top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-06

What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1?sp=87

4 years ago

805 upvotes – 640 comments

Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years

https://mindmatters.ai/2022/01/will-chatbots-replace-the-art-of-human-conversation/

4 years ago

663 upvotes – 409 comments

New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/01/06/in-a-big-win-for-workers-new-york-city-will-make-it-mandatory-for-companies-to-disclose-salaries-on-job-advertisements/

4 years ago

631 upvotes – 534 comments

Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abavv/this-keyboard-lets-people-type-so-fast-its-banned-from-typing-competitions

4 years ago

630 upvotes – 467 comments

Procrastinatory Doom Loops

https://brennancolberg.com/blog/procrastinatory-doom-loops

4 years ago

537 upvotes – 278 comments

Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation

https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance

4 years ago

523 upvotes – 544 comments

Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1479143340159422468

4 years ago

459 upvotes – 679 comments

“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1478785899009875968

4 years ago

397 upvotes – 406 comments

Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830770

4 years ago

384 upvotes – 488 comments

Show HN: 3D map of shade around the world

https://shademap.app/#37.74392,-119.56306,11.42013z,1641492931979t,-132.33425b,45p

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 71 comments

Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated

https://digiday.com/media/why-facebook-keeps-collecting-peoples-data-and-building-their-profiles-even-when-their-accounts-are-deactivated/

4 years ago

366 upvotes – 129 comments

Quit Your Job

https://palladiummag.com/2022/01/06/quit-your-job/

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 397 comments

Unix in the Browser Tab

https://browsix.org/

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825844

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 167 comments

Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden

4 years ago

295 upvotes – 124 comments

Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2021-12-23/geyserville-sonoma-county-black-perigord-truffle

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 211 comments

Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released

https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-and-machine-learning-nx-v0.1

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 44 comments

Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 88 comments

Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

https://covid19.colorado.gov/data

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 668 comments

Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters

https://contains.dev/blog/optimizing-docker-image-size

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 105 comments

Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan to put down deadly uprising

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/troops-protesters-clash-almaty-main-square-kazakhstan-shots-heard-2022-01-06/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 311 comments

Paxos

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/paxos.html

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 47 comments

What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?

https://reallifemag.com/same-old/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 235 comments

Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (2015)

http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/html/multi/index.html

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 54 comments

Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

https://mrsteinberg.com/grow-your-north-korean-start-up/

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 311 comments

Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service

https://longform.org/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 98 comments

Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositories

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 101 comments

IPv6-ghost-ship: Using TOTP as part of an AWS EC2 IPv6 address

https://github.com/aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-ship

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 46 comments

Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

https://seldo.com/posts/crypto-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 306 comments

Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality

https://psyche.co/ideas/autistic-people-challenge-preconceived-ideas-about-rationality

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 244 comments

Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial

http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 33 comments

Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape

https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/schema-migrations-in-postgres-using-reshape/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 34 comments

Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse

https://social.gitea.io/@gitea/107576791626052697

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 100 comments

Brussels Airlines makes 3,000 unnecessary flights to maintain airport slots

https://www.thebulletin.be/brussels-airlines-makes-3000-unnecessary-flights-maintain-airport-slots

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 203 comments

GitHub Projects – Customizable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work

https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29826725

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 191 comments

Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?

https://dmitryelj.medium.com/nude-pictures-on-early-retro-pcs-was-it-possible-3434b5c0447e

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 162 comments

How to quit like a boss

https://jmsbrdy.com/blog/leaving-spring/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 162 comments

CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0106-human-rabies.html

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 131 comments

Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 197 comments

Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825080

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 237 comments

Washed Up

https://infrequently.org/2022/01/washed-up/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

YK22 bug causing Honda clocks to stop working

https://www.crvownersclub.com/threads/clock-fault-year-2022-note-this-is-not-a-gps-related-issue-merged-master-thread.224326/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 89 comments

The ITC declares Google infringed on audio tech patents held by Sonos [pdf]

https://www.usitc.gov/system/files/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_1191_notice01062022sgl.pdf

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 119 comments

Swiss army restricts use of messenger apps for military purposes

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-army-restricts-use-of-messenger-apps/47238938

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

JPEG: Image Compression Algorithm (2017)

http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~web6140/TopTenAlgorithms/JPEG.html

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning'

https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 213 comments

Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones

https://www.axios.com/teen-iphone-use-spending-habits-bc2e598e-303d-4024-8db8-c345b1415ad4.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 280 comments

Ask HN: How do you have fun without alcohol?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29824395

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 194 comments

Farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 118 comments

Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says

https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-cant-be-trusted

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

OpenBSD Webzine Issue #6

https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-6.html

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way

https://nautil.us/issue/112/inspiration/eo-wilson-saw-the-world-in-a-wholly-new-way

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

Paxos

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/paxos.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 6 comments

Clocks in Honda cars getting stuck at a certain time in 2002

https://jalopnik.com/honda-clocks-are-stuck-20-years-in-the-past-and-this-mi-1848306970

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 93 comments

Benchmarking CRuby, MJIT, YJIT, JRuby, and TruffleRuby

https://eregon.me/blog/2022/01/06/benchmarking-cruby-mjit-yjit-jruby-truffleruby.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance

https://nolanlawson.com/2022/01/05/memory-leaks-the-forgotten-side-of-web-performance/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC

https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/raspberry-pi-boot-to-basic/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 40 comments

Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/case-closed-how-drug-ring-hid-20-tons-of-coke-on-a-single-ship

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 121 comments

Understanding Lego Part Numbers

https://brickset.com/article/54327/understanding-lego-part-numbers

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

https://brave.com/2021-recap/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

What makes EDI so hard?

https://www.stedi.com/blog/what-makes-edi-so-hard

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 55 comments

Launch HN: ContainIQ (YC S21) – Kubernetes Native Monitoring with eBPF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825681

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down

https://www.engadget.com/movie-piracy-app-popcorn-time-shuts-down-115523694.html

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

Bitcoin network power slumps as Kazakhstan crackdown hits crypto miners

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/bitcoin-network-power-slumps-kazakhstan-crackdown-hits-crypto-miners-2022-01-06/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

SQLite 3.37.2 fixes potentially database corruption bug

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830214

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

KiCad 6

https://www.revk.uk/2022/01/kicad-6.html

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Seattle police faked radio chatter about Proud Boys during 2020 protests

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-police-improperly-faked-radio-chatter-about-proud-boys-as-chop-formed-in-2020-investigation-finds/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments
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