Hacker News on Monday, 17 February 2025

All Kindles can now be jailbroken(kindlemodding.org)

1210 points by lumerina 1 year ago | 377 comments

A guide page on kindlemodding.org for WinterBreak, a jailbreak for Kindle e-readers; the capture shows a Reddit network-policy block page instead.

X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links(disruptionist.com)

659 points by confusing3478 1 year ago | 580 comments

A Disruptionist newsletter article reporting that Elon Musk's X is blocking links to Signal, which federal whistleblowers have used to communicate about DOGE.

Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone(hforsten.com)

566 points by picture 1 year ago | 56 comments

Blog post by Henrik describing building a homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar mounted on a drone.

Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport(cbc.ca)

515 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 608 comments

CBC News live report on a plane that crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson airport, injuring 17 with no fatalities.

San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time(sfstandard.com)

345 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 539 comments

San Francisco Standard article about a Golden Gate Park ranger who works individually with unhoused people to connect them with help.

YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info(old.reddit.com)

343 points by Tijdreiziger 1 year ago | 230 comments

Reddit post in r/VirtualYoutubers about YouTube phone verification overwriting a channel owner's personal info; the page shows a Reddit network-security block.

Debugging an Undebuggable App(bryce.co)

321 points by xmprt 1 year ago | 50 comments

Blog post by Bryce Bostwick about reverse engineering an iOS app that blocks debuggers, exits on code injection, and crashes jailbroken phones.

List of DRM-Free Bookshops(libreture.com)

291 points by nafnlj 1 year ago | 72 comments

Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought(github.com)

248 points by higuidebot 1 year ago | 70 comments

On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)(benningtonreview.org)

229 points by tie-in 1 year ago | 104 comments

Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?(theguardian.com)

194 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 215 comments

Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours(boyter.org)

190 points by polyrand 1 year ago | 67 comments

Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust(maplant.com)

185 points by maplant 1 year ago | 71 comments

Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array(espargos.net)

182 points by leoedin 1 year ago | 30 comments

My Time at MIT(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

166 points by rrampage 1 year ago | 55 comments

How browsers really load web pages [video](fosdem.org)

162 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 62 comments

The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)(ruder.io)

159 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 19 comments

Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL(richard-towers.com)

158 points by gsky 1 year ago | 66 comments

Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)(9news.com.au)

157 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 77 comments

Small Tech (2020)(scattered-thoughts.net)

149 points by codeAligned 1 year ago | 12 comments

Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon(cnn.com)

147 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 86 comments

Programming with chronic pain(thomasvogelaar.me)

145 points by thomasvogelaar 1 year ago | 72 comments

Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission(theguardian.com)

140 points by ranit 1 year ago | 36 comments

0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance(yosefk.com)

139 points by ingve 1 year ago | 78 comments

Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux(previnder.com)

131 points by previnder 1 year ago | 31 comments

Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality(science.org)

128 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 70 comments

Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset(privacyguides.org)

127 points by freddyym 1 year ago | 32 comments

Find Your 2%Ers (2023)(joyarbitrage.substack.com)

126 points by sebg 1 year ago | 35 comments

Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group linked to killings(pressdemocrat.com)

120 points by guerrilla 1 year ago | 81 comments

NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy(natlawreview.com)

118 points by moonka 1 year ago | 65 comments

Mistral Saba(mistral.ai)

117 points by stephen37 1 year ago | 14 comments

NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES(github.com)

116 points by Tiberium 1 year ago | 26 comments

A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)(blog.reverberate.org)

110 points by phsilva 1 year ago | 76 comments

Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments(thomas-huehn.com)

99 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 56 comments

Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

96 points by zinekeller 1 year ago | 32 comments

Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf](clp.unesp.br)

95 points by Qem 1 year ago | 44 comments

EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)(frontiersin.org)

91 points by Curiositry 1 year ago | 16 comments

Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators(npr.org)

85 points by seo-speedwagon 1 year ago | 60 comments

Hk, a new Git hook manager(hk.jdx.dev)

83 points by DrBenCarson 1 year ago | 63 comments

An early social un-network(paperstack.com)

79 points by dcminter 1 year ago | 18 comments

Run Ruby on Rails in the browser using WebAssembly(web.dev)

73 points by danielwetan 1 year ago | 20 comments

Nginx: try_files Is Evil Too (2024)(getpagespeed.com)

71 points by dextercd 1 year ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw(inscribed.app)

71 points by chunza2542 1 year ago | 7 comments

F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video](fosdem.org)

64 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 35 comments

Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?(honzabe.com)

60 points by honzabe 1 year ago | 44 comments

Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing

58 points by zammitjames 1 year ago | 28 comments

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos(sfgate.com)

57 points by tzs 1 year ago | 22 comments

Show HN: A GPU-accelerated binary vector index(rlafuente.com)

55 points by andes314 1 year ago | 5 comments

Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)(evilmartians.com)

53 points by rob 1 year ago | 18 comments

(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)(dubovik.eu)

53 points by h45x1 1 year ago | 5 comments

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code(nmn.gl)

52 points by mhfs 1 year ago | 49 comments

Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)(hannahonprivacy.substack.com)

51 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 49 comments

Making Markets on Kalshi(rlafuente.com)

49 points by andes314 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Kartoffels – Cellular Automata, Statistics, 32-bit RISC-V(pwy.io)

48 points by Patryk27 1 year ago | 3 comments

What happened when REM went mainstream(yalereview.org)

47 points by johnshades 1 year ago | 40 comments

Javier Milei risks impeachment after endorsing $107M Libra rug pull(cointelegraph.com)

45 points by doener 1 year ago | 13 comments

Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash(bbc.com)

44 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 13 comments

PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA(passnational.org)

44 points by ronbenton 1 year ago | 17 comments

Learning happens in environments optimized for understanding, not winning(joanwestenberg.com)

43 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 8 comments

Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

43 points by TheAlchemist 1 year ago | 15 comments