top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-30

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/

3 years ago

Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543894

3 years ago

Terrible real estate agent photographs

https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com

3 years ago

Hurl 4.0.0

https://hurl.dev/blog/2023/06/30/announcing-hurl-4.0.0.html

3 years ago

Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library

https://annas-archive.org/

3 years ago

MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

3 years ago

Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go

https://polygon.io/blog/case-study-algorithmict-trading-with-go/

3 years ago

How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]

https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/data/paper/paper.pdf

3 years ago

File for divorce from LLVM

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

3 years ago

Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942

3 years ago

Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was

3 years ago

CSS-Only Chat

https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

3 years ago

A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/gamepads

3 years ago

Goodreads has no incentive to be good

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/goodreads-has-no-incentive-to-be

3 years ago

Atom feed format was born 20 years ago

https://www.rssboard.org/news/213/atom-feed-format-born-20-years-ago

3 years ago

NJ Supreme Court says cops need a wiretap to eavesdrop on your Facebook posts

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/06/29/n-j-supreme-court-says-cops-need-a-wiretap-to-eavesdrop-on-your-facebook-posts/

3 years ago

The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/fbi-finally-tracks-swatting-incidents-as-attacks-increase-nationwide/

3 years ago

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

https://bgp.tools/

3 years ago

To unlock drink verification can (2013)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/632877-halo-4/66477630

3 years ago

The Rise of the AI Engineer

https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer

3 years ago

FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/federal-trade-commission-announces-proposed-rule-banning-fake-reviews-testimonials

3 years ago

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/52/526D2E781AC9EBBB13346BDF7693E1BB_CHOMSKY_Noam_-_Necessary_Illusions.pdf

3 years ago

Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530036

3 years ago

TSMC faces $70M ransom demand following lockbit cyberattack

https://www.thefinalhop.com/tsmc-faces-70m-ransom-demand-following-lockbit-cyberattack-could-this-impact-gpu-prices-80e1d9f90ef3?gi=367614525a9f

3 years ago

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2020) [pdf]

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

3 years ago

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

3 years ago

AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values

https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

3 years ago

RIP Nitter

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919

3 years ago

Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/

3 years ago

Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy

3 years ago

UK competition regulator finds Adobe’s purchase of Figma could reduce innovation

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/design-software-deal-could-harm-uk-digital-economy

3 years ago

The man who broke bowling

https://www.gq.com/story/jason-belmonte-bowling-profile

3 years ago

Systems Programming with Racket

https://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html

3 years ago

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s cartels, killed in ambush

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/hipolito-mora-killed-mexico-drug-cartel-foe

3 years ago

How does Linux handle writes?

https://www.cyberdemon.org/2023/06/27/file-writes.html

3 years ago

LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/llm-tech-and-a-lot-more-version-13-3-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/

3 years ago

CommonJS is hurting JavaScript

https://deno.com/blog/commonjs-is-hurting-javascript

3 years ago

The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI

https://time.com/6283958/darwinian-argument-for-worrying-about-ai/

3 years ago

Fastmail Is Down

https://fastmailstatus.com/

3 years ago

Publishing free software video games

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/

3 years ago

Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-generative-ai-stole-personal-data-lawsuit-children-medical-2023-6

3 years ago

Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels NBA and Marvel games

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/niantic-lays-off-230-employees-cancels-nba-and-marvel-games/

3 years ago

Racket frustrates me

https://blog.winny.tech/posts/racket-frustrates-me/

3 years ago

Show HN: Tabserve.dev. HTTPS proxy using Web Workers and a Cloudflare Worker

https://tabserve.dev

3 years ago

All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

https://masto.ai/@mg/110631881391528778

3 years ago

The downfall of National Geographic

https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/the-tragic-downfall-of-national-geographic

3 years ago

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66072427

3 years ago

Rocky Linux shares how they may continue to obtain the RHEL source code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-RHEL-Source-Access

3 years ago

SEC notifies SolarWinds CISO and CFO of possible action in cyber investigation

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sec-solarwinds-ciso-cfo-orion/653864/

3 years ago

The Liberty Phone

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-liberty-phone/

3 years ago

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

3 years ago

Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller

https://github.com/everythingishacked/Gamebody

3 years ago

Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News

https://goorapid.com/product/buy-hacker-news-upvotes/

3 years ago

Linux's Slab Allocator Is Officially Deprecated

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SLAB-Officially-Deprecated

3 years ago

Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buyers Leave

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/reddit-ramps-up-its-threats-to-protesting-mods-as-ad-buyers-leave/

3 years ago

French Gov Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly into Web Browsers

https://torrentfreak.com/french-govt-wants-to-inject-domain-blocking-lists-directly-into-web-browsers-230630/

3 years ago

Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple

https://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-out-of-its-partnership-with-apple-79849a91

3 years ago

Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/30/us/student-loans-supreme-court-biden

3 years ago

Dynamic bit shuffle using AVX-512

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/06/29/dynamic-bit-shuffle-using-avx-512/

3 years ago

McMansion Hell

https://mcmansionhell.com

3 years ago

All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/pocket/signing-in-to-pocket-just-got-even-more-secure/

3 years ago

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/brazil-bolsonaro-ineligible-court-ruling-vote/465d30ea-175d-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html

3 years ago

Dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2300262120

3 years ago

RF Spectrum Mapping

https://www.he360.com/products/rfgeo-radio-frequency-signal-mapping/

3 years ago

Nineteen new Wolf-Rayet stars discovered in the Andromeda galaxy

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-nineteen-wolf-rayet-stars-andromeda-galaxy.html

3 years ago

YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-confirm-three-strikes-policy-ad-blocking-test-3340826/

3 years ago

Flea market find is medieval hand cannon

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67580

3 years ago

Preserving Bach’s Manuscripts

https://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2023/04/preserving-bachs-manuscripts.html

3 years ago

Samsung Foundry Tracking 2nm In 2025

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/samsung-foundry/331141-samsung-foundry-on-track-for-2nm-in-2025/

3 years ago

Why is there a drink called 手打柠檬鸭屎香 = “hand-made lemon duck-feces fragrance”?

https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/54741/why-is-there-a-drink-called-%e6%89%8b%e6%89%93%e6%9f%a0%e6%aa%ac%e9%b8%ad%e5%b1%8e%e9%a6%99-hand-made-lemon-duck-feces-fragrance

3 years ago