Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury Link:

Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury

On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43359264

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

GIMP 3.0 Released Link:

GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released

Release notes for GIMP 3.0

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393822

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket Link: https://www.websiteplanet.com/news/eshyft-report-breach/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349115

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Tailscale Is Pretty Useful Link:

Tailscale is pretty useful

It's probably old news for most, but I've recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270835

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks Link:

A Wealth of Common Sense

The Top 10% - A Wealth of Common Sense

Wealth inequality is driving the economy.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239249

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox Link:

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make s...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison Link:

Sky News

'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison | US News | Sky News

A steak dinner and visiting his mother's gravesite in Hawaii were among the first things Gordon Cordeiro did when he was released from prison ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149736

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks Link:

The eBook Reader

Amazon Now Openly Discloses You're Buying a License to View Kindle eBooks

Amazon recently changed the wording on their website when it comes to buying Kindle ebooks.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141825

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row Link:

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

Discussion:

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Apple Debuts iPhone 16e Link:

Apple Newsroom

Apple debuts iPhone 16e: A powerful new member of the iPhone 16 family

Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103536

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died Link:

Eurogamer.net

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov dies aged just 52

Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead Link:

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites at the lowest orbits yet Link:

Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites in the lowest orbits yet

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, right on the edge of...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991062

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022) Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90747313/steve-jobs-lessons-tony-fadell-build-book-excerpt Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990103

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023) Link: https://localfirstweb.dev/blog/2023-05-29-i-wrote-a-static-web-page Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021677

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript Link:

Ohm: a user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and Typescript

Ohm is a parsing toolkit for JavaScript, consisting of a library and a domain-specific language. You can use it to parse custom file formats or qui...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42982755

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 Link:

brutecat.com

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

What could

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

A Year of Telepathy Link:

Neuralink Updates

A Year of Telepathy

Over the past year, three people with paralysis have received Neuralink implants. This blog post explores how each person is using Telepathy in eve...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019352

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform Link:

Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling – Shifting Gears | The Kotlin Blog

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43015387

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later Link:

Stack Overflow

Pushing to Github after a shallow clone is horribly slow

I've done a shallow clone of a large repo (git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:myOrg/myRepo.git). I can push new changes to the remote but the first...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023283