Friday, 31 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
456 by Ygg2 | 148 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster

Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
487 by tptacek | 135 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: FAA investigating controversial crash video

FAA investigating controversial crash video
526 by nostromo | 404 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
439 by todsacerdoti | 158 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong

Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong
479 by nradov | 663 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
562 by janekg | 245 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
543 by markplindsay | 314 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
566 by davidbarker | 353 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, 29 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
583 by Tomte | 449 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child

Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
615 by lwansbrough | 524 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable

Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
621 by em-bee | 151 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
556 by josephcsible | 518 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work

Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
563 by smitop | 171 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
615 by Ariarule | 263 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
560 by bearbin | 603 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 27 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
611 by gregsadetsky | 326 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I've just had a bizarre thing happen and wanted to see if the HN community could come up with some theories as to what happened. LastPass blocked a login attempt from Brazil (it wasn't me). According to an email I received from LastPass, this login was using the LastPass account's master password. The email doesn't look like it's a phishing attempt. What troubles me is that the master password was stored in a local encrypted KeePassX file. I can imagine that someone has my KeePassX file and the (completely different) password to this file. If that's the case, I'm in a world of hurt. But are there any other possibilities? Is the email from LastPass accurate i.e. was the login attempt actually using my master password? Is there some LastPass extension installed on some computer still having a valid auth token allowing them to login as me to LastPass..? I'm really confused, and scared. Thanks for your help. P.S. The LastPass account had 2FA set up, but I was able to simply remove it (since I didn't have access to the token anymore). That's scary too -- what's the point of a 2FA you can remove...?? --- Update: - the email was truly not phishing -- the same information regarding the login attempt appears in my LastPass dashboard. I also talked to LastPass support over the phone, and they confirmed seeing the same information. - There are 2 separate users in the thread below confirming that the same exact same thing happened to them, from the exact same IP range as me. Either the 3 of us had the same malware/Chrome extension or somehow had our master passwords compromised...? Or...? Is this a LastPass issue?

Saturday, 25 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
553 by sandworm101 | 117 comments on Hacker News.
I made a similar post last year at this time and, again, I am in my office on Christmas morning. There are a few days every year that really show which jobs are vital and which can be left aside for a day. I started my car this morning (-32, -40 with wind chill). On my way to work I drove past a hospital and a care home, both were manned. The dairy farm had its lights on. A cop with his flashers drove past me on the way to some emergency. The macdonalds drive-through was open too. I had to be at work by 0600, but I was relieving someone who had been sitting in another office since 1800. On my computer were the same dozen emails I get every morning, each from someone else who drew the short straw. There aren't many of us on HN that work weekends let alone Christmas morning, but If you too are sitting in a dark office remember that all across the world are millions of other people working the truly important jobs.

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Microsoft forks MIT licensed repo, and changes the copyright to them

Tell HN: Microsoft forks MIT licensed repo, and changes the copyright to them
552 by mkdirp | 199 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
562 by mattowen_uk | 163 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, my Christmas is solitary this year, no family or friends. I'm not even having a Christmas dinner. I'm not sad about this, though. It's just the way it is. What I wanted to say is, if you are in the same situation, you are not alone. So have a virtual hug from me.

Friday, 24 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
512 by throw0101a | 411 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

Wish HN: Happy Holidays
511 by rcarmo | 131 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Entire website in a single HTML file

Entire website in a single HTML file
534 by jaytaylor | 277 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)

My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
498 by simonebrunozzi | 190 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand

Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
528 by krajzeg | 74 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter
507 by bale | 390 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
582 by folli | 618 comments on Hacker News.
It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.

Wednesday, 22 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: AWS appears to be down again

AWS appears to be down again
552 by riknox | 403 comments on Hacker News.
Console is flickering between "website is unavailable" and being up for my team. This is happening very frequently just now, reliability seems to have taken a hit.

New best story on Hacker News: Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers

Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers
528 by ignitionmonkey | 189 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 20 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: The Big DevOps Misunderstanding

The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
504 by WolfOliver | 304 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone

An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
542 by authed | 269 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Test your product on a crappy laptop

Test your product on a crappy laptop
515 by dredmorbius | 302 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
476 by ColinWright | 328 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
612 by edge17 | 134 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
558 by 1_player | 177 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 16 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
620 by beezle | 466 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
646 by ConfessionTime | 446 comments on Hacker News.
I have been working as a software developer for almost two decades. I have received multiple promotions. I make decent money, 3x - 4x my area's median salary, so I live a comfortable life. I have never been fired or unemployed for more than a few months total over my entire career. Through most of that time I have averaged roughly 5 - 10 hours of actual work a week. I'm not even discounting job related but non-coding time as not work. There are literally days in which the only time I spend on my job is the few minutes it takes to attend the morning stand-up. Then I successfully bullshit my way through our next stand-up to hide my lack of production. No one has ever called me out on this and my performance reviews range from mediocre to great. I'm generally a smart person. I went to a top 30 university, but it's not like I'm a genius or I'm coasting off connections made while getting a Harvard education. I wouldn't consider myself an abnormally talented developer. I often don't understand the technical details other engineers discuss in meetings. I have probably bombed more tech interviews than I have passed. All my jobs have been between 2-5 years so I'm neither finding a place to stagnate or leaving before anyone could judge my production. It feels like I am in the middle of the bell curve in terms of career success. So what gives? Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Do people regularly run into coworkers like me during their career and simply ignore it because they find it too awkward to criticize them? Have I just been incredibly lucky and every boss I have had is too incompetent to notice? Do I have imposter syndrome and I am actually a 10x developer whose laziness makes them a 1x developer? These questions have kept popping up in my mind over the last year. Remote work during the pandemic has allowed me to finally be honest with myself and stop pretending I am working when I am not. I want to know if I was the only one pretending.

