Hacker News on Monday, 7 October 2024

Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge(theverge.com)

704 points by dblitt 2 years ago | 503 comments

The Verge reports a judge's permanent injunction in Epic v. Google requiring Google to give third-party app stores access to the Play catalog and distribute rival stores.

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

637 points by 1317 2 years ago | 141 comments

David Buchanan's blog post showing how electromagnetic fault injection on DRAM using a piezo cigarette lighter can be exploited to gain root on a laptop.

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8(blog.appsignal.com)

440 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 204 comments

An AppSignal blog post by Damilola Olatunji from October 2024 outlining the new features in Ruby on Rails 8.

US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward(reuters.com)

421 points by christhecaribou 2 years ago | 191 comments

Reuters news article reporting that the US antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will proceed; the captured page shows a captcha challenge instead of the article.

An e-waste dumping ground(npr.org)

376 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 258 comments

NPR Goats and Soda photo story about a vast e-waste dumping ground in Ghana and the people who make a living salvaging electronics there.

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated(twitter.com)

260 points by jsheard 2 years ago | 198 comments

Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree(chromewebstore.google.com)

256 points by ziolko 2 years ago | 28 comments

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)(dreamsongs.com)

254 points by t14n 2 years ago | 300 comments

An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)(mwhittaker.github.io)

250 points by tripdout 2 years ago | 81 comments

Rewrite cname uncloaking code to account for new ipaddress= option(github.com)

249 points by gslin 2 years ago | 103 comments

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?(aarol.dev)

248 points by misonic 2 years ago | 104 comments

Automating processes with software is hard(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)

246 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 85 comments

Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't(wired.com)

242 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 129 comments

Fast B-Trees(scattered-thoughts.net)

241 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 56 comments

Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava(github.com)

240 points by psychip 2 years ago | 61 comments

Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference(zod.dev)

230 points by tosh 2 years ago | 179 comments

Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster(newyorker.com)

227 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 232 comments

Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed(bbc.co.uk)

207 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 91 comments

Hetzner Object Storage(docs.hetzner.com)

201 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 129 comments

Building a single-page app with Htmx(jakelazaroff.com)

194 points by veggieroll 2 years ago | 97 comments

Warm Handoffs(luckymike.dev)

187 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 44 comments

Is the attack helicopter dead?(hushkit.net)

179 points by speckx 2 years ago | 465 comments

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform(bleepingcomputer.com)

176 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly(wasmer.io)

165 points by syrusakbary 2 years ago | 63 comments

Python 3.13.0 Is Released(docs.python.org)

152 points by Siecje 2 years ago | 54 comments

Fun with Go Iterators(xnacly.me)

151 points by xnacly 2 years ago | 118 comments

California Bans Sell-By Dates(foodandwine.com)

150 points by noworld 2 years ago | 182 comments

Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words(github.com)

146 points by taikon 2 years ago | 29 comments

Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page(nullprogram.com)

142 points by signa11 2 years ago | 44 comments

Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone(wigle.net)

141 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 46 comments

Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel(spectrum.ieee.org)

139 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 262 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024(nobelprize.org)

133 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 52 comments

Day Rates (2023)(davesmyth.com)

131 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 48 comments

Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)(ploum.net)

131 points by andai 2 years ago | 100 comments

ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms(fortune.com)

107 points by wmstack 2 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet(gist.github.com)

106 points by somefries 2 years ago | 30 comments

50 Years of Queries(cacm.acm.org)

102 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: A Website for Comparing Protein Powder Prices(nutritionprices.com)

99 points by parmigiano 2 years ago | 54 comments

Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video](youtube.com)

91 points by FleetAdmiralJa 2 years ago | 46 comments

Gboard Double Sided Version(github.com)

89 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 33 comments

EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference(blog.netbsd.org)

89 points by jaypatelani 2 years ago | 2 comments

Trap – Transformers in APL(github.com)

82 points by tlack 2 years ago | 25 comments

Is AWS S3 having an outage?

81 points by GGO 2 years ago | 35 comments

Gunter's Space Page(space.skyrocket.de)

81 points by okl 2 years ago | 13 comments

A Photo of the Moon(thisiscolossal.com)

79 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 22 comments

How a Gas Compressor Station Works(kimray.com)

75 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 62 comments

How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters(engelsbergideas.com)

75 points by dsr12 2 years ago | 21 comments

Every change breaks someone's workflow (2013)(xkcd.com)

72 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 18 comments

Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line(tweedegolf.nl)

71 points by ladyanita22 2 years ago | 39 comments

Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs(utcc.utoronto.ca)

69 points by ingve 2 years ago | 40 comments

A Language of Beautiful Impurity(edwest.co.uk)

68 points by nafnlj 2 years ago | 22 comments

Octothorpes: Hashtags for the Open Internet(octothorp.es)

67 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 22 comments

Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video(macrumors.com)

66 points by TaurenHunter 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command(github.com)

65 points by C-Loftus 2 years ago | 22 comments

Unlocking the 'aha' moment: Developer relations for startups(signalfire.com)

58 points by jonmarkgo 2 years ago | 6 comments

Google Will Track Your Location 'Every 15 Minutes'–'Even with GPS Disabled'(forbes.com)

58 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end(serverlessai.dev)

57 points by HeavenFox 2 years ago | 23 comments

Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review(bbbhltz.codeberg.page)

57 points by bbbhltz 2 years ago | 10 comments

Do not use secrets in environment variables(nodejs-security.com)

55 points by dangtony98 2 years ago | 51 comments

What is "founder mode"?(tomblomfield.com)

53 points by nqureshi 2 years ago | 49 comments