Hacker News on Saturday, 12 October 2024

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.

How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video](youtube.com)

842 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 171 comments

YouTube video from 3Blue1Brown in which Grant Sanderson demos how he animates videos using his Manim Python library, with Ben Sparks.

Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail(mcc-berlin.net)

723 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 704 comments

MCC news release on an Ariadne project analysis finding Germany's 49-euro Deutschland-Ticket raised rail journeys about 30 percent, with the price rise to 58 euros undoing half.

Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison(medscape.com)

515 points by Thomvis 2 years ago | 329 comments

Medscape conference news article on the first long-term comparison finding psilocybin outperformed escitalopram for moderate to severe major depressive disorder.

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX(blog.jreyesr.com)

515 points by judell 2 years ago | 203 comments

A long blog post reviewing Typst, a typesetting language and tool similar to LaTeX, covering styling, scripting, plugins, and comparisons to LaTeX, Markdown, and Word.

Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver(kv4p.com)

480 points by thcipriani 2 years ago | 171 comments

Project homepage for kv4p HT, free open source software and hardware that turns an Android phone into a ham radio transceiver.

The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org(twitter.com)

261 points by endtwist 2 years ago | 93 comments

Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA(drs.faa.gov)

246 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 213 comments

PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores(paypal.com)

245 points by xyst 2 years ago | 92 comments

Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf](www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de)

180 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 63 comments

Six transplant patients in Brazil contract HIV from infected organs(reuters.com)

161 points by flykespice 2 years ago | 75 comments

The phone ban has had a big impact on school work(icelandmonitor.mbl.is)

161 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 206 comments

DuckStation(github.com)

161 points by tosh 2 years ago | 57 comments

The 1/8th Sleep(near.blog)

153 points by asats 2 years ago | 37 comments

Omni SenseVoice: High-Speed Speech Recognition with Words Timestamps(github.com)

145 points by ringer007 2 years ago | 26 comments

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One(mindhub365.com)

143 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 26 comments

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS(androidauthority.com)

131 points by politelemon 2 years ago | 131 comments

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete(theregister.com)

127 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 104 comments

A History of Microwave Ovens(taylor.town)

103 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 79 comments

Show HN: Self-Hostable Algolia DocSearch Replacement(github.com)

102 points by yujonglee 2 years ago | 40 comments

First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument(jpl.nasa.gov)

100 points by mywacaday 2 years ago | 33 comments

Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician(arxiv.org)

95 points by marojejian 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging(aoo.iem.sh)

94 points by spacechild1 2 years ago | 18 comments

FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?(gyptazy.com)

90 points by tosh 2 years ago | 110 comments

A dictionary of single-letter variable names(jackkelly.name)

86 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

81 points by volemo 2 years ago | 153 comments

The web I want vs. the one we have(daveverse.wordpress.com)

81 points by luu 2 years ago | 77 comments

Ryzen 9000X3D performance according to MSI(videocardz.com)

71 points by doener 2 years ago | 50 comments

Can a biologist fix a radio? What I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf](cell.com)

71 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 30 comments

Entropy Explained, with Sheep (2016)(engineersedge.com)

70 points by Nevin1901 2 years ago | 23 comments

Modded-NanoGPT: NanoGPT (124M) quality in 3.25B tokens(github.com)

70 points by ocean_moist 2 years ago | 7 comments

I think content is a bad business(swizec.com)

68 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 40 comments

Choosing solitude(washingtonpost.com)

68 points by robg 2 years ago | 61 comments

Sears Homes 1915-1920(searsarchives.com)

68 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 73 comments

My WordPress Slack Ban(linuxjedi.co.uk)

65 points by hodgesrm 2 years ago | 16 comments

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially Unix(theregister.com)

64 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 42 comments

The Wes Cook Archive(wescook.art)

64 points by zdw 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves(en.wikipedia.org)

63 points by drdee 2 years ago | 29 comments

Using drones to terrorize a city [video](youtube.com)

62 points by tomohawk 2 years ago | 33 comments

FAA grants SpaceX Starship Flight 5 license(drs.faa.gov)

61 points by cryptoz 2 years ago | 12 comments

Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo(jvns.ca)

60 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 30 comments

Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org(wordpress.org)

59 points by ValentineC 2 years ago | 35 comments

A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD(freebsdfoundation.org)

58 points by BSDobelix 2 years ago | 39 comments

Plugging abandoned oil wells and stopping methane leaks [video](youtube.com)

58 points by nathanh4903 2 years ago | 1 comments

When railroad dining cars were the height of luxury(cnn.com)

57 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 39 comments

Gödel Agent: A self-referential agent framework for recursive self-improvement(arxiv.org)

55 points by tkgally 2 years ago | 21 comments

MP3 to EXE (1999)(rarewares.org)

53 points by networked 2 years ago | 37 comments

Free Starship Booster catching arcade game(mechazilla.io)

51 points by FrojoS 2 years ago | 15 comments

Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games(pcgamer.com)

51 points by doener 2 years ago | 41 comments

Columbus' DNA suggests he was a Sephardic Jew from the western Mediterranean(abc.es)

46 points by geiser 2 years ago | 9 comments

19th century lions preyed on humans and giraffes(phys.org)

45 points by wglb 2 years ago | 52 comments

Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits(obrhubr.org)

45 points by obrhubr 2 years ago | 21 comments

The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma(nathanzhao.cc)

44 points by nzhaa 2 years ago | 9 comments

'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand(nytimes.com)

44 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 45 comments

Build systems, not heroes(vitonsky.net)

44 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

Christopher Columbus' remains found after 500 years as DNA analysis ends mystery(the-express.com)

42 points by rmason 2 years ago | 26 comments

Inline Scope for CSS(picostitch.com)

41 points by wolframkriesing 2 years ago | 30 comments

Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping(hackaday.com)

41 points by steamingpenis 2 years ago | 2 comments

Alexei Navalny's Prison Diaries(newyorker.com)

40 points by _____k 2 years ago | 13 comments

Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona(english.elpais.com)

40 points by belter 2 years ago | 5 comments