top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-16

US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years

https://www.engadget.com/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html

4 years ago

810 upvotes – 545 comments

EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9QES-FUAM

4 years ago

742 upvotes – 479 comments

Uber investigating breach of its computer systems

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/uber-hacking-breach.html

4 years ago

591 upvotes – 313 comments

GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-mining-is-now-unprofitable

4 years ago

520 upvotes – 548 comments

Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years

https://www.pcmag.com/news/heres-why-craigslist-still-looks-the-same-after-25-plus-years

4 years ago

492 upvotes – 329 comments

Figma Alternatives

https://stackdiary.com/figma-alternatives/

4 years ago

406 upvotes – 192 comments

35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx

https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32865428

4 years ago

348 upvotes – 621 comments

Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/

4 years ago

345 upvotes – 368 comments

Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CloudFlare-Pingora-No-Nginx

4 years ago

334 upvotes – 141 comments

Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32862713

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 314 comments

California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers being cheaper elsewhere

https://www.engadget.com/california-amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-prices-195937087.html

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 126 comments

From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

https://www.fast.ai/posts/part2-2022.html

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 34 comments

The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)

https://tomasp.net/commodore64/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 115 comments

Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-16/shopify-overhauls-compensation-rules-after-stock-s-75-plunge

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 269 comments

The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/15/the-movie-hackers-was-released-27-years-ago-today-hackers-popculture-movies/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 230 comments

Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864909

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 39 comments

Please don't be spooky

https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/dont-be-spooky/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 157 comments

EVGA will not carry new Nvidia GPUs

https://forums.evga.com/Official-Message-from-EVGA-Management-m3574574.aspx

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 4 comments

GitUI: Terminal UI for Git

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

4 years ago

★ 21.8k Rust MIT
187 upvotes – 90 comments

Mouse embryo with brain and beating heart created from stem cells

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/synthetic-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-created-by-uni-9271220/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 134 comments

Using WebTransport

https://web.dev/webtransport/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 117 comments

Foldscope: The Paper Microscope

https://foldscope.com/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 37 comments

I had a dream

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6718

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 30 comments

60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine

https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 296 comments

Best command-line-only video games (2019)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/best-command-line-only-video-games

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 86 comments

Reasons to be cheerful: 'GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge'

https://www.pcgamer.com/reasons-to-be-cheerful-gpu-mining-is-dead-less-than-24-hours-after-the-merge/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 2 comments

Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 128 comments

Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's news feed pushes tech support scams

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2022/09/microsoft-edges-news-feed-pushes-tech-support-scam

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

Flashbots

https://blog.bitmex.com/flashbots/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 63 comments

Confirmed the MOS 7600/7601 Pong chip is a true microcontroller

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/09/confirmed-mos-76007601-pong-chip-is.html

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 48 comments

TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

https://tinybase.org/guides/releases/#v2-0

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 63 comments

New Linux OS Scheduler Reduces Lag by Keeping Light Work on Fewer CPU Cores

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nest-linux-os-scheduler

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 25 comments

NaN Boxing (2020)

https://piotrduperas.com/posts/nan-boxing/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 62 comments

CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2022/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-Stop-Using-Male-to-Male-Extension-Cords-Sold-on-Amazon-com-Due-to-Electrocution-Fire-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Poisoning-Hazards

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 294 comments

Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser

https://webamp.org/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Reflio – Open-source affiliate program creator for SaaS

https://reflio.com

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 56 comments

Metaprogramming in Python

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-metaprogramming-python/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup

4 years ago

★ 262 Python GPL-3.0
120 upvotes – 140 comments

Not inside trading just 100% winning rate

https://twitter.com/Chrisjjosephs/status/1570491404153159680

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 49 comments

Stanley Druckenmiller warns the stock market will be ‘flat’ for an entire decade

https://fortune.com/2022/09/15/stanley-druckenmiller-investor-warns-stock-market-flat-decade-central-bank/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 249 comments

Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out

https://www.piratewires.com/p/are-race-based-firings-legal-twilios

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: A framework for building Slack bots in Python

https://github.com/DonDebonair/slack-machine

4 years ago

★ 770 Python MIT
114 upvotes – 40 comments

Philly pays $30K to two 'courtesy' tow victims, but class-action suit continues

https://www.inquirer.com/news/courtesy-tow-settlement-lawsuit-class-action-philadelphia-20220916.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 133 comments

Macwright.com redirects HN readers away

https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news.html

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 69 comments

McDonald's CEO sounds the alarm over crime in Chicago

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/business/mcdonalds-ceo-chicago-crime/index.html

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 191 comments

Food delivery robot rolls through LA crime scene as confused cops look on

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/15/food-delivery-robot-confuses-lapd-at-crime-scene/10387511002/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 60 comments

World’s longest journey by pumpkin boat

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pumpkin-boat-world-record-180980723/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

Datastream for BigQuery Preview

https://cloud.google.com/datastream-for-bigquery

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 43 comments

Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs

https://manishrjain.com/dgraph-labs-learnings

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

My Dad and Kurt Cobain

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/my-dad-and-kurt-cobain

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Anyone joined a company after contributing to their OSS projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32862672

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 62 comments

Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-paying-for-leg-lengthening-surgery-2022-9

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 207 comments

F4PGA: Open FPGA Tooling: Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40/ECP5, QuickLogic EOS S3

https://f4pga.org/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Britain and the US are poor societies with some rich people

https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

UHaul Data Breach

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864719

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

The Architecture of Musical Instruments

https://www.archiobjects.org/the-architecture-of-musical-instruments-in-the-photographs-of-charles-brooks/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

How to build a graph visualization engine

https://memgraph.com/blog/how-to-build-a-graph-visualization-engine-and-why-you-shouldnt

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Siting Bank Branches

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/why-is-that-bank-branch-there/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

The enduring mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s all-purpose noun (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphias-allpurpose-noun

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 133 comments

The Lost Art of Conversation (1899)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/flipbooks/reprints/The_Lost_Art_of_Conversation/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

The Magic of Rituals

https://nautil.us/the-real-magic-of-rituals-238960/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

sd – a cozy nest for your scripts

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/a-cozy-nest-for-your-scripts/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Egg Boxing

https://peterattiamd.com/egg-boxing/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864721

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/americas-secret-stealth-aircraft-youve-never-heard-of/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Goroutine-analyzer: A visual goroutine stack dump debugging tool

https://github.com/openziti/goroutine-analyzer

4 years ago

★ 141 Java Apache-2.0
73 upvotes – 9 comments

Reasons you aren't updating your personal site (2020)

https://brianlovin.com/writing/reasons-you-arent-updating-your-personal-site

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 72 comments

The Etherkiller and Friends (2002)

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Arm fills in some gaps and details in server chip roadmaps

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/14/arm-fills-in-some-gaps-and-details-in-server-chip-roadmaps/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Iranian Citizens Charged in Broad Hacking Campaign in US

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2022/09/16/685303.htm

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves

https://loganmarchione.com/2022/09/homelab-10-mini-rack-shelves/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors

https://quillette.com/2022/09/15/math-for-future-darwins/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 134 comments

Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool

https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

CoreML Benchmark for the iPhone 14 Pro

https://www.photoroom.com/tech/core-ml-performance-2022/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

FedEx warns of global recession, cutting forecast by half a billion dollars

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ff4e4129adb58992dd8af93f7f6b5163

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32871799

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 102 comments

How quickly do CPUs change clock speeds?

https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/09/15/how-quickly-do-cpus-change-clock-speeds/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

On eating out alone

https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/on-eating-alone/

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 98 comments

Peltier vs. compressor-based cooling (2019)

https://labincubators.net/blogs/blog/peltier-vs-compressor-based-cooling

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 82 comments
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