top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-05

Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

https://twitter.com/darkpatterns/status/1489901640777973768

3 years ago

1607 upvotes – 565 comments

The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/02/earn-it-act-back-and-it%E2%80%99s-more-dangerous-ever

3 years ago

1363 upvotes – 478 comments

Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

https://www.jremissing.com/

3 years ago

930 upvotes – 1675 comments

Unlearning perfectionism

https://arunkprasad.com/log/unlearning-perfectionism/

3 years ago

590 upvotes – 97 comments

High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime

https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM

3 years ago

493 upvotes – 151 comments

Spam blacklisting is out of control

https://blog.roastidio.us/posts/spam_blacklists_are_out_of_control/

3 years ago

388 upvotes – 413 comments

Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-ceo-wants-us-place-convicted-unruly-passengers-no-fly-list-2022-02-04/

3 years ago

378 upvotes – 769 comments

First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/cerebrospinal-fluid-washing-in-brain-during-sleep/

3 years ago

347 upvotes – 111 comments

Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables

https://www.datawrapper.de

3 years ago

330 upvotes – 45 comments

Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

https://jpmens.net/2016/03/05/a-shell-command-to-create-json-jo/

3 years ago

325 upvotes – 94 comments

PHP – The Right Way

https://phptherightway.com/

3 years ago

287 upvotes – 332 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone sold their employee stock on the secondary market?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224241

3 years ago

277 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223538

3 years ago

270 upvotes – 260 comments

Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard

https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 367 comments

FOSDEM 2022 is going on now

https://fosdem.org/2022/live/

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 61 comments

Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trucking-go-idCAKBN2KA0H3

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 645 comments

Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/700036

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 86 comments

Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs

https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 34 comments

Jepsen: Radix DLT 1.0-Beta.35.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/radix-dlt-1.0-beta.35.1

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 74 comments

Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin

https://www.jolie.dev/

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Banned from adsense for simply logging in to another account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222722

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

JRE Missing (Rogan episodes removed by Spotify)

https://jremissing.com/#link=%7B%22role%22:%22standard%22,%22href%22:%22https://jremissing.com/%22,%22target%22:%22_blank%22,%22absolute%22:%22%22,%22linkText%22:%22JREMissing%22%7D

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 131 comments

The Stacks Project, a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematics

https://news.columbia.edu/news/stacks-project-johan-dejong

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 24 comments

Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/us/teacher-prep-student-shortages-covid-crisis/index.html

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 331 comments

Google Slides Is Hilarious

https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hilarious-83c1ced857ee

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

DNA has a 521-year half-life (2012)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 94 comments

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

https://www.thezbook.com/the-biggest-mistake-i-see-engineers-make-2/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism

https://metacpc.org/en/crypto-blockchain/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

Java BitSet performance-flicker mystery

https://blog.agical.se/en/posts/java-bitset-performance-mystery

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 87 comments

Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America

https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 162 comments

Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-february-3-2022/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 255 comments

Google Chrome U2F API decommission: What the change means

https://www.yubico.com/blog/google-chrome-u2f-api-decommission-what-the-change-means-for-your-users-and-how-to-prepare/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses and phone numbers

https://sentrypeer.org/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 85 comments

Google gives execs raises after declining to boost employees' pay

https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/industrial-relations/google-gives-execs-raises-after-declining-to-boost-employees-pay/321236

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 148 comments

Coinbase’s philosophy on account removal and content moderation

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbases-philosophy-on-account-removal-and-content-moderation-c80d1aa452b7

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223425

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 324 comments

Old Heathkits Never Die, They Just Get Restored

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/May2016_Heathkit_Restoration

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop

https://github.com/muxamilian/duralava

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

I Used Linux-Based PinePhone Daily for a Year. Here’s What I Learned

https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

Getting Started with the GA144 and ArrayForth (2014)

https://bitlog.it/20141224_getting_started_with_the_ga144_and_arrayforth.html

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments
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