IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district — and Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands

Issue #555 — October 14, 2021

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IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district whitehoodhacker.net \| points: 1611 \| comments: 348

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Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands reuters.com \| points: 512 \| comments: 220

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How does apt render its fancy progress bar? mdk.fr \| points: 458 \| comments: 142

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Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow cbc.ca \| points: 419 \| comments: 237

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Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints” weatherspark.com \| points: 335 \| comments: 73

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The 100 MHz 6502 e-basteln.de \| points: 325 \| comments: 134

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The Frame.work Marketplace Opened frame.work \| points: 311 \| comments: 98

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GTFOBins gtfobins.github.io \| points: 301 \| comments: 51

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Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free torrentfreak.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 85

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What If Performance Advertising Is Just an Analytics Scam? sparktoro.com \| points: 275 \| comments: 188

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SHA-1 ’fully and practically broken’ by new collision (2020) duo.com \| points: 274 \| comments: 190

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Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online euractiv.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 309

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Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020) nautil.us \| points: 245 \| comments: 102

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Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time sitn.hms.harvard.edu \| points: 243 \| comments: 100

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Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way news.ycombinator.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 119

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OVH is down along with its status page status.ovh.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 151

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The Overview Effect – William Shatner’s Words After Returning from Space cosmicperspective.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 230

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Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse theverge.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 246

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Ethereum Services Are Centralized michaelgummelt.medium.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 211

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Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language github.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 105

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