top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-08

Sunsetting Atom

https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

4 years ago

1320 upvotes – 853 comments

Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-us-congressman-and-philadelphia-political-operative-pleads-guilty-election-fraud

4 years ago

826 upvotes – 817 comments

The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)

https://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/opinion/stop-eliminating-gifted-programs-and-calling-it-equity

4 years ago

796 upvotes – 871 comments

Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

https://hexwords.netlify.app/

4 years ago

792 upvotes – 164 comments

Find a good available .com domain

https://sive.rs/com

4 years ago

677 upvotes – 288 comments

Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article262126407.html

4 years ago

437 upvotes – 306 comments

Blender 3.2

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-2/

4 years ago

423 upvotes – 89 comments

Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-achieve-absurdly-fast-algorithm-for-network-flow-20220608/

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Read Wikipedia privately using homomorphic encryption

https://spiralwiki.com/

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 116 comments

The Last Question

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

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 164 comments

Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-piracy-case-bowser-xecuter-team-prison-pirate-1849026479

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 252 comments

Dwarf Fortress Update – Tutorials and Tooltips

https://www.kitfoxgames.com/sendy/w/PjLUMcR8c67NlCEI4ruCLA/v763r5W81UUq567qGrvqMoZg/wEYCyTRE9HwQjDLPGvIBzg

4 years ago

285 upvotes – 170 comments

Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/06/08/core-data/cache-invalidation/

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 193 comments

Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220608-00/?p=106727

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 166 comments

We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom (2016)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/whats-our-next-fight

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 254 comments

Ask HN: Tesla is making us move or quit. Would I get severance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31666593

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 235 comments

Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework

https://deepkit.io/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 129 comments

Valetudo: Open-source cloud replacement for vacuum robots

https://valetudo.cloud/

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 89 comments

Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

https://blog.joewoods.dev/technology/hackernews-who-is-hiring-top-level-comments-over-time/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 114 comments

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (2016)

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 215 comments

Learn Haskell by building a blog generator – a project-oriented Haskell book

https://lhbg-book.link

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 40 comments

Beautiful Soup

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 91 comments

Diablo Immortal won't release in the Netherlands and Belgium due to loot box law

https://www.gamereactor.eu/diablo-immortal-wont-release-in-the-netherlands-and-belgium-due-to-loot-box-law-1087853/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 129 comments

Differentiable Finite State Machines

https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/2022/diff-fsm/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 22 comments

C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (2020)

https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669338

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 211 comments

CodeMirror 6.0 Stable Release

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/codemirror-6.html

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

Colombia shares unprecedented images of treasure-laden wreck

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-colombia-unprecedented-images-treasure-laden.html

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 98 comments

Entropy Is Fatal

https://kerkour.com/entropy-is-fatal

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 114 comments

El Ajedrecista

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

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 19 comments

Ultrasonic Payments

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/ultrasonic-payments/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 90 comments

Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent

https://news.err.ee/1608615118/estonia-clocks-fastest-inflation-in-the-eurozone-at-20-1-percent

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 335 comments

Quick Look at Rosetta on Linux

https://threedots.ovh/blog/2022/06/quick-look-at-rosetta-on-linux/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 41 comments

I quit the tech industry (2015)

https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 256 comments

A forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/inside-the-100k-forgery-scandal-thats-roiling-pc-game-collecting/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 166 comments

Exploiting the Wii U's USB Descriptor parsing

https://garyodernichts.blogspot.com/2022/06/exploiting-wii-us-usb-descriptor-parsing.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 9 comments

What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 186 comments

New Human Interface Guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=v8a3aetj

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 146 comments

Dont think of price, think of cost per use

https://sergionajera.com/dont-think-of-price-think-of-cost-per-use

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 175 comments

How San Francisco became a failed city

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 266 comments

TC39 Proposal: Type Annotations

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 163 comments

The End of Localhost

https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 215 comments

Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module

https://blog.pyston.org/2022/06/08/announcing-pyston-lite-our-python-jit-as-an-extension-module/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-transformers

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: What are some mentally healthy apps to have?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665775

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 227 comments

The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch

https://kotaku.com/bethesda-zenimax-fallout-76-crunch-development-1849033233

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 188 comments

Progress toward fusion energy breakeven measured against Lawson criterion

https://twitter.com/swurzel/status/1534556521744457731

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 85 comments

San Francisco votes overwhelmingly to recall progressive DA Chesa Boudin

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-da-recalled/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 220 comments

Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers

https://toitlang.org

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 69 comments

The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix

https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 82 comments

U.S. death rates show how politics are affecting public health

https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/07/us-death-rates-politicization-public-health/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 130 comments

CircuitPython – The easiest way to program microcontrollers

https://circuitpython.org?v=2022

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 44 comments

Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists

https://expeyes.in/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Scheje: A little Scheme implementation on top of Clojure

https://github.com/turbopape/scheje

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/no-army-no-problem

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 131 comments

ACCC: Airbnb allegedly misled Australians about accommodation prices

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/airbnb-allegedly-misled-australians-about-accommodation-prices

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-social-anarchism-or-lifestyle-anarchism-an-unbridgeable-chasm

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 124 comments

Addressing AI’s energy cost

https://numenta.com/blog/2022/05/24/ai-is-harming-our-planet

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 164 comments

How Street Dogs Spend Their Days

https://daily.jstor.org/how-street-dogs-spend-their-days/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

Surprising things about HTTP

https://webdevguild.com/blog/10-things-http/?ck_subscriber_id=1253041713

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 61 comments

FBI seizes notorious marketplace for selling millions of stolen SSNs

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/fbi-ssndob-millions-social-security-marketplace/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 73 comments

I Started Journaling (2019)

https://herman.bearblog.dev/why-i-journal/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-district-attorney-chesa-boudin-faces-recall-election-11654603200

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 84 comments

Google will not let me pay an invoice they sent me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31663682

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

Apache Hop 2.0

https://hop.apache.org/blog/2022/06/hop-2.0.0/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Germany to Introduce Bill to Accelerate Wind Energy Expansion

https://www.pmtoday.co.uk/germany-to-introduce-bill-to-accelerate-wind-energy-expansion/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 175 comments

Digital fair repair act passed in New York

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4104

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

Porting Doom to a/UX

https://katelibc.medium.com/porting-doom-to-a-ux-8cecab02b531

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Youth Cultures in East Germany 1985 / Stasi (East German Secret Police)

https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1533839573108903939

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 51 comments

A 2x2 Lego Piece with a Microcontroller and Working Display

https://twitter.com/ancient_james/status/1534002794726031360

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Is it a Ponzi? A framework for evaluating crypto projects

https://every.to/almanack/is-it-a-ponzi

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 97 comments

I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old so far

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/08/im-nearly-60-heres-what-ive-learned-about-growing-old-tim-dowling

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Small World: a Marauder's Map for the people you follow on Twitter

https://smallworld.kiwi

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments
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