TSMC faces $70M ransom demand following lockbit cyberattack

Link: https://www.thefinalhop.com/tsmc-faces-70m-ransom-demand-following-lockbit-cyberattack-could-this-impact-gpu-prices-80e1d9f90ef3?gi=367614525a9f

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533712

75% of Harvard legacy students would be rejected otherwise [pdf]

Link: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535949

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

Link: https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-blockers-three-strikes/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517238

What if California's dams fail?

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/california-dams.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36522048

Publishing free software video games

Link: https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530379

Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530036

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

Link: https://bgp.tools/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531988

Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533108

Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good

Link: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/goodreads-has-no-incentive-to-be

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533153

Atom feed format was born 20 years ago

Link: https://www.rssboard.org/news/213/atom-feed-format-born-20-years-ago

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532136

The man who broke bowling

Link: https://www.gq.com/story/jason-belmonte-bowling-profile

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530472

Terrible real estate agent photographs

Link: https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533193

How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]

Link: https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/data/paper/paper.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485

Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532812

LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

Link: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/llm-tech-and-a-lot-more-version-13-3-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36529610

Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

Link: https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530607

NJ Supreme Court says cops need a wiretap to eavesdrop on your Facebook posts

Link: https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/06/29/n-j-supreme-court-says-cops-need-a-wiretap-to-eavesdrop-on-your-facebook-posts/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530631

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s cartels, killed in ambush

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/hipolito-mora-killed-mexico-drug-cartel-foe

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36529847

Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library

Link: https://annas-archive.org/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530662

Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)

Link: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/30/why-do-men-stupefy-themselves-leo-tolstoy/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526645