Lottocracy: Rethinking Representation by Replacing Elections with Lotteries
TL;DR A project calling itself Lottocracy argues that contemporary electoral representative democracy faces serious flaws and promotes selection by lottery—an…
Iran Protests Continue into Third Day as Students Join Demonstrations
TL;DR Protests in Iran have persisted into a third consecutive day, with students reported to have joined demonstrations. The available…
FediMeteo: How a €4 FreeBSD VPS Evolved into a Global Weather Service
TL;DR FediMeteo began as a personal project that publishes short weather forecasts as federated accounts, built on a low-cost FreeBSD…
Holiday disruption: ‘MongoBleed’ zlib bug (CVE-2025-14847) in MongoDB now exploited
TL;DR CISA says a high-severity MongoDB Server flaw, CVE-2025-14847, is being actively exploited after proof-of-concept code surfaced over Christmas. The…
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: some users hear speaker hiss when charging
TL;DR Owners of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have reported a static or hissing noise coming from the…
Two cybersecurity workers plead guilty in 2023 ransomware extortion case
TL;DR Two former employees of cybersecurity firms pleaded guilty to running a series of ransomware attacks in 2023, the Department…
Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite — Hacker Book dataset post
TL;DR A public Hacker News archive is available via the Hacker Book site, published by DOSAYGO. The site lists a…
A Vulnerability in Libsodium: Ed25519 low-level point validation bug
TL;DR A flaw was found in libsodium's low-level function crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point that allowed some non–main-subgroup Ed25519 points to be accepted. The…
Loss32: Build a Win32-Centric Linux Desktop to Run .exe Apps
TL;DR Loss32 is a proposal for a Linux distribution whose desktop environment is composed largely of Win32 applications running under…