top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-06

Apple previews Lockdown Mode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitment-to-protect-users-from-mercenary-spyware/

4 years ago

Absurd Trolley Problems

https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

4 years ago

Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance

https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/main-vs-310.rst

4 years ago

A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity

https://www.theblock.co/post/156038/how-a-fake-job-offer-took-down-the-worlds-most-popular-crypto-game

4 years ago

New MacBook Air with M2

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999714

4 years ago

Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

http://rubycentral.org/ruby-shield

4 years ago

GTA GeoGuesser

https://gta-geoguesser.com/index.html/

4 years ago

Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells

https://www.causal.app/blog/scaling

4 years ago

Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/

4 years ago

Did the early medieval era ever take place?

https://jonn.substack.com/p/did-the-early-medieval-era-ever-really

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003266

4 years ago

Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-dental-engineering-shapeshifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-teeth

4 years ago

Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland

https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-first-large-scale-sand-battery-goes-online-in-finland/

4 years ago

Auto manufacturer family tree: Who owns what?

https://www.whichcar.com.au/car-advice/car-manufacturer-brands-family-tree

4 years ago

Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003215

4 years ago

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

https://godotengine.org/article/fog-volumes-arrive-in-godot-4

4 years ago

Making IRC better

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-07-06-sourcehut-and-irc/

4 years ago

How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/monolith-microservices

4 years ago

Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only

https://humaneyesonly.com

4 years ago

Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling

https://www.samwoolfe.com/2022/06/flanerie-the-art-of-aimless-strolling.html

4 years ago

MacintoshPi

https://github.com/jaromaz/MacintoshPi

4 years ago

Cubernetes

https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2022-07-06-cubernetes/

4 years ago

Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/mlgo-machine-learning-framework-for.html

4 years ago

Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005678

4 years ago

No Language Left Behind

https://ai.facebook.com/research/no-language-left-behind/

4 years ago

Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996612

4 years ago

Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/emacs-builtin-elisp-cheat-sheet

4 years ago

Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore

https://www.vox.com/videos/2022/6/29/23188504/roller-coaster-loops-circular-g-force

4 years ago

Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft

4 years ago

Let's Encrypt swag is here and I love it

https://letsencrypt.org/donate/

4 years ago

Show HN: 3D live tracking two climbers attempting a Sierra Nevada record

https://www.sps2022.com/tracker/NathanL

4 years ago

Is your phone ruining your memory? A report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia

4 years ago

FBI Child ID App

https://www.fbi.gov/news/apps/child-id-app

4 years ago

Smalltalk Squeak 6.0

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/squeak-trunk/release-notes/6.0

4 years ago

US water contains more ‘forever chemicals’ than EPA tests show

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/06/us-drinking-water-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-epa-tests

4 years ago

Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/26/business/retail-returns/index.html

4 years ago

Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence means

https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/25/the-school-of-life-book/

4 years ago

It’s 1997 and you want to build a website

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/its-1997-and-you-want-to-build-a-website/

4 years ago

Where to wait for an elevator (2010)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/29/where-to-wait-for-an-elevator/

4 years ago

GVM: A GPU Virtual Machine for IOMMU-Capable Computers

https://docs.linux-gvm.org/

4 years ago

Why walking on Legos hurts more than walking on fire or ice (2018)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-walking-legos-hurts-more-walking-fire-or-ice-180970784/

4 years ago

Upcoming RISC-V laptop promises free silicon upgrades

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/first-risc-v-laptop-expected-to-ship-in-september/

4 years ago

Space Force launches new intelligence unit: Congress voices concerns over growth

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/07/05/space-force-launches-new-intelligence-unit-congress-voices-concerns-over-growth.html

4 years ago

The Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction (2017)

https://elizabethspanncraig.com/mystery-writing-tips/ten-commandments-detective-fiction-1929-brief-history/

4 years ago

DIY Smartphone Lora Connection (2021)

https://www.hackster.io/pulsartronic/diy-smartphone-lora-connection-bde258

4 years ago

Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/crypto-broker-voyager-digital-files-for-bankruptcy/

4 years ago

Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200 model that translates 200 languages

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/nllb-200-high-quality-machine-translation/

4 years ago

GTK 5 might drop X11 support

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/gtk_5_might_drop_x11/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Burnt out developer trying to move out of Iran, advices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000712

4 years ago

New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws

https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-cars-will-stop-drivers-from-speeding/

4 years ago

Detecting Deepfake Video Calls Through Monitor Illumination

https://www.unite.ai/detecting-deepfake-video-calls-through-monitor-illumination/

4 years ago

Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/05/baserow-challenges-airtable-with-an-open-source-no-code-database-platform/

4 years ago