top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-15

Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma

4 years ago

Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528

4 years ago

The Ethereum merge is done

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/09/15/the-ethereum-merge-is-done-did-it-work/

4 years ago

Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform

https://penpot.app/

4 years ago

Plasma Bigscreen

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

4 years ago

Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake

https://www.theblock.co/post/169299/ethereum-activates-the-merge-as-it-shifts-to-proof-of-stake

4 years ago

The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cryptokitties

4 years ago

Victorian Hacker News

https://victorianhackernews.com/

4 years ago

What it takes to make a game by yourself

https://dillonshook.com/what-it-takes-to-make-a-game-by-yourself/

4 years ago

Godot 4 Beta 1

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-0-beta-1

4 years ago

A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(22)01363-X.pdf

4 years ago

Wikipedia Speedruns

https://wikispeedruns.com/

4 years ago

LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware

https://github.com/librerpi/

4 years ago

TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)

https://remusao.github.io/posts/python-dbm-module.html

4 years ago

The number input is the worst input

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/15/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/

4 years ago

“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/whats-new/acquisition/

4 years ago

That annoying shade of blue (2018)

https://bsago.me/posts/that-annoying-shade-of-blue

4 years ago

Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/9/cantwell-hickenlooper-lummis-wicker-introduce-bill-to-thin-out-the-900-000-pieces-of-orbiting-junk-that-endanger-the-future-of-space-exploration

4 years ago

Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/did-googleai-just-snooker-one-of

4 years ago

Pay attention to deviations from mainstream incentives

https://commoncog.com/pay-attention-to-deviations-from-mainstream-incentives/

4 years ago

Hacking the PS4 / PS5 Through the PS2 Emulator

https://cturt.github.io/mast1c0re.html

4 years ago

Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/13/step-on-it-walking-is-good-for-health-but-walking-faster-is-even-better-study-finds

4 years ago

The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-koh-i-noor-diamondand-why-british-wont-give-it-back-180964660/

4 years ago

Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker

https://wundergraph.com/blog/wunderbase_serverless_graphql_database_on_top_of_sqlite_firecracker_and_prisma

4 years ago

Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849922

4 years ago

A neurologist’s quest to solve Covid-related neurological disorders

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/october-2022/the-long-haul/

4 years ago

Some WFH employees now live in another country

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax4gw/some-wfh-employees-have-a-secret-they-now-live-in-another-country

4 years ago

I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the terminal

https://github.com/maxwell-bland/copilot-in-the-terminal

4 years ago

The elusive future of San Francisco’s fog

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/14/climate/san-francisco-fog.html

4 years ago

Chaos researchers can now predict perilous points of no return

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-algorithm-foresees-chaotic-tipping-points-20220915/

4 years ago

Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Management Platform

https://apisix.apache.org/blog/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is everything a SaaS product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32856779

4 years ago

Merge soon

https://ultrasound.money

4 years ago

The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it (2020)

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2020/07/28/the-definitive-guide-to-modulo-bias-and-how-to-avoid-it/

4 years ago

Joy of Elixir (2020)

https://joyofelixir.com/toc.html

4 years ago

Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election

https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/facebook-spied-on-private-messages-of-americans-who-questioned-2020-election/

4 years ago

TGV unveils high-speed trains of the future

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/tgv-m-next-generation-high-speed-train-france/index.html

4 years ago

Earth is now our only shareholder

https://www.patagonia.com/home/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Have tech salaries been stagnant for the past decade?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849258

4 years ago

Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/Important-Customer-Update-to-Okta-IP-Access-Policy?language=en_US

4 years ago

Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/09/12/why-do-domain-names-end-with-a-dot-/

4 years ago

Team led by Japanese researchers reveals best way to put crying baby to sleep

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220914/p2a/00m/0li/015000c

4 years ago

Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02947-7

4 years ago

Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/have-i-reached-the-douglas-adams-inflection-point-or-is-modern-tech-just-a-bit-rubbish/

4 years ago

Mortgage Rates Jump Above 6%, Putting Pressure on Housing Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/business/mortgage-rates.html

4 years ago

Twitter blocked our indie game account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849506

4 years ago

Cloud Spanner now with a free trial

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/spanner/try-cloud-spanner-databases

4 years ago

BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/blikvm-pcie-puts-computer-your-computer

4 years ago

DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps

https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex

4 years ago

Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1570306185391378434

4 years ago

Adobe acquires Figma

https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/

4 years ago

Building the Future of the Command Line

https://github.com/readme/featured/future-of-the-command-line

4 years ago

Apple.com Is Down

https://www.apple.com/

4 years ago

Ace Attorney's forgotten game shows strange place of fan localisations

https://www.eurogamer.net/ace-attorneys-forgotten-game-shows-the-strange-place-of-fan-localisations-within-fandom

4 years ago

Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000119312522244315/d380990dex991.htm

4 years ago

YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

https://9to5google.com/2022/09/15/youtube-ads-unskippable/

4 years ago