Hacker News on Thursday, 21 March 2024

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of nytimes.com: U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly (nytimes.com)

2455 points by jcfrei 2 years ago | 2371 comments

New York Times article reporting that the U.S. Justice Department sued Apple, accusing it of illegally maintaining a monopoly over the iPhone.

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Screenshot of file770.com: Vernor Vinge has died

Vernor Vinge has died (file770.com)

1098 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 294 comments

File 770 obituary post reporting the death of science fiction author Vernor Vinge (1944–2024).

vernor-vinge science-fiction obituary technological-singularity

Screenshot of difftastic.wilfred.me.uk: Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax (difftastic.wilfred.me.uk)

1076 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 179 comments

Homepage for Difftastic, a command-line diff tool that compares files by their syntax rather than line-by-line.

difftastic diff-tool structural-diff cli

Screenshot of memories.gallery: Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance (memories.gallery)

706 points by radialapps 2 years ago | 204 comments

Landing page for Memories, a free and open source self-hosted photo management app for Nextcloud positioned as a Google Photos alternative.

nextcloud self-hosting photo-management google-photos-alternative

Screenshot of github.com: Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler (github.com)

673 points by notamy 2 years ago | 203 comments

GitHub repository for Shattered Pixel Dungeon, an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler based on Watabou's Pixel Dungeon.

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Screenshot of jsomers.net: The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis (jsomers.net)

482 points by jsomers 2 years ago | 197 comments

An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis, framed as an elemental form of intelligence.

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Screenshot of ycombinator.com: The Reddits

The Reddits (ycombinator.com)

395 points by sandslash 2 years ago | 672 comments

Y Combinator blog post by Paul Graham, published March 2024, recounting the story of Reddit's founders in YC's Founder Stories series.

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Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>(github.com)

381 points by chearon 2 years ago | 124 comments

GitHub repository for Dropflow, a CSS layout engine supporting CSS2 and some modern properties that renders to canvas, SVG, or PDF in Node or the browser.

css layout-engine canvas text-layout

Screenshot of wired.com: Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks