July 19, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-19

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

1. Crowdstrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
   
   
2. FCC votes unanimously to dramatically limit prison telecom rates
   
   
3. Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
   
   
4. Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
   
   
5. Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?
   
   
6. Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
   
   
7. Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
   
   
8. Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
   
   
9. Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
   
   
10. End Poem by Julian Gough
    
    
11. SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models
    
    
12. CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide
    
    
13. 62 Minutes could bring your business down
    
    
14. Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes
    
    
15. The Objects of Our Life (1983)
    
    
16. Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text
    
    
17. Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?
    
    
18. Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark
    
    
19. Mining Pool Game Theory During Forks
    
    
20. What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
    
    
21. The only tourist in Moldova
    
    
22. Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring Exceptional TypeScript Engineers
    
    
23. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
    
    
24. USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
    
    
25. Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map'
    
    
26. Polychromatic Pixels
    
    
27. Premature Abstraction
    
    
28. A Journey into Rebel-Held Myanmar
    
    
29. Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
    
    
30. Professional Poker Players Know the Optimal Strategy but Don't Always Use It