top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-09

An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts

4 years ago

“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

https://www.android.com/get-the-message/

4 years ago

Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites

https://astro.build/blog/astro-1/

4 years ago

The Story of Mel (1983)

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

4 years ago

Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

https://reason.com/2022/08/05/he-was-arrested-for-promoting-jury-nullification-a-federal-court-says-that-was-illegal/

4 years ago

Write a note to your spouse every day

https://jdnoc.com/note/

4 years ago

From novice to master, and back again (2013)

https://blog.djmnet.org/2013/01/14/from-novice-to-master-and-back-again/

4 years ago

GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos

https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1556721709931175937

4 years ago

Thank You, Firebug (2017)

https://getfirebug.com/

4 years ago

How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?

https://frame.work/blog/how-fast-is-12th-gen-intel-core

4 years ago

Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/

4 years ago

Is Google.com Down?

https://www.google.com

4 years ago

Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)

https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/ca-ocean-plastic/

4 years ago

France experiencing worst drought on record

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540

4 years ago

Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ

https://github.com/readme/featured/java-programming-language

4 years ago

Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active

https://www.mpi.nl/news/our-brain-prediction-machine-always-active

4 years ago

Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6481

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32396685

4 years ago

Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture

https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/implementing-zero-trust-architecture

4 years ago

“Who Should Write the Terraform?”

https://zwischenzugs.com/2022/08/08/who-should-write-the-terraform/

4 years ago

Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400849

4 years ago

Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/area-5150-8088-mph-gets-a-successor/

4 years ago

Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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

4 years ago

The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers

https://preslav.me/2022/08/09/i-dont-like-golang-default-http-handlers/

4 years ago

Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi through Ampere GPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-3D-Headers-Fermi-Ampere

4 years ago

Dusting “Attack” via Tornado Cash to Public Wallets

https://etherscan.io/txsInternal?a=0x12d66f87a04a9e220743712ce6d9bb1b5616b8fc&p=1

4 years ago

W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem

https://w4games.com/2022/08/09/hello-world-w4-games/

4 years ago

Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/08/almost-every-ferrari-sold-since-2005-is-being-recalled/

4 years ago

Google Maps' moat is evaporating (2020)

https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating

4 years ago

A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-origin-reframes-cancer-and-aging-20220808/

4 years ago

MantaRay: Open-Source Ray Tracer

https://github.com/ange-yaghi/manta-ray

4 years ago

Falling for Kubernetes

https://freeman.vc/notes/falling-for-kubernetes

4 years ago

The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad

https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-332-the-tooling-ecosystem-that-adds-joy-to-kicad

4 years ago

Lz_xor

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2022/01/lzxor.html

4 years ago

Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

https://github.com/ospfranco/sol

4 years ago

AppLovin offers to buy Unity Software in $17.5 bln deal

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/

4 years ago

Three people in critical condition from Google data center 'electrical incident'

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incident-injures-3-17360321.php

4 years ago

The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid

https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2022-07-30-state-of-south-africa.html

4 years ago

Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-rebury-first-of-its-kind-roman-villa-180980535/

4 years ago

Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (2019)

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/

4 years ago

How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/9/10/how-do-palms-survive-hurricanes

4 years ago

How and why to host a blog at home

https://kubesail.com/blog/2022-08-08-how-and-why

4 years ago

Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spiders-seem-to-have-rem-like-sleep-and-may-even-dream/

4 years ago

Show HN: Yare 2 – Programmable RTS game

https://www.yare.io

4 years ago

Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions

https://rnikhil.com/2022/08/09/tornado-cash-block.html

4 years ago

Former Twitter employee convicted of charges related to spying for Saudis

https://politpost.com/2022/08/09/former-twitter-employee-convicted-of-charges-related-to-spying-for-saudis/

4 years ago

ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally leaking uninitialized data from the microarchitecture [pdf]

https://aepicleak.com/aepicleak.pdf

4 years ago

US Gas Prices Fall Below $4 per Gallon; First Time Since March

https://www.gasbuddy.com/go/399-gas

4 years ago

Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift

https://forums.swift.org/t/implementing-parts-of-the-swift-compiler-in-swift/59524

4 years ago

Ask HN: Google Search down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32393051

4 years ago

Noether's Theorem in a Nutshell (2020)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html

4 years ago

Tcled: Pure Tcl Console Text Editor (2019)

https://github.com/slebetman/tcled

4 years ago

Show HN: 1024, a 2048 Puzzle Game

https://1024-game.netlify.app/

4 years ago

Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

https://github.com/recode-sh/cli

4 years ago

$5.6B cloud company Fivetran acquired its way to survival

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/08/08/the-56-billion-internet-plumbers/

4 years ago

GitHub removes promise not to track you

https://twitter.com/lgarron/status/1556835002897207296

4 years ago

The Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion

4 years ago

Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH from Tornado Cash

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/09/someone-is-trolling-celebs-by-sending-eth-from-tornado-cash/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32398181

4 years ago

A Story About ‘Magic' (1983)

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

4 years ago

Tell HN: Spotify Premium is full of Ads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32402040

4 years ago

Will Intel's AXG division survive Pat Gelsinger’s axe?

https://www.jonpeddie.com/editorials/will-axg-survive-gelsingers-axe/

4 years ago

2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge

https://nsa-codebreaker.org/home

4 years ago

Tesla’s self-driving technology fails to detect children in the road, tests find

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving-technology-safety-children

4 years ago

A quick and practical “MSI” hash table

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/08/08/

4 years ago

The Godfather of Complexity

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2022/08/the-godfather-of-complexity.html

4 years ago

Wildfires are destroying California's forest carbon credit reserves, study says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wildfires-are-destroying-californias-forest-carbon-credit-reserves-study-2022-08-05/

4 years ago

The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999)

https://www.cluetrain.com/

4 years ago

Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/twitch-founder-justin-kan-on-crypto-web3-video-games-business-model-profit-play-to-earn/

4 years ago

The End of Manual Transmission

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/stick-shift-manual-transmission-cars/671078/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400928

4 years ago

FBI Searches Trump’s Home in Florida

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/politics/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago.html

4 years ago