top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-14

Patagonia founder gives away the company

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html

4 years ago

955 upvotes – 455 comments

Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/09/say-hello-to-crazy-thin-deep-insert-atm-skimmers/

4 years ago

575 upvotes – 464 comments

Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet/

4 years ago

456 upvotes – 123 comments

Why car wheels are so flat these days

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-car-wheels-are-so-flat-these-days-and-no-its-not-just-aerodynamics-and-styling/

4 years ago

438 upvotes – 235 comments

How a QR code works

https://typefully.com/DanHollick/qr-codes-T7tLlNi

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 116 comments

Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/09/13/an-f-16-pilot-died-when-his-ejection-seat-failed-was-it-counterfeit/

4 years ago

388 upvotes – 250 comments

Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)

https://kevquirk.com/privacy-vs-i-have-nothing-to-hide/

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 462 comments

About Lockdown Mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212650

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 259 comments

Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/14/twilio-to-lay-of-11percent-of-workforce.html

4 years ago

359 upvotes – 463 comments

H-m-m: Hackers mind map

https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m

4 years ago

★ 2.2k PHP GPL-3.0
346 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831701

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 486 comments

DVD Bouncing Logo

https://www.google.com/search?q=dvd+bouncing+logo

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 99 comments

Color fonts on Google Fonts

https://material.io/blog/color-fonts-are-here

4 years ago

290 upvotes – 173 comments

Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/xda3jr/sudden_disturbing_moves_for_it_in_very_large/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 81 comments

Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved

https://twitter.com/Wikiland/status/1570072717931552770

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 244 comments

Act-1: Transformer for Actions

https://www.adept.ai/act

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 77 comments

The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-b-52-was-designed-in-a-hotel-room-over-one-weekend-and-will-probably-fly-for-100-years/

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 198 comments

The spam on Twitter

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1570094327338274823

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 260 comments

Ask HN: How do I write a Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838225

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 104 comments

Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations

https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-conversation

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 230 comments

Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models

https://haveibeentrained.com/

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 179 comments

It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999

https://twitter.com/samwcyo/status/1569897392560050178

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 209 comments

Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50

https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/vaccination-against-covid-19

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 392 comments

Algolia Acquires Search.io

https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-disrupts-market-with-search-io-acquisition-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-search-and-discovery/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies

https://www.stackaid.us

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 129 comments

Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009)

https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1035359_head-on-crash-2009-chevrolet-malibu-vs-59-bel-air

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 212 comments

My First BillG Review (2006)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 154 comments

One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure

https://theconversation.com/one-year-on-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment-has-proven-a-spectacular-failure-190229

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 288 comments

Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1570073223005622274

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 202 comments

How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing

https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/how-san-francisco-makes-it-insanely-hard-to-build-housing/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 272 comments

iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

https://www.austinmann.com/trek/iphone-14-pro-camera-review-scotland

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 221 comments

DuckDuckGo, Proton, Mozilla back bill targeting Big Tech ‘surveillance’

https://www.techradar.com/news/duckduckgo-proton-mozilla-throw-weight-behind-bill-targeting-big-tech-surveillance

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 51 comments

W3.css – A minimal alternative to Bootstrap

https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/default.asp

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 136 comments

Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)

https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-racket-why-lisp.html

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 151 comments

Worldwide Rail Network Map

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=51.58248&lon=15.6501&zoom=3

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 77 comments

Signing Git commits with your SSH key (2021)

https://calebhearth.com/sign-git-with-ssh

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 85 comments

Death by hockey sticks

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 137 comments

Dolphin Progress July and August 2022

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2022/09/13/dolphin-progress-report-july-and-august-2022/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 13 comments

FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio

https://xiph.org/flac/2022/09/09/flac-1-4-0-released.html

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837800

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 141 comments

The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-ux-of-porn-tubes-are-designed-for-the-ultimate-money-shot/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 151 comments

Interactive Docs with Markdoc

https://stripe.com/blog/markdoc

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 47 comments

Art Garfunkel's Library

https://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 140 comments

Notes: Fast note-taking app, open-source, without Electron, built in Qt C++

https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

Game Programming Patterns (2014)

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: A search engine based on RSS feed

https://github.com/dato-ai/dato.rss

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-courts-wed-ruling-record-44-bln-google-fine-may-set-precedent-2022-09-14/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 136 comments

BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE

https://www.bluej.org/about.html

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 104 comments

Dick the Birthday Boy: The Legacy Continues [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwu1427MUIE

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Escaping strings faster with AVX-512

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/09/14/escaping-strings-faster-with-avx-512/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Yvon Chouinard transfers 100% Patagonia ownership to environmental trust

https://www.outsideonline.com/business-journal/brands/yvon-choinard-patagaonia-new-ownership/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 2 comments

The dirty secret of mathematics: We make it up as we go along (2018)

https://medium.com/q-e-d/the-dirty-secret-of-mathematics-we-make-it-up-as-we-go-along-e79b7a696174

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

A message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: 11% workforce cut

https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-message-from-twilio-ceo-jeff-lawson

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 198 comments

io_uring_spawn: Launching New Processes with io_uring

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LPC2022-io_uring_spawn

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Google employees alarmed that the company suddenly expects them to do work

https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-employees-work-mandate

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 157 comments

Countersteering

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

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 137 comments

GraphBLAS

https://people.engr.tamu.edu/davis/GraphBLAS.html

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

https://twitter.com/sondesix/status/1569856456811495424

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 266 comments

Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones

https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/carbon-footprint-of-unwanted-data-use-by-smartphones/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 69 comments

Dabbling with Dagster vs. Airflow

https://davidsj.substack.com/p/dabbling-with-dagster-part-1

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

Apache NetBeans 15

https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/announce-apache-netbeans-15-released

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

Why is every podcast sponsored by a VPN company?

https://girdley.substack.com/p/why-is-every-podcast-sponsored-by

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

National Rail Network Map

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=96ec03e4fc8546bd8a864e39a2c3fc41

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

What Gödel Discovered (2020)

https://stopa.io/post/269

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Hacktoberfest 2022

https://hacktoberfest.com

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

JavaFX 19

https://openjfx.io/#ZgotmplZ

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

Cellulose Shoes Made by Bacteria

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01431-x

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

The SEC revealed today that it charged VMware with fraud

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/the-sec-revealed-today-that-it-charged-vmware-with-fraud-then-settled-for-next-to-nothing/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What is the coding exercise you use to explore a new language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836113

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How do you discover music?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835559

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 122 comments

Twilio cutting 11% – Letter from CEO [pdf]

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001447669/5c6aa734-ca9d-4d59-84b4-42ab54ca3603.pdf

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 106 comments
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