top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-08

Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922078413/tm2220599d1_ex99-p.htm

4 years ago

1324 upvotes – 1455 comments

HN is up again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026571

4 years ago

1010 upvotes – 366 comments

Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/

4 years ago

655 upvotes – 387 comments

Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html

4 years ago

551 upvotes – 389 comments

Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_49/

4 years ago

497 upvotes – 497 comments

Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v843-unhappy-users-edition/

4 years ago

441 upvotes – 244 comments

Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/japan-s-ex-pm-abe-collapses-in-nara-shots-heard-nhk-says

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 361 comments

Bad UI is causing people to get scammed

https://ashlan.com/blog/bad-ui-is-causing-people-to-get-scammed/

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 173 comments

Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cargo-sous-terrain

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026639

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 248 comments

Florida Tech CEO Indicted for Selling $1B Worth of Counterfeit Cisco Equipment

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-dozens-companies-and-entities-charged-scheme-traffic-estimated-1-billion-fraudulent-and

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 118 comments

OCRmyPDF: Add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF file

https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 57 comments

Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/07/06/why-were-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails/

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 194 comments

Go generics are not bad

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/07/08/go-generics-are-not-bad/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 286 comments

Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2102061118

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 91 comments

Amazon has a book piracy problem

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477267932864512

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 119 comments

Hacker News was down

https://hackernews.onlineornot.com

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 103 comments

Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

https://kion546.com/news/2022/07/07/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-california-will-make-its-own-insulin/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 216 comments

Books That Changed How I Hear Music

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/12-books-that-changed-how-i-heard

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Wiby is now free software

https://github.com/wibyweb/wiby

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 35 comments

Vangelis’ film score for Blade Runner

http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/bladerunner/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

https://github.com/ZaneH/piano-trainer

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 42 comments

The Visual Studio Code Server

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/07/07/vscode-server

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

How do dolphins choose their name?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-do-dolphins-choose-their-name

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple, Google, Facebook's AV1 standards group under EU antitrust investigation

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-probing-tech-group-aoms-video-licensing-policy-2022-07-07/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 121 comments

Linux Sucks 2022

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-sucks-2022

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 162 comments

Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/07/arizona-recording-police-illegal/10009423002/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced

https://shop.nootritious.com/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/google-proposes-moving-ad-business-to-alphabet-to-keep-regulators-at-bay/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: I made an app to help insomniacs learn how to sleep again

https://slumber.one

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 72 comments

APL and Array Programming

https://forums.fast.ai/t/apl-array-programming/97188

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Tooth Fairy Index

https://www.deltadental.com/us/en/tooth-fairy/the-original-poll.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Americans still think they can make money flipping houses

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeownership-not-the-wealth-builder-many-americans-think-it-is/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 187 comments

Walking Venice

https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/144/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 68 comments

Work on what matters

https://lethain.com/work-on-what-matters/?ref=theslice&utm_source=emailoctopus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue%20104%20%28for%207-jul%202022%29

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

https://www.wired.com/story/cruises-robot-car-outages/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 85 comments

SSH Cheat Sheet

https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/ssh-cheat-sheet

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments

Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-terminating-twitter-deal-2022-07-08/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments
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