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Hacker News (Mar 2024)

  1. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

    4402 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  2. U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

    2519 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  3. Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

    1477 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  4. Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable

    1474 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  5. Spreadsheets are all you need

    1465 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  6. Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]

    1420 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  7. XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

    1295 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  8. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

    1271 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  9. Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

    1265 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  10. Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"

    1243 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  11. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

    1235 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  12. Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

    1145 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  13. Grok

    1140 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  14. Vernor Vinge has died

    1138 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  15. Claude 3 model family

    997 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  16. Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map

    996 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  17. OpenAI and Elon Musk

    987 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  18. Daniel Kahneman has died

    985 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  19. Akira Toriyama has died

    985 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  20. Monodraw

    982 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  21. European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

    953 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  22. Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

    911 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  23. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL

    911 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  24. Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

    909 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  25. Fine tune a 70B language model at home

    901 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  26. How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

    891 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  27. YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI

    878 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  28. Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right

    861 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  29. DBRX: A new open LLM

    860 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  30. Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

    851 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  31. JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data

    825 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  32. Simon Riggs has died

    820 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  33. Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

    795 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  34. What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

    788 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  35. Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners

    779 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  36. FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor

    778 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  37. Kagi and Wolfram

    772 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  38. Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU

    767 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  39. Why are most sofas so bad?

    764 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  40. Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU

    754 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  41. Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

    739 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  42. Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

    739 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  43. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler

    736 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  44. The race to replace Redis

    734 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  45. Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D

    734 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  46. Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

    731 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  47. Don't fuck with paste

    730 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  48. Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

    724 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  49. How I keep myself alive using Golang

    714 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  50. Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

    710 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  51. Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

    696 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  52. The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed

    696 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  53. How to Start Google

    695 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  54. Meta outage

    691 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  55. The hunt for the missing data type

    680 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  56. The return of the frame pointers

    665 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  57. Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate

    656 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  58. My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)

    655 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  59. Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

    650 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  60. Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure

    649 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  61. Radios, how do they work?

    622 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  62. Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

    618 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  63. CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

    612 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  64. Home Lab Beginners guide

    611 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  65. U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing

    610 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  66. Guess my RGB

    610 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  67. CSS for printing to paper

    602 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  68. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill

    577 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  69. Nikon to acquire RED

    573 points • comment • mar 07, 2024

  70. Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

    573 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  71. Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue

    562 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  72. A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments

    553 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  73. S3 is files, but not a filesystem

    551 points • comment • mar 10, 2024

  74. Linux Crisis Tools

    546 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  75. How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

    544 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  76. Writing Gnome Apps with Swift

    542 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  77. 900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability

    540 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  78. Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case

    539 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  79. Hackintosh is almost dead

    536 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  80. Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?

    522 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  81. Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

    520 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  82. Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero

    519 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  83. NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9

    518 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  84. Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained

    512 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  85. Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy

    509 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  86. Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

    508 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  87. SQLite Schema Diagram Generator

    507 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  88. ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood

    506 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  89. IrfanView

    503 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  90. Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos

    502 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  91. When Armor Met Lips

    501 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  92. The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

    500 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  93. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

    498 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  94. Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper

    497 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  95. Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages

    492 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  96. Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects

    492 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  97. The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter account

    492 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  98. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

    490 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  99. Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]

    488 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  100. A friend of John Barnett said he predicted he might wind up dead

    486 points • comment • mar 15, 2024