Top Hackernews posts from www.404media.co

1. Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America (www.404media.co)
   582 points by kmfrk about 3 years | 386 comments
2. Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off (www.404media.co)
   573 points by mstep almost 3 years | 474 comments
3. Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss (www.404media.co)
   537 points by anigbrowl almost 3 years | 397 comments
4. Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company (www.404media.co)
   480 points by NKosmatos almost 3 years | 142 comments
5. Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine (www.404media.co)
   398 points by maxwell almost 3 years | 149 comments
6. iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine (www.404media.co)
   320 points by jmsflknr about 3 years | 301 comments
7. A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet (www.404media.co)
   288 points by ohjeez about 3 years | 94 comments
8. I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads (www.404media.co)
   270 points by ghostDancer almost 3 years | 124 comments
9. Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
   254 points by ugjka almost 3 years | 304 comments
10. Why scalpers can get tickets (www.404media.co)
    251 points by bookofjoe about 3 years | 463 comments
11. The NSA Furby Documents (www.404media.co)
    248 points by gumby over 2 years | 118 comments
12. A guy preserving the new history of PC games, one Linux port at a time (www.404media.co)
    244 points by rcarmo about 3 years | 133 comments
13. Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it (www.404media.co)
    240 points by nickthegreek over 2 years | 132 comments
14. Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations (www.404media.co)
    229 points by pulisse almost 3 years | 162 comments
15. A warrant showing the U.S. government is monitoring push notifications (www.404media.co)
    216 points by PaulHoule almost 3 years | 83 comments
16. Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage (www.404media.co)
    213 points by thm over 2 years | 156 comments
17. Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent (www.404media.co)
    185 points by cainxinth almost 3 years | 284 comments
18. “This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees (www.404media.co)
    180 points by isaacfrond about 3 years | 159 comments
19. Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs (www.404media.co)
    174 points by nickthegreek about 3 years | 95 comments
20. OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs (www.404media.co)
    157 points by danso over 2 years | 199 comments
21. YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
    152 points by jdblair almost 3 years | 302 comments
22. Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook (www.404media.co)
    152 points by fouadmatin about 3 years | 46 comments
23. Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News (www.404media.co)
    137 points by rideontime over 2 years | 202 comments
24. The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' (www.404media.co)
    133 points by danso almost 3 years | 152 comments
25. Woman Got Cremation Ads in the Mail After Getting Chemotherapy (www.404media.co)
    125 points by cdme over 2 years | 91 comments
26. Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season (www.404media.co)
    124 points by dopylitty over 2 years | 81 comments
27. US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US (www.404media.co)
    120 points by wahnfrieden almost 3 years | 163 comments
28. Town Repeatedly Surveilled Man's Yard with Drone Without a Warrant (www.404media.co)
    116 points by nathan_phoenix almost 3 years | 125 comments
29. Inside a global phone spy tool monitoring billions (www.404media.co)
    114 points by dharmab over 2 years | 31 comments
30. Inside the AI porn marketplace (www.404media.co)
    105 points by Handprint4469 about 3 years | 161 comments
31. Hackers can get your IP through Skype by just sending a link, no click required (www.404media.co)
    102 points by restrict-dark about 3 years | 83 comments
32. The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Proliferation of Right to Repair Laws (www.404media.co)
    95 points by PaulHoule almost 3 years | 44 comments
33. Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family (www.404media.co)
    92 points by rbanffy almost 3 years | 105 comments
34. Most of my Instagram ads are for drugs, stolen credit cards, hacked accounts (www.404media.co)
    88 points by pavel_lishin about 3 years | 34 comments
35. As YouTube declares war on ad blockers, Google sponsors ad blocking conference (www.404media.co)
    86 points by judiisis almost 3 years | 78 comments
36. Buzzy AI startup for generating 3D models used cheap human labor (www.404media.co)
    82 points by jshchnz about 3 years | 44 comments
37. Male tech conference founder is behind popular woman coding influencer account (www.404media.co)
    80 points by minimaxir almost 3 years | 24 comments
38. Fandom can't decide if leaked songs are real or AI-generated (www.404media.co)
    75 points by wpietri about 3 years | 115 comments
39. Riley Reid on AI: 'I Don't Want Porn to Get Left Behind' (www.404media.co)
    72 points by trenchgun almost 3 years | 92 comments
40. Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK Users (www.404media.co)
    72 points by kradeelav over 2 years | 73 comments
41. How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700k from Amazon (www.404media.co)
    71 points by lsllc almost 3 years | 78 comments
42. University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10k Prize to Make (www.404media.co)
    68 points by danso over 2 years | 43 comments
43. Marketing Company Claims That It Is Listening to Device (www.404media.co)
    68 points by MBCook almost 3 years | 9 comments
44. Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)
    67 points by M2Ys4U almost 3 years | 14 comments
45. Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material (www.404media.co)
    65 points by orangeteacups almost 3 years | 89 comments
46. Early Apple Vision Pro adopters alarmed to learn VR porn doesn't work (www.404media.co)
    60 points by ajdude over 2 years | 57 comments
47. Pornhub wants proof of consent from every single performer on its platform (www.404media.co)
    60 points by gslin over 2 years | 29 comments
48. Google Search Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (www.404media.co)
    58 points by doener over 2 years | 25 comments
49. Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
    58 points by easyThrowaway over 2 years | 7 comments
50. Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9M Crypto Wallet (www.404media.co)
    56 points by reaperducer about 3 years | 24 comments
51. AI cameras took over one small American town, now they’re everywhere (www.404media.co)
    55 points by walterbell almost 3 years | 57 comments
52. In Defense of RAM (www.404media.co)
    55 points by loteck almost 3 years | 78 comments
53. Universities accommodate food delivery robots (www.404media.co)
    55 points by danso over 2 years | 63 comments
54. Users Can't Speak to AI Girlfriend Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson (www.404media.co)
    55 points by greyface- almost 3 years | 26 comments
55. Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians (www.404media.co)
    54 points by Luc almost 3 years | 57 comments
56. ‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All over Amazon (www.404media.co)
    53 points by orangeteacups about 3 years | 13 comments
57. How to Get into Film Photography (and Why You Should) (www.404media.co)
    52 points by pseudolus about 3 years | 81 comments