June 25, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-06-25

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

1. Local First, Forever
   
   
2. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
   
   
3. GCC and Clang handle statically known undefined behaviour
   
   
4. EGAIR – European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation
   
   
5. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
   
   
6. Remembering the LAN (2020)
   
   
7. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
   
   
8. What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
   
   
9. Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas
   
   
10. Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking
    
    
11. Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware
    
    
12. Resilient Sync for Local First
    
    
13. Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations
    
    
14. More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
    
    
15. Count Binface
    
    
16. Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly
    
    
17. AI discovers new rare-earth-free magnet at 200 times the speed of man
    
    
18. Round Rects Are Everywhere
    
    
19. Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'
    
    
20. The First Hedge Fund
    
    
21. The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred
    
    
22. Israeli Supreme Court says ultra-Orthodox must serve in military
    
    
23. NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job
    
    
24. Why not parse ls and what to do instead
    
    
25. The case for not sanitising fairy tales
    
    
26. The Triumph of Counting and Scripting
    
    
27. Finley (YC W21) is hiring our first Sales Ops team member (SF, NY, Remote)
    
    
28. MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment
    
    
29. From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center
    
    
30. Synthesizer for Thought