top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-12

Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23068851/twitter-product-chief-kayvon-beykpour-bruce-falck-parag-agrawal

4 years ago

1032 upvotes – 936 comments

Finland will seek NATO membership immediately

https://www.presidentti.fi/tiedote/tasavallan-presidentin-ja-paaministerin-yhteislausunto-suomen-nato-jasenyydesta/

4 years ago

840 upvotes – 1005 comments

Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did

https://community.intercoin.org/t/what-backs-a-currency-terra-luna-drops-nearly-100/2518

4 years ago

823 upvotes – 948 comments

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-reveal-first-image-of-the-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy/

4 years ago

786 upvotes – 307 comments

Map of Reddit

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/

4 years ago

729 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

4 years ago

691 upvotes – 85 comments

Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds

https://twitter.com/benskuhn/status/1524791658381910023

4 years ago

677 upvotes – 172 comments

EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of private communications

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam/

4 years ago

648 upvotes – 418 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356579

4 years ago

627 upvotes – 629 comments

The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)

https://kitze.io/posts/saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever

4 years ago

571 upvotes – 243 comments

DeepMind: A Generalist Agent

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent

4 years ago

502 upvotes – 337 comments

Wireless is a trap (2020)

https://www.benkuhn.net/wireless/

4 years ago

474 upvotes – 409 comments

I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

https://reason.com/2022/05/11/kids-playing-at-recess-security-school-safety/

4 years ago

454 upvotes – 802 comments

Friendlier SQL with DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2022/05/04/friendlier-sql.html

4 years ago

366 upvotes – 133 comments

Improved Process Isolation in Firefox 100

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/05/improved-process-isolation-in-firefox-100/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 126 comments

Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-dont-let-anyone-americanise

4 years ago

352 upvotes – 322 comments

I Miss Heroku's DevEx

https://christine.website/blog/heroku-devex-2022-05-12

4 years ago

310 upvotes – 196 comments

Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-2022-python-language-summit-python_11.html

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 212 comments

OP-1 field

https://teenage.engineering/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 241 comments

Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money

https://www.bitprime.co.nz/important-notice-for-all-customers/

4 years ago

279 upvotes – 162 comments

Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356896

4 years ago

277 upvotes – 186 comments

Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support

https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-csv/?m

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 143 comments

Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia (2018)

https://www.losetheglasses.org/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 98 comments

Twitter Terms of Service Diff

https://www.diffchecker.com/N1cAYuis

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 145 comments

Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster

https://newatlas.com/electronics/fastest-ever-logic-gates-computers-million-times-faster-petahertz/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 104 comments

After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23067702/google-pixel-6a-headphone-jack

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 305 comments

Ashton Kutcher’s non-profit, Thorn, supports EU plans for CSAM scanning

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 220 comments

Cheap technology for making optic lenses that could help 2.5B people and NASA

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-a-simple-israeli-invention-could-help-2-5-billion-people-and-nasa-1.10452996

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 58 comments

Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice improves memory in old mice

https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/11/transfusion-of-young-cerebrospinal-fluid-is-memory-elevating-elixir/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 151 comments

Nota: A Document Language for the Browser

https://nota-lang.org/

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 55 comments

Beautiful Racket (2016)

https://beautifulracket.com/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 11 comments

Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03334-8

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 70 comments

I Trained My TikTok

https://metastable.org/2022/05/how-I-trained-my-tiktok.html

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 149 comments

Scarcity Truthers

https://philo.substack.com/p/scarcity-truthers

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 160 comments

Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-pubsub-programmable-mqtt-messaging/

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?

https://www.rubick.com/compensation-and-equity/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

K – A simple, fast vector programming language

https://codeberg.org/ngn/k

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 109 comments

Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396422002225

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

50+ years of Japanese concept cars (2010)

http://pinktentacle.com/2010/09/photos-50-years-of-japanese-concept-cars/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Is there a housing shortage or not?

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/is-there-a-housing-shortage-or-not

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 208 comments

The Zig Programming Language

https://ziglang.org/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Ultimaker and Makerbot merge to form new 3D printing company

https://press.ultimaker.com/makerbot-and-ultimaker-agree-to-merge-to-accelerate-global-adoption-of-additive-manufacturing/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

WorkOS – Building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to an app

https://workos.com

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Introduction to Diffusion Models for Machine Learning

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/diffusion-models-for-machine-learning-introduction/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

Infrastructure From Code

https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/05/09/ifc

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Volume of an n-ball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

How many melodies are there? (2014)

https://plus.maths.org/content/how-many-melodies-are-there

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Bitcoin Is Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/technology/bitcoin-price-crashing-stocks.html

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone care anymore what Google demos in IO?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31349266

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 98 comments

It's 2022, phones should be built to last five years or more

https://www.androidauthority.com/mature-tech-outlook-3145421/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2208-eht-mw/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 1 comments

The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/12/cryptocurrency-crash-2008-financial-crisis/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 87 comments

The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B (2021)

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-england-to-make-1-1b-4834df0605d1?gi=1b81186c18c9

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 109 comments

Ask HN: Startup Failure and Debt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31361127

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments
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