Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,796 posts.
ns2jb is a software-only, tethered jailbreak for the Switch 2. It allows running arbitrary native code as any ordinary sysmodule, and as the built-in fs sysmodule. This lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off the Switch, and access most of the Switch 2’s peripherals…
Fighting censorship with technology since 2011. We use AI to monitor censorship and expand free speech worldwide.
The first episode of the Mojoptix video podcast: the invention of a Digital Sundial !
Recently I learned that the US government offers a little gift called I-bonds, and that this is the month to buy them. Depending on your perspective, I-bonds are either free money or the only true money storage. They're zero-risk bonds with an interest rate that always matches or exceeds inflation. The interest rate…
Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
I grew up relatively poor. I was fortunate enough to have a roof over my head, clean water, electricity, a computer, internet, and cable tv. But food was often harder to come by. This may seem like a contradiction, but when your mom has left to marry her uncle and your dad has schizophrenia, you aren’t really in…
We used to control apps like Facebook and Instagram with our own choices. They became daily comforts, making the world seem a little bit smaller and closer by bringing the people that we cared about together in to one place.
macOS comes with a lot of built-in utilities. Here's a list of some that I find interesting.
Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.
Chris James, London - Software Engineer
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok is a video app in "sheep's clothing", suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.
The meme will no longer be a dream.
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
LLMs are used for any things. Learning new things is one of the top use cases.
We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on Android. They stem from bugs in Android itself, and only affect certain apps.
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a big problem for the future.
Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.
How one man went from writing jokes for Roseanne to homeless, and how he fought his way back using Craigslist.
Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.
You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.
