Hacker News on Wednesday, 7 August 2024

Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy(icode4.coffee)

658 points by ndiddy 2 years ago | 90 comments

Blog post by Ryan Miceli describing a strcpy buffer overflow exploit in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games across GameCube, PS2, Xbox and Xbox 360.

Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments(roometron.com)

623 points by streakolay 2 years ago | 182 comments

Landing page for Roometron, a web app that transforms floor plans into 3D apartment visuals for real estate marketing, offering early access signup.

Prevention of HIV(science.org)

605 points by etiam 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Science.org blog post about HIV prevention; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

Puppeteer Support for Firefox(hacks.mozilla.org)

602 points by cpeterso 2 years ago | 85 comments

Mozilla Hacks post announcing that Puppeteer version 23 has official first-class support for automating and testing Firefox alongside Chrome.

NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025(nytimes.com)

389 points by lode 2 years ago | 529 comments

New York Times article reporting NASA may return Boeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on a SpaceX vehicle in 2025.

Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out(lapcatsoftware.com)

362 points by latexr 2 years ago | 81 comments

Jeff Johnson's blog post arguing Apple quietly removed its 2020 promise to let macOS users opt out of OCSP Developer ID certificate checks.

Official proposal for Type Unions in C#(github.com)

284 points by Fervicus 2 years ago | 226 comments

Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams(budgetflow.cc)

251 points by mkrd 2 years ago | 88 comments

The Third Atomic Bomb(lflank.wordpress.com)

247 points by dxs 2 years ago | 244 comments

How Uber tests payments in production(news.alvaroduran.com)

204 points by ohduran 2 years ago | 127 comments

Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps(github.com)

195 points by markuman123 2 years ago | 73 comments

70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam(blog.phylum.io)

188 points by louislang 2 years ago | 79 comments

GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments(treatmenteffect.app)

185 points by thoughtpeddler 2 years ago | 73 comments

What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces?(core77.com)

181 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 116 comments

Maximal min() and max()(lwn.net)

172 points by immibis 2 years ago | 97 comments

1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide(e360.yale.edu)

171 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 138 comments

Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping(argdown.org)

164 points by urlwolf 2 years ago | 44 comments

Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor(github.com)

156 points by gvy-dvpont 2 years ago | 24 comments

Poetry was an official Olympic event(smithsonianmag.com)

136 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 125 comments

Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)(safemap.io)

128 points by SafemapTecnolgs 2 years ago | 102 comments

Mistral Agents(mistral.ai)

128 points by eitanturok 2 years ago | 33 comments

In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality(washingtonpost.com)

124 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 490 comments

Judge Fines Ripple $125M, Bans Future Securities Law Violations(coindesk.com)

123 points by crhulls 2 years ago | 34 comments

Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming(github.com)

123 points by danthelion 2 years ago | 34 comments

The Private Life: On James Baldwin(theparisreview.org)

116 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 13 comments

Gear Acquisition Syndrome(library.oapen.org)

106 points by fhars 2 years ago | 102 comments

A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts(hackaday.com)

104 points by rmason 2 years ago | 41 comments

A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way(newsletter.posthog.com)

100 points by Lior539 2 years ago | 17 comments

Python extensions should be lazy(gauge.sh)

97 points by 0x63_Problems 2 years ago | 42 comments

Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More(numberworld.org)

97 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Segment Anything Model and Friends(lightly.ai)

95 points by sauravmaheshkar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: How to Price a Product

86 points by imvetri 2 years ago | 42 comments

How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety (CHERI)(cheriot.org)

82 points by miloignis 2 years ago | 26 comments

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance(phoronix.com)

79 points by pella 2 years ago | 24 comments

Neon: A serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres(github.com)

78 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 38 comments

A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics (2003) [pdf](ams.org)

78 points by gone35 2 years ago | 25 comments

Imagining a personal data pipeline(joshcanhelp.com)

78 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 23 comments

Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds(theguardian.com)

76 points by hackernj 2 years ago | 77 comments

Faulty instructions in C910 RISC-V CPUs(ghostwriteattack.com)

75 points by johndoe0815 2 years ago | 31 comments

I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life(gq.com)

74 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 56 comments

macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run not notarized or signed apps(9to5mac.com)

65 points by danirod 2 years ago | 33 comments

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming(twitter.com)

65 points by doener 2 years ago | 58 comments

Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Orchestrate AI Infrastructure and Applications

64 points by tommy_mcclung 2 years ago | 33 comments

A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946)(ams.org)

62 points by pipopi 2 years ago | 39 comments

How Olympic Timing Works(entertainment.howstuffworks.com)

61 points by histories 2 years ago | 33 comments

Review – Ford's First Engine(sites.google.com)

61 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 12 comments

2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed(tomsguide.com)

56 points by purpleblue 2 years ago | 35 comments

GitButler is now fair source(blog.gitbutler.com)

55 points by odo1242 2 years ago | 51 comments

First USGS supercomputer decommissioning makes way for successors(usgs.gov)

54 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 39 comments

Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit(ft.com)

54 points by johntfella 2 years ago | 55 comments

Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human(journals.biologists.com)

51 points by fforflo 2 years ago | 41 comments

Can kids master the video games their parents loved?(theguardian.com)

48 points by n1b0m 2 years ago | 95 comments

Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover'(coq.inria.fr)

46 points by mvelbaum 2 years ago | 29 comments

Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)

46 points by aard 2 years ago | 31 comments

Atlanta Police Monitoring of 'Cop City' Opponents' Political Activity(brennancenter.org)

44 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 7 comments

Türkiye Bans Roblox(turkiyetoday.com)

41 points by moneil971 2 years ago | 37 comments

Kitchen sponges can be used as memory devices(nature.com)

40 points by harhargange 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Powers of Soviet Puppetry(historytoday.com)

40 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: Front-end bait and switch?

39 points by throwawaybcknd 2 years ago | 35 comments

Thoughts on Canonical S-Expressions (2019)(write.emacsen.net)

39 points by shoggouth 2 years ago | 9 comments