top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-21

U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html

2 years ago

Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

2 years ago

Vernor Vinge has died

https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

2 years ago

Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

https://memories.gallery/

2 years ago

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler

https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon

2 years ago

The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/

2 years ago

The Reddits

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-reddits

2 years ago

Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

https://github.com/chearon/dropflow

2 years ago

DuckDB as the New jq

https://www.pgrs.net/2024/03/21/duckdb-as-the-new-jq/

2 years ago

Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks

https://www.wired.com/story/saflok-hotel-lock-unsaflok-hack-technique/

2 years ago

GoFetch: New side-channel attack using data memory-dependent prefetchers

https://gofetch.fail

2 years ago

Redis License Changed

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt

2 years ago

Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent

https://restoreprivacy.com/employer-review-site-glassdoor-deanonymized-users-without-consent/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777223

2 years ago

Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/biodegradable-microplastics

2 years ago

Ludic: New framework for Python with seamless Htmx support

https://github.com/paveldedik/ludic

2 years ago

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

2 years ago

Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas

https://github.com/refaktor/rye

2 years ago

Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant

https://reactormag.com/silent-running-a-1970s-environmental-fable-remains-depressingly-all-too-relevant/

2 years ago

Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life

https://nesslabs.com/ikigai

2 years ago

Jan: An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs on the desktop

https://jan.ai/

2 years ago

Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today

https://themeisle.com/blog/we-are-open-sourcing-our-ai-site-builder/

2 years ago

FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/fda-says-marijuana-has-a-legitimate-medicinal-purpose

2 years ago

Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators

https://soundry.ai/

2 years ago

HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

https://github.com/aforensics/HiddenVM

2 years ago

Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/tiny-undervalued-hardware-companions/

2 years ago

Algorithmic Mathematical Art (2004)

http://xahlee.info/math/algorithmic_math_art.html

2 years ago

Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig

https://xata.io/blog/introducing-pgzx

2 years ago

Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic-nondeterminism/

2 years ago

Electronic project kits: hands on with a vintage 160-in-1 (2016)

https://medium.com/@rxseger/electronic-project-kits-hands-on-with-a-vintage-160-in-1-eea39e6193f4

2 years ago

What is a pig butchering scam? (2023)

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/

2 years ago

A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/aggressive-colon-cancer-newly-identified-bacteria-found-half-tumors-ma-rcna144164

2 years ago

Is the Job Market Dying?

https://rachdele.substack.com/p/is-the-job-market-dying

2 years ago

VitePress 1.0

https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vitepress-1.0

2 years ago

Show HN: Ragas – Open-source library for evaluating RAG pipelines

https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas

2 years ago

Response from Flipper Zero to the Canada Ban

https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1770459769452589468

2 years ago

Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/health/pig-kidney-organ-transplant.html

2 years ago

Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging

https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488

2 years ago

SpaceX forced workers to sign illegal severance agreements, US agency claims

https://www.reuters.com/business/spacex-forced-workers-sign-illegal-severance-agreements-us-agency-claims-2024-03-21/

2 years ago

UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers following cyberattack

https://www.aol.com/news/unitedhealth-group-paid-more-2-125226015.html

2 years ago

Hackers can extract secret encryption keys from Apple's Mac chips

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

2 years ago

Apollo Data Uncovers Lunar Seismic Events

https://essopenarchive.org/users/527743/articles/673415-new-views-of-lunar-seismicity-brought-by-analysis-of-newly-discovered-moonquakes-in-apollo-short-period-seismic-data

2 years ago

The London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/inside-the-london-office-where-swinging-pendulums-keep-cyber-threats-at-bay-71054/

2 years ago

Return to Office Is a Mistake

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714660/return-to-office-is-a-mistake.html

2 years ago

Glassdoor added real names to supposedly anonymous profiles

https://www.techradar.com/pro/glassdoor-added-real-names-to-supposedly-anonymous-profiles

2 years ago

Meteorite Self-test check-list

https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/meteorite-fusion-crust/

2 years ago

Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jtlg/112052299948819084

2 years ago

Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775011

2 years ago

Shakespeare's sister: Digital archives reveal insights into unknown sibling

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-shakespeare-sister-digital-archives-reveal.html

2 years ago