Hacker News TLDR

• Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
• Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements
• Building an internet-scale meme search engine
• Text to Speech: VALLE
• Text to Speech: Apple Books
• Text to Speech: This voice does not exist
• Gail dot com

• Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610
• Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802
• Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175
• Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669
• Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467
• Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728
• Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804832
• Gen Z never learned to read cursive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213
• Dark Sky shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817555

Queen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834

dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925

The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565

An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman

AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440

Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963

I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761930

Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746922

Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060

• Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
• Removal of Heroku free product plans
• Google Timer is back
• Design the next iPhone
• Shazam turns 20
• Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify 
• Fakery: Fake IMDB credits
• Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search
• Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery

Engineering Festivus

Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

Is there a spiritual successor to delicious

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Logistics

American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft

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Leave a Review @colinhacks @futurekennysf

• Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real 
• Dalle-2 Prompt Book 
• Part of my code makes Copilot crash 
• Robinhood lays off 23% of staff 
• Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding 
• MIT invents $4 solar desalination device 
• Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

Spotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092 

Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746

GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505

1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895

Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258

Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148

• Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
• The metaverse is bullshit
• The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
• The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
• Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline
• Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
• Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
• Backblaze S-1 IPO
• The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
• HashiCorp – S1 IPO
• Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
• Keith Rabois's Twitter
• Helion

This Word Does Not Exist

macOS Monterey

Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?

Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

Edward Snowden on Sam Altman's Worldcoin

Greatest single trade of all time

Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

Facebook Renames to Meta

MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV

Willingness to look stupid

Beyond Smart

Facebook chooses profits over people

Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

Haiti’s President Is Assassinated

Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder

Reddit.com weighs 1.39MB. Here’s what that costs around the globe

Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study

US companies hit by 'colossal' cyberattack

Copilot regurgitating quake code including sweary comments

GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright

Music for programming

No more movies

How to Work Hard

GitHub Copilot

Simple solar-powered desalination

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus YouTube Video

John McAfee Fled to Belize, But He Couldn't Escape Himself (2012)

JavaScript Is Weird

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

Google executives see cracks in their company's success

Brave Search beta

What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?

Disney will send you a copyright strike if you look like Loki

HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

Why I no longer contribute to Racket

Apology

What it’s like to be cancelled

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

Rethining TripleByte

Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring an ML Lead in Cambridge, MA

Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth

Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application

"Please don’t add any of my stuff to this project"

Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room

'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

Stripe Identity

Paul Graham’s Hype Cycle

Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop

HN “Why Not Simply” 

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies

Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead

A Project of One’s Own

iOS 15 Humane

United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines

Stripe Tax

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works

iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition

Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021

Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras

Beef Ransomware Followup

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Kinda a big announcement

Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop

Apple asks staff to return to office 3 day a week

Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study

California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed

America Has a Drinking Problem

One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack

GQless: A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration

W3.org cert expired

youtude-dl can no longer download age restricted videos

Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs

The media's lab leak fiasco

Paul Graham Article-Edit Tweet

Second-guessing the modern web (2020)

Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

OpenAI announces funding for startups

MDN Plus

Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

Collusion rings threaten the integrity of CS research

Launch HN: Fig - Autocomplete for the terminal

Stripe Payment Links

Upheaval at freenode

One week at Libera Chat

Amazon acquires MGM for $8.45B

Hosted by @colinhacks and @futurekennysf

Airbnb announces a big new update focused on flexibility

Sublime Text 4

Why I prefer making useless stuff

Gotta Serve Somebody

The Return of Fancy Tools

The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos

A URL Lengthener

I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack

TikTok Remix Culture

Vaccinated Americans can go without masks in most places, the CDC says

Tesla no longer accepting Bitcoin due to climate impact

$365B wiped off crypto markets after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin

Midair collision over Denver

Notion API in public beta

To understand Amazon, we must understand Jeff Bezos

NTSB: Crashed Tesla couldn't have been using Autopilot

Can I Email?

Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

Elon Musk Monologue - SNL

The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to

Crazy New Ideas

Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access

Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time

Andy Matuschak notetaking app

Apple deletes Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash"

Netflix's "Love is Blind" want unpaid photographer for five weddings

LiveLeak shuts down

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)

Berkshire Hathaway stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

Facebook's "Trump ban" "upheld" by "Oversight Board"

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

New book contends that Catch Me If You Can was mostly made up

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative

Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]

Internal Combustion Engine

The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits

An Update on the UMN Affair

Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views

Yayagram

Apple reports second quarter results

Mighty makes Google Chrome faster (round 2)

Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

Truly unified inbox—Blackberry got it right

GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

Dan Kaminsky has died

Michael Collins has died

Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

Changes at Basecamp

Nobody cares about your clean code

Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything

Red and blue functions are a good thing

What color is your function?

Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken

The USPS is running a covert program to monitor Americans' social media posts

Convicted UK Post Office workers have names cleared

Stranded sailor allowed to leave ship after 4 years

"Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me"

EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

The real reason to end the death penalty

Wildtype: Sushi grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells

Apple introduces the AirTag

M1 iMac

M1 iPad Pro

"They introduce kernel bugs on purpose"

Linux bans University of Minnesota

Unicode proposal for Textile Care symbols

List of pending emoji requests

Additional details on Tesla crash

The Hotdog web browser

How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?

A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors

Patriots' Day

Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?

Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving

Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

Show HN: Lofi Cafe

SQLite is the only database you will ever need in most cases

Coinbase from YC to IPO

Yamauchi No.10 family office

The value of downvoting, or how Hacker News gets it wrong

Higher quality audio makes you sound smarter

My simple GitHub project went viral

awesome-selfhosted

US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Marbles (2016)

My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

Update on beta testing payments in Signal

Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

How People Get Rich Now

Just Be Rich

Facebook takes down official page for French town of Bitche

CEO: Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months

Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment

RMS addresses the free software community

Technologies I thought my son would never use

Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance

Microsoft buys Nuance

Clubhouse data leak

Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago

Prince Philip has died

How Prince Philip created the Computer Misuse Act

W3C slaps down Google's "same-party cookies" proposal

Monkey MindPong

You don't need a GUI