2022-06-29

Cool

• X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment

etc

• Air Force X-37B Robotic Space Plane: Nearing Record Flight

  • HN comments

• Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

• A Boy Scout escaped Amtrak wreckage and comforted a dying truck driver

• Airbnb permanently bans parties and events around the world

• Controversy Continues over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

celebrity gossip

• Ghislaine Maxwell Receives 20 Years for Aiding Epstein in Sex Trafficking

  • Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To Prison In Spite Of Years Of Faithful Service To Nation’s Leaders

  • Where Are The Men Who Should Be Held to Account?

• R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• I saw first-hand how US tech giants seduced the EU – and undermined democracy

• Twitter needs to start exposing the UK's murky online propaganda

• Reports of Disinformation Campaign Against Rare Earth Processing Facilities

  • Pro-China Agents Posed as Activists to Protest US, Canada Mines

  • China is trolling rare-earth miners online and The Pentagon isn't happy

• Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden - Schneier on Security

• A New Unit of Measure for Civil Unrest

Jan6

• FBI Raids Home Of Retired Texas Couple Who Attended Jan. 6 Capitol Rally

• "Trump never lunged for the steering wheel"

• Dramatic testimony sheds damning light on Donald Trump’s actions on January 6

• "Bullshit": Claim Trump "Lunged" For Steering Wheel On Jan 6 Discredited By Secret Service

• Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Gun Owners’ Private Information Leaked by California Attorney General | Hacker News

• Bad things are still happening in Uvalde – HotAir

  This might be seen as rather low-level harassment, but the cops do appear to be sending a message. Don’t talk to reporters or you might become “a person of interest” and fall under additional scrutiny. It’s difficult not to wonder how many other people have received similar “warnings” and not told their stories from the day of the shooting.

Abortion

• Amazon limits Plan B purchases after demand spike

• Facebook removed posts on abortion pills even when they didn’t break any rules

• Here's your daily reminder that you can threaten SCOTUS justices but The Babylon Bee has been banned since March for misgendering someone | Not the Bee

• Facebook and Instagