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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access • The Register

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme. The nation’s Ministry of Science announced the plan yesterday with a statement and a rather more interesting giant infographic that both explain the scheme will provide over seven million subscribers with unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire. South Korea’s dominant carriers, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus, have agreed to the plan. Deputy Prime Minister and…

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‘Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war | Business

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “Horekunden” was rapidly losing patience.His frustration was with the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank which produces a daily map of the frontline in Ukraine.For Horekunden, and other anonymous gamblers, the map was a “disjointed, incoherent mess … like the painting of a five-year-old”. Therefore it was no use to them in their aim: to settle a bet on the online prediction market Polymarket.The map they were unhappy with depicted the city of Kostyantynivka, which Ukrainian troops have been holding for five…

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France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Summary France will cut its reliance on extra-EU proprietary tech, favoring open-source and digital sovereignty. DINUM orders ministries to map dependencies and plan exit from extra-European tech by fall. France plans to replace Windows with Linux; EU open-source options include openSUSE. As open-source tools begin to catch up with their proprietary cousins, people are realizing they're handing over far more control to businesses than they probably need to. After all, when two apps essentially do the same thing, but one is open-source, and the other…

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Windows Defender Is Being Used to Hack Windows

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and confirmed working on fully updated Windows 10 and 11. A researcher who says Microsoft went back on their word just handed every attacker paying attention a privilege escalation that takes any low-privileged account straight to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. On Windows Server the result is different but still serious: a standard user ends up with elevated administrator access. 😏The vulnerability is…

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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it – Eric Bailey

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the path. A third sentence that tantalizes and alludes to content to follow. Following is an initial explanatory paragraph. It serves to help back up the previous paragraphs, and start to ground it in more applicable information. Expectations are set, and potential skepticism is addressed. A link to prior art is supplied, to provide additional context. There is then a paragraph that serves as a segue. It connects…

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callumlocke/json-formatter: Makes JSON easy to read. · GitHub

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I am no longer developing JSON Formatter as an open source project. I'm moving to a closed-source, commercial model in order to build a more comprehensive API-browsing tool with premium features. I know some users (especially here on GitHub) will always prefer open source tools, so I’m leaving this repo online for others to use/fork, and I’ve published the final open source version as JSON Formatter Classic – you can switch to that if you just want a simple, open source, local-only JSON-formatting extension that…

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The Seasons are Wrong

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ← Back April 2026 It is with deep regret that I must shatter long held illusions about the structure of our world. The seasons don't make sense. Our calendar is wrong. The things you believe to be summer, winter, spring, and fall are not as they seem. The "first day" of any season, the most broken concept of all, has misled untold billions. Here's the calendar you're familiar with if you're from North America: Summer Solstice (start of summer): June 21 Fall Equinox (start of…

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Productive procrastination — Max van IJsselmuiden

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The past few weeks, it feels like procrastination is everywhere. It might just be the frequency illusion — but it’s on my mind, so I need to write about it. Not too long ago, I finished a video on my channel, a couple of days after filming. Even though my regular schedule would require me to upload videos from an older trip, I disguised the video as a special to work on it close to the trip and just upload it. And I loved it.…

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20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web services since 1998,…

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retlehs/quien: A better WHOIS lookup tool · GitHub

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A better WHOIS lookup tool. Interactive TUI with tabbed views for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, and tech stack detection. brew tap retlehs/tap brew install retlehs/tap/quien Or with Go: go install github.com/retlehs/quien@latest # Interactive prompt quien # Domain lookup (interactive TUI) quien example.com # IP address lookup quien 8.8.8.8 # JSON output quien --json example.com RDAP-first lookups with WHOIS fallback for broad TLD coverage IANA referral for automatic WHOIS server discovery Tech stack detection including WordPress plugins, JS/CSS frameworks, and external services parsed from…

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