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

Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

https://www.jremissing.com/

4 years ago

Unlearning perfectionism

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

4 years ago

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

https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM

4 years ago

Spam blacklisting is out of control

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables

https://www.datawrapper.de

4 years ago

Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

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

4 years ago

PHP – The Right Way

https://phptherightway.com/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard

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

4 years ago

FOSDEM 2022 is going on now

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

4 years ago

Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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

4 years ago

Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus

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

4 years ago

Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs

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

4 years ago

Jepsen: Radix DLT 1.0-Beta.35.1

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

4 years ago

Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin

https://www.jolie.dev/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Google Slides Is Hilarious

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

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

4 years ago

Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism

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

4 years ago

Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America

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

4 years ago

Java BitSet performance-flicker mystery

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

4 years ago

Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

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

4 years ago

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/

4 years ago

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

https://sentrypeer.org/

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com

4 years ago

Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people

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

4 years ago

Coinbase’s philosophy on account removal and content moderation

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Old Heathkits Never Die, They Just Get Restored

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

4 years ago

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

https://github.com/muxamilian/duralava

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Getting Started with the GA144 and ArrayForth (2014)

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

4 years ago

BlockPaper – Centralized, paper-backed blockchain in my home office

https://www.buyblockpaper.com/

4 years ago

The Reality War – It’s just Gnostics all the way down

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-reality-war

4 years ago

Starfish Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

4 years ago

Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly finding files by name

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/fast-file-finder-for-windows/

4 years ago

CadQuery Comes of Age

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/04/cadquery-comes-of-age/

4 years ago