top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-20

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/

4 years ago

1474 upvotes – 705 comments

We are removing the option to create new subscriptions

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-option-to-create-new-subscriptions/

4 years ago

1470 upvotes – 440 comments

I fucking hate Jira

https://ifuckinghatejira.com/

4 years ago

971 upvotes – 526 comments

Writing one sentence per line

https://sive.rs/1s

4 years ago

849 upvotes – 296 comments

Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/facebook-says-apple-too-powerful-theyre-right

4 years ago

466 upvotes – 713 comments

Terminated

https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated

4 years ago

387 upvotes – 219 comments

My 40-liter backpack travel guide

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html

4 years ago

380 upvotes – 330 comments

Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

https://markwhen.com

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 90 comments

Orkut

http://www.orkut.com/index.html

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 176 comments

Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to prove I own my account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813308

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 202 comments

Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'

https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-vr-headset-prototypes-visual-fidelity-indistinguishable-from-reality/

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 571 comments

“When It Rains, It Pours”: The Morton Salt Girl

https://historydaily.org/history-morton-salt-girl-umbrella

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 100 comments

Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place

https://netboot.xyz/docs/

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 67 comments

Action Plan for a New CTO

https://steveblank.com/2022/06/20/finding-and-growing-the-islands-of-innovation-inside-a-large-company-action-plan-for-a-new-cto/

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 72 comments

No-one knows what they are doing

https://successfulsoftware.net/2022/06/19/no-one-knows-what-they-are-doing/

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 180 comments

On leaving Mapbox after 12 years

https://trashmoon.com/blog/2022/reflections-on-12-years-at-mapbox/

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 260 comments

Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

https://playground.lexical.dev/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812864

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 774 comments

A conflict with a manager ended with me being disallowed to work at Spotify

https://banned-for-life.com/

4 years ago

266 upvotes – 292 comments

Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices

https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 97 comments

The integrated timetable of Switzerland

https://www.jokteur.com/a/integrated-timetable-switzerland/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 158 comments

Map Projection Transitions

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 11 comments

Sshfs Is Orphaned

https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments

The Illustrated QUIC Connection

https://quic.ulfheim.net/

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 37 comments

3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-europe

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 94 comments

NFS: The Early Years

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/897917/7a4775f9f1223e8a/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 112 comments

What's New in Ada 2022

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/whats-new-in-ada-2022/index.html

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 41 comments

Web 3 is Flawed

https://ravivyas.com/2022/06/19/web-3-is-flawed/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 349 comments

Why I am not going to buy a computer (1987) [pdf]

http://www.thehangedman.com/teaching-files/stv/berry-computer.pdf

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 166 comments

Two Years of Life with PinePhone

https://linmob.net/two-years-of-owning-a-pinephone/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 136 comments

Paige Thompson convicted over data theft from AWS user accounts

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-hack-aws-paige-thompson

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 96 comments

Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 255 comments

Notes on WebAssembly

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/06/wasm-notes.html

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 56 comments

Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server

https://owncast.online/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 58 comments

The State of WebAssembly 2022

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2022/06/20/state-of-wasm-2022.html

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 78 comments

Linux Threat Hunting: ‘Syslogk’ a kernel rootkit found in the wild

https://decoded.avast.io/davidalvarez/linux-threat-hunting-syslogk-a-kernel-rootkit-found-under-development-in-the-wild/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 54 comments

How to Share a Secret [pdf] (1979)

https://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/Shamir-HowToShareASecret.pdf

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 35 comments

Stop using app icons for political activism

https://blog.efitz.net/blog/icon-activism/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 239 comments

Oldschool PC Fonts

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

A Note to the Celsius Community

https://blog.celsius.network/a-note-to-the-celsius-community-e5af1f5a7998

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 136 comments

How to Find and Stop Running Queries on PostgreSQL

https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/20/how-to-find-and-stop-running-queries-on-postgresql/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 15 comments

SSO should be table stakes

https://tuple.app/blog/sso-should-be-table-stakes

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 126 comments

Solend is now voting to reverse the decision to interfere with $170M position

https://realms.today/dao/SLND/proposal/3geE5P3D7VJRaNNDVfZciGsXgwGiao1hSNpRM6jWNa5A

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

Australia’s secret propaganda unit

https://declassifiedaus.org/2022/06/16/revealed-australias-secret-propaganda-unit/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 62 comments

An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/early-run-censors-led-rod-serling-twilight-zone-180971837/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 83 comments

A Quick Look at QUIC Censorship

https://ooni.org/post/2022-quick-look-quic-censorship/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Four Tet wins royalty battle over streaming music

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61871547

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing

https://dcic-world.org/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

IKEA Instructions for Algorithms

https://idea-instructions.com/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Mullvad is now continuously donating to Qubes OS

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/15/mullvad-is-now-continuously-donating-to-qubes-os/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/06/20/data-infrastructure/transparent-memory-offloading-more-memory-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-and-power/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

Writing for distributed teams (2021)

https://vickiboykis.com/2021/07/17/writing-for-distributed-teams/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Earth moves far under our feet: Study shows Earth’s inner core oscillates

https://news.usc.edu/200185/earth-core-oscillates/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810471

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments
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