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posted on Tue Nov 01 15:49:02 UTC 2022 by petecooper | view on HN
posted on Tue Nov 01 13:38:21 UTC 2022 by mpweiher | view on HN
CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflows
posted on Tue Nov 01 16:14:03 UTC 2022 by wylie39 | view on HN
Two CVEs, CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, were published in an advisory today. These CVEs impact X.509 email address variable length buffer overflow and X.509 email address 4-byte buffer overflow, respectively.
Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app
posted on Tue Nov 01 13:25:19 UTC 2022 by jameal | view on HN
The article is about a knowledge-of-the-trail companion app that was developed for a backpacking trip on the Knobstone Trail.
Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her turned into an AI model
posted on Tue Nov 01 15:57:29 UTC 2022 by ghuntley | view on HN
MysteryInc152's use of Hollie Mengert's illustrations to fine-tune Stable Diffusion to recreate Hollie Mengert's style sparked a debate on the ethics of fine-tuning an AI on the work of a specific living artist.
One Million Database Connections
posted on Tue Nov 01 16:03:07 UTC 2022 by StratusBen | view on HN
A powerful feature of serverless computing architecture is the ability to design and horizontally scale individual components of your stack, allowing more computing resources to be allocated on the fly to be used only when you need them.
Nushell: Introduction to a New Kind of Shell
posted on Tue Nov 01 11:50:09 UTC 2022 by hucste | view on HN
Nushell is a non-POSIX shell that is good for creating robust data manipulation pipelines.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
posted on Tue Nov 01 15:00:43 UTC 2022 by whoishiring | view on HN
Launch HN: SimpleHash (YC W22) – API to query digital assets
posted on Tue Nov 01 16:49:54 UTC 2022 by owfwduke | view on HN
More Instant Messaging Interoperability
posted on Tue Nov 01 12:11:00 UTC 2022 by zaik | view on HN
The article discusses the More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) effort to improve the interoperability of messaging applications.
Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
posted on Tue Nov 01 14:34:08 UTC 2022 by mxstbr | view on HN
posted on Tue Nov 01 15:31:48 UTC 2022 by agreeahmed | view on HN
The article discusses how centralization happens in systems and why it is difficult to decentralize a system.
Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)
posted on Tue Nov 01 12:24:02 UTC 2022 by mqus | view on HN
The "Code contains easter egg" inspection in Android Studio finds a certain syntax of Java code that tries not to look like code, which is considered an easter egg.
Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
posted on Tue Nov 01 12:07:35 UTC 2022 by kickaha | view on HN
The article explains how to set up a portable password manager using a Raspberry PI Zero.
ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU w 3rd-party modules in one chip
posted on Tue Nov 01 10:11:25 UTC 2022 by mpweiher | view on HN
The litigation between Arm and Qualcomm has taken an unexpected turn, with Arm filing a lawsuit against Qualcomm and Qualcomm filing a countersuit against Arm.
Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring #3 Founding Engineer in London
posted on Tue Nov 01 12:00:42 UTC 2022 by Gabriel_h | view on HN
Applied Category Theory in Chemistry, Computing, and Social Networks [pdf]
posted on Tue Nov 01 16:28:19 UTC 2022 by larve | view on HN
How to Escape Scientific Stagnation
posted on Sat Oct 29 14:37:59 UTC 2022 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The article discusses how the increasing amount of knowledge humans have slows down scientific progress and economic growth, and how this has spurred academics and policymakers to look for ways to bolster scientific enterprise.
Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
posted on Tue Nov 01 11:01:05 UTC 2022 by capableweb | view on HN
diffoscope is a tool that recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human-readable form to compare them.
Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate Differentiable Rendering with Algebraic Surfaces
posted on Tue Nov 01 11:05:27 UTC 2022 by andersource | view on HN
This work presents an approximate differentiable renderer for a compact, interpretable representation, which we call Fuzzy Metaballs.
We handled a recent phishing incident that targeted Dropbox
posted on Tue Nov 01 13:13:58 UTC 2022 by lawgimenez | view on HN
In September, GitHub detailed a phishing campaign in which a threat actor accessed GitHub accounts by impersonating the code integration and delivery platform CircleCI. On October 14, 2022, GitHub alerted Dropbox to some suspicious behavior that began the previous day. Upon further investigation, Dropbox found that a threat actor—also pretending to be CircleCI—accessed one of their GitHub accounts. The code accessed by this threat actor contained some credentials—primarily, API keys—used by Dropbox developers. The code
Housing in Tokyo Is Far Cheaper and More Spacious Than You Think
posted on Tue Nov 01 07:38:39 UTC 2022 by konichi-value | view on HN
Tokyo did not have an affordable housing crisis because it built a lot of housing and the housing is not exorbitantly expensive.
Minimax: A Compressed-First, Microcoded RISC-V CPU
posted on Tue Nov 01 15:41:34 UTC 2022 by gsmecher | view on HN
The article discusses an experimental RISC-V implementation called "Minimax" which is designed to execute RVC instructions and "mop up" any RV32I instructions that aren't convenient via a microcode layer.
How Institutions Game Benchmarks
posted on Sat Oct 29 12:26:36 UTC 2022 by yarapavan | view on HN
The article argues that many institutions are using benchmarks that are easily beaten, a scheme that overstates the value of their investing prowess, active management, and the endowment model.
Is Turbopack 10x Faster than Vite?
posted on Tue Nov 01 04:38:35 UTC 2022 by jjzhiyuan | view on HN
The article discusses a benchmark testing the speed of Vercel's new Turbopack compared to Vite. The benchmark showed that while Turbopack is faster, the difference is not as significant as Vercel claims.
Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
posted on Tue Nov 01 14:12:55 UTC 2022 by anthropodie | view on HN
Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for Blue subscribers
posted on Tue Nov 01 14:47:51 UTC 2022 by neaden | view on HN
Since assuming ownership last week, the self-labeled Chief Twit has changed the homepage for logged-out users, which now shows the Explore tab instead of a prompt to sign up to the platform.
posted on Sat Oct 29 12:48:58 UTC 2022 by crecker | view on HN
The article discusses the problem with the typical way people organize their files and offers a solution of organizing by project instead.
9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
posted on Tue Nov 01 06:14:16 UTC 2022 by bitofhope | view on HN
The article provides instructions on how to install the 9front operating system on a PC, Raspberry Pi, or MNT Reform.
Show HN: I made an open-source code snippet manager
posted on Tue Nov 01 10:34:16 UTC 2022 by 0x142857 | view on HN
Dropcode is a simple and lightweight code snippet manager that is local-only, but you can use iCloud / Dropbox / Google Drive / etc. to sync your snippets.