Hacker News on Friday, 23 August 2024

Did you lose your AirPods?(alexyancey.com)

996 points by RockRobotRock 2 years ago | 361 comments

Personal blog post by Alex Yancey about finding lost AirPods and trying to identify the owner via Apple's partial phone number display.

DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters(justice.gov)

708 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 566 comments

U.S. Department of Justice press release announcing an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage over algorithmic rent pricing software alleged to harm millions of renters.

17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist(torrentfreak.com)

429 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 166 comments

TorrentFreak article about a 17-year-old German student who launched a site exposing the domains secretly blocked by German ISPs under a voluntary agreement with rightsholders.

We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus(marc.info)

394 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 67 comments

OpenBSD CVS commit by Theo de Raadt replacing the Greek quiz file, the last unmodified file from the original 1995 OpenBSD import.

SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99(github.com)

338 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 125 comments

GitHub repository for SurrealEngine, an open-source reimplementation of the Unreal Tournament (UT99) engine.

Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications(simonwillison.net)

329 points by simonw 2 years ago | 153 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining that Anthropic's Claude API now supports CORS via a special header, allowing direct calls from browsers.

We need to liberate the Postcode Address File(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)

324 points by edward 2 years ago | 275 comments

James O'Malley's Substack post on a confidential UK government pilot report about an open address register, arguing the Royal Mail Postcode Address File should be freed as open data.

Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles(macrumors.com)

319 points by tosh 2 years ago | 446 comments

MacRumors article reporting that Meta canceled a high-end mixed reality headset meant to rival Apple Vision Pro, citing The Information.

The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute(sebastianmarines.com)

315 points by marinesebastian 2 years ago | 104 comments

Adding 16 kb page size to Android(android-developers.googleblog.com)

310 points by mikece 2 years ago | 161 comments

Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel(arstechnica.com)

293 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 427 comments

Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business(jxnl.co)

260 points by nell 2 years ago | 220 comments

Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned(osf.io)

254 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 125 comments

Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs(vega.github.io)

246 points by worble 2 years ago | 35 comments

OpenSSH Backdoors(blog.isosceles.com)

229 points by benhawkes 2 years ago | 116 comments

BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time(electriccarsreport.com)

188 points by belter 2 years ago | 222 comments

Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist(nautil.us)

151 points by signa11 2 years ago | 147 comments

Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms(github.com)

131 points by swyx 2 years ago | 45 comments

Generating Mazes(healeycodes.com)

131 points by itsjloh 2 years ago | 31 comments

My IRC client runs on Kubernetes(xeiaso.net)

123 points by xena 2 years ago | 104 comments

How I lost my Google Play dev account forever(old.reddit.com)

119 points by BeefySwain 2 years ago | 54 comments

EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications(github.com)

116 points by auraham 2 years ago | 20 comments

The staggering death toll of scientific lies(vox.com)

115 points by rntn 2 years ago | 93 comments

Modern Wardriving (2023)(simonroses.com)

114 points by zdw 2 years ago | 60 comments

Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency(github.com)

110 points by eventhelix 2 years ago | 60 comments

Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list(fortune.com)

109 points by jesperancinha 2 years ago | 56 comments

Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown(lwn.net)

102 points by signa11 2 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better(github.com)

100 points by mschempp 2 years ago | 95 comments

Launch HN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks

100 points by tmychow 2 years ago | 54 comments

How people with disabilities use the web(w3.org)

94 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 29 comments

Leveraging AI for efficient incident response(engineering.fb.com)

92 points by Amaresh 2 years ago | 46 comments

Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs(github.com)

91 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 10 comments

SnapDiagram – Instantly Convert Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Digital with AI(snapdiagram.xyz)

86 points by tompreneur 2 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue(webcrumbs.org)

84 points by m4rcxs 2 years ago | 69 comments

Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)(medium.com)

84 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 48 comments

Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf](steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net)

83 points by thecalebf 2 years ago | 74 comments

Hacker Purity Test (1989)(armory.com)

82 points by oliverkwebb 2 years ago | 75 comments

Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?(kguttag.com)

80 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 51 comments

Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief(apnews.com)

79 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 58 comments

Semaglutide like Ozempic burn visceral fat, don't just suppress appetite(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

79 points by gumby 2 years ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations(github.com)

78 points by kodjima33 2 years ago | 55 comments

Makefiles for Web Work (2022)(rosszurowski.com)

76 points by crcastle 2 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs(newyorkdailyinquirer.com)

74 points by asolis0105 2 years ago | 38 comments

Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer's disease mouse study(newsroom.ucla.edu)

69 points by geox 2 years ago | 18 comments

Companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns(theregister.com)

68 points by belter 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse(arstechnica.com)

62 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 42 comments

Wcurl Is Here(daniel.haxx.se)

57 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 37 comments

Microsoft's controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October(ghacks.net)

55 points by mrinfinitiesx 2 years ago | 45 comments

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025(news.ubisoft.com)

55 points by NKosmatos 2 years ago | 46 comments

A Symbol for the Fediverse ⁂(symbol.fediverse.info)

53 points by tarball 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure(pocket.computer)

49 points by chrisnolet 2 years ago | 35 comments

Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year(arstechnica.com)

49 points by duxup 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Support.dev – a non-trivial Vue and Supabase app(github.com)

45 points by bwship 2 years ago | 2 comments

'Megalopolis' trailer's fake critic quotes were AI-generated(variety.com)

42 points by Xenoamorphous 2 years ago | 38 comments

TextBundle(textbundle.org)

42 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 26 comments

Sanitarium(filfre.net)

41 points by doppp 2 years ago | 11 comments

Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations(open-web-advocacy.org)

41 points by judiisis 2 years ago | 24 comments

Lactate helps cancer cells resist chemotherapy(nature.com)

39 points by assadk 2 years ago | 15 comments

Cursor Has Raised $60M(cursor.com)

36 points by ent101 2 years ago | 38 comments

Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice(github.com)

35 points by hongspike 2 years ago | 5 comments