Run Your Own HTTP Tunnel With SSH and Nginx, Without a Cloud Service
A French engineer's trick: SSH and nginx forward a localhost port with a hashed token, a free personal tunnel.
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Tag: Hacker News
A Corrupted PDF About Von Neumann Reads Like a Broken Artifact
A corrupted PDF masquerades as a biography of von Neumann, offering fragments of his life amid garbled binary data.
ESP32 Chips Can Capture Raw Radio Signals, and Multiple Teams Just Found Out
A chip meant for WiFi and Bluetooth hid a secret: it could record raw radio signals at will, and three teams found it.
How Platform Engineers Invent Their Own Work — Signals From Systems, Users, the Org and Industry
A staff engineer's guide to inventing work for platform teams, tracking signals from systems, users, org, and industry.
Show HN: Stickman Shooter Lets Players Destroy Any Website They Type In
A stickman game lets players destroy any website in a multiplayer shooter battle, amusing the crowd on Hacker News.
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of All Hacker News Posts
A digest of Hacker News' daily links, from glowing plants to ancient burials, showing the wide range of the site's readership.
Engineer Argues the Problem Is Not AI Code — It Is That Nobody Reads It
An engineer warns that AI code is not the problem — it's that nobody reads it, knows anything, or resolves bugs anymore.
Koi.rest lets you watch fish swim while you sit quietly and let stress melt away
A developer builds a soothing virtual koi pond with AI, trades perfection for something finished, and shares calm with strangers.
Why Hacker News Is Like That
A look at Hacker News' political bias, flagging culture, and how Y Combinator shapes the conversation.
UTF-8000: The Unlimited Encoding That Probably Won’t Happen
A proposal for unlimited UTF-8, with no upper bound on a character's length in bytes, reaches Hacker News.
How Hacker News Ranking Works: Scoring, Penalties, and the Fight for the #1 Spot
A 2013 look at Hacker News' ranking formula: votes, gravity, and penalties that punish popular articles, pushing #1 posts to be scarce.
Writer Opens PowerPoint, Finds Only Frustration — and Posts About It
A university user rants against Microsoft over a contract that blocks editing PowerPoint on a Mac, calling it unethical and disrespectful.