Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-03-31

  1. XZ backdoor: “It’s RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.” bsky.app - 497 comments 850 points
  2. IrfanView www.irfanview.com - 217 comments 364 points
  3. Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover danverbraganza.com - 171 comments 335 points
  4. Garbage collection for systems programmers - 2023 bitbashing.io - 160 comments 303 points
  5. Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing tableplus.com - 184 comments 300 points
  6. Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock? git.tukaani.org - 153 comments 277 points
  7. Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained gynvael.coldwind.pl - 24 comments 236 points
  8. About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 tailscale.com - 102 comments 208 points
  9. Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser simonwillison.net - 38 comments 203 points
  10. Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept github.com - 73 comments 183 points
  11. Notes on El Salvador mattlakeman.org - 118 comments 176 points
  12. How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform graphite.dev - 139 comments 158 points
  13. Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor bugs.debian.org - 143 comments 144 points
  14. Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16 veloren.net - 12 comments 140 points
  15. Git as a debugging tool lucasoshiro.github.io - 26 comments 128 points
  16. Mamba Explained thegradient.pub - 35 comments 121 points
  17. Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124 utcc.utoronto.ca - 108 comments 117 points
  18. Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters lareviewofbooks.org - 35 comments 117 points
  19. The Ken Thompson Hack wiki.c2.com - 38 comments 115 points
  20. Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library www.cisa.gov - 20 comments 115 points
  21. DeWitt and Stonebraker’s “MapReduce: A major step backwards” - 2009 craig-henderson.blogspot.com - 92 comments 114 points
  22. When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation writings.stephenwolfram.com - 21 comments 114 points
  23. Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5 fortune.com - 196 comments 111 points
  24. Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance smunshi.net - 75 comments 110 points
  25. US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS www.theguardian.com - 88 comments 108 points
  26. An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array www.righto.com - 21 comments 108 points
  27. Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went arstechnica.com - 10 comments 105 points
  28. XZ Utils Backdoor tukaani.org - 16 comments 103 points
  29. NetBSD 10.0 Released www.netbsd.org - 34 comments 102 points
  30. The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs bloomberry.com - 38 comments 94 points