Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
2201 points by todsacerdoti | 202 comments
An essay by eieio.games recounting how teens hid a secret message in the binary state of the One Million Checkboxes website, which the author first mistook for a hack.
1859 points by iancarroll | 403 comments
Ian Carroll's blog post describing how a SQL injection flaw let researchers add arbitrary people to the TSA Known Crewmember program, bypassing airport security screening.
1841 points by ranebo | 461 comments
Blog post about repairing an Advantage Air eZone air conditioning control tablet yourself instead of paying $1697 to replace the whole system.
860 points by punkpeye | 290 comments
Glama blog post describing how OpenAI's model was used to reverse-engineer and unminify a minified JavaScript component that renders ASCII art.
705 points by dakrone | 393 comments
Elastic blog post by Shay Banon announcing that Elasticsearch is being made open source again by adding the AGPL as a license option.
493 points by mjcurl | 231 comments
A static site that lists the cheapest mini PCs on eBay, filterable by brand, RAM, storage, OS, condition and ports, with prices updated several times an hour.
468 points by NayamAmarshe | 267 comments
Brave blog post arguing that Chrome's Related Website Sets feature entrenches third-party cookies for some sites in ways that will mislead users about privacy.
435 points by scrlk | 223 comments
Politico Europe article reporting that UK rail minister Peter Hendy got engineer Gareth Dennis fired for raising safety concerns, threatening to withhold public contracts.
394 points by eatonphil | 435 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the Third Circuit ruling that TikTok's algorithmic recommendations aren't shielded by Section 230 and it must stand trial.
370 points by GoRudy | 557 comments
Tomas Pueyo's Uncharted Territories newsletter post examining whether solar photovoltaic panel costs can continue to decline.
358 points by rntn | 95 comments
Gizmodo news article on a judge ruling that a $400 million algorithmic eligibility system illegally denied thousands of people Medicaid benefits.
281 points by caspar | 104 comments
198 points by jrepinc | 99 comments
156 points by helloplanets | 31 comments
138 points by bookofjoe | 64 comments
136 points by meetpateltech | 155 comments
128 points by drylight | 42 comments
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76 points by fanf2 | 34 comments
60 points by gklitt | 7 comments
