top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-09-26

Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925/

2 years ago

OpenAI to become for-profit company

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/

2 years ago

PostgreSQL 17

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/

2 years ago

Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate

https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia

2 years ago

WordPress.org bans WP Engine

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/wordpress-org-bans-wp-engine-blocks-it-from-accessing-its-resources/

2 years ago

Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic

https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

2 years ago

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS

https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/

2 years ago

U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-orders-libgen-to-pay-30m-to-publishers-issues-broad-injunction-240925/

2 years ago

Tcl 9.0

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html?post=new

2 years ago

Rewriting Rust

https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/

2 years ago

Our Android app is frozen in carbonite

https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite

2 years ago

DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/startup-behind-worlds-first-robot-lawyer-to-pay-193k-for-false-ads-ftc-says/

2 years ago

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03129-3

2 years ago

End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images

2 years ago

NKRYPT Sculpture

https://www.meme.net.au/nkrypt/

2 years ago

Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-the-us-cant-build-icebreaking

2 years ago

Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

https://jorenar.com/blog/less-known-c

2 years ago

Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszwpgq/

2 years ago

X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-blocks-jd-vance-dossier

2 years ago

Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?

https://allthingsopen.org/articles/noisy-zfs-disks

2 years ago