top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-25

Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

2 years ago

I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions

https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750225562281632048

2 years ago

Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries

https://ollama.ai/blog/python-javascript-libraries

2 years ago

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

https://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

2 years ago

Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

2 years ago

Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brains-are-not-required-when-it-comes-to-thinking-and-solving-problems-simple-cells-can-do-it/

2 years ago

Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/01/24/fail/

2 years ago

Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative

https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/introducing-faircamp/

2 years ago

Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs

2 years ago

CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers

https://github.com/rhboot/shim/commit/0226b56513b2b8bd5fd281bce77c40c9bf07c66d

2 years ago

Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor

https://github.com/placemark/placemark

2 years ago

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

2 years ago

Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

https://www.improbableisland.com

2 years ago

NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/nsa-internet-privacy-warrant.html

2 years ago

CRDTs Turned Inside Out

https://interjectedfuture.com/crdts-turned-inside-out/

2 years ago

We build X.509 chains so you don't have to

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/25/we-build-x-509-chains-so-you-dont-have-to/

2 years ago

New embedding models and API updates

https://openai.com/blog/new-embedding-models-and-api-updates

2 years ago

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated <14

https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-vaccine-prevent-cervical-cancer-cervarix-gardasil-study/

2 years ago

Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-japan-craft-successful-pin-moon.html

2 years ago

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/proposed-windows-nt-sync-driver-brings-big-wine-proton-performance-improvements/

2 years ago