New best story on Hacker News: From Node to Ruby on Rails

From Node to Ruby on Rails
612 by mokkol | 422 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
669 by galovics | 266 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 13 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube

Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube
465 by S_A_P | 135 comments on Hacker News.
I woke up this morning to an email from YouTube stating that my channel is banned for repeated violations. They didn’t specify what I violated but it could be anything from copyright to hate speech. Let me explain the content of all 5 videos on my 11 year + old channel. 1) a video of a squirrel that carried half a loaf of French bread along a fence and jumped into a tree. He dropped the bread during the jump but somehow managed to one hand/paw catch the bread and save it. 2) a friend of mine who was unable to ride a spring horse on a playground. 3)my son reacting to a scene from the movie hot rod(cool beans) this was a private video. 4) music video of my own music. No samples or other copyrighted material contained. 5) another music video also with no copyrighted material. I submitted a request to the YouTube forum but I suspect that is a black hole where support requests go to die. I’m not really all that upset and I have all the videos that are on the channel locally but the 1 strike you are banned seems awfully extreme. The fact that I wasn’t told that something was flagged or given any sort of heads up is really what bothers me. How can I get YouTubes attention?

New best story on Hacker News: Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start

Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start
469 by slobotron | 402 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The Matrix Is Unreal

The Matrix Is Unreal
468 by vblanco | 223 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
517 by AndrewDucker | 129 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
462 by olalonde | 347 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place

Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place
537 by todsacerdoti | 387 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 6 December 2021

New best story on Hacker News: WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”

WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
571 by behnamoh | 154 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes
538 by thunderbong | 456 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
581 by giansegato | 313 comments on Hacker News.


Can We Help the Homeless?


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N.Y.C. religious schools face a vaccine mandate. Will they fight it?


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Hyun Sook Han, Korean Social Worker and Adoption Pioneer, Dies at 83


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Toyota will spend $1.3 billion on a N.C. electric car battery plant.


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United States Will Not Send Government Officials to Beijing Olympics


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Claude Humphrey, Pillar of N.F.L. Falcons’ ‘Grits Blitz,’ Dies at 77


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Justice Dept. Files Voting Rights Suit Against Texas Over New Map


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Gervonta Davis Bests a Rival While Burnishing His Star Power


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United States Will Not Send Government Officials to Beijing Olympics


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Storm Could Cause ‘Catastrophic Flooding’ in Hawaii, Forecasters Warn


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Chanel, TikTok and the Beauty Advent Calendar Controversy


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Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action


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NASA Introduces Class of 10 New Astronaut Candidates


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After 8 Wolves Are Poisoned, Oregon Police Ask for Help


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Do You Teach Science or Math Using The New York Times?


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In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy


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A Cold Plunge For a Mental Boost


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Sunday, 5 December 2021

The Jets and Giants Played. They Did Not Win.


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A Chicken-Fried McGovern, Newt’s Good Ideas and the Senate Zoo: A Dole One-Liner Sampler


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Wild Guess


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N.Y.C. companies that don’t rely on the global supply chain are faring quite well.


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J.&J. booster works well for people who had Pfizer originally, study finds.


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J.&J. booster works well for people who had Pfizer originally, study finds.


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900 Bison at Yellowstone Are Targeted for Removal


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Spike in Omicron Variant Cases Puts Europe on Edge


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Viewing a Tragic Case Through the Eyes of Investigators


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Your Monday Briefing


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‘A War Hero and Patriot’: Leaders React to the Death of Bob Dole


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What happened to the idea of using pandemic-emptied New York hotels for affordable housing?


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Cambodian Effort to Find Artifacts Won’t End With Informant’s Death


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Review: ‘Landscapers’ Is Not Your Typical True-Crime Love Story


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Exploring the Dimensions of Black Power at Alvin Ailey


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The Ghosts of Mississippi


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As uncertainties linger about the new variant, officials say U.S. Omicron cases are likely to rise.


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Antony Sher, Actor Acclaimed for His Versatility, Dies at 72


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Ex-Senator David Perdue to Run for Governor of Georgia


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‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death


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U.S. Military Has Acted Against Ransomware Groups, General Acknowledges


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