top 50% 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

Vanilla OS 2: an immutable distribution to run all software

https://lwn.net/Articles/989629/

2 years ago

Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?

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

2 years ago

A pilot project in universal algebra to explore new ways to collaborate

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/a-pilot-project-in-universal-algebra-to-explore-new-ways-to-collaborate-and-use-machine-assistance/

2 years ago

New standards for a faster and more private Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-standards/

2 years ago

Show HN: Cronexpr, a Rust library to parse and iter crontab expression

https://docs.rs/cronexpr/latest/cronexpr/

2 years ago

Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203

2 years ago

AWS Nitro Enclaves: Attack Surface

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/09/24/notes-on-aws-nitro-enclaves-attack-surface/

2 years ago

Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews

https://www.vulture.com/article/nardwuar-best-worst-interviews.html

2 years ago

From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign

https://jwn.gr/posts/migrating-from-gatsby-to-astro/

2 years ago

OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/openai_execs_leave/

2 years ago

FCC unlocks spectrum to support advanced satellite services

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-unlocks-spectrum-support-advanced-satellite-services

2 years ago

Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656015

2 years ago

Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html

2 years ago

Italian music through the lens of complex networks

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2372

2 years ago

The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira

https://ehandbook.com/the-slow-painful-death-of-agile-and-jira-c8de04e4269a

2 years ago

Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/rents-fall-and-listings-increase-after-javier-milei-ends-rent-control-in-argentina/ar-AA1rfZTe

2 years ago

Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI

https://thedebrief.org/look-over-300-new-nazca-lines-geoglyphs-have-been-revealed-by-ai/

2 years ago

Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone: Report

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-starlink-russia-shahed-135-drone-elon-musk-spacex-1959563

2 years ago

Critical Mass and Tipping Points

https://fs.blog/critical-mass/

2 years ago

Swift/Java interoperability tools and libraries

https://twitter.com/SwiftLang/status/1839328831200809217

2 years ago

Incident: Wordpress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from registry

https://wpenginestatus.com/incidents/640187

2 years ago

Galaxy Buds reportedly exploded in a user's ear causing permanent hearing loss

https://www.androidpolice.com/exploding-samsung-galaxy-buds-fe/

2 years ago

Twitter banned me after publishing the JD Vance Dossier

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/twitter-banned-me

2 years ago

Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?

https://cacm.acm.org/article/do-all-problems-have-technical-fixes/

2 years ago

OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Shift

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-25/openai-cto-mira-murati-says-she-will-leave-the-company

2 years ago

WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/wifi-suspended-big-uk-train-stations-cybersecurity-incident

2 years ago

When Insurers Exit (2023) [pdf]

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-051_f1329bc3-d296-4ffa-aff3-a9e4b8e98e9d.pdf

2 years ago

A 9.9 CVE has been announced for Linux

https://twitter.com/howardl3/status/1839103445296394554

2 years ago

Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

2 years ago

Register Allocation in the Go Compiler

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/24/go-compiler-register-allocation

2 years ago

Paramotorists soar across remote Peru desert to collect threatened plants

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-extreme-botany-paramotorists-soar-remote.html

2 years ago

Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos

https://twitter.com/IndoPopBase/status/1838858807801155618

2 years ago

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/amazon_staff_return_office/

2 years ago