Hacker News on Sunday, 8 December 2024

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser(nyxt.atlas.engineer)

410 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 200 comments

Homepage of Nyxt, a keyboard-driven, extensible web browser billed as "the hacker's browser."

Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites(cut-the-crab.streamlit.app)

336 points by muc-martin 1 year ago | 176 comments

A Streamlit web app that takes a URL and uses AI to produce a shorter version of the article with clickbait and filler removed.

JSON5 – JSON for Humans(json5.org)

327 points by rickcarlino 1 year ago | 298 comments

Homepage of JSON5, an extension of the JSON format designed to be easier to write and maintain by hand, such as for config files.

The Cold Email Handbook(za-zu.com)

313 points by baxtr 1 year ago | 178 comments

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)(msp.ucsd.edu)

279 points by ofalkaed 1 year ago | 77 comments

Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair(hackaday.com)

245 points by Workaccount2 1 year ago | 101 comments

How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?(gizmodo.com)

241 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 226 comments

One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107(economist.com)

240 points by helsinkiandrew 1 year ago | 99 comments

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers(france24.com)

239 points by ivewonyoung 1 year ago | 246 comments

Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance(androidauthority.com)

222 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 327 comments

Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format(infochunk.com)

221 points by ndiddy 1 year ago | 41 comments

UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care(propublica.org)

206 points by latexr 1 year ago | 169 comments

Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location(wsj.com)

187 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 26 comments

Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study(news.mit.edu)

174 points by topato 1 year ago | 110 comments

Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family(apnews.com)

174 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 244 comments

SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)(github.com)

173 points by conslit 1 year ago | 67 comments

Show HN: A portable hash map in C(github.com)

160 points by e-dant 1 year ago | 81 comments

Librebooting the ThinkPad T480(ezntek.com)

156 points by axiologist 1 year ago | 64 comments

CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop(lumafield.com)

154 points by saltypal 1 year ago | 182 comments

Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4(hackerone.com)

152 points by sprawl_ 1 year ago | 49 comments

Black Hat Rust(github.com)

152 points by Eavolution 1 year ago | 50 comments

JSON parsers that can accept comments(douglascrockfordisnotyourdad.technomancy.us)

150 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 177 comments

The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction(justinmath.com)

145 points by JustinSkycak 1 year ago | 56 comments

1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project(lellep.xyz)

143 points by millimacro 1 year ago | 62 comments

The Myth of Bananaland(worldhistory.substack.com)

143 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 102 comments

Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures(atlantanewsfirst.com)

141 points by soraminazuki 1 year ago | 37 comments

Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's(blog.frankel.ch)

138 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 76 comments

China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert(sand-boarding.com)

137 points by uprootdev 1 year ago | 100 comments

Starlark Programming Language(starlark-lang.org)

123 points by laurentlb 1 year ago | 112 comments

An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)(vice.com)

113 points by Amorymeltzer 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood(shreyans.org)

113 points by shreyans 1 year ago | 132 comments

Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)(dl.acm.org)

108 points by nioj 1 year ago | 18 comments

Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser(github.com)

106 points by AbuAssar 1 year ago | 49 comments

The Rules of Programming (2023)(therulesofprogramming.com)

98 points by davikr 1 year ago | 33 comments

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for buying crack made by Sheriff's Office(cbs12.com)

93 points by jrflowers 1 year ago | 38 comments

Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel(wsj.com)

92 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 62 comments

"All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk(blog.jgc.org)

89 points by jgrahamc 1 year ago | 27 comments

The world of tomorrow(worksinprogress.co)

87 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 77 comments

0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations(wetw0rk.github.io)

84 points by neilwillgettoit 1 year ago | 6 comments

Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage(theconversation.com)

77 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 53 comments

Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability(blog.yossarian.net)

74 points by campuscodi 1 year ago | 20 comments

The Marvelous Disappearing Capacitor(lcamtuf.substack.com)

72 points by peter_retief 1 year ago | 12 comments

Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions(unseen-japan.com)

66 points by ksec 1 year ago | 47 comments

Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders(france24.com)

61 points by mostcallmeyt 1 year ago | 21 comments

SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM(blog.succinct.xyz)

57 points by plastic3169 1 year ago | 32 comments

Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD(phoronix.com)

55 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 14 comments

GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support(grapheneos.social)

55 points by akyuu 1 year ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Replace CAPTCHAs with WebAuthn passkeys for bot prevention(github.com)

53 points by uday_singlr 1 year ago | 27 comments

NAND Flash Targets 1k Layers(semiengineering.com)

52 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 5 comments

How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home(crabman.me)

52 points by philip-b 1 year ago | 51 comments

True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)(publicdomainreview.org)

51 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 14 comments

Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents(gizmodo.com)

51 points by elorant 1 year ago | 38 comments

Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver(johndcook.com)

50 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 23 comments

VictoriaLogs: A Grafana Dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – Migrating from Grafan(rtfm.co.ua)

49 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 5 comments

A woman appeared on the English stage on this day in 1660(smithsonianmag.com)

46 points by pepys 1 year ago | 8 comments

GW-BASIC User's Guide (1987)(antonis.de)

43 points by susam 1 year ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?

43 points by amichail 1 year ago | 37 comments

Scratch and Sniff Stickers and the Gas Panic of '87(hackaday.com)

42 points by jlund-molfese 1 year ago | 2 comments

The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system(vox.com)

42 points by lr0 1 year ago | 57 comments

What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle(theverge.com)

41 points by m463 1 year ago | 35 comments