top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-25

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-pay-150-million-penalty-allegedly-breaking-its-privacy-promises-again

4 years ago

1362 upvotes – 325 comments

Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31503201

4 years ago

859 upvotes – 1837 comments

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startup-code-audits/

4 years ago

798 upvotes – 258 comments

Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508009

4 years ago

578 upvotes – 181 comments

Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor

https://www.falstad.com/pong/

4 years ago

572 upvotes – 144 comments

Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year

https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourcehut.html

4 years ago

489 upvotes – 213 comments

The great junk transfer is coming

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-great-junk-transfer-inheritance-decluttering-canada/

4 years ago

468 upvotes – 439 comments

The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces

https://uxdesign.cc/the-forgotten-benefits-of-low-tech-user-interfaces-57fdbb6ac83

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 400 comments

Bolt announces layoffs

https://www.bolt.com/blog/message-from-bolt-ceo

4 years ago

394 upvotes – 534 comments

Magical SVG Techniques

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/magical-svg-techniques/

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 44 comments

SwiftUI in 2022

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/05/24/swiftui-in-2022/

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 204 comments

How do video games stay in sync?

https://medium.com/geekculture/how-do-video-games-stay-in-sync-an-intro-to-the-fascinating-networking-of-real-time-games-e923e66e8a0f

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos

https://videomentions.com/search

4 years ago

295 upvotes – 132 comments

Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser

https://darknetlive.com/post/psa-security-vuln-in-tor-browser/

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 141 comments

A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS

https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/2022/05/24/pwn-fuchsia.html

4 years ago

285 upvotes – 4 comments

Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 1678 comments

HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-browser

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 143 comments

A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 132 comments

Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less

https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-more-democratic-not-less/

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 385 comments

GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

https://github.com/phyver/GameShell

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 62 comments

DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-05-25-Issue-170/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 104 comments

The New York Times is wrong about Haiti

https://vodoueconomics.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-is-wrong-about

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 178 comments

Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

https://arctype.com/

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 61 comments

Minikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 133 comments

Not My Job

https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2022/05/24/not-my-job.html

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 119 comments

Credit Scores Can Run – and Ruin – Our Lives

https://thewalrus.ca/credit-score-canada/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 335 comments

Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library

https://github.com/IBM/import-tracker

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 21 comments

Last public payphone removed from Manhattan streets

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/last-payphone-in-nyc-to-be-removed/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 248 comments

Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508253

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 200 comments

The domain for the Python Requests library is expired

https://docs.python-requests.org/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 79 comments

Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/jack-dorsey-twitter-board

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 159 comments

Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX-512

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/05/25/parsing-json-faster-with-intel-avx-512/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 71 comments

Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 63 comments

Nvidia adds liquid-cooled GPUs

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/05/23/liquid-cooled-gpus-computex/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 100 comments

Jasonette – Native App over HTTP

https://jasonette.com/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager

https://karimjedda.com/lessons-learned-developer-to-project-manager/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 97 comments

Tunnel.pyjam.as – HTTP tunnels without custom software thanks to WireGuard

https://tunnel.pyjam.as/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 27 comments

A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

https://hamberg.no/gtd

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

http://www.figlet.org/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Missing link between Alzheimer’s and vascular disease found?

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/missing-link-between-alzheimers-and-vascular-disease-found

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 56 comments

CSS: Absolutely positioning things relatively

https://canvatechblog.com/css-absolutely-positioning-things-relatively-964898de886b

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

Updated Proton, Unified Protection

https://proton.me/news/updated-proton

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 122 comments

Make Tracker Tunes in the Browser

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

Statement on 4 Years of GDPR

https://noyb.eu/en/statement-4-years-gdpr

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 185 comments

Plans to Re-enable the GitHub Integration

https://blog.heroku.com/github-integration-update

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 38 comments

Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground

https://writing.bobdoto.computer/zettelkasten-linking-your-thinking-and-nick-milos-search-for-ground/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

Scrapism

https://scrapism.lav.io/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 27 comments

Our build and release infrastructure, and upcoming updates

https://f-droid.org/2022/05/24/buildserver-overhaul-sponsored-by-calyx-institute.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31499513

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 184 comments

Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring

http://www.mamoniem.com/behind-the-pretty-frames-elden-ring/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 114 comments

Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

CRISPR tomatoes genetically engineered to be richer in Vitamin D

https://newatlas.com/science/tomatoes-crispr-genetic-engineering-vitamin-d/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 122 comments

SonoBus: High-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio

https://www.sonobus.net/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk

https://twitter.com/keenanisalive/status/1529490555893428226

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

What is end-to-end encryption and how does it work?

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-end-to-end-encryption

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

Making macOS Behave Itself

https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/macos_hacks.html

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021)

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2021-January/006912.html

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 85 comments

Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? [pdf]

http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2022/papers/p13-crotty.pdf

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

The era of borderless data is ending

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/data-privacy-laws.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 96 comments

Print an Arduino-powered color mechanical television

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/05/may-2022-core-update

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 65 comments

A Guide to Push Notifications for Developers

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/guide-push-notifications-developers/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize your routine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31503770

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Branch/Cmove and Compiler Optimizations

https://kristerw.github.io/2022/05/24/branchless/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

The Medical Power of Hypnosis

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220519-does-hypnosis-work

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

The data-oriented design process for game development

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2022/05/09771161/1DeEYnefsoU

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Go: Functional Options Are Slow

https://www.evanjones.ca/go-functional-options-slow.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

New England's Largest Battery Is Hidden Inside a Mass. Mountain (2016)

https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/12/02/northfield-mountain-hydroelectric-station

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre

https://www.dresscircle.co.uk

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Naur on Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Annotated implementation of microKanren: an embeddable logic language

https://github.com/ashton314/muKanren_reading

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

InSight's Final Selfie

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25287-insights-final-selfie

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Strippers say a recession is guaranteed b/C the strip clubs are suddenly empty

https://www.indy100.com/viral/stripper-recession-empty-clubs

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Ghost in the Shellcode

https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/05/ghost-in-the-shellcode/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression

https://github.com/inikep/lizard

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Customizing Color Fonts on the Web

https://webkit.org/blog/12662/customizing-color-fonts-on-the-web/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 98 comments
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