The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2024

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Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free nbcnews.com · amima · 24 Jun 2024

2.7k pts 1.6k comments

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FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations ftc.gov · ChrisArchitect · 17 Jun 2024

2.6k pts 847 comments

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Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity stefantheard.com · mooreds · 12 Jun 2024

1.8k pts 914 comments

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Lynn Conway has died en.wikipedia.org · kevvok · 11 Jun 2024

1.7k pts 328 comments

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I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers dropofahat.zone · jimhi · 23 Jun 2024

1.3k pts 440 comments

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Safe Superintelligence Inc. ssi.inc · nick_pou · 19 Jun 2024

1.2k pts 1.1k comments

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EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control stackdiary.com · skilled · 20 Jun 2024

1.2k pts 533 comments

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I built an ROV to solve missing person cases suanto.com · craydandy · 9 Jun 2024

1.2k pts 162 comments

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Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apple.com · terramex · 10 Jun 2024

1.1k pts 1.2k comments

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Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries rahulilango.com · MCSP · 20 Jun 2024

1.1k pts 172 comments

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Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments space.com · dev_tty01 · 15 Jun 2024

1k pts 226 comments

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How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? physics.stackexchange.com · williamsmj · 3 Jun 2024

1k pts 195 comments

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Ball: A ball that lives in your dock github.com · Bluestein · 25 Jun 2024

1k pts 292 comments

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One Million Checkboxes onemillioncheckboxes.com · LorenDB · 26 Jun 2024

994 pts 304 comments

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Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites danilafe.com · fabianholzer · 24 Jun 2024

983 pts 421 comments

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Please don't mention AI again ludic.mataroa.blog · ludicity · 19 Jun 2024

968 pts 563 comments

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Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now threema.ch · andrew918277 · 18 Jun 2024

960 pts 320 comments

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Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models machinelearning.apple.com · 2bit · 10 Jun 2024

941 pts 535 comments

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The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets righto.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Jun 2024

930 pts 508 comments

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KidPix kidpix.app · wonger_ · 18 Jun 2024

921 pts 124 comments

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Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards spectrum.ieee.org · walterbell · 6 Jun 2024

913 pts 380 comments

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Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem samcurry.net · xrayarx · 4 Jun 2024

895 pts 9 comments

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Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites sansec.io · gnabgib · 25 Jun 2024

887 pts 370 comments

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After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018) anandsanwal.me · ziptron · 22 Jun 2024

880 pts 120 comments

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Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial bloomberg.com · toomuchtodo · 20 Jun 2024

873 pts 412 comments

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MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 axio.ms · als0 · 16 Jun 2024

844 pts 177 comments

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Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life toaster.llc · davekeck · 3 Jun 2024

843 pts 299 comments

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Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem samcurry.net · albinowax_ · 3 Jun 2024

838 pts 271 comments

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Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022) freiheitsrechte.org · Bluestein · 18 Jun 2024

833 pts 221 comments

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Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month rosenzweig.io · todsacerdoti · 5 Jun 2024

827 pts 355 comments

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I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL awesomekling.substack.com · zmodem · 3 Jun 2024

823 pts 262 comments

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Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico twitter.com · thepasswordis · 6 Jun 2024

818 pts 869 comments

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Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work arstechnica.com · bookofjoe · 27 Jun 2024

764 pts 86 comments

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Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine axios.com · wumeow · 28 Jun 2024

760 pts 1.5k comments

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Software galaxies anvaka.github.io · matesz · 28 Jun 2024

747 pts 114 comments

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You'll regret using natural keys blog.ploeh.dk · thunderbong · 5 Jun 2024

739 pts 553 comments

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Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says apnews.com · cbg0 · 25 Jun 2024

723 pts 786 comments

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Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers haaretz.com · frob · 5 Jun 2024

723 pts 672 comments

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Tetris Font (2020) erikdemaine.org · Bluestein · 20 Jun 2024

723 pts 92 comments

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The Backrooms of the Internet Archive blog.archive.org · passing · 8 Jun 2024

722 pts 112 comments

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Apple found in breach of EU competition rules theguardian.com · malermeister · 24 Jun 2024

713 pts 786 comments

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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore howtogeek.com · doctorshady · 22 Jun 2024

693 pts 658 comments

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Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers github.com · tosh · 9 Jun 2024

693 pts 158 comments

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Local First, Forever tonsky.me · WhyNotHugo · 25 Jun 2024

689 pts 280 comments

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Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says propublica.org · tyleroconnell · 13 Jun 2024

676 pts 305 comments

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Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS github.com · saikatsg · 7 Jun 2024

670 pts 189 comments

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Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch docs.murexrobotics.com · byran · 16 Jun 2024

666 pts 158 comments

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet anthropic.com · squadrick · 20 Jun 2024

665 pts 278 comments

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Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide nytimes.com · thelastgallon · 30 Jun 2024

663 pts 575 comments

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Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite github.com · memset · 30 Jun 2024

656 pts 156 comments

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Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients twitter.com · wanderingmind · 7 Jun 2024

651 pts 363 comments

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Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees twitter.com · doener · 2 Jun 2024

649 pts 626 comments

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I like the RP2040 dgroshev.com · dgroshev · 11 Jun 2024

649 pts 398 comments

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The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing computerwebsite.net · arithmoquine · 12 Jun 2024

645 pts 60 comments

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Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission bbc.co.uk · helsinkiandrew · 5 Jun 2024

643 pts 686 comments

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Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers github.com · wsc981 · 29 Jun 2024

634 pts 133 comments

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Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11 arstechnica.com · redbell · 25 Jun 2024

633 pts 371 comments

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Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent rknight.me · cdme · 15 Jun 2024

626 pts 533 comments

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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it edw.is · eliasdaler · 6 Jun 2024

625 pts 260 comments

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Designing a Lego orrery marian42.de · _Microft · 9 Jun 2024

622 pts 65 comments