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  1. We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

    https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/
  2. Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

  3. Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined

    https://worksinprogress.co/issue/lab-grown-diamonds/
  4. Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio

    https://illuminate.google.com/home
  5. QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645323
  6. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

    https://massgrave.dev/blog/keyhole
  7. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

    https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design
  8. Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/10/apple-loses-eu-court-battle-over-13-billion-euro-tax-bill-in-ireland.html
  9. A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

    https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-saving-compute-1-percent-at-a-time/
  10. WebP: The WebPage Compression Format

    https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/webp-the-webpage-compression-format/
  11. alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

    https://www.alphaxiv.org/
  12. New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike

    https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote
  13. Reclaim the Stack

    https://reclaim-the-stack.com
  14. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system

    https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/review-ifixits-fixhub-may-be-the-last-soldering-iron-you-ever-buy/
  15. Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project

    https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod
  16. The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023)

    https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dc-dc-voltage-conversion
  17. Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

    https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/
  18. Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

    https://newatlas.com/marine/how-to-stretch-cruise-ship/
  19. B-Trees and Database Indexes

    https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes
  20. The "email is authentication" pattern

    https://rubenerd.com/the-email-is-authentication-pattern/
  21. Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

    https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452
  22. What you can get out of a high-quality font

    https://sinja.io/blog/get-maximum-out-of-your-font