top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-05

GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24

4 years ago

766 upvotes – 448 comments

It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal

https://gamerant.com/diablo-immortal-pay-to-win-legendary-gems/

4 years ago

702 upvotes – 735 comments

A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/health/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html

4 years ago

489 upvotes – 232 comments

I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/

4 years ago

462 upvotes – 355 comments

I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

https://www.facet.net/posts/i-cheated-on-my-microsoft-interview

4 years ago

437 upvotes – 478 comments

Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 235 comments

LeekWars, program your AI to destroy your leek enemies

https://leekwars.com/

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 49 comments

RNA forms on basalt lava glass in the presence of nucleoside triphosphates

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0027

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 71 comments

Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service

https://gitea.io/en-us/

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 153 comments

First triangle ever rendered on an M1 Mac with a fully open-source driver

https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1532035506539995136

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Examples of good technical writing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630915

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 141 comments

AOL 3.0 reverse engineered

https://g.livejournal.com/10829.html

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 130 comments

Complex systems collapse faster

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/why-complex-systems-collapse-faster

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 133 comments

How to Draw Animals (1930)

http://dessinoprimaire.blogspot.com/2012/02/les-animaux-tels-quils-sont.html

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 99 comments

How one guy ruined Hacktoberfest (2020)

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 126 comments

Robocode Tank Royale

https://robocode-dev.github.io/tank-royale/articles/intro.html

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 52 comments

LSD microdosing does not appear to improve mood or cognitive ability: study

https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/lsd-microdosing-does-not-appear-to-improve-mood-or-cognitive-ability-according-to-new-placebo-controlled-study-63277

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 157 comments

Carmakers feel chip crisis easing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-04/carmakers-feel-chip-crisis-easing-as-global-growth-slows

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 251 comments

Notkia: Linux phone in the shape of Nokia, with LoRa + WiFI + BT connectivity

https://www.hackster.io/reimunotmoe/notkia-f6e772

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

It's time to bring back the AIM away message

https://www.wired.com/story/bring-back-the-aim-away-message/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 162 comments

Mirrord – mirror production traffic to your development environment

https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrord

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 42 comments

Algorithm detected over a hundred asteroids after studying old telescope data

https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/51189/20220604/new-algorithm-detected-over-a-hundred-asteroids-after-studying-old-telescope-data.htm

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 42 comments

Work from home and the office real estate apocalypse

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4124698

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 256 comments

I Built a Ruby Parser

https://mpov.timmorgan.org/i-built-a-ruby-parser/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 25 comments

Restarting my career after motherhood

https://medium.com/@MariaLarkworthy/slaps-to-the-face-restarting-my-career-after-motherhood-fe346492f7c5

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 256 comments

Fine dining faces its dark truths in Copenhagen

https://www.ft.com/content/a62a96b8-2db2-44ec-ac80-67fcf83d86ef

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 129 comments

Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreates-the-sega-cd/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 103 comments

Maud: A Rust macro for writing HTML

https://maud.lambda.xyz/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 82 comments

Arc and Mutex in Rust

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/arc-mutex/

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 62 comments

Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX

https://www.cpushack.com/2021/08/12/forgotten-italian-cpu-the-genesys-b52-mmx/

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Riding London’s unexpectedly fantastic Elizabeth line

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/riding-londons-unexpectedly-fantastic-elizabeth-line

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31634704

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 160 comments

Oregon expands electric vehicle charging statewide

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/good-energy/electric-vehicle-charging-stations-oregon/283-ed184a5e-fdd3-4e25-a63d-ea85b93c338a

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 154 comments

Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternative powered by RK3399

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/06/04/orange-pi-800-raspberry-pi-400-keyboard-pc-alternative-rockchip-rk3399/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 61 comments

In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/wired-predicts-the-troubles-of-the-2020s-back-in-1997.html

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 119 comments

Tcpls: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/05/24/tcpls-modern-transport-services-with-tcp-and-tls/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016)

https://andreiclinciu.net/blog/why-im-using-fossil-scm-instead-of-other-source-control-systems

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 128 comments

Meet developers 1:1 every week and team up on projects

https://connectdome.com

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

The Depegging of UST

https://jumpcrypto.com/the-depegging-of-ust/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 122 comments

What SRE Could Be

https://blog.relyabilit.ie/what-sre-could-be/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 101 comments

Water Pump Theory

https://powerequipment.honda.com/pumps/pump-theory

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 53 comments

Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020)

https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/gas-stoves-hazardous-asthma.html

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 122 comments

Crypto Industry Eclipses Defense, Big Pharma in US Political Giving

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-02/crypto-industry-eclipses-defense-big-pharma-in-political-giving

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC

https://www.cpushack.com/2022/06/05/cpu-of-the-day-p-a-semi-pa6t-powerpc/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Video codecs and 4k

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2022/06/04/video-codecs-and-4k/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31631831

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 85 comments

Quantum particles can feel the effects of gravitational fields

http://www.scienceinter.com/2022/06/quantum-particles-can-feel-effects-of.html

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Symphonic Metal Bands: Nerdiness vs. Kickassery – A Statistical Analysis

https://medium.com/@WolframHempel_82303/symphonic-metal-bands-nerdiness-vs-kickassery-a-statistical-analysis-7c6ec4064286

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Analysis of a large brute force attack campaign against Windows Remote Desktop

https://trunc.org/learning/brute-force-attacks-against-windows-remote-desktop

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/ancient-dna-reveal-philistine-origins

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Cannoli – High-performance QEMU memory and instruction tracing

https://github.com/MarginResearch/cannoli

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

Tell HN: Please Stop Using Imgur

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31631144

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

GRML – a Linux distro for system administrators

https://grml.org/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: To prevent dry eyes and back pain, I created a macOS app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630610

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Benchmarking Malloc with Doom 3

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/benchmarking-malloc-with-doom3/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments
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