Hacker News on Thursday, 19 September 2024

Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website(kibty.town)

1332 points by xyzeva 2 years ago | 450 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Firebase misconfiguration in the Arc browser (CVE-2024-45489) that allowed remote code injection into any user's browser.

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host(larslofgren.com)

539 points by greg_V 2 years ago | 266 comments

Blog post by Lars Lofgren arguing that Forbes Marketplace operates as a parasite SEO business leveraging Forbes' domain authority for affiliate content.

FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies(ftc.gov)

464 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 293 comments

FTC press release announcing a staff report finding that large social media and video streaming companies engaged in vast surveillance of users with lax privacy controls.

GitHub notification emails used to send malware(ianspence.com)

423 points by crtasm 2 years ago | 168 comments

Blog post describing how GitHub notification emails were abused to deliver malware to developers.

3K free SVG icons for popular brands(simpleicons.org)

421 points by noashavit 2 years ago | 77 comments

Simple Icons, a website offering thousands of free SVG icons for popular brands.

Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS(github.com)

412 points by mightymoud 2 years ago | 142 comments

GitHub repository for Sidekick, a CLI tool that sets up a bare VPS and deploys self-hosted apps in a few commands, like a personal Fly.io.

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel(arstechnica.com)

398 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 118 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the PREEMPT_RT real-time patches have been merged into the mainline Linux kernel after decades of debate.

Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations(spectrum.ieee.org)

365 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 133 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article about a transparent glass antenna that turns windows into compact, inconspicuous 5G base stations to improve cell coverage.

Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)(ittavern.com)

340 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

An illustrated guide explaining SSH tunneling and local, remote, and dynamic port forwarding, published on ittavern.com in 2023.

Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support

262 points by tkuraku 2 years ago | 98 comments

Pivotal Tracker will shut down(pivotaltracker.com)

261 points by sandinmyjoints 2 years ago | 210 comments

Digital signatures and how to avoid them(neilmadden.blog)

259 points by _ikke_ 2 years ago | 73 comments

Zb: An Early-Stage Build System(zombiezen.com)

243 points by zombiezen 2 years ago | 109 comments

Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library(github.com)

214 points by dragostis 2 years ago | 41 comments

Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)(risk-engineering.org)

198 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions(playground.numscript.org)

192 points by superzamp 2 years ago | 45 comments

Diatom Arrangements(trebeljahr.com)

188 points by trebeljahr 2 years ago | 35 comments

DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future(devblogs.microsoft.com)

138 points by AshleysBrain 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

127 points by mceoin 2 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: CNC Microscopy for Fun(anfractuosity.com)

116 points by anfractuosity 2 years ago | 20 comments

Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy(phys.org)

115 points by wglb 2 years ago | 59 comments

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall(theatlantic.com)

114 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 88 comments

Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis(mastodon.social)

111 points by indrora 2 years ago | 33 comments

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds – US news(theguardian.com)

104 points by frans 2 years ago | 117 comments

Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them(latimes.com)

99 points by lxm 2 years ago | 70 comments

The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)(marketplace.org)

90 points by thetopher 2 years ago | 31 comments

Smart Goose Deterrent System(irowbot.duckdns.org)

80 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 38 comments

We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours(blog.skyvern.com)

79 points by suchintan 2 years ago | 113 comments

Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft(space.com)

78 points by alex_young 2 years ago | 35 comments

OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks(opennms.com)

74 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 38 comments

Support for IPv6(backblaze.com)

74 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 75 comments

It's Okay to Abandon Things(netninja.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 61 comments

Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing(thebignewsletter.com)

72 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 53 comments

JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses (2015)(evanjones.ca)

63 points by tosh 2 years ago | 30 comments

Avian flu detected in wastewater from 10 Texas cities(cidrap.umn.edu)

55 points by geox 2 years ago | 27 comments

Beirut Airport Bans Pagers, Walkie-Talkies on All Flights(nna-leb.gov.lb)

54 points by ChrisArchitect 2 years ago | 24 comments

Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom(tudelft.nl)

50 points by gmays 2 years ago | 31 comments

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal(southampton.ac.uk)

46 points by breck 2 years ago | 22 comments

How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)

45 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 39 comments

Seeing Like a Network(strangeloopcanon.com)

45 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: LeanRL: Fast PyTorch RL with Torch.compile and CUDA Graphs(github.com)

42 points by vmoens 2 years ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?

40 points by azalemeth 2 years ago | 22 comments

America's oldest tombstone came from Belgium and belonged to an English knight(phys.org)

38 points by wglb 2 years ago | 18 comments

Pediatricians Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic(wsj.com)

38 points by julienchastang 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: An Elliptic Curve-Based Secure Chat, Written Using Rust and Protobuf(github.com)

37 points by vaktibabat 2 years ago | 4 comments

ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day(newatlas.com)

36 points by ludovicianul 2 years ago | 39 comments

Netflix's Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer(netflixtechblog.com)

33 points by gslin 2 years ago | 3 comments

X and Starlink face $1M in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil(cnbc.com)

33 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 23 comments

Organic thermoelectric device can harvest energy at room temperature(kyushu-u.ac.jp)

29 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Ask HN: Is it wrong not wanting career progression beyond senior?

28 points by cloudedcordial 2 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: EloqKV – Scalable distributed ACID key-value database with Redis API(eloqdata.com)

27 points by hubertzhang 2 years ago | 25 comments

An In-Depth Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques, Models, and Applications(myscale.com)

26 points by Bella-Xiang 2 years ago | 3 comments

House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio(theverge.com)

26 points by eklitzke 2 years ago | 11 comments

Tech Jobs Have Dried Up–-and Aren't Coming Back Soon(wsj.com)

26 points by matltc 2 years ago | 7 comments

Open research Europe: Towards a collective open access publishing service(op.europa.eu)

25 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: What email service(s) do you use for your side projects?

25 points by jtap 2 years ago | 28 comments

Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs win Lasker medical award(washingtonpost.com)

22 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 19 comments

Windows App now available on all major platforms(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

21 points by alexrustic 2 years ago | 19 comments

A Cyborg Manifesto (1991) [pdf](archives.evergreen.edu)

17 points by squircle 2 years ago | 2 comments

Three-Dimensional Wave Breaking(nature.com)

17 points by wawayanda 2 years ago | 1 comments