Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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Substack
How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz!
It was launched to measure moisture. Now it’s ghost-trailing jammers across an electronic battlefield.
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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OpenAI for Countries (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Openai
Introducing OpenAI for Countries
A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails.
20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (🔥 Score: 173+ in 1 hour)
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gatesnotes.com
20 years to give away virtually all my wealth | Bill Gates
During the first 25 years of the Gates Foundation, we gave away more than $100 billion. Over the next two decades, we will double our giving.
Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6u8W6
Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task.
Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points, and exception being this blog post by Matthew Ström: https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
Image search is no better, with largely irrelevant results.
In the age when everything is spaced out and zoned out gray on gray, what are your go-to examples of UIs that pack a lot of info?
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6u8W6
Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task.
Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points, and exception being this blog post by Matthew Ström: https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
Image search is no better, with largely irrelevant results.
In the age when everything is spaced out and zoned out gray on gray, what are your go-to examples of UIs that pack a lot of info?
Google to back three new nuclear projects (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
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ESG Today
Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects
Google announced today the launch of a new collaboration with South Carolina-based nuclear project developer Elementl Power, including an agreement to invest in three advanced nuclear energy projects. The agreement comes as Google and its tech giant peers…
Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
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nexo blog
Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
Why splitting your codebase too early can quietly destroy your team’s velocity — and what to do instead.
In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver value to end-users. This is where the foundational architecture…
In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver value to end-users. This is where the foundational architecture…
High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (🔥 Score: 179+ in 42 minutes)
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How to harden GitHub Actions (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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wiz.io
Hardening GitHub Actions: Lessons from Recent Attacks | Wiz Blog
Build resilient GitHub Actions workflows with insights from real attacks, missteps to avoid, and security tips GitHub’s docs don’t fully cover.
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (🔥 Score: 169+ in 1 hour)
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CNN
Live updates: Conclave elects Cardinal Robert Prevost to be Pope | CNN
Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been selected as the next pope, the first American pontiff in history. Follow here for the latest.
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
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https://voideditor.com/download-beta
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https://voideditor.com/download-beta
GitHub
GitHub - voideditor/void
Contribute to voideditor/void development by creating an account on GitHub.
How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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www.electrospaces.net
How Obama's BlackBerry got secured
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV (🔥 Score: 168+ in 1 hour)
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Catholic Review
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (🔥 Score: 171+ in 59 minutes)
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blog.hayman.net
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs, and it said …
Reservoir Sampling (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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SFGATE
Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Calif. colleges
California community colleges said a technology is creating an "agonizing" problem.
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9GG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6u9GG
Hi HN, I'm Tyler Flint, one of the creators of qtap.
For a while now, my team and I at Qpoint.io have been grappling with the challenge of understanding what's actually happening inside the encrypted traffic leaving our production systems. Modern apps rely heavily on third-party APIs (think payment processors, data providers, etc.), but once TLS kicks in, figuring out exactly what data is being sent, identifying PII exposure, or debugging integration issues becomes incredibly difficult without resorting to complex and often brittle solutions.
Traditional approaches like forward proxies require terminating TLS (MITM), managing certificates, and often introduce performance bottlenecks or single points of failure. Network firewalls usually operate at L3/L4 and lack payload visibility. We felt there had to be a better way.
That's why we built qtap. It's a lightweight agent that uses eBPF to tap into network traffic at the kernel level. The key idea is to hook into common TLS libraries (like OpenSSL) before encryption and after decryption. This gives us deep visibility into the actual request/response payloads of HTTPS/TLS traffic without needing to terminate the connection or manage certs. Because it leverages eBPF, the performance impact is minimal compared to traditional methods.
With qtap, we can now see exactly which external services our apps are talking to, inspect the payloads for debugging or security auditing (e.g., spotting accidental PII leaks), monitor API performance/errors for third-party dependencies, and get a much clearer picture of our egress traffic patterns.
We've found this approach really powerful for improving reliability and security posture. We've packaged qtap as a Linux Binary, Docker container, and Helm chart for deployment.
This is still evolving, but we're excited about the potential of using eBPF for this kind of deep, yet non-intrusive, visibility.
We'd love to get the HN community's feedback:
Happy to answer any questions!
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9GG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6u9GG
Hi HN, I'm Tyler Flint, one of the creators of qtap.
For a while now, my team and I at Qpoint.io have been grappling with the challenge of understanding what's actually happening inside the encrypted traffic leaving our production systems. Modern apps rely heavily on third-party APIs (think payment processors, data providers, etc.), but once TLS kicks in, figuring out exactly what data is being sent, identifying PII exposure, or debugging integration issues becomes incredibly difficult without resorting to complex and often brittle solutions.
Traditional approaches like forward proxies require terminating TLS (MITM), managing certificates, and often introduce performance bottlenecks or single points of failure. Network firewalls usually operate at L3/L4 and lack payload visibility. We felt there had to be a better way.
That's why we built qtap. It's a lightweight agent that uses eBPF to tap into network traffic at the kernel level. The key idea is to hook into common TLS libraries (like OpenSSL) before encryption and after decryption. This gives us deep visibility into the actual request/response payloads of HTTPS/TLS traffic without needing to terminate the connection or manage certs. Because it leverages eBPF, the performance impact is minimal compared to traditional methods.
With qtap, we can now see exactly which external services our apps are talking to, inspect the payloads for debugging or security auditing (e.g., spotting accidental PII leaks), monitor API performance/errors for third-party dependencies, and get a much clearer picture of our egress traffic patterns.
We've found this approach really powerful for improving reliability and security posture. We've packaged qtap as a Linux Binary, Docker container, and Helm chart for deployment.
This is still evolving, but we're excited about the potential of using eBPF for this kind of deep, yet non-intrusive, visibility.
We'd love to get the HN community's feedback:
Do you face similar challenges monitoring encrypted egress traffic?
What are your thoughts on using eBPF for this compared to other methods?
Any suggestions or potential use cases we haven't considered?
Happy to answer any questions!
GitHub
GitHub - qpoint-io/qtap: Qtap: An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections…
Qtap: An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections and their originating processes. - qpoint-io/qtap
How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Zac Townsend
Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you...
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Substack
Nobody Codes Here Anymore
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (Score: 153+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6u9sK
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