Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-01

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1. Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection www.hudsonrock.com - 174 comments 591 points
2. IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season www.axios.com - 292 comments 445 points
3. A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence news.artnet.com - 375 comments 440 points
4. How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop www.unterminated.com - 203 comments 391 points
5. Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses standardebooks.org - 123 comments 339 points
6. Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape hackaday.com - 122 comments 266 points
7. UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look wiredjs.com - 48 comments 257 points
8. Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real www.cbc.ca - 130 comments 243 points
9. Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process arstechnica.com - 214 comments 240 points
10. Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC doublepulsar.com - 167 comments 235 points
11. Stop Using Discord malenfant.net - 225 comments 232 points
12. 25 Years of Krita krita.org - 95 comments 217 points
13. Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review www.nature.com - 94 comments 211 points
14. Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024 www.davidrevoy.com - 93 comments 202 points
15. EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years www.consilium.europa.eu - 106 comments 201 points
16. Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries hai.stanford.edu - 213 comments 193 points
17. Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland www.washingtonpost.com - 182 comments 191 points
18. Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only www.commitasync.com - 172 comments 181 points
19. Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos www.warpstream.com - 54 comments 171 points
20. De-googling, so far blog.nradk.com - 169 comments 167 points
21. Trial results for new lung cancer drug are 'off the charts' www.theguardian.com - 36 comments 165 points
22. Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout www.axios.com - 68 comments 163 points
23. Data allegedly stolen from 560M Ticketmaster users www.bbc.com - 5 comments 159 points
24. Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware www.accessnow.org - 55 comments 148 points
25. Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora blog.heroku.com - 76 comments 141 points
26. 60 kHz (2022) ben.page - 83 comments 140 points
27. Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video] tmp.tonybox.net - 65 comments 121 points
28. Maybe This Is Too Cool radarblog.substack.com - 19 comments 121 points
29. Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party lapcatsoftware.com - 129 comments 103 points
30. I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources cybersectools.com - 28 comments 99 points