlin 2 years ago | 10 comments

Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11(github.com)

184 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 116 comments

The Deadlock Empire: An Interactive Guide to Locks(deadlockempire.github.io)

180 points by neonsunset 2 years ago | 32 comments

Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months(theverge.com)

173 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 111 comments

Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition(torrentfreak.com)

167 points by mrzool 2 years ago | 118 comments

Spot the Drowning Child (2015)(spotthedrowningchild.com)

156 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 110 comments

For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free(theglobeandmail.com)

151 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 123 comments

Show HN: I am building an open-source incident management platform(github.com)

142 points by sanj001 2 years ago | 25 comments

Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner(plausible.io)

127 points by bugfactory 2 years ago | 78 comments

Dear Roku, you ruined my TV(theverge.com)

124 points by some-guy 2 years ago | 91 comments

Sljit: Platform independent low-level JIT compiler(github.com)

114 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 20 comments

Children's mental models of recursive LOGO programs (1985)(telearn.hal.science)

104 points by YuxiLiuWired 2 years ago | 18 comments

1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file(github.com)

104 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 72 comments

How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator(bitwarden.com)

99 points by humanperhaps 2 years ago | 46 comments

'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021)(meduza.io)

84 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 11 comments

NanoKVM: Affordable, Multifunctional, Nano RISC-V IP-KVM(github.com)

84 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 34 comments

Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server(github.com)

84 points by ReversedChaos 2 years ago | 38 comments

Universal Code Execution by Chaining Messages in Browser Extensions(spaceraccoon.dev)

83 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Making Python Less Random(healeycodes.com)

80 points by healeycodes 2 years ago | 34 comments

Dumb website only lets one user in at a time(imherefor.me)

76 points by hoffm 2 years ago | 74 comments

Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model(research.roblox.com)

76 points by janos95 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: I built a IMDB for all kinds of micro-creators(fanzine.world)

75 points by quinto_quarto 2 years ago | 28 comments

LightRAG: The PyTorch Library for Large Language Model Applications(github.com)

70 points by bbzjk7 2 years ago | 10 comments

Python Has Too Many Package Managers(dublog.net)

67 points by LarsDu88 2 years ago | 76 comments

Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy (2021)(nonzero.substack.com)

63 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 53 comments

Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour(androidauthority.com)

63 points by LordAtlas 2 years ago | 48 comments

Recursive Program Synthesis using Paramorphisms [pdf](theory.stanford.edu)

61 points by luu 2 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: A fast OSS voice assistant(swift-ai.vercel.app)

59 points by Rauchg 2 years ago | 26 comments

QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine(github.com)

56 points by jcbhmr 2 years ago | 24 comments

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? (2022)(sciencehistory.org)

51 points by ajuhasz 2 years ago | 39 comments

Twenty Five Years of Warehouse-Scale Computing(computer.org)

50 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: WAL Implementation in Golang(github.com)

44 points by stym06 2 years ago | 21 comments

MicroPython Smartwatch(tolidano.com)

42 points by tolidano 2 years ago | 7 comments

Enums in Go(dizzy.zone)

42 points by dizzyVik 2 years ago | 39 comments

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Reproduces BIG-Bench Canary String(lesswrong.com)

42 points by optimalsolver 2 years ago | 14 comments

SF's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record(cnbc.com)

42 points by koolba 2 years ago | 41 comments

Birds in Space II: Quails in the Cosmos (2011)(finchwench.wordpress.com)

39 points by cubefox 2 years ago | 4 comments

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations(aeon.co)

38 points by summerdown2 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 3.4(forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)

38 points by mariuz 2 years ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: Should I consolidate my blogs into one?

35 points by skwee357 2 years ago | 25 comments

How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive(trigger.dev)

35 points by mifydev 2 years ago | 17 comments

“Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept(thediff.co)

35 points by jger15 2 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: I coded my own JSON translation tool to easily localize my side project(quicklang.app)

33 points by jboschpons 2 years ago | 24 comments

Understanding Software Dynamics [book review](usenix.org)

32 points by signa11 2 years ago | 7 comments

Build your own React (2019)(pomb.us)

32 points by fdeage 2 years ago | 9 comments

Dark mode is not as good for your eyes as you believe(wired.com)

31 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 31 comments

LibreOfficeKit API in action: new API to access LibreOffice functionalities(dev.blog.documentfoundation.org)

27 points by mariuz 2 years ago | 8 comments