top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-25

My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/

4 years ago

552 upvotes – 221 comments

AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry

https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/H2XN5ONL3XAAUFVERXNYKS7QOZAOGBFA/

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 177 comments

Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]

https://www.sdfo.org/gj/stories/flowersforalgernon.pdf

4 years ago

387 upvotes – 207 comments

Oh Shit, Git

https://ohshitgit.com/

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 231 comments

Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874802

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 424 comments

The Seiko TV watch

https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-watch-for-which-james-bond-gave-up-his-rolex-the-seiko-tv-watch

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 130 comments

Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/06/whatever-happened-to-bee-apocalypse.html

4 years ago

318 upvotes – 178 comments

Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables

https://github.com/x2bool/xlite

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 29 comments

I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10396-i-finally-found-a-solid-debian-tablet-the-surface-go-2

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 233 comments

PostgreSQL upgrades are hard

https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/1116-PostgreSQL-Upgrades-are-hard!.html#_content

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 120 comments

Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/24/23182288/google-letter-email-employees-roe-v-wade-decision

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 406 comments

VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 62 comments

Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-charming-bloke-who-dominates-geoguessr

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 63 comments

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/25/chinese_rocket_moon_crash_pic/

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 126 comments

A frog so small, it could not frog

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/pumpkin-toadlet-frogs-uncontrolled-landing-jumps/661262/

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 38 comments

SQLite Release 3.39.0

https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_39_0.html

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 20 comments

Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-the-worlds-grain-is-not-eaten-by-humans

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 299 comments

Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 313 comments

Doom on a chip from a IKEA LED smart lamp

https://uk.pcmag.com/games/133930/you-can-run-doom-on-a-chip-from-a-15-ikea-smart-lamp

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

The most livable cities

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/22/the-worlds-most-liveable-cities

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 287 comments

Don't let dicts spoil your code (2020)

https://roman.pt/posts/dont-let-dicts-spoil-your-code/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code

https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 105 comments

The collapsing quality of dev.to (2021)

https://wagslane.dev/posts/collapsing-quality-of-devto/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 106 comments

Unified theory of documentation systems

https://documentation.divio.com/

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 14 comments

Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon

https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/everquests-long-strange-20-year-trip-still-has-no-end-in-sight/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

What Copilot means for open source

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/this-copilot-is-stupid-and-wants-to-kill-me.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 137 comments

The Typography of Legal Opinions

https://typographyforlawyers.com/court-opinions.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 78 comments

Arkansas Bill (2021) Establishing a Database for Tracking Women Seeking Abortion

https://trackbill.com/bill/arkansas-house-bill-1195-to-create-the-every-mom-matters-act-to-provide-healthcare-support-to-pregnant-women-in-arkansas-and-to-stabilize-families-and-reduce-the-number-of-abortions-performed-in-the-state/1982203/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 58 comments

Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frozen-whole-baby-woolly-mammoth-yukon-gold-fields-1.6501128

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

AI-guided robots are ready to sort recyclables

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-guided-robots-are-ready-to-sort-your-recyclables

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)

https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/frequently-asked-questions-craniotomy/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

Pure: A static analysis file format checker

https://github.com/ronomon/pure

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

I think the GNOME designers are incompetent

https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84023.html

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 147 comments

Crystal's Interpreter (2021)

https://crystal-lang.org/2021/12/29/crystal-i.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/texas-repeatedly-raises-pollution-limits-cheniere-lng-plant-2022-06-24/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

A mystery that took 13k years to crack

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/mastodon-mammoth-extinction-climate-change/661351/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Nikon Z9 Disassembly and Teardown

https://kolarivision.com/nikon-z9-disassembly-and-teardown/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments

Archaeologist discovers 6k year-old island settlement off Croatian coast (2021)

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/archaeologist-discovers-6000-year-old-island-settlement-off-croatian-coast-2021-06-24/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Dangit, Git?

https://dangitgit.com/en

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)

https://anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_assholes_its_your_fault-2/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

Social justice for the bald man

https://stakedy.com/long/social-justice-for-the-bald-man.html

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31873504

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 262 comments

Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for 5 percent of the price

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877584

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 105 comments

Hell is ourselves

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/hell-is-ourselves

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 60 comments

Baby pics, life lessons, and obits: What happened to LinkedIn?

https://thewalrus.ca/what-happened-to-linkedin/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

Quantum Zeno effect

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

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Becoming a Better Engineering Team

https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-on-how-to-become-a-better-engineering-team/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Ancient art and genetics reveal origin of world’s most expensive spice

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/03/09/frontiers-plant-science-domestication-origin-saffron-crocus-bronze-age-greece/

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (Bitcoin) security

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/22/research_challenges_assumptions_about_distributed/

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

With Roe overturned, period-tracking apps raise new worries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/07/period-tracking-privacy/

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 145 comments
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