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

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

Link: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325563

#javascript

DRM Can Watch You Too: Privacy Effects of Browsers' Widevine EME (2023)

Link: https://hal.science/hal-04179324v1/document
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293837

#drm

My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour – While Not Is Use

Link: https://appaddict.app/post/my-mac-contacted-63-different-apple-owned-domains-in-one-hour-while-not-is-use
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256338

#apple

Chatterbox TTS

Link: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251411

FSE meets the FBI

Link: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860

Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years

Link: https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2025/05/29/jerry-lewis-day-the-clown-cried-discovered/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139592

XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-invest-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116862

AI: Accelerated Incompetence

Link: https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44114631

I think it's time to give Nix a chance

Link: https://maych.in/blog/its-time-to-give-nix-a-chance/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098605

Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Says He Will Die Soon from Same Cancer as Joe Biden

Link: https://www.thewrap.com/dilbert-scott-adams-prostate-cancer-biden/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031917

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

Link: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385

#linux

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain

Link: https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003700

Cracked - method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

Link: https://github.com/billorcutt/i_dropped_my_phone_the_screen_cracked
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001391

#css

LLMs Get Lost in Multi-Turn Conversation

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991256

Firefox Moves to GitHub

Link: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827

#github #firefox

Just Fucking Use HTML

Link: https://justfuckingusehtml.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962942

#html

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

Link: https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955842

Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

Link: https://www.educationdaly.us/p/mississippi-cant-possibly-have-good
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43915586

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

Link: https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899288

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911252