top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-10

Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

2 years ago

1258 upvotes – 448 comments

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/

2 years ago

1135 upvotes – 425 comments

'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/too-many-employees-but-few-work-pichai-zuckerberg-sound-the-alarm-122080801425_1.html

2 years ago

730 upvotes – 1103 comments

OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits

https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/onlyfans-bribed-meta-to-put-thousands-of-porn-stars-on-terror-watchlist-suits-claim/

2 years ago

541 upvotes – 323 comments

The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

https://www.ladbible.com/sport/world-excel-championship-that-is-getting-national-tv-coverage-20220809

2 years ago

517 upvotes – 153 comments

Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone

http://www.freeciv.org/

2 years ago

481 upvotes – 163 comments

Let websites framebust out of native apps

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/framebust-native-apps/

2 years ago

430 upvotes – 153 comments

How SQLite Helps You Do ACID

https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-rollback-journal/

2 years ago

351 upvotes – 78 comments

Why aren't smart people happier?

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 492 comments

U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_08102022.htm

2 years ago

320 upvotes – 839 comments

Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409632

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 151 comments

Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones

https://thenewleafjournal.com/review-of-e-an-android-alternative-for-mobile-phones/

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 231 comments

U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent

https://reason.com/2022/08/10/u-k-s-online-censorship-bill-causes-far-more-harm-than-it-attempts-to-prevent/

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 271 comments

How to present to executives (2021)

https://lethain.com/present-to-executives/

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 84 comments

The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web

https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/blog/blob/main/entries/semantic_future.md

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 130 comments

“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”

https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 496 comments

FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-starlinks-886-million-grant-says-spacex-proposal-too-risky/

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 332 comments

The strength of the strong force

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-strength-strong.html

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 147 comments

Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside

https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2022/8/9/faster-ruby-thoughts-from-the-outside

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 139 comments

Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-five-tools-of-hedonic-design

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Exercises to think, then speak, more clearly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411586

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++

https://github.com/DeutscheKI/tevr-asr-tool

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 128 comments

New study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0810-color-perception

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 76 comments

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist

https://iai.tv/articles/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-auid-2180

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 388 comments

Essential Climbing Knots

https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 145 comments

Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 247 comments

Stringbike: Benefits (2020)

https://www.stringbike.com/stringbike_benefits.html

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 149 comments

Stable Diffusion launch announcement

https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 39 comments

Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)

http://wet-dry-vac.com/wet-dry-vacuum-guide.html

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 226 comments

Switcher (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 30 comments

Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/disney-surpasses-netflix-global-paid-subscribers

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 131 comments

AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/09/applovin-unity-video-game-consolidation

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 111 comments

Research shows circadian clock influences metabolism, cell and tumor growth

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-reveals-circadian-clock-cell-growth.html

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

Why does anything exist?

https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 219 comments

Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

A History of Lua (2001)

https://www.lua.org/history.html

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 120 comments

How to choose the right Python concurrency API

https://superfastpython.com/python-concurrency-choose-api/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments

Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or "no"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-kusunda-the-language-isolate-with-no-word-for-no

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 223 comments

Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything

http://angg.twu.net/eev-article.html

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 10 comments

The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it

https://blog.cloudflare.com/2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 70 comments

How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed

https://www.developermarkepear.com/blog/developer-marketing-on-social-media-twitter-supabase

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

JNumPy: Writing high-performance C extensions for Python in minutes

https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

Launch HN: Sematic (YC S22) – Open-source framework to build ML pipelines faster

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32413070

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-synapses

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 72 comments

Mental Model Practices

https://mmpractices.com/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-google-fiber-plans-5-state-growth-spurt-biggest-since-2015-2022-08-10/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 75 comments

The Case for Degrowth

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 319 comments

Nip2: A spreadsheet-like GUI for the libvips image processing library

https://github.com/libvips/nip2

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Facebook gives data to Nebraska police prosecuting teenager for abortion

https://thebrag.com/facebook-gives-data-to-nebraska-police-prosecuting-teenager-for-abortion/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 77 comments

FCC rejects LTD Broadband, Starlink RDOF bids

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/fcc-rejects-ltd-broadband-starlink-rdof-bids

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Oscar winning PARASITE was edited with a 10 year old copy of Final Cut Pro 7

https://twitter.com/noamkroll/status/1556755415353925642

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

We thank Miss Mary Tsingou (2020)

https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-winter/mary-tsingou.shtml

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

The many derivatives of CP/M

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_of_cpm/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

https://getlumina.com/desk

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 83 comments
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