GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor — and Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)

Issue #780 — May 28, 2022

You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.

1

GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor cloudsek.com \| points: 440 \| comments: 293

2

Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020) lea.verou.me \| points: 315 \| comments: 344

3

Ultra compact GAN ATX power supply delivers up to 250 Watts cnx-software.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 166

4

Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021) helgeklein.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 273

5

Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots knots3d.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 70

Your side-project here? Contact us for more info

6

The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling timharford.com \| points: 257 \| comments: 179

7

Internet drama in Canada nytimes.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 288

8

What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017) etherrotmutex.blogspot.com \| points: 253 \| comments: 153

9

NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens github.blog \| points: 246 \| comments: 113

10

Virtual Graph Paper virtual-graph-paper.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 34

11

S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010 sfchronicle.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 277

12

Architecture Notes: Datasette architecturenotes.co \| points: 214 \| comments: 39

13

Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes podbabble.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 115

14

How I Built Zig-SQLite rischmann.fr \| points: 201 \| comments: 82

15

Organice: An implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs github.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 85

16

I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020) gamefromscratch.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 143

17

In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia colinmorris.github.io \| points: 195 \| comments: 67

18

Proton is trying to become Google without your data wired.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 170

19

Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard ’22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA features.thecrimson.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 252

20

Ghost recon breakpoint game save disappeared community.stadia.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 137

This digest was generated for you on 28 May, 6:03am for delivery at 7:00am and contains the top 20 stories between 27 May, 2:00am and 28 May, 2:00am

Your next delivery is on Sunday, 29 May at 7:00am. Adjust these settings.

Privacy Policy \| Instant Unsubscribe \| Settings \| hello@hndigest.com

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting — and SQLite 3 Fiddle

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Issue #779 — Top 20 stories of May 27, 2022 Issue #779 — May 27, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 FTC fines

Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? — The great junk transfer is coming — and Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Issue #778 — Top 20 stories of May 26, 2022 Issue #778 — May 26, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Ask HN:

Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model — Starlink for RVs — and Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Issue #777 — Top 20 stories of May 25, 2022 Issue #777 — May 25, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Imagen, a

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power — “What if it changes?” — and Useless Use of "dd" (2015)

Monday, May 23, 2022

Issue #776 — Top 20 stories of May 24, 2022 Issue #776 — May 24, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1

Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions — and The Verge is so bad they have me defending Apple [video]

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Issue #775 — Top 20 stories of May 23, 2022 Issue #775 — May 23, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Tunneling

GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor — and Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)

Older messages

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting — and SQLite 3 Fiddle

Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? — The great junk transfer is coming — and Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model — Starlink for RVs — and Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power — “What if it changes?” — and Useless Use of "dd" (2015)

Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions — and The Verge is so bad they have me defending Apple [video]

You Might Also Like

⚙️ The wild, wild west

ASP.NET Core News - 01/10/2025

ALERT: Ivanti Flaw CVE-2025-0282 Actively Exploited, Impacts Connect Secure and Policy Secure

The Sequence Research #466: Small but Migthy, Diving Into Microsoft Phi-4

Notes app can do what now?

The Commodification of Pleasure

Invitation to the Event Sourcing workshop

SWLW #633: AI and cognitive offloading, The story in your head, and more.

Data Science Weekly - Issue 581

💻 Issue 444 - Check Out My New CV as a Full Stack .NET Developer!