Hacker News on Saturday, 21 December 2024

US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp(reuters.com)

501 points by o999 1 year ago | 167 comments

Reuters link about a US judge ruling NSO Group liable for hacking WhatsApp users, but the page shows a captcha bot-check instead of the article.

Query Apple's FindMy network with Python(github.com)

454 points by nkko 1 year ago | 167 comments

GitHub repository for FindMy.py, an MIT-licensed Python library for querying Apple's FindMy network, including AirTags and OpenHaystack devices.

City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once(anvaka.github.io)

430 points by gaws 1 year ago | 52 comments

City Roads is a web tool by anvaka that renders every road within a chosen city using OpenStreetMap data, starting from a city name search box.

Introducing S2(s2.dev)

347 points by brancz 1 year ago | 184 comments

Launch blog post introducing S2, the Stream Store, a serverless cloud storage primitive for streaming data built around durable logs.

A data table thousands of years old (2020)(datafix.com.au)

234 points by rickcarlino 1 year ago | 100 comments

CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops(github.com)

233 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web(eonfall.com)

200 points by jonkuze 1 year ago | 123 comments

Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual(recleudo.com)

159 points by fueloil 1 year ago | 35 comments

Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers(0x80.pl)

150 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 62 comments

Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)(code.dblock.org)

135 points by lawgimenez 1 year ago | 52 comments

The hydraulic systems of the Alhambra Palace [video](youtube.com)

134 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 18 comments

Enum of Arrays(tigerbeetle.com)

128 points by signa11 1 year ago | 39 comments

Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust(daniel.haxx.se)

120 points by hnarn 1 year ago | 37 comments

JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking(openjdk.org)

119 points by ptx 1 year ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion(talktomehuman.com)

114 points by mbforbes 1 year ago | 44 comments

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed(honest-broker.com)

110 points by LordAtlas 1 year ago | 85 comments

Collatz’s Ant(gbragafibra.github.io)

98 points by Fibra 1 year ago | 7 comments

Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway(kannel.org)

91 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 44 comments

A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) (2023)(gist.github.com)

76 points by bssrdf 1 year ago | 32 comments

Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file(github.com)

75 points by throw0101a 1 year ago | 34 comments

Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab(techcrunch.com)

73 points by latexr 1 year ago | 26 comments

Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf](pubsonline.informs.org)

63 points by glowering 1 year ago | 9 comments

Spreadsheets 1/3 – Rye Language(ryelang.org)

58 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 18 comments

'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek(boxingscene.com)

56 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 55 comments

AI Is the Black Mirror(nautil.us)

53 points by Jun8 1 year ago | 43 comments

Train a Mnist VAE with C and CUDA(github.com)

44 points by bssrdf 1 year ago | 2 comments

Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now.(nytimes.com)

43 points by marban 1 year ago | 29 comments

Saving Nanocap Speculators from Themselves(nyuu.page)

35 points by apsec112 1 year ago | 9 comments

AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience(simone.org)

32 points by smnrg 1 year ago | 26 comments

An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

31 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019)(theguardian.com)

31 points by taubek 1 year ago | 3 comments

INFP: Audio-Driven Interactive Head Generation in Dyadic Conversations(grisoon.github.io)

23 points by nnx 1 year ago | 20 comments

Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon(primatology.xyz)

21 points by primatologyxyz 1 year ago | 3 comments

The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball(bloomberg.com)

20 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 39 comments

Chicago's Newberry Library discovers rare maguey paper in collection(chicagotribune.com)

19 points by wglb 1 year ago | 1 comments

Why eating less slows ageing: this molecule is key(nature.com)

19 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites?

18 points by rishikeshs 1 year ago | 8 comments

Show HN:Free Online Tool to Experience Microsoft's MarkItdown(markitdown.pro)

12 points by kianworkk 1 year ago | 5 comments

Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes(arstechnica.com)

12 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 0 comments

Magical Thinking: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (2011)(laphamsquarterly.org)

12 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 1 comments

Our remedies proposal in DOJ's search distribution case(blog.google)

12 points by xnx 1 year ago | 0 comments

Google's counteroffer to govt trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps(theverge.com)

12 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails?

11 points by michidk 1 year ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Otto-m8 – A low code AI/ML API deployment Platform(github.com)

9 points by farhan0167 1 year ago | 1 comments

UK Gov Open Consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence(gov.uk)

8 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 0 comments

Piezoelectric Generators(americanpiezo.com)

6 points by danboarder 1 year ago | 0 comments

US judge finds Pegasus spyware maker liable over WhatsApp hack(theguardian.com)

4 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 1 comments