The best of Hacker News - June 11, 2024

1.
Lynn Conway has died

1345 points

2.
I like the RP2040

438 points

3.
Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood

390 points

4.
Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'

359 points

5.
Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

358 points

6.
Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

342 points

7.
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress

307 points

8.
POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)

301 points

9.
The rarest move in chess [video]

242 points

10.
A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material

237 points

11.
Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep

223 points

12.
Mexican Computers: A Brief Technical and Historical Overview

212 points

13.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language

207 points

14.
British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower

207 points

15.
Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity

206 points

16.
Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip

205 points

17.
Sending emails to my three-year-old

192 points

18.
Controversial pesticide research all but vanished from a major conference

189 points

19.
Self-Serve Dashboards

186 points

20.
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

185 points

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