top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-29

FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/ftc-sues-intuit-its-deceptive-turbotax-free-filing-campaign

4 years ago

Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

4 years ago

$625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

https://roninblockchain.substack.com/p/community-alert-ronin-validators

4 years ago

Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of-subpoena-via-fake-emergency-data-requests/

4 years ago

Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?

https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

4 years ago

React v18.0

https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/29/react-v18.html

4 years ago

Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC

https://hothardware.com/news/kaspersky-declared-us-national-security-threat-banned-fcc

4 years ago

USWDS: The United States Web Design System

https://designsystem.digital.gov/

4 years ago

Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-turns-on-activity-tracking-even-if-turned-off/

4 years ago

Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs

https://blogsurf.io

4 years ago

FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/turbotax-maker-sued-by-ftc-over-deceptive-ads-that-promise-free-tax-filing/

4 years ago

Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat

https://blog.zulip.com/2022/03/29/zulip-5-0-released/

4 years ago

My own phone number is now spam texting me

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999719/spam-texts-own-phone-number-verizon-att-tmobile

4 years ago

The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/03/hybrid-workplace-office-in-person-work-collaboration-hassle.html

4 years ago

Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak

https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/[email protected]/

4 years ago

We can do better than “same, but electric”

https://climateer.substack.com/p/better-than-fossil

4 years ago

Justice Stevens reads the fine print

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/justice-stevens-reads-the-fine-print.html

4 years ago

GPT-3 can run code

https://mayt.substack.com/p/gpt-3-can-run-code

4 years ago

Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)

https://austinhenley.com/blog/cosine.html

4 years ago

Building a fullstack app with Flask and Htmx

https://codecapsules.io/docs/tutorials/build-flask-htmx-app/

4 years ago

Debian decides to allow secret votes

https://lwn.net/Articles/889444/

4 years ago

Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/889452/953e190af78809a7/

4 years ago

Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/lapsus-and-solar-winds-hackers-both-use-the-same-old-trick-to-bypass-mfa/

4 years ago

GraphQL is now available on Supabase

https://supabase.com/blog/2022/03/29/graphql-now-available

4 years ago

Altruism under stress: cortisol negatively predicts charitable giving

https://theswaddle.com/why-stress-makes-the-most-empathetic-people-less-kind/

4 years ago

Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-your-shadow-credit-score-could-decide-whether-you-get-an-apartment

4 years ago

Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug

https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-genital-defects-seen-sons-men-taking-major-diabetes-drug

4 years ago

The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky

https://www.electrospaces.net/2022/03/the-phones-of-ukrainian-president.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842565

4 years ago

Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1508851516387385346

4 years ago

I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner

https://theconversation.com/i-no-longer-grade-my-students-work-and-i-wish-i-had-stopped-sooner-179617

4 years ago

How to work with me

https://www.davidbauer.ch/readme/

4 years ago

Chrome 100

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html

4 years ago

I have been terminated from Zoom for refusing to remove the following tweets

https://twitter.com/BillDemirkapi/status/1508610588200607746

4 years ago

Abstraction: Not what you think it is

https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/03/abstraction-not-what-you-think-it-is.html

4 years ago

MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels

https://mirage.io/blog/announcing-mirage-40

4 years ago

Elan School

https://elan.school/

4 years ago

New documents for the Okta breach

https://twitter.com/BillDemirkapi/status/1508527487655067660/

4 years ago

HB11's hydrogen-boron laser fusion test yields groundbreaking results

https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-laser-fusion-demonstration/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841581

4 years ago

The YC Winter 2022 Batch

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-winter-2022-batch/

4 years ago

Drift. A self-hostable open-source Gist clone

https://github.com/MaxLeiter/Drift

4 years ago

Rescuing the Compuserve Collection

https://computerhistory.org/blog/mission-impossible-chm-edition/

4 years ago

Go Fuzz Testing

https://blog.fuzzbuzz.io/go-fuzzing-basics/

4 years ago

Converting integers to decimal strings faster with AVX-512

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/03/28/converting-integers-to-decimal-strings-faster-with-avx-512/

4 years ago

Piece of paper quiets Intel Alder Lake stock coolers

https://pubby.games/papermod.html

4 years ago

Yale University IT admin spent $40M college money on luxury cars, houses

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-yale-administrator-stole-40-million-pretending-to-buy-computer-equipment-for-the-university-instead-she-bought-a-fleet-of-luxury-cars-and-three-houses-11648578254

4 years ago

Mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause myelin loss in the brain

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.07.475453v1

4 years ago

America COMPETES Act of 2022 passed House and Senate

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4521/text?r=1

4 years ago

Lucene: The Good Parts (2015)

https://blog.parse.ly/lucene/

4 years ago

How an Ivy League school turned against a student

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/mackenzie-fierceton-rhodes-scholarship-university-of-pennsylvania

4 years ago

IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

https://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/

4 years ago