top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-06-21

Maps distort how we see the world

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/maps-distort-how-we-see-the-world

2 years ago

685 upvotes – 326 comments

Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode

https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-dev-mode/

2 years ago

549 upvotes – 231 comments

Cookie Clicker saved my PhD

https://advaitsarkar.wordpress.com/2021/12/17/how-my-online-gaming-addiction-saved-my-phd/

2 years ago

417 upvotes – 142 comments

GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1671272883379908608

2 years ago

388 upvotes – 206 comments

Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/developer-tools-to-create-spatial-experiences-for-apple-vision-pro-now-available/

2 years ago

385 upvotes – 495 comments

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 247 comments

A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)

https://www.noulakaz.net/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 97 comments

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

https://lwn.net/Articles/935592/

2 years ago

357 upvotes – 322 comments

Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421483

2 years ago

342 upvotes – 214 comments

Go 1.21 Release Candidate

https://go.dev/blog/go1.21rc

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 225 comments

Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-swiss-fruit-company-change-logo-3336622/

2 years ago

328 upvotes – 181 comments

Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store

https://www.engadget.com/apples-union-busting-practices-violated-employee-rights-at-nyc-store-judge-rules-115036323.html

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 164 comments

Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google

https://post.news/@/noam/2RTRvTNNxSCQb3yNjqa0DPfr1Yk

2 years ago

304 upvotes – 209 comments

Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces

https://yotam.net/posts/linux-namespaces-are-a-poor-mans-plan9-namespaces/

2 years ago

304 upvotes – 304 comments

Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-duped-millions-consumers-into-enrolling-prime-ftc-2023-06-21/

2 years ago

299 upvotes – 134 comments

Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 201 comments

Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-deepfakes-disinformation-psychology/

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 512 comments

Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-fake-takedowns.html

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 149 comments

Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 84 comments

Textbooks are all you need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 106 comments
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