Hacker News on Thursday, 12 June 2025

GCP Outage(status.cloud.google.com)

1365 points by thanhhaimai 1 year ago | 481 comments

Google Cloud Platform's public status dashboard, which lists the current service health and incidents for GCP products.

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure(tailscale.com)

1175 points by ingve 1 year ago | 490 comments

Tailscale blog post arguing that forcing users to frequently re-authenticate does not improve security.

A receipt printer cured my procrastination(laurieherault.com)

1127 points by laurieherault 1 year ago | 567 comments

Personal blog post by Laurie Hérault on using a thermal receipt printer to print to-do tasks, drawing on video game psychology to beat procrastination.

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists(apnews.com)

644 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 320 comments

AP News article reporting Citizen Lab findings that spyware from US-backed Israeli company Paragon was used to target European journalists, including in Italy.

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway(techcrunch.com)

441 points by achristmascarl 1 year ago | 754 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Waymo robotaxi rides cost more than comparable Uber or Lyft trips, yet riders are still choosing them.

Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard(theguardian.com)

407 points by Gud 1 year ago | 452 comments

Guardian live blog covering the crash of Air India flight AI171 to London Gatwick in Ahmedabad with 242 people onboard.

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU(github.com)

360 points by 71bw 1 year ago | 30 comments

GitHub repository for QEMUAppleSilicon, a QEMU fork that emulates Apple Silicon devices, currently only the iPhone 11.

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format(eclecticlight.co)

341 points by zdw 1 year ago | 123 comments

Eclectic Light Company blog post describing the new disk image format introduced in macOS Tahoe.

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice(heise.de)

334 points by jlpcsl 1 year ago | 159 comments

Heise news article reporting that the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is replacing Microsoft Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice for all employees.

Cloudflare was down(cloudflarestatus.com)

295 points by datadrivenangel 1 year ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust(tritium.legal)

287 points by piker 1 year ago | 159 comments

Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading(arxiv.org)

277 points by doener 1 year ago | 259 comments

Agentic Coding Recommendations(lucumr.pocoo.org)

231 points by rednafi 1 year ago | 177 comments

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan(smithsonianmag.com)

225 points by CoopaTroopa 1 year ago | 105 comments

A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs(krebsonsecurity.com)

224 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 115 comments

AOSP project is coming to an end(old.reddit.com)

223 points by kaladin-jasnah 1 year ago | 97 comments

Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future(latimes.com)

219 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 216 comments

Seedance 1.0(seed.bytedance.com)

192 points by matallo 1 year ago | 91 comments

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware(techcrunch.com)

180 points by moose44 1 year ago | 9 comments

Ruby on Rails Audit Complete(ostif.org)

178 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 141 comments

Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device(9to5google.com)

162 points by tripdout 1 year ago | 89 comments

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?(akpain.net)

147 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 126 comments

Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN)(github.com)

136 points by hunterirving 1 year ago | 19 comments

Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go(github.com)

133 points by andrew_bbb 1 year ago | 13 comments

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes(zed.dev)

127 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 50 comments

Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables(omattos.com)

125 points by londons_explore 1 year ago | 120 comments

Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function(medicalxpress.com)

124 points by wglb 1 year ago | 89 comments

First 2D, non-silicon computer developed(psu.edu)

123 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 27 comments

Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT(buttondown.com)

123 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 36 comments

How much EU is in DNS4EU?(techlog.jenslink.net)

120 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 70 comments

My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use(appaddict.app)

119 points by rpgbr 1 year ago | 92 comments

Expanding Racks [video](youtube.com)

119 points by doctoboggan 1 year ago | 13 comments

Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)(github.com)

112 points by dvrp 1 year ago | 11 comments

NASA Is Worth Saving(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

107 points by EvgeniyZh 1 year ago | 44 comments

The international standard for identifying postal items(akpain.net)

106 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 23 comments

Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far(luu.io)

83 points by luuio 1 year ago | 56 comments

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report(gizmodo.com)

79 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 57 comments

Being full of value‑added shit(feld.com)

78 points by rmason 1 year ago | 68 comments

Breaking My Security Assignments(akpain.net)

75 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 14 comments

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”(news.mit.edu)

71 points by WithinReason 1 year ago | 47 comments

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins(theguardian.com)

71 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 21 comments

Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet(ign.com)

67 points by galleywest200 1 year ago | 25 comments

We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model(lighthousereports.com)

67 points by troelsSteegin 1 year ago | 54 comments

Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel(omarabid.com)

60 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 25 comments

CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0, CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86 listings by Digital Research(bitsavers.org)

58 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 29 comments

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints(cell.com)

56 points by srameshc 1 year ago | 25 comments

Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

49 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 39 comments

In case of emergency, break glass(morrick.me)

47 points by microflash 1 year ago | 36 comments

Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder(gizmodo.com)

45 points by uladzislau 1 year ago | 7 comments

Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier goes half-fed(theregister.com)

44 points by beardyw 1 year ago | 4 comments

Random Walk: A Modern Introduction (2010) [pdf](math.uchicago.edu)

43 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 6 comments

Build a minimal decorator with Ruby in 30 minutes(remimercier.com)

42 points by unripe_syntax 1 year ago | 26 comments

Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons(axios.com)

42 points by tndl 1 year ago | 59 comments

The Problem with AI Welfare(substack.com)

40 points by turing_complete 1 year ago | 38 comments

Everything Is Down

38 points by daxfohl 1 year ago | 19 comments

Firebase Global Outage(status.firebase.google.com)

37 points by superphil0 1 year ago | 1 comments

Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content(economictimes.indiatimes.com)

36 points by matheusmoreira 1 year ago | 23 comments

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service(helpnetsecurity.com)

33 points by stanislavb 1 year ago | 25 comments

Show HN: ChatToSTL – AI text-to-CAD for 3D printing(huggingface.co)

33 points by flowful 1 year ago | 1 comments

Peeling the Covers Off Germany's Exascale "Jupiter" Supercomputer(nextplatform.com)

31 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 3 comments