Hacker News on Saturday, 17 August 2024

Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player(mpv.io)

1017 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 525 comments

Homepage of mpv, a free, open-source, cross-platform command-line-oriented media player, with links to installation, reference docs, bug reports, and community.

Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely(github.com)

706 points by tosh 2 years ago | 226 comments

GitHub repository for Magic Wormhole, an MIT-licensed tool for securely transferring files and text from one computer to another.

Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out(csoonline.com)

412 points by miles 2 years ago | 271 comments

CSO Online news article on a Microsoft Authenticator design flaw that overwrites existing MFA accounts when new ones are added, locking users out.

Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store(twitter.com)

403 points by faebi 2 years ago | 145 comments

An X (Twitter) post from Organic Maps reporting that Google removed the Organic Maps app from the Play Store; the post content did not load.

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum(fortune.com)

402 points by pzmarzly 2 years ago | 319 comments

Fortune article reporting that X was ordered to pay €550,000 to an Irish employee fired for not replying to Elon Musk's 'extremely hardcore' yes-or-resign ultimatum.

Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf](files.eric.ed.gov)

341 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 124 comments

A PDF research paper hosted on ERIC about techniques for improving long-term retention of learned material without adding study time.

Blockbuster Video VHS insert template(github.com)

312 points by zdw 2 years ago | 74 comments

Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program(github.com)

272 points by apitman 2 years ago | 22 comments

X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders(reuters.com)

258 points by hexage1814 2 years ago | 387 comments

FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)(loyaltylobby.com)

200 points by croemer 2 years ago | 109 comments

Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?(joel.tools)

194 points by JoelEinbinder 2 years ago | 96 comments

pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA(motherduck.com)

168 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 23 comments

Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google(tinystruggles.com)

167 points by delive 2 years ago | 171 comments

Just use Postgres(mccue.dev)

160 points by refset 2 years ago | 138 comments

Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?

154 points by OnuRC 2 years ago | 250 comments

I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)(legendofworlds.com)

152 points by upmind 2 years ago | 54 comments

Xapian: Open source search engine library(xapian.org)

149 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 39 comments

Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones(arstechnica.com)

148 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 91 comments

Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables(blog.sylver.dev)

143 points by upmind 2 years ago | 8 comments

An unordered list of things I miss in Go(kokada.capivaras.dev)

138 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 205 comments

Slackdump(github.com)

136 points by xnx 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'(theverge.com)

135 points by stalfosknight 2 years ago | 142 comments

The weird of function-local types in Rust(elastio.github.io)

107 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 27 comments

Hacking with PDF (2022)(0xcybery.github.io)

104 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 12 comments

DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model(arxiv.org)

99 points by dataminer 2 years ago | 39 comments

The secret lives of snowblowers(lcamtuf.substack.com)

98 points by zdw 2 years ago | 43 comments

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users(cnet.com)

90 points by fury999io 2 years ago | 45 comments

Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)(outlandnish.com)

87 points by alavry 2 years ago | 12 comments

Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them(github.com)

84 points by sgammon 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Vala Language (2017)(bassi.io)

81 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 49 comments

Batteryless OP-1(shred.zone)

80 points by zdw 2 years ago | 34 comments

How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI(justinmath.com)

77 points by ahiknsr 2 years ago | 12 comments

Toothpaste Null-Terminator(dunkels.com)

74 points by userm0d 2 years ago | 53 comments

Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage(newatlas.com)

72 points by clumsysmurf 2 years ago | 27 comments

David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video](youtube.com)

71 points by bhasi 2 years ago | 5 comments

Spring-rs is a microservice framework in Rust inspired by Java's spring-boot(github.com)

64 points by holmofyHu 2 years ago | 48 comments

China's manufacturers are going broke(economist.com)

63 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 76 comments

AMD's Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug(techradar.com)

59 points by speckx 2 years ago | 10 comments

Code as Art(awwsmm.com)

58 points by awwsmm 2 years ago | 22 comments

Stressed mouse brain sends gut messages that reduce beneficial bacteria levels(medicalxpress.com)

54 points by gmays 2 years ago | 11 comments

Brain found to store three copies of every memory(newatlas.com)

53 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 years ago | 41 comments

'Kafkaesque': bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam(theguardian.com)

52 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 34 comments

The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life(proton.me)

48 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 10 comments

Understanding Intel(chipstrat.com)

45 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 24 comments

Linux Memory Overcommit (2007)(opsmonkey.blogspot.com)

45 points by signa11 2 years ago | 39 comments

AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again(minimaxir.com)

45 points by minimaxir 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why do people believe true things?(conspicuouscognition.com)

43 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 39 comments

Colorize Lidar point clouds with camera images(medium.com)

43 points by shikhardevgupta 2 years ago | 13 comments

Trailer Faces HQ Dataset(justinpinkney.com)

43 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 7 comments

Running NixOS on Proxmox LXC(taoofmac.com)

39 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 6 comments

Home to Anything JavaFX Related(jfx-central.com)

38 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 13 comments

Lilygo T-Deck Plus is a $70 handheld with GPS, LoRa, and a BlackBerry keyboard(liliputing.com)

36 points by edward 2 years ago | 12 comments

Open-source tool helps you convert PDF documents, web pages, etc., into Markdown(github.com)

36 points by Moon_Y 2 years ago | 0 comments

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care(theregister.com)

36 points by rntn 2 years ago | 38 comments

Analysis of EV charging stations finds reliability issues galore(emergingtechbrew.com)

34 points by speckx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ren'Py(github.com)

34 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 11 comments

Online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping(theguardian.com)

33 points by geox 2 years ago | 19 comments

Summary of the USA federal government's zero-trust memo(bastionzero.com)

33 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 22 comments

Sergey Brin: "Irate Call from Steve Jobs" (2005)(twitter.com)

31 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 8 comments

Intel's Thunderbolt Share is a speedy sneakernet replacement and more(pcworld.com)

30 points by transpute 2 years ago | 38 comments