top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-26

One Million Checkboxes

https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/

2 years ago

Figma Slides

https://www.figma.com/slides/

2 years ago

South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/south-korean-telecom-company-attacks-torrent-users-with-malware-over-600000-people-report-missing-files-strange-folders-and-disabled-pcs

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

https://alpha.reconquer.online

2 years ago

Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

https://fastvoiceagent.cerebrium.ai/

2 years ago

The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU

http://mynor.org/my4th_forthdeck.htm

2 years ago

FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens

2 years ago

The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/06/26/g-s1-6177/brain-waste-removal-system-amyloid-alzheimer-toxins

2 years ago

Next gen 3D metal printing

https://fabric8labs.com

2 years ago

Show HN: R2R V2 – A open source RAG engine with prod features

https://github.com/SciPhi-AI/R2R

2 years ago

Will we ever get fusion power?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/will-we-ever-get-fusion-power

2 years ago

Figma AI

https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-ai/

2 years ago

gRPC: The Bad Parts

https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-the-bad-parts/

2 years ago

Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history

https://git-cliff.org/

2 years ago

Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2024/06/federal-whistleblowers-are-entitled-damages-missed-future-pay-court-rules/397638/

2 years ago

Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags

https://github.com/dorklyorg/dorkly/wiki

2 years ago

Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide

http://www.spudguns.org/

2 years ago

Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent from rabbit.tech domain

https://rabbitu.de/articles/security-disclosure-2

2 years ago

Out of sight, 'dark fungi' run the world from the shadows

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-dark-fungi-are-lurking-everywhere/

2 years ago

The album art of Phil Hartmann (2022)

https://www.conorherbert.com/music/the-album-art-of-phil-hartmann

2 years ago

Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)

https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html

2 years ago

Corcel – Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application

https://github.com/corcel/corcel

2 years ago

Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/brazil-supreme-court-decriminalizes-marijuana-for-personal-use

2 years ago

Ghosts in the ROM (2012)

https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/

2 years ago

Show HN: A Modern Palletization App

https://github.com/VladM7/Stack-Solver

2 years ago

Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites

https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatically-replacing-polyfill-io-links-with-cloudflares-mirror-for-a-safer-internet

2 years ago

Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout

https://www.bcg.com/press/11june2024-half-of-workers-around-the-world-struggling-with-burnout

2 years ago

WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)

https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm

2 years ago

Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/irs-customer-service-phone-call-data-fe7c0e65

2 years ago

Making AI better at math tutoring

https://blog.khanacademy.org/why-were-deeply-invested-in-making-ai-better-at-math-tutoring-and-what-weve-been-up-to-lately/

2 years ago

Google dropping continuous scroll in search results

https://searchengineland.com/google-dropping-continuous-scroll-in-search-results-443529

2 years ago

Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

https://tripsitter.substack.com/p/xenon

2 years ago

If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – remove it immediately

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/25/polyfillio_china_crisis/

2 years ago

Supreme Court strikes anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-26/supreme-court-anti-corruption-law

2 years ago

My (Neo)Vim workflow

https://seniormars.com/posts/neovim-workflow/

2 years ago

FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-fico-and-the-credit-bureau

2 years ago

Coup Attempt in Bolivia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/bolivia-presidential-palace-stormed-in-apparent-coup-attempt

2 years ago

Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/06/26/navigating-starlinks-fcc-paper-trail/

2 years ago

I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)

https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html

2 years ago

Anthropic: Expanding Access to Claude for Government

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-for-government

2 years ago

Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.13887

2 years ago

Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.11

2 years ago

The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015)

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThePointOfTheBanachTarskiTheorem.html

2 years ago

SpaceX to deliver vehicle to deorbit International Space Station

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-international-space-station-us-deorbit-vehicle/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40797858

2 years ago

Moving objects precisely with sound

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/moving-objects-precisely-with-sound-2/

2 years ago

The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane

https://lithub.com/in-search-of-the-rarest-book-in-american-literature-edgar-allan-poes-tamerlane/

2 years ago

Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)

https://tech.popdata.org/Flame-Graphs-Performance-Tuning-Made-Easy/

2 years ago

Paul Allen's Computer Museum to Be Auctioned

https://hackaday.com/2024/06/25/paul-allens-living-computers-museum-and-labs-to-be-auctioned/

2 years ago

Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn

https://usefind.ai/

2 years ago

Security is not part of most people's jobs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SecurityNotPeoplesJob

2 years ago

Why blue animals are so rare

https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-blue-animals-are-rare/

2 years ago

American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding in plain sight

https://www.population.fyi/p/american-singapores-effective-city

2 years ago

The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-the-law-should-treat-personal-data-like-human-organs-not-for-sale/

2 years ago

Volkswagen invests up to $5B in Rivian

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/vw-invests-5-billion-in-ev-startup-rivian-to-form-joint-venture

2 years ago

A terminal-based Bluetooth manager for Linux

https://darkhz.github.io/bluetuith/index.html

2 years ago

ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17650

2 years ago

Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47113-x

2 years ago

How the STL Uses Explicit

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/06/25/most-stl-ctors-arent-explicit-but-yours-still-should-be/

2 years ago

Visa, Mastercard $30B swipe fee settlement rejected by US judge

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rejects-visa-mastercard-30-bln-swipe-fee-settlement-2024-06-25/

2 years ago

Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous

https://tante.cc/2024/06/26/mozilla-ai-did-what-when-silliness-goes-dangerous/

2 years ago

Pulsed laser deposition at wafer level is a game changer

https://www.eetimes.com/pulsed-laser-deposition-at-wafer-level-is-a-game-changer/

2 years ago

Los Angeles Unified School District will ban cellphones from school day in 2025

https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-los-angeles-unified-cellphone-ban-use-on-campus

2 years ago

Banach–Tarski Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

2 years ago

Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7624

2 years ago

Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40799262

2 years ago

Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/business/denmark-cows-carbon-tax/index.html

2 years ago

Remote shell to a Raspberry Pi at 39,000 ft

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/remote-shell-raspberry-pi-39000-ft

2 years ago

Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/is-generative-ai-really-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-the-power-grid/

2 years ago