top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-06-30

Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/

3 years ago

769 upvotes – 417 comments

Give up GitHub: The time has come

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/

3 years ago

610 upvotes – 572 comments

Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/atlassian-unprofitable-valuation-adam-schwab/

3 years ago

579 upvotes – 506 comments

Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco

https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/06/29/driverless-robotaxi-fleet-paralyzed-for-hours-in-san-francisco/

3 years ago

504 upvotes – 496 comments

Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62000742

3 years ago

448 upvotes – 1425 comments

Vim 9.0

https://www.vim.org/vim90.php

3 years ago

433 upvotes – 268 comments

MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)

https://news.mit.edu/2018/first-ionic-wind-plane-no-moving-parts-1121

3 years ago

428 upvotes – 137 comments

Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy, reveals how Facebook stored sensitive data

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedish-radio-created-fake-pharmacy-reveals-how-facebook-stored-sensitive-information

3 years ago

400 upvotes – 89 comments

Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-city-dwellers-have-lost-about-half-their-gut-microbes

3 years ago

398 upvotes – 297 comments

Unity is laying off hundreds of employees

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/unity-layoffs-game-engine

3 years ago

372 upvotes – 366 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-w-your-6-iot-platform/

3 years ago

354 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928736

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 169 comments

Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C

https://www.w3.org/2022/06/DIDRecommendationDecision.html

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 187 comments

Steelmanning: Discover the truth by helping your opponent

https://themindcollection.com/steelmanning-how-to-discover-the-truth-by-helping-your-opponent/

3 years ago

275 upvotes – 180 comments

Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-physicists-keep-asking-20220629/

3 years ago

275 upvotes – 229 comments

OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220629.html

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 84 comments

Why don't more people use throat mics?

https://vadosware.io/post/why-dont-more-people-use-throat-mics/

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 265 comments

Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-001/community/posts/4419966780055-Mx-3-master-and-airpods-pro-microphone-issue

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 277 comments

Why I’m Cryptophobic

https://www.bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-cryptophobic

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 441 comments

Rust 1.62.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/30/Rust-1.62.0.html

3 years ago

226 upvotes – 96 comments

Modern cloud for multiplayer games

https://blog.hathora.dev/modern-cloud-for-multiplayer-games/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 52 comments

Former Apple exec who enforced insider trading rules admits to insider trading

https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/30/former-apple-exec-admits-to-insider-trading/

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 106 comments

Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/30/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 263 comments

EU Digital ID wallet is coming

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide-digital-identity-and-security/government/magazine/eu-digital-id-wallet-coming-heres-what

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 356 comments

Ask HN: Where and how do you find your early adoptors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31930935

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31930460

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 157 comments

Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub

https://github.com/upptime/upptime

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 58 comments

SEC rejects Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application [pdf]

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nysearca/2022/34-95180.pdf

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 87 comments

Doom RPG Ported to PC

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/129997-doom-rpg-port-reverse-engineering/

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 49 comments

Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/06/launching-version-13-1-of-wolfram-language-mathematica/

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 185 comments

The popularity of country music in rural sub Saharan Africa

https://twitter.com/RisenChow/status/1542564697353895941

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: Featureform – An open-source Feature Store for ML

https://github.com/featureform/featureform

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 27 comments

America needs supply-side reform

https://www.slowboring.com/p/america-needs-supply-side-reform

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 120 comments

We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/Refund-for-Downloaded-Game-or-DLC-Wrong-Game-Didn-t-Like-Game-Accidental-Purchase--1379023.html

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

https://www.uifiller.com

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 58 comments

RISC-V is getting MSIs

https://blog.stephenmarz.com/2022/06/30/msi/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

FCC Closes Robocall Loophole

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-closes-robocall-loophole

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 179 comments

Kaspersky: Poorly detected backdoor targeting governments and NGOs around globe

https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2022_kaspersky-discovers-poorly-detected-backdoor-targeting-governments-and-ngos-around-the-globe

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

How are the bees?

https://nautil.us/how-are-the-bees-20772/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-google-reverse-keyword-searches-rcna35749

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 40 comments

Pronunciation Guide for Unix

https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 121 comments

FTX closes in on a deal to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for $25M

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/ftx-closes-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-embattled-crypto-lender-blockfi-for-25-million-in-a-fire-sale.html

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 64 comments

The great Silicon Valley shake-out

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/06/28/the-great-silicon-valley-shake-out

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

A controversial shipping law is swaying the price of gas

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-a-controversial-shipping-law-is-swaying-the-price-of-gas

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 190 comments

Mathematics and Magic: The de Bruijn Card Trick (2015)

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2015/01/mathematics_and_magic_the_de_b.html

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitative-reasoning.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers?

https://www.eejournal.com/article/what-more-8-bit-microcontrollers/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 108 comments

Long live software Easter eggs

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534857

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-30/aridification-kills-civilizations-is-california-next

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 190 comments
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