March 18, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-03-18

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law
   
   
2. In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted
   
   
3. Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]
   
   
4. Show HN: Let's Build AI
   
   
5. Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
   
   
6. Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect
   
   
7. Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
   
   
8. Take Ownership of Your Future Self
   
   
9. 900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability
   
   
10. Don't upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues
    
    
11. I Turned 72 Today
    
    
12. Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts
    
    
13. Experience with an Uncommon Lisp (1986) [pdf]
    
    
14. A Mathematician on Creativity, Art, Logic and Language
    
    
15. Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows
    
    
16. Sul Ross Desk
    
    
17. Hypothesis That Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is 27B Years Old
    
    
18. 6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review
    
    
19. Bats of the Midnight Sun
    
    
20. Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates
    
    
21. America's Last Top Models
    
    
22. When Armor Met Lips
    
    
23. Another view on designing websites – event.preventDeault();
    
    
24. What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner
    
    
25. Uber to pay $272M to Australian taxi operators
    
    
26. Upside-Down-Ternet
    
    
27. Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate UI tests
    
    
28. 2600.network Dialup Service
    
    
29. Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)
    
    
30. macOS Sonoma 14.4 might break Java on your machine