top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-20

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries

https://www.rahulilango.com/coloring/

2 years ago

Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/gilead-shot-prevents-100-of-hiv-cases-in-trial-of-african-women

2 years ago

Tetris Font (2020)

https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/

2 years ago

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet

2 years ago

Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline

https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas-customer-service-hotline-160224479.html

2 years ago

Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents

https://www.octomind.dev/blog/why-we-no-longer-use-langchain-for-building-our-ai-agents

2 years ago

More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/remote-work-helps-more-people-with-disabilities-get-employed

2 years ago

Notes on Tajikistan

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/06/20/notes-on-tajikistan/

2 years ago

Donald Sutherland has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rrvdq3g9zo

2 years ago

Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/

2 years ago

Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/write_a_video_game_from_scratch_like_1987.html

2 years ago

I kind of like rebasing

https://rednafi.com/misc/on_rebasing/

2 years ago

Fuzz Map

https://www.fuzzmap.io/

2 years ago

Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/wc2

2 years ago

OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer

https://osrd.fr/en/

2 years ago

Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/501c3-nonprofit-organization-tax-exempt/

2 years ago

Atkinson Dithering (2021)

https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html

2 years ago

How babies and young children learn to understand language

https://lithub.com/how-babies-and-young-children-learn-to-understand-language/

2 years ago

NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use

https://borischerny.com/javascript,/typescript/2024/06/19/ES-Modules-Are-A-Mess.html

2 years ago

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling

https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

2 years ago

Nobody knows what's going on

https://www.raptitude.com/2024/06/nobody-knows-whats-going-on/

2 years ago

Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104636

2 years ago

The Pre-Scheme Restoration

https://prescheme.org/posts/announcing-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html

2 years ago

React Lua

https://github.com/jsdotlua/react-lua

2 years ago

Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit

https://github.com/mezbaul-h/june

2 years ago

20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU

https://img.ly/blog/browser-background-removal-using-onnx-runtime-webgpu/

2 years ago

Memory sealing for the GNU C Library

https://lwn.net/Articles/978010/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739431

2 years ago

As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)

https://jupiter-ace.co.uk/Forth_general_practical_computing8108.html

2 years ago

Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/

2 years ago

Lessons Learned from Scaling to Multi-Terabyte Datasets

https://v2thegreat.com/2024/06/19/lessons-learned-from-scaling-to-multi-terabyte-datasets/

2 years ago

A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel

https://jprx.io/cve-2024-27815/

2 years ago

Reconstructing Public Keys from Signatures

https://keymaterial.net/2024/06/15/reconstructing-public-keys-from-signatures/

2 years ago

Generating audio for video

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/generating-audio-for-video/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40736397

2 years ago

Bun is much faster than Node.js 22 at decoding Base64 but both rely on same lib

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/1803598132334436415

2 years ago

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

https://calculatingempires.net/

2 years ago

Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)

https://midday.ai

2 years ago

Protecting Children's Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption

https://simplex.chat/blog/20240601-protecting-children-safety-requires-e2e-encryption.html

2 years ago

Now is a good time to start a service business

https://www.zachocean.com/posts/service-business/

2 years ago

Curating my corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor

https://rafichaudhury.com/site/blog/Freehand-Web

2 years ago

Ask HN: Well architected React and Node repos?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741304

2 years ago

Rotation curves: still flat after a million light-years

https://tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/rotation-curves-still-flat-after-a-million-light-years/

2 years ago

ShotSpotter does not reduce gun violence or increase clearance rates

https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/learning-about-shot-spotter-from-chicago

2 years ago

AdonisJS

https://adonisjs.com/

2 years ago

Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/atari-520st-review-in-creative-computing

2 years ago

Connection Machine Lisp (1986)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870

2 years ago

Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-recommends-sexual-videos-to-accounts-for-13-year-olds-tests-show-b6123c65

2 years ago

KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit over Fake Radaris CEO

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/06/krebsonsecurity-threatened-with-defamation-lawsuit-over-fake-radaris-ceo/

2 years ago

Bog gravel filtration: Water cleaned by Mother Nature (2015)

https://www.pondtrademag.com/bog-gravel-filtration-water-cleaned-by-mother-nature/

2 years ago

Zig vs. Rust at work: the choice we made

https://ludwigabap.bearblog.dev/zig-vs-rust-at-work-the-choice-we-made/

2 years ago

New York bans 'addictive feeds' for teens

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

2 years ago

U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks. See what it looks like

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/20/nx-s1-5005972/home-prices-wages-paychecks-rent-housing-harvard-report

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742831

2 years ago

Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux

https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/gentoo-uutils-coreutils/

2 years ago

A 30-meter pass in the Pyrenees through which insects migrate

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2024-06-13/the-30-meter-pass-in-the-pyrenees-through-which-millions-of-insects-migrate.html

2 years ago

A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)

https://zacksdancelab.com/blog/a-new-kind-of-dance-science/

2 years ago

Electromechanical Lunar Lander

http://www.chrisfenton.com/electromechanical-lunar-lander/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40735973

2 years ago

What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)

https://futureforum.com/2022/07/15/personal-user-manual/

2 years ago

'Encryption is deeply threatening to power': Meredith Whittaker of Signal

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/18/encryption-is-deeply-threatening-to-power-meredith-whittaker-of-messaging-app-signal

2 years ago

Cloudflare Connectivity Issues in Eastern US and Central Europe

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/p7l6rrbhysck

2 years ago

Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2024-April/004106.html

2 years ago

Cognate: Readable and concise concatenative programming

https://cognate-lang.github.io/learn.html

2 years ago