Notices by Hacker News 50 (hn50@social.lansky.name)

PHP Core Security Audit Results

Link: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04/10/php-core-security-audit-results/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645315

New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

Link: https://www.pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github-copilot-and-cursor-how-hackers-can-weaponize-code-agents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677067

#github

The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

Link: https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651489

The real effects of basic income

Link: https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636757

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909741170953273353.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631543

AnimeJs v4 Is Here

Link: https://animejs.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570533

A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox

Link: https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099

#chrome #firefox

Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/31/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-verdict-europe-news-live
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534140

Buy once, use forever A directory of one-time purchase software. Add yours

Link: https://buyoncesoftware.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519998

Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web

Link: https://github.com/smparsons/retroboy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429417

#rust

ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/chatgpt-hit-with-privacy-complaint-over-defamatory-hallucinations/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425561

“QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf]

Link: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381088

Cloudflare asks browser devs to sign insane NDAs before fixing browser blocking

Link: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=32127
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376064

Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

Link: https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363031

British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43324040

Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311091

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253167

#android #google

I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain

Link: https://initialcommit.com/blog/im-making-a-git-game
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230734

#git

Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms

Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/620777/starlink-verizon-contract-faa-communication-musk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43205435

Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

Link: https://restofworld.org/2025/aws-google-cloud-nigeria-alternatives/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43195710

#google #aws