Hackernews posts about WASD

  1. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)
    1142 points by speckx about 7 hours ago | 252 comments
  2. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
    945 points by senko 13 days ago | 590 comments
  3. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
    671 points by akyuu 12 days ago | 598 comments
  4. I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation (citizendot.github.io)
    482 points by CITIZENDOT 29 days ago | 126 comments
  5. Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com)
    433 points by twalichiewicz 23 days ago | 126 comments
  6. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    348 points by minimaxir 12 days ago | 69 comments
  7. AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (www.ft.com)
    277 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 25 days ago | 145 comments
  8. Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights (weeraman.com)
    269 points by aweeraman 24 days ago | 157 comments
  9. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)
    253 points by speckx 17 days ago | 103 comments
  10. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
    252 points by 1e1a 1 day ago | 67 comments
  11. Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)
    247 points by surprisetalk 25 days ago | 252 comments
  12. Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
    118 points by ryanmerket 18 days ago | 37 comments
  13. Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (fabscene.medium.com)
    117 points by extralongdivisi 13 days ago | 30 comments
  14. ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir (www.npr.org)
    110 points by Jimmc414 29 days ago | 21 comments
  15. The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (en.wikipedia.org)
    93 points by firefax 5 days ago | 28 comments
  16. 9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)
    91 points by birdculture 18 days ago | 45 comments
  17. Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (www.dropsitenews.com)
    86 points by hn_acker 27 days ago | 4 comments
  18. Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (www.rise-reforming.com)
    85 points by george_rose25 24 days ago | 38 comments
  19. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
    78 points by _delirium 4 days ago | 40 comments
  20. Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM (ccsim.fly.dev)
    71 points by dilyevsky 23 days ago | 3 comments
  21. FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce (www.marlerblog.com)
    63 points by speckx 9 days ago | 35 comments
  22. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure (2019) (spectrum.ieee.org)
    63 points by sparsesignal 23 days ago | 18 comments
  23. The Reddit Problem – How a Reddit Alternative Was Banned from RedditAlternatives (rhyme.com)
    63 points by JoinRhyme 28 days ago | 10 comments
  24. The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
    62 points by quuxplusone 17 days ago | 21 comments
  25. Which streaming service was that on again? (www.timwehrle.de)
    60 points by weetii 30 days ago | 88 comments
  26. This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company) (andys.blog)
    55 points by andytratt 25 days ago | 171 comments
  27. Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (www.cnbc.com)
    55 points by cramer4next 12 days ago | 19 comments
  28. Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike (www.bbc.com)
    44 points by binyu 7 days ago | 48 comments
  29. How the God of Israel Was Born (andreafontana.it)
    43 points by trikko 28 days ago | 26 comments
  30. SQRL wan't wrong, it was early (sjg.io)
    38 points by simonjgreen 13 days ago | 9 comments
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