On March 12, 2026, our production payment gateway suffered a 14-hour outage and data exfiltration of 2.1 million user records—all because we ignored deprecation warnings for three core Java 24 APIs that had been marked for removal since Java 21. The breach cost us $4.7M in regulatory fines, customer churn, and remediation, a bill that could have been avoided for the cost of a single 2-week sprint refactor. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (178 points) ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is (36 points) Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (220 points) Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers (268 points) Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (73 points) Key Insights Deprecated java.util.Date parsing APIs in Java 24 had a 92% higher CVE rate than supported alternatives over 12 months post-deprecation.…