We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines(ifixit.com)
1057 points by LorenDB | 281 comments
iFixit article announcing that a new DMCA exemption allows repair of commercial soft-serve ice cream machines like those at McDonald's.
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted(bryanbraun.com)
852 points by bryanbraun | 168 comments
Bryan Braun's blog post advising buyers to check a domain name's past history (spam, bad reputation) before purchasing it.
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court(en.wikipedia.org)
644 points by intunderflow | 381 comments
Wikipedia article on the ANI vs. Wikimedia Foundation case, with its content suspended by the Wikimedia Foundation following a Delhi High Court order.
Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris(cnbc.com)
585 points by donsupreme | 685 comments
CNBC news article reporting that Jeff Bezos blocked a drafted Washington Post editorial endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)(theguardian.com)
487 points by jakey_bakey | 219 comments
Guardian article about a UK company forced by Companies House to change its name, which contained an HTML script tag that could enable cross-site scripting attacks.
Care Doesn't Scale(stevenscrawls.com)
389 points by surprisetalk | 315 comments
Personal essay arguing that individualized care, illustrated by social workers raising four orphaned children one-to-one, cannot be scaled efficiently.
Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance(github.com)
357 points by amatheus | 199 comments
A blog post in the pretzelhammer rust-blog GitHub repo on using Rust via WebAssembly, FFI, or native modules to speed up servers written in other languages.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? (2021) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/26/e66bdb9d-e21c-4163-b698-095192f9ac34.jpg)
Detecting when LLMs are uncertain(thariq.io)
257 points by trq_ | 148 comments
Battleships Logic Puzzle(lukerissacher.com)
225 points by QuadrupleA | 75 comments
Debian’s “secret” sauce(lwn.net)
182 points by signa11 | 35 comments
SELinux bypasses(klecko.github.io)
155 points by voxadam | 38 comments
Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
132 points by thangalin | 60 comments
Federal investigators probe Tether(wsj.com)
94 points by dcgudeman | 90 comments
Law Enforcement Undermines Tor(marx.wtf)
70 points by pantalaimon | 37 comments
Rsbuild – A Better Vite?(rsbuild.dev)
53 points by synergy20 | 37 comments
![Screenshot of jamesclear.com: The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (1978) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/25/0ab26b14-2177-4a11-ba5f-5854f448c3c2.jpg)
Waymo closes $5.6B investment round(waymo.com)
41 points by ra7 | 65 comments
