Hacker News 100 15 hours ago

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) Link:

GitHub

GitHub - overflowy/make-look-scanned: Makes PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

Makes PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) - overflowy/make-look-scanned

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Hacker News 100 2 days ago

A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech Link:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A New Bill Takes Aim at Government Pressure to Silence Lawful Online Speech

The bipartisan legislation creates a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce or attempt to coerce broadcasters, interactive...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600950

Hacker News 100 2 days ago

Let's Encrypt has been down most of today Link:

Let's Encrypt Status

Support for Let

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594715

Hacker News 100 3 days ago

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct Link:

Ars Technica

Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”

Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.

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Hacker News 100 3 days ago

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate Link:

Chris Hillman

Portfolio and personal blog of Chris Hillman.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573435

Hacker News 100 5 days ago

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness Link:

The Verge

Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

It’s not magic if it’s science.

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Hacker News 100 5 days ago

Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch Link:

RuntimeWire

Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS

Microsoft is adding AWS capacity for GitHub after AI-driven usage strained the developer platform, exposing Azure constraints and the infrastructur...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549918

Hacker News 100 5 days ago

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ Link:

Kobzol’s blog

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543392

Hacker News 100 5 days ago

I Love the Computer Link:

Michael Enger

I Love the Computer

An exploration of how I became a massive geek.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546441

Hacker News 100 5 days ago

US battery manufacturing output continues to break records Link:

Industrial Production: Manufacturing: Durable Goods: Battery (NAICS = 33591)

Graph and download economic data for Industrial Production: Manufacturing: Durable Goods: Battery (NAICS = 33591) (IPG33591S) from Jan 1972 to May ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546616

Hacker News 100 6 days ago

Did Anthropic ask for this? Link:

Did Anthropic Ask For This?

This past Friday, the US Government issued an export control directive that prohibits Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Claude Fabl...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533504

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine Link: https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509182

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

Dopamine Fracking Link:

beware, the german!

Dopamine Fracking

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze o...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440792

Hacker News 100 2 weeks ago

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024) Link:

Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis | Salvaged Circuitry

I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148

Hacker News 100 3 weeks ago

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/ Discussion:

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Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet Link:

Scientific American

The programmer whose code underpins the Internet

Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet

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Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects Link: https://legiscan.com/CO/bill/SB051/2026 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213651

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub Link:

Gizmodo

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192397

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence Link:

Apple Newsroom

Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence

Apple announced major accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, including new capabilities for VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.

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Hacker News 100 1 month ago

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app Link:

MacDailyNews

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100,000 users of popular car-tinkering app in emissions crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151383