Hacker News on Saturday, 7 September 2024

Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses(massgrave.dev)

592 points by tuxuser 2 years ago | 267 comments

MASSGRAVE blog post describing Keyhole, a bug in Windows licensing that allows forging Microsoft Store licenses to bypass activation checks.

WebP: The WebPage Compression Format(purplesyringa.moe)

511 points by Kubuxu 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post describing a trick to compress a website's HTML by encoding it into a lossless WebP image and decoding it in the browser, compared with gzip and Brotli.

Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code(blog.jgc.org)

290 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 30 comments

The "email is authentication" pattern(rubenerd.com)

267 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 375 comments

Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers(thesun.my)

264 points by uzyn 2 years ago | 294 comments

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination(datagubbe.se)

260 points by dominikh 2 years ago | 179 comments

Things to know about the Great Wave(artic.edu)

259 points by msephton 2 years ago | 84 comments

CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress(citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov)

244 points by mindcrime 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o(hnbooks.pieterma.es)

236 points by pmaze 2 years ago | 51 comments

A Post-Google World?(thebignewsletter.com)

219 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 131 comments

A new rare high-rank elliptic curve, and an orchard of Diophantine equations(thehighergeometer.wordpress.com)

193 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 17 comments

DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf](media.defcon.org)

191 points by ruik 2 years ago | 29 comments

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living(fourthievesvinegar.org)

190 points by Beijinger 2 years ago | 150 comments

Microui+fenster=Small GUI(bernsteinbear.com)

187 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 22 comments

The PERQ Computer(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

172 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 93 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide(subtledigressions.substack.com)

151 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 92 comments

Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive(athikerpictures.org)

138 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 30 comments

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)(longnow.org)

136 points by jmstfv 2 years ago | 40 comments

Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC(wingolog.org)

130 points by diegocg 2 years ago | 76 comments

Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads(motortrend.com)

124 points by arkadiyt 2 years ago | 102 comments

What's new in C++26 (part 1)(mariusbancila.ro)

123 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 119 comments

Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?(yorickpeterse.com)

118 points by signa11 2 years ago | 89 comments

The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)(theradiohistorian.org)

107 points by 8bitsrule 2 years ago | 17 comments

The Hindenburg’s Interior(rarehistoricalphotos.com)

99 points by WarOnPrivacy 2 years ago | 74 comments

Browsing Hacker News in the Terminal(hnterm.ggerganov.com)

83 points by h99 2 years ago | 23 comments

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy(theregister.com)

74 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 49 comments

Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive(artbasel.com)

66 points by RobertJaTomsons 2 years ago | 42 comments

my-new-rust-binary-search(chadnauseam.com)

49 points by ChadNauseam 2 years ago | 50 comments

Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico(cbsnews.com)

46 points by clessg 2 years ago | 38 comments

Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive(utcc.utoronto.ca)

45 points by ingve 2 years ago | 12 comments

Working Methods (of a Historian)(lrb.co.uk)

40 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 5 comments

CSAM content on Bluesky has risen ten times in just a week(bsky.app)

40 points by ivewonyoung 2 years ago | 50 comments

Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known(theringer.com)

36 points by gmays 2 years ago | 9 comments

OK City Apple Retail Workers Become 2nd US Store to Secure Tentative Agreement(cwa-union.org)

28 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Hyphanet is a private peer-to-peer platform for publishing and communication(hyphanet.org)

28 points by raytopia 2 years ago | 5 comments

WHAM: Wisconsin High-Temperature Superconducting Axisymmetric Mirror(wham.physics.wisc.edu)

27 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 3 comments

Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust on the RP2350 Microcontroller(phoronix.com)

27 points by mikece 2 years ago | 5 comments

MNT Pocket Reform – Unboxing and First Impressions(ratfactor.com)

26 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why children perceive time slower than adults(bbc.com)

24 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 12 comments

Batteries are a fast-growing secondary electricity source for the grid(eia.gov)

23 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 8 comments

'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine(404media.co)

23 points by Osiris30 2 years ago | 4 comments

Alternatives to Google Products – Updated(peq42.com)

23 points by peq42 2 years ago | 15 comments

Check for malicious IPs using DNS(ipshield.dev)

23 points by shivam-dev 2 years ago | 6 comments

Paddle closed accounts with 1 week notice, leaving many founders in shock(twitter.com)

20 points by vietyork 2 years ago | 1 comments

College Grades Have Become a Charade. It's Time to Abolish Them.(wsj.com)

19 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 13 comments

How to evaluate performance of LLM inference frameworks(lamini.ai)

15 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 1 comments

DNS Doesn't Propagate (2021)(jvns.ca)

15 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 3 comments

Saddling up on the high seas – the cyclists powering 50-MPH yachts(bbc.com)

14 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 2 comments

The YIMBYs Won over the Democrats(theatlantic.com)

13 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 0 comments

Why I started livestreaming as a Rust developer?(blog.orhun.dev)

11 points by orhunp_ 2 years ago | 1 comments

Amazon's $1,600 Astro robot has FOUR CPUs running Linux?(mastodon.social)

11 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Nonstandard Analysis (1972)(sci-hub.se)

11 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 3 comments

We don't trade with ants and why hypothetical AI:s won't, either (2023)(datagubbe.se)

9 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 5 comments

Landslides are destroying multimillion-dollar homes in CA, and are getting worse(cnn.com)

9 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Judge Rejects yet Another Attempt by Texas to Police Online Speech(techdirt.com)

8 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 0 comments

Death Rates by Vehicle Model(iihs.org)

7 points by myroon5 2 years ago | 2 comments

IT Unemployment Hits 6%, Up from 3% Low in Dec 2023(wsj.com)

5 points by samspenc 2 years ago | 0 comments

An Italian Bank Accepts Parmesan Cheese as Loan Collateral(forbes.com)

4 points by krystiannowak 2 years ago | 0 comments

An 'earthquake' at Volkswagen – and a crisis for Germany?(theguardian.com)

4 points by belter 2 years ago | 0 comments

Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt(newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

3 points by samsepi01 2 years ago | 1 comments