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

Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586833

3 years ago

1157 upvotes – 279 comments

Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2022/nr-c_220601/

3 years ago

700 upvotes – 406 comments

Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/01/facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-says-she-is-stepping-down.html

3 years ago

544 upvotes – 589 comments

Science needs more research software engineers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01516-2

3 years ago

532 upvotes – 347 comments

Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31580763

3 years ago

437 upvotes – 416 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582796

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 864 comments

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-make-the-universe-think-for-us-20220531/

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 169 comments

I got hacked and Facebook banned me

https://emilycordes.com/facebook/

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 317 comments

Connect: A Better gRPC

https://buf.build/blog/connect-a-better-grpc

3 years ago

308 upvotes – 91 comments

Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta

3 years ago

298 upvotes – 201 comments

Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails

https://john-millikin.com/gmail-accepts-forged-youtube-emails

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 95 comments

All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/bmalloc/libpas/Documentation.md

3 years ago

287 upvotes – 81 comments

Scaling a startup from a bunker: founders' story from Ukraine

https://www.awesomic.io/blog/scaling-a-startup-founders-story?ref=hackernews

3 years ago

277 upvotes – 42 comments

The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)

https://qz.com/2012965/the-us-labor-shortage-is-just-a-wage-shortage/

3 years ago

257 upvotes – 364 comments

No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language

https://twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1531780892972175361

3 years ago

257 upvotes – 145 comments

Using a catch-all domain is a mistake

https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 295 comments

Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable

https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1531807546729799687

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 497 comments

We don't show typing status

https://www.withcardinal.com/blog/2022-06-01-why-we-dont-show-typing

3 years ago

250 upvotes – 215 comments

TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation

https://www.tomtom.com/press-room/earnings-&-other/27646/tomtom-improves-mapmaking-process-supported-by-aligned-maps-organization/

3 years ago

247 upvotes – 258 comments

Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999B1/en

3 years ago

242 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 117 comments

My Mega65 has arrived

https://www.epsilonsworld.com/2022/05/my-mega-65-has-arrived.html

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/obfuscator/

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 86 comments

Former OpenSea employee charged in digital asset insider trading scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-nft-marketplace-charged-first-ever-digital-asset-insider-trading-scheme

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 119 comments

What good cash-strapped hiring looks like

https://commoncog.com/blog/cash-strapped-hiring/

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 136 comments

Modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface

https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 47 comments

The First Lisp Compiler

https://texdraft.github.io/lisp-compiler/internals.html

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 52 comments

The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019)

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/10/that-time-the-u-s-military-launched-a-half-a-billion-needles-to-space-for-reasons/

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 137 comments

ClojureDocs – Community-powered documentation and examples for Clojure

https://clojuredocs.org/

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 53 comments

VC Meltdown

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378673

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 179 comments

Tech experts urge Washington to resist crypto industry’s influence

https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bcbac

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 205 comments

Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company

https://cryptoslate.com/terraform-labs-caught-moving-4-8m-through-shell-company/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 97 comments

World’s largest organism found in Australia

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-largest-organism-found-australia

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 47 comments

Elon Musk on Remote Work

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1531994582669348864

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 289 comments

Ask HN: Have you experienced decline in problem-solving skills? How to improve?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582505

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 150 comments

High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2148

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 4 comments

One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/a-third-of-americans-making-250-000-say-costs-eat-entire-salary

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 305 comments

Ask HN: Feeling burned out at an early stage in my career

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31580723

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

Dreaded commute to the city is keeping offices mostly empty

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dreaded-commute-to-the-city-is-keeping-offices-mostly-empty-11653989581

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 175 comments

Could the greatest works of literature be undiscovered?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/30/the-big-idea-could-the-greatest-works-of-literature-be-undiscovered

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 122 comments

Semantle: guess words based on Word2vec similarity scores

https://semantle.com/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 60 comments

Why are maps so hard to make?

https://www.readmargins.com/p/say-hello-to-felt

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586253

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 128 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582793

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 275 comments

Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576634

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: Is the stock market's growth largely anything more than inflation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586325

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585170

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 175 comments

Canada trials decriminalising cocaine, MDMA and other drugs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61657095

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 144 comments

New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects

https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/direct-sound-3d-printing/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/goodbye-vikings

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 100 comments

Entity Resolution: The most common data science challenge

https://docs.magniv.io/tutorials/entity-resolution

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582795

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 128 comments

GitHub Actions was having an outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8xxms3q3qzgp

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 64 comments

The curse of strong typing

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-curse-of-strong-typing

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 117 comments

Amundi warns that parts of private equity market resemble ‘Ponzi schemes’

https://www.ft.com/content/21c6e2e4-6c52-4d13-b3a2-5455d51d9970

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Lightmoon is not Kdenlive. Lightmoon is malware

https://kdenlive.org/en/2022/06/scam-lightmoon-is-not-kdenlive-lightmoon-is-malware/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 4 comments

The Web's Timeline

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Who is firing / laying off (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585304

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

AWS for Industry, but Better: The Railroad Investment Case

https://www.thediff.co/p/aws-for-industry-but-better-the-railroad

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments
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