top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-19

Webcams aren't good enough

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/why-are-webcams-bad/

4 years ago

704 upvotes – 588 comments

Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

https://fonts.bunny.net/about

4 years ago

544 upvotes – 334 comments

We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel

https://www.scottantipa.com/why-knotend

4 years ago

486 upvotes – 185 comments

Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

https://finbold.com/bitcoin-mining-becomes-unprofitable-as-btc-price-falls-to-the-average-cost-of-mining/

4 years ago

351 upvotes – 444 comments

The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-has-a-low-power-mode-that-blunts-our-senses-20220614/

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 252 comments

Don't use Kubernetes yet

https://matt-rickard.com/dont-use-kubernetes-yet/

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 288 comments

Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it

https://toot.kuba-orlik.name/@kuba/108503475480137792

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 153 comments

Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5

https://hackerone.com/reports/1379975

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 160 comments

Samsung Busted for Cheating TV Test Benchmarks

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/17/samsung-busted-for-cheating-tv-test-benchmarks/

4 years ago

285 upvotes – 220 comments

Solend seized $170M of user funds

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vfszpt/solend_the_largest_lending_market_on_solana_is/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 213 comments

Reasons to tour by bicycle

https://kk.org/thetechnium/reasons-to-tour-by-bicycle/

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 217 comments

Why does science news suck so much?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/06/why-does-science-news-suck-so-much.html

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 261 comments

700M users and Premium

https://telegram.org/blog/700-million-and-premium

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 322 comments

Don't be that open-source user, don't be me

https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2022/dont-be-that-open-source-user-dont-be-me/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 165 comments

Software Disenchantment (2018)

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796256

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 327 comments

Apple’s macOS Ventura – New Security Changes

https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/apples-macos-ventura-7-new-security-changes-to-be-aware-of/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: WarcDB: Web crawl data as SQLite databases

https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/WarcDB

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 30 comments

Will word processors start a home working revolution? (1979) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6URa-PTqfA

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 84 comments

Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists

https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-evidence-hacking-police/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

Relearning to Learn

https://sourceless.org/posts/relearning-to-learn.html

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 12 comments

How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/how-townscaper-works-a-story-four-games-in-the-making

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?

https://alistapart.com/article/mobile-first-css-is-it-time-for-a-rethink/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 69 comments

SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-three-falcon-9-rocket-launches-36-hours/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 68 comments

Checkbox Olympics

https://checkboxolympics.com/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 48 comments

Map Data: False Assumptions

https://solutionspace.blog/2022/06/18/map-data-v-false-assumptions-programmers-make/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 114 comments

“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots

https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0952/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 194 comments

Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31800081

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 121 comments

Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TextAndFramebufferConsoles

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 48 comments

You and Your Research (1986)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 33 comments

Redis vs. KeyDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Skytable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796311

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chrome-os-flex

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 139 comments

How to Not Get Hit by Cars

https://bicyclesafe.com/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 246 comments

Super Planet Crash – A game of gravity

https://stefanom.org/spc/index.html

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 30 comments

How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS')

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/KernelModesettingBackground

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

Talos Linux

https://www.talos.dev/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31804303

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 126 comments

Diablo Immortal Rift Simulator

https://dimi777.github.io/diablo-rift-simulator/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 69 comments

Advancing the state of the art for std:unordered_map implementations

http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2022/06/advancing-state-of-art-for.html

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Bitcoin’s nosedive through the $20k mark is a Minsky Moment for crypto

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoins-nosedive-through-the-20-000-mark-is-a-minsky-moment-for-crypto-psychologically-for-a-lot-of-people-this-is-galling-11655591456

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

Running systemd without systemd-journald

https://declassed.art/en/blog/2022/06/19/running-systemd-without-systemd-syslogd

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

Type-ish – A runtime type checker for bash, in bash

https://github.com/Mythra/typeish

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

The Great Cloudwall

https://git.disroot.org/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/readme/en.md

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments
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