top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-19

CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/

7 months ago

4489 upvotes – 3859 comments

FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges

https://worthrises.org/pressreleases/2024/7/18/fcc-votes-unanimously-to-significantly-lower-phone-and-video-communication-costs-after-decades-of-exploitation-by-prison-telecoms

7 months ago

982 upvotes – 426 comments

Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues

https://www.afr.com/technology/businesses-crippled-by-widespread-it-outage-20240719-p5jv2t

7 months ago

741 upvotes – 3 comments

I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century

https://roadway.report

7 months ago

734 upvotes – 441 comments

Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

7 months ago

639 upvotes – 134 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003623

7 months ago

599 upvotes – 0 comments

Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/19/bangladesh-demonstrations-police-hasina/

7 months ago

451 upvotes – 202 comments

Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007403

7 months ago

429 upvotes – 90 comments

Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/frontier-flights-grounded-microsoft.html

7 months ago

371 upvotes – 121 comments

Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00399

7 months ago

329 upvotes – 231 comments

Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern

https://hallofshame.design/ryanair-when-every-page-is-a-dark-pattern/

7 months ago

312 upvotes – 296 comments

The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?

https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1814364640127922499

7 months ago

307 upvotes – 351 comments

AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point

https://batchmon.com/blog/ai-cheaper-than-ads/

7 months ago

290 upvotes – 236 comments

What happened to BERT and T5?

https://www.yitay.net/blog/model-architecture-blogpost-encoders-prefixlm-denoising

7 months ago

251 upvotes – 68 comments

A search engine by and for the federal government

https://search.gov/

7 months ago

235 upvotes – 62 comments

The Later Years of Douglas Adams

https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-later-years-of-douglas-adams/

7 months ago

225 upvotes – 71 comments

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns to kernel compiler flags (2017)

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

7 months ago

206 upvotes – 46 comments

Kompute – Vulkan Alternative to CUDA

https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute

7 months ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/

7 months ago

203 upvotes – 234 comments

Playing guitar tablatures in Rust

https://agourlay.github.io/ruxguitar-tablature-player/

7 months ago

193 upvotes – 87 comments

Ruby methods are colorless

https://jpcamara.com/2024/07/15/ruby-methods-are.html

7 months ago

187 upvotes – 235 comments

NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-discovers-a-surprise-in-a-martian-rock

7 months ago

186 upvotes – 100 comments

Never Update Anything

https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything

7 months ago

185 upvotes – 119 comments

Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nash-equilibrium-is-the-optimal-poker-strategy-expert-players-dont-always-use-it/

7 months ago

146 upvotes – 85 comments

The European Union must keep funding free software

https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

7 months ago

142 upvotes – 39 comments

Building the new hypermedia systems

https://dz4k.com/2024/new-hypermedia-systems/

7 months ago

140 upvotes – 30 comments

Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

7 months ago

133 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41004103

7 months ago

129 upvotes – 98 comments

Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009359

7 months ago

127 upvotes – 94 comments

It's not just CrowdStrike – the cyber sector is vulnerable

https://www.ft.com/content/d2f529fe-3050-4ef5-a8c7-6487d533e57a

7 months ago

123 upvotes – 127 comments

Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

7 months ago

120 upvotes – 92 comments

CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1e6ms9z/crowdstrike_is_not_worth_83_billion_dollars

7 months ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Postgres vs. Pinecone

https://lantern.dev/blog/postgres-vs-pinecone

7 months ago

119 upvotes – 17 comments

Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF

https://coroot.com/blog/instrumenting-python-gil-with-ebpf

7 months ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240715135713.htm

7 months ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240708-00/?p=109959

7 months ago

115 upvotes – 176 comments

62 Minutes could bring your business down

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/#teaser-79minutes-adversary-1

7 months ago

105 upvotes – 11 comments

Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/major-microsoft-365-outage-caused-by-azure-configuration-change/

7 months ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library

7 months ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

Nearly all of Bangladesh is offline

https://ant.isi.edu/blog/?p=2094

7 months ago

94 upvotes – 2 comments
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