Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 148 posts.

Hardware & Electronics
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Implant.ARM.iLOBleed.a

HP servers provide a management module called iLO (a.k.a. Integrated Lights-Out), which turns on as soon as the power cable is connected, loading a full-blown proprietary operating system. This module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. In addition to…

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FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars

Networking and communication is something that has been on our minds as of late. As many of you are surely aware, we have started developing our own solution to private and secure peer-to-peer and group text messaging based on the PineDio gateway system, available next month. While we have high hopes for this system…