top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-17

FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling

2 years ago

EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/

2 years ago

Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

https://htmx.org/posts/2024-06-17-htmx-2-0-0-is-released/

2 years ago

Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide

https://github.com/nicanorflavier/spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified

2 years ago

DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

https://dronedj.com/2024/06/14/dji-ban-passes-the-house-and-moves-on-to-the-senate/

2 years ago

Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)

https://howtoware.co/wyldcard

2 years ago

How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court

https://blog.simonrumble.com/how-to-get-your-stuff-repaired-when-the-retailer-and-manufacturer-dont-wanna-take-em-to-court

2 years ago

“Attention assault” on Fandom

https://j3s.sh/thought/stop-using-fandom.html

2 years ago

Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/on-being-laid-off-unplanned-entrepreneurship/

2 years ago

Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o

https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50-sota-on-arc-agi-with-gpt

2 years ago

I learned Haskell in just 15 years

https://duckrabbit.tech/articles/learning-haskell.html

2 years ago

What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-screens-cause-shallow-breathing

2 years ago

Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2024/04/15/sam-altman-y-combinator-board-chair.html

2 years ago

Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

https://news.asu.edu/20240617-science-and-technology-asu-study-points-origin-cumulative-culture-human-evolution

2 years ago

Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs

https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost

2 years ago

Lindroid

https://twitter.com/Khode_Erfan/status/1802331845633212554

2 years ago

TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/tdk-claims-insane-energy-density-in-solid-state-battery-breakthrough/

2 years ago

The enduring mystery of how water freezes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-enduring-mystery-of-how-water-freezes-20240617/

2 years ago

Sei pays out $2M bug bounty

https://usmannkhan.com/bug%20reports/2024/06/17/sei-bug-report.html

2 years ago

New branding, same scanning: Upload moderation undermines end-to-end encryption [pdf]

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

2 years ago

They make USB-C cables with displays now

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/05/usb-c-cables/

2 years ago

Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI product factory

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/google-deepmind-shifts-from-research-lab-to-ai-product-factory

2 years ago

Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/optical-pcie-70-connection-hits-a-blazing-128-gts

2 years ago

React 19 almost made the internet slower

https://blog.codeminer42.com/how-react-19-almost-made-the-internet-slower/

2 years ago

Marion Stokes, the Woman Who Spent over 30 Years Recording Every Minute of US TV

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marion-stokes

2 years ago

Let Readers Read

https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

2 years ago

Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/proton-is-taking-its-privacy-first-apps-to-a-nonprofit-foundation-model/

2 years ago

US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe-us-ftc-doj-sues-subscriptions-cancel

2 years ago

How to test without mocking

https://www.amazingcto.com/mocking-is-an-antipattern-how-to-test-without-mocking/

2 years ago

Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05587

2 years ago

A Note on Essential Complexity

https://olano.dev/blog/a-note-on-essential-complexity

2 years ago

Lnav Logfile Navigator

https://lnav.org/

2 years ago

Intel details Skymont

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/15/intel-details-skymont/

2 years ago

Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/17/the-big-idea-can-you-inherit-memories-from-your-ancestors

2 years ago

Software Friction

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-friction/

2 years ago

The Programmer's Brain (2021)

https://yoan-thirion.gitbook.io/knowledge-base/software-craftsmanship/the-programmers-brain

2 years ago

Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?

https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/ms-pac-man-disappear-pac-mom

2 years ago

Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access

https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/security/publication.aspx?name=SAP10398

2 years ago

Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux

https://github.com/kitsunyan/intel-undervolt

2 years ago

OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/openbsd-the-computer-appliance-maker-s-secret-weapon/

2 years ago

NumPy-style broadcasting in Futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2024-06-17-automap.html

2 years ago

A long guide to giving a short academic talk (2022)

https://benjaminnoble.org/blog/short-talk

2 years ago

LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request

https://cohere.com/blog/multi-step-tool-use

2 years ago

Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player

https://www.xatakaon.com/makers/a-developer-has-just-taken-the-concept-of-retro-to-a-new-level-by-creating-a-physical-winamp-player

2 years ago

Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924

2 years ago

The time keepers: pg_cron and pg_timetable

https://notso.boringsql.com/posts/time-keepers-pg-cron-pg-timetable/

2 years ago

Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly

2 years ago

Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/06/group-of-17-london-secondary-schools-join-up-to-go-smartphone-free

2 years ago

Three of Vietnam's five undersea internet cables are down

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-vietnams-five-undersea-internet-cables-are-down-2024-06-17/

2 years ago

Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure

https://proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation

2 years ago

Augmenting biological intelligence with RL in C.elegans using optogenetics [pdf]

https://klab.tch.harvard.edu/publications/PDFs/gk8172.pdf

2 years ago

Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)

https://www.biography.com/history-culture/a44577392/tsutomu-yamaguchi-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombing-survivor

2 years ago

Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge (2012)

https://www.rootsimple.com/2012/06/dont-store-your-cucumbers-in-the-fridge/

2 years ago

Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual descent into madness

https://verdagon.dev/blog/exploring-seamless-rust-interop-part-2

2 years ago

FPGA-Based Disk Controller for the Apple II (2017)

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2017/12/07/fpga-based-disk-controller-for-apple-ii/

2 years ago

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers, small businesses

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-12-war-in-the-aisles/

2 years ago

How innovative is China in nuclear power?

https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-china-in-nuclear-power/

2 years ago

'Equals' has more than one meaning in math

https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematician-reveals-equals-has-more-than-one-meaning-in-math

2 years ago

First randomized trial of Ozempic for alcoholism shows big drops in drinking

https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/first-ever-randomized-trial-of-ozempic

2 years ago

Almost 50% would refuse job offer with no remote work option – survey

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0617/1455031-work-survey/

2 years ago

Amazon-powered AI cameras used to detect emotions of unwitting train passengers

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/

2 years ago

What policy makers need to know about AI

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-06-11-os-ai.html

2 years ago

The Tyranny of the Flake Equation

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/flake_equation/

2 years ago

Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall

https://reason.com/2024/06/14/feds-arrest-telehealth-execs-for-overprescribing-adderall/

2 years ago

Mozilla acquires privacy-focused ad tech company Anonym

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

2 years ago