top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-30

Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/federal-judge-makes-history-holding-border-searches-cell-phones-require-warrant

2 years ago

1050 upvotes – 319 comments

JMAP – a modern email open standard

https://jmap.io/

2 years ago

1030 upvotes – 361 comments

I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me

https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1663582588210905091

2 years ago

922 upvotes – 222 comments

Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

https://kuenzi.dev/toothbrush/

2 years ago

808 upvotes – 302 comments

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

https://github.com/kochrt/qr-designer

2 years ago

711 upvotes – 73 comments

Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

https://github.com/makeplane/plane

2 years ago

638 upvotes – 228 comments

Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

https://github.com/crablang/crab

2 years ago

514 upvotes – 519 comments

Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128618

2 years ago

478 upvotes – 568 comments

I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)

https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/clickbait/

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 159 comments

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/okasaki.pdf

2 years ago

364 upvotes – 96 comments

Statement on AI Risk

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

2 years ago

341 upvotes – 921 comments

How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

https://simone.org/tracking-screen-time/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 143 comments

Noncompete clauses violate labor law, NLRB lawyer says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/noncompete-clauses-violate-labor-law-nlrb-lawyer-says-459fc081

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 114 comments

I have gained admin access to numerous GCloud Organizations by accident

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36124415

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 121 comments

Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future

https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/lyfts-secret-plan-to-take-control-of-its-maps-and-its-future

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 179 comments

Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-fake-cases-made-up-by-chatgpt-judge-calls-it-unprecedented/

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 201 comments

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73426-0

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 88 comments

The FBI as advanced persistent threat

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/30/column/

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 197 comments

Who owns this camera, Nikon? Me or you? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyX1WBzxN8

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 145 comments

NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed

https://spectrum.ieee.org/laser-communications

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 113 comments

Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io

https://www.databricks.com/blog/welcoming-bit-io-databricks-investing-developer-experience

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 117 comments

Modern CPUs have a backstage cast

https://www.devever.net/~hl/backstage-cast

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 75 comments

WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets

https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-wasix

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 196 comments

Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/molly-white-crypto-scams

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 296 comments

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mechanistic-interpretability-analysis-of-grokking

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 53 comments

Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015)

https://ericsink.com/entries/fsharp_chasm.html

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 329 comments

WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg

https://github.com/ossrs/ffmpeg-webrtc/pull/1

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 28 comments

Albert Camus

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 82 comments

React is 10 years old

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1663263814333153286

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 239 comments

A chiral aperiodic monotile

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 83 comments

UseHooks – A Collection of Server Component Safe React Hooks

https://usehooks.com/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

IRS can get financial info of third parties without notice to third parties [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1599_l5gm.pdf

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 66 comments

New horror revealed in sargassum blob

https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/05/new-horror-revealed-in-sargassum-blob/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 109 comments

A mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky

https://boingboing.net/2023/05/30/the-mystery-person-who-spies-on-theme-parks-from-the-sky.html

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 57 comments

Nvidia is now a $1T company

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742123/nvidia-stock-ai-gpu-1-trillion-market-cap-price-value

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 119 comments

How to hire a pop star for your private party

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/how-to-hire-a-pop-star-for-your-private-party

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Purdue Pharma can protect Sackler owners in opioid bankruptcy, court rules

https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/a85eac6b-716b-4ff0-a61b-29cef58cce1a/1/doc/22-110_complete_opn.pdf#xml=https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/a85eac6b-716b-4ff0-a61b-29cef58cce1a/1/hilite/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Tell HN: Makers beware, Etsy will ruin your small business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131200

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 76 comments

Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/dynamic-forms-with-streams/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 82 comments

Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code? (2022)

https://forums.swift.org/t/why-is-swift-so-slow-timeout-in-compiling-this-code/61382

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 135 comments

Mandatory Certification Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence

https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-brantley-starr

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-129a

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

Prince Rupert's drop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Chain-of-Thought Hub: Measuring LLMs' Reasoning Performance

https://github.com/FranxYao/chain-of-thought-hub

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

A Sun-like star orbiting a boson star

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09140

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

Factories in Space

https://www.factoriesinspace.com/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 120 comments

Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 109 comments

Language Pragmatics Engineering

https://borretti.me/article/language-pragmatics

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (2018)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/es-modules-a-cartoon-deep-dive/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

MAS.862: The Physics of Information Technology

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.22/index.html

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 6 comments

On the RustConf Keynote

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/05/29/RustConf.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Macro-ts: TypeScript compiler with typesafe syntactic macros (2022)

https://blainehansen.me/post/macro-ts/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

MDN Blog

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

Brave releases its Search API, bringing independence to the search landscape

https://brave.com/search-api-launch/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123924

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 195 comments

Germany’s solar power generation hit record high at weekend

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-29/germany-s-solar-power-generation-hit-record-high-at-weekend

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 108 comments
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