HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise (openwall.com)

4549 points by rkta 8 months ago | 1849 comments

2.

U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly (nytimes.com)

2546 points by jcfrei 8 months ago | 2569 comments

3.

Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) (usebruno.com)

1538 points by ulrischa 8 months ago | 399 comments

4.

Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable (oimo.io)

1515 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 243 comments

5.

Spreadsheets are all you need (spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai)

1493 points by evanmays 8 months ago | 164 comments

6.

Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] (courthousenews.com)

1462 points by modeless 9 months ago | 1208 comments

7.

Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (bbc.com)

1335 points by neapolisbeach 8 months ago | 556 comments

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XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." (bsky.app)

1323 points by junon 8 months ago | 811 comments

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Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS" (github.com)

1274 points by ent101 9 months ago | 319 comments

10.

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) (eloquentjavascript.net)

1274 points by vajdagabor 8 months ago | 231 comments

11.

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison (cnn.com)

1268 points by misiti3780 8 months ago | 1432 comments

12.

Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax (difftastic.wilfred.me.uk)

1188 points by jiripospisil 8 months ago | 200 comments

13.

Grok (github.com)

1170 points by pierre 8 months ago | 419 comments

14.

Vernor Vinge has died (file770.com)

1151 points by sohkamyung 8 months ago | 320 comments

15.

Akira Toriyama has died (noisypixel.net)

1065 points by gaoryrt 8 months ago | 207 comments

16.

OpenAI and Elon Musk (openai.com)

1037 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 977 comments

17.

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)

1025 points by mbrubeck 9 months ago | 638 comments

18.

Claude 3 model family (anthropic.com)

1016 points by marc__1 9 months ago | 683 comments

19.

Daniel Kahneman has died (washingtonpost.com)

1002 points by mrjaeger 8 months ago | 309 comments

20.

Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map (flightradar24.com)

996 points by mjs 8 months ago | 282 comments

21.

Monodraw (monodraw.helftone.com)

996 points by saikatsg 8 months ago | 201 comments

22.

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS (techcrunch.com)

970 points by madtrax 8 months ago | 1000 comments

23.

Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative (ente.io)

964 points by madmax108 9 months ago | 327 comments

24.

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (danluu.com)

932 points by jasondavies 8 months ago | 597 comments

25.

French court issues damages award for violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)

927 points by bookstore-romeo 9 months ago | 434 comments

26.

Fine tune a 70B language model at home (answer.ai)

909 points by jph00 8 months ago | 206 comments

27.

YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI (blog.google)

882 points by marban 8 months ago | 485 comments

28.

Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing (ftc.gov)

878 points by nabla9 9 months ago | 607 comments

29.

Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right (hugo.blog)

873 points by wolverine876 8 months ago | 828 comments

30.

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)

871 points by doom2 8 months ago | 532 comments