Hacker News on Sunday, 31 May 2026

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL(hacktivis.me)

759 points by HypnoticOcelot 4 months ago | 441 comments

Blog post complaining that Cloudflare Turnstile loops indefinitely in a WebKitGTK browser because it demands a WebGL device fingerprint.

Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC(twitter.com)

564 points by thunderbong 4 months ago | 269 comments

An X post showing OpenAI Codex gaining root-equivalent access without sudo by using the user's Docker group membership to bind-mount and modify /etc.

Dav2d(jbkempf.com)

531 points by captain_bender 4 months ago | 193 comments

Blog post by Jean-Baptiste Kempf announcing dav2d, a fast open-source decoder for the new AV2 video codec developed by the VideoLAN community.

The Website Specification(specification.website)

526 points by k1m 4 months ago | 210 comments

Website Spec is a platform-agnostic specification and checklist of 128 technical features a good website should have, covering SEO, accessibility, security, and agent readiness.

Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study(thesciverse.org)

504 points by MrJagil 4 months ago | 327 comments

A science news article reporting a study finding that creatine supplements raise brain energy levels and slow early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by about 30%.

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices(prismml.com)

438 points by modinfo 4 months ago | 186 comments

PrismML blog post announcing Bonsai Image 4B, a 1-bit and ternary quantized image generation model designed to run on local devices.

United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert(simpleflying.com)

395 points by Eridanus2 4 months ago | 802 comments

Simple Flying news article about a United Airlines 767 returning to Newark after a passenger device's offensive Bluetooth name triggered a security alert.

Chuwi Minibook X(tylercipriani.com)

375 points by thcipriani 4 months ago | 280 comments

Tyler Cipriani's blog post reviewing the Chuwi Minibook X, a 10.5-inch x86_64 small laptop with 16GB RAM, pitched as a modern netbook.

London's Free Roof Terraces(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

314 points by zeristor 4 months ago | 148 comments

ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks(promptarmor.com)

304 points by hackerBanana 4 months ago | 109 comments

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription(thoughts.hmmz.org)

287 points by dmw_ng 4 months ago | 189 comments

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software(github.com)

273 points by justdotJS 4 months ago | 162 comments

I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC(blog.tymscar.com)

265 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 157 comments

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions(techcrunch.com)

258 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 449 comments

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years(fagnerbrack.com)

241 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 181 comments

Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer(github.com)

241 points by sargstuff 4 months ago | 82 comments

Restartable Sequences(justine.lol)

236 points by grappler 4 months ago | 59 comments

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)(github.com)

180 points by s-macke 4 months ago | 52 comments

Backpressure is all you need(lucasfcosta.com)

180 points by lucasfcosta 4 months ago | 102 comments

Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA(deflock.org)

176 points by pilingual 4 months ago | 50 comments

'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut(variety.com)

174 points by mindcrime 4 months ago | 104 comments

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI(darylcecile.net)

172 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 88 comments

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace(github.com)

164 points by Dzheky 4 months ago | 78 comments

Squillions: How money laundering won(lrb.co.uk)

146 points by rwmj 4 months ago | 148 comments

Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows(theguardian.com)

136 points by c-oreills 4 months ago | 40 comments

It's Not Just X. It's Y(mail.cyberneticforests.com)

135 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 109 comments

Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M(peninsulaforeveryone.org)

128 points by mslate 4 months ago | 35 comments

Patching my guitar amp's firmware(mforney.org)

116 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 19 comments

US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds(arstechnica.com)

112 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | 95 comments

Avian Visitors(theodore.net)

110 points by fdb 4 months ago | 12 comments

You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)(paulgraham.com)

110 points by downbad_ 4 months ago | 117 comments

Words of Type(wiki.wordsoftype.com)

106 points by tobr 4 months ago | 13 comments

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint(tomotama.com)

106 points by tobr 4 months ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire(github.com)

103 points by vira28 4 months ago | 28 comments

A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)(arxiv.org)

102 points by ricudis 4 months ago | 3 comments

Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git(medium.com)

93 points by syumei 4 months ago | 69 comments

Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up(learnix-os.com)

87 points by Sagi21805 4 months ago | 18 comments

Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly(vogons.org)

86 points by beebix 4 months ago | 16 comments

Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)(lwn.net)

77 points by luu 4 months ago | 69 comments

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares(blog.washi.dev)

73 points by jandeboevrie 4 months ago | 23 comments

DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors(spectrum.ieee.org)

63 points by sohkamyung 4 months ago | 19 comments

FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf](hannesweissteiner.com)

58 points by simjnd 4 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6(kenforthewin.github.io)

51 points by kenforthewin 4 months ago | 12 comments

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)(ariadne.space)

51 points by luu 4 months ago | 21 comments

New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine(sciencedaily.com)

50 points by rmason 4 months ago | 5 comments

Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?

48 points by Throwaway_sys 4 months ago | 26 comments

The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"(dirkdeklein.net)

48 points by NaOH 4 months ago | 15 comments

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

47 points by TMWNN 4 months ago | 7 comments

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity(vox.com)

46 points by plastic-enjoyer 4 months ago | 39 comments

CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment(github.com)

44 points by elvis70 4 months ago | 10 comments

I'm So Tired of Ads(blog.absurdpirate.com)

43 points by speckx 4 months ago | 29 comments

Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL(github.com)

39 points by algorithmsRcool 4 months ago | 4 comments

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike(arstechnica.com)

37 points by frutiger 4 months ago | 9 comments

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video](youtube.com)

34 points by zdw 4 months ago | 9 comments

Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'(fortune.com)

28 points by randycupertino 4 months ago | 27 comments

86Box v6.0(86box.net)

23 points by chungy 4 months ago | 4 comments

Folding Beijing(uncannymagazine.com)

22 points by root-parent 4 months ago | 0 comments

The dangerous delusion of modern warfare(economist.com)

20 points by runeks 4 months ago | 16 comments

Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow(github.com)

18 points by pssah4 4 months ago | 6 comments

On Reading SRAMs in IR Images, and Establishing Bounds on Trust(bunniestudios.com)

16 points by zdw 4 months ago | 2 comments