top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-24

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/julian-assange-reached-plea-deal-us-allowing-go-free-rcna158695

2 years ago

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

https://danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures/

2 years ago

Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/24/apple-breach-eu-competition-rules-digital-markets-act

2 years ago

US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-prosecutors-recommend-justice-department-criminally-charge-boeing-as-deadline-looms/7667194.html

2 years ago

Round Rects Are Everywhere

https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

2 years ago

Cosmopolitan v3.5

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.5.0

2 years ago

I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app

https://stulle123.github.io/posts/kakaotalk-account-takeover/

2 years ago

More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/06/24/ntpd-rs-deployment.html

2 years ago

Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-is-now-automatically-enabling-onedrive-folder-backup-without-asking-permission/

2 years ago

The case for not sanitising fairy tales

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-case-for-not-sanitizing-fairy-tales

2 years ago

US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7yyhfx0ohx4/AGZduVXs0_1geqIyi0NA9nE?e=1&preview=2024_04_30_RCRA_Insp_Report_REPORT_Apple_3250_Scott_Redacted.pdf&rlkey=3aa2tw15ek3trqlbdh7pw9erh&st=4b364mkx&dl=0

2 years ago

MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/

2 years ago

iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple

https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope

2 years ago

Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider

https://apnews.com/article/car-dealerships-cyberattack-cdk-outage-3f7c81f6be0e212172b33cdc9f49feba

2 years ago

Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-account-to-local-account-conversion-guide-erased-from-official-windows-11-guide-instructions-redacted-earlier-this-week

2 years ago

Resilient Sync for Local First

https://holtwick.de/en/blog/localfirst-resilient-sync

2 years ago

Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780940

2 years ago

GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022)

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/09/17/gccs-new-fortification-level

2 years ago

A journey into Kindle AI slop hell

https://maxread.substack.com/p/my-kindle-thinks-im-stupid-now

2 years ago

From RSS to My Kindle

https://olano.dev/blog/from-rss-to-my-kindle

2 years ago

The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/the-sun-ra-arkestras-maestro-hits-one-hundred

2 years ago

CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/centos-linux-eol

2 years ago

Convert an existing wired doorbell into a smart doorbell using ESPHome

https://frenck.dev/diy-smart-doorbell-for-just-2-dollar/

2 years ago

A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)

https://reasonableapproximation.net/2019/05/05/hindley-milner.html

2 years ago

EPA releases report on Apple's hazardous waste violations in urban silicon fab

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/?

2 years ago

Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

2 years ago

Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/business/commercial-real-estate-loans.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Qq: like jq, but can transcode between many formats

https://github.com/JFryy/qq

2 years ago

Commission opens additional DMA investigation against Apple

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3433

2 years ago

Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2024/06/lifesaving-robots-arrive-on-lake-michigan-beaches-to-prevent-drownings.html

2 years ago

LockBit claims to exfiltrate 33TB of data from US Federal Reserve

https://securityaffairs.com/164873/cyber-crime/lockbit-claims-hacked-us-federal-reserve.html

2 years ago

Sarepta. Why?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sarepta-why

2 years ago

Fire at South Korea lithium battery plant kills at least 16 people

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fire-south-korea-lithium-battery-plant-kills-least-16-people-rcna158536

2 years ago

New JavaScript Set Methods

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-set-methods/

2 years ago

MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/fixing-rss-mailcap/

2 years ago

Tracing garbage collection for arenas

https://btmc.substack.com/p/tracing-garbage-collection-for-arenas

2 years ago

Seattle library network outage nears a month

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/no-computers-keep-books-seattle-library-network-outage-nears-a-month/

2 years ago

No matter what they tell you, it's a people problem (2008)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/no-matter-what-they-tell-you-its-a-people-problem/

2 years ago

OpenAI Acquires Multi

https://multi.app/blog/multi-is-joining-openai

2 years ago

Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison

https://apnews.com/article/assange-plea-deal-wikileaks-justice-department-d329ba4614dbfa77b5eb968d07fd9bd0

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-unexpectedly-accelerates-into-home-wit-1851557475

2 years ago

Copy-on-write performance and debugging

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/copy-on-write-performance-and-debugging/

2 years ago

The Alternate Reality Kit (1987) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1HhPE0zV6g

2 years ago

Apple is first company charged with violating EU's DMA rules

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/24/24184629/apple-dma-steering-infringement-ruling

2 years ago

Indonesia’s Emergence

https://insidestory.org.au/brutal-birth/

2 years ago

Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/uber-is-locking-out-new-york-city-drivers-mid-shift-to-lower-minimum-pay

2 years ago

Weighing Up Galileo's Evidence

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/weighing-galileos-evidence

2 years ago

Diagraming sentences in the 19th century

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/diagramming-sentences-in-the-19th-century/

2 years ago

Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021)

https://medium.com/embarkstudios/homegrown-rendering-with-rust-1e39068e56a7

2 years ago

Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars

https://www.asimov.press/p/grow-mars

2 years ago

Gren 0.4: New Foundations

https://gren-lang.org/news/240624_gren_04/

2 years ago