top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-12

15.ai

https://15.ai/

4 years ago

536 upvotes – 177 comments

Shortsightedness has become an epidemic

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/06/09/short-sightedness-has-become-an-epidemic

4 years ago

528 upvotes – 400 comments

New UUID Formats

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format-03.html

4 years ago

494 upvotes – 164 comments

Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNl0DDUnp0E

4 years ago

442 upvotes – 392 comments

Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

https://github.com/z0ccc/Vytal

4 years ago

313 upvotes – 94 comments

The state finally letting teens sleep in

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/06/american-high-school-later-start-time/661211/

4 years ago

302 upvotes – 392 comments

Writing better by answering why, what, how

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/writing-docs-why-what-how/

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 34 comments

ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/april/50-years-backfile

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 37 comments

System Preferences Reimagined on macOS

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/settingsapp

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 255 comments

The pre-Ghibli work of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

https://www.vulture.com/article/hayao-miyazaki-isao-takahata-before-studio-ghibli-guide.html

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 37 comments

I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium

https://ruky.me/2022/06/11/im-switching-form-vs-code-to-vs-codium/

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 333 comments

A new day for Insteon

https://www.insteon.com/blog/2022/6/9/fnustys354bfmcmchr36wgvrn5h41z

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 41 comments

Challenge: Pixel perfect design

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3sgp4ps7

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 107 comments

We’re winding down Google Talk

https://support.google.com/talk/?hl=en

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 228 comments

Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

https://www.gwei.org/index.php

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 131 comments

Forces that fuel friendship

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/06/six-ways-make-maintain-friends/661232/

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 103 comments

Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/googles-ai-doesnt-understand-restaurant-menus/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 127 comments

Reverse engineering Skifree

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1536053690368348160

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 103 comments

Overthinking (2021)

https://kerkour.com/overthinking

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 63 comments

Jimmy Carter asks court to defend Alaska’s ‘unrivaled wilderness’

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/05/10/former-president-jimmy-carter-asks-court-to-defend-alaskas-unrivaled-wilderness/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 162 comments

The lucrative economics of expert witnesses

https://thehustle.co/the-lucrative-economics-of-expert-witnesses/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

Parental alienation and the unregulated experts shattering children’s lives

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/12/parental-alienation-and-the-unregulated-experts-shattering-childrens-lives

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 137 comments

ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode

https://twitter.com/zerostablecoin/status/1534131126209499138

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS – White Label Someone Else’s Instead

https://www.sidehustlenation.com/reselling-software/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 96 comments

GPT-3 may be a squirrel

https://twitter.com/janellecshane/status/1535835610396692480

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 31 comments

Computers are an oppressive technology

https://www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 140 comments

Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app

https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 31 comments

Found: The ‘how to draw’ books Pablo Picasso created for his daughter

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/11/found-the-how-to-draw-books-pablo-picasso-created-for-his-daughter

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 7 comments

Making Code Faster

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/06/10/Quamina-Optimizing

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 126 comments

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 89 comments

Why can’t we remember being born or our first words?

https://theconversation.com/why-cant-you-remember-being-born-learning-to-walk-or-saying-your-first-words-what-scientists-know-about-infantile-amnesia-182736

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 129 comments

Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel

https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8250/issues/24

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 63 comments

Moon Illusion

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

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

Web Push for Safari

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10098/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 138 comments

The Y Combinator in Go with generics

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/the-y-combinator-in-go-with-generics/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (2011)

https://rdist.root.org/2011/01/17/stuxnet-is-embarrassing-not-amazing/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 91 comments

The biggest project in modern mathematics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bJeKUosqoY

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

How far behind a plane is its noise?

https://alexanderell.is/posts/plane-noise/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Risk of myocarditis after the Covid-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA cohort study

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00791-7/fulltext

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 179 comments

Open Source federated link aggregator in rust

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 37 comments

The Philosophy of Linear Algebra (2021)

https://sigfyg.medium.com/the-philosophy-of-linear-algebra-ac2d9ce14619

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Go Template Preview – Powered by WebAssembly

https://gotemplate.io/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Religious Discrimination at Google

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/religious-discrimination-at-google-8c3c471f0a53

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 300 comments

Audioserve: Simple personal server to serve audio files from directories

https://github.com/izderadicka/audioserve

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music

https://www.wired.com/story/merryl-goldberg-music-encryption-ussr-phantom-orchestra/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

I may be fired over AI ethics work

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/may-be-fired-soon-for-doing-ai-ethics-work-802d8c474e66

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 160 comments

A chat with Ray Dalio

https://thehustle.co/a-chat-with-ray-dalio/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever worked in a non-capitalist coding collective? How was it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716051

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Vintage Computing

https://www.glitchwrks.com/vintage.html

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

Any self made millionaires here? Was it worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31710462

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: What are the best short tech/engineering books you have read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31713756

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Guide (2000)

http://www.kan.org/6100/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 111 comments

What Everyone Knows

https://kk.org/thetechnium/what-everyone-knows/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 98 comments

New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dell-xps-13-9315-repair-no-headphone-jack

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 121 comments

The US Navy F-14 Tomcat aircrew that inspired the Top Gun Movie

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-the-us-navy-f-14-tomcat-aircrew-that-inspired-the-legendary-top-gun-movie/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 94 comments

Covid and smell loss: answers begin to emerge

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01589-z

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 0 comments

Woman accused of tracking boyfriend with Apple AirTag, killing him with car

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/11/apple-airtag-murder-boyfriend-indianapolis-morris/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Umka: A statically typed embeddable scripting language

https://github.com/vtereshkov/umka-lang

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

What does a batsman see? (2018)

https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1136242/what-does-a-batsman-see

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Inside the world of hostage negotiation (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/25/business-of-kidnapping-inside-the-secret-world-of-hostage-negotiation-ransom-insurance

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return result’s sign? (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040506-00/?p=39463

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is a Person

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-system-is-a-person-11655074917

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 92 comments
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