A visual guide to SSH tunnels — Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon — and Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Issue #307 — February 08, 2021

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A visual guide to SSH tunnels robotmoon.com \| points: 796 \| comments: 74

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Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon github.com \| points: 364 \| comments: 75

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces pages.cs.wisc.edu \| points: 296 \| comments: 28

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Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood cbc.ca \| points: 289 \| comments: 148

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How to lower the price of plant-based meat us14.campaign-archive.com \| points: 275 \| comments: 611

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Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API epub.to \| points: 228 \| comments: 81

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Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp github.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 62

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FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available lists.freebsd.org \| points: 193 \| comments: 90

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RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) tools.ietf.org \| points: 186 \| comments: 89

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Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning tedunderwood.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 218

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Show HN: You-tldr – easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos you-tldr.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 62

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Frontex Files frontexfiles.eu \| points: 167 \| comments: 71

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NRA bankruptcy lets critics peer into gun lobby’s inner workings bloombergquint.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 181

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The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks nytimes.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 128

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A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’ smithsonianmag.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 140

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An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013) rd.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 73

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Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder github.com \| points: 137 \| comments: 50

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Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years motorauthority.com \| points: 131 \| comments: 195

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The Mediocre Programmer themediocreprogrammer.com \| points: 127 \| comments: 80

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Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with thetolkienist.com \| points: 126 \| comments: 46

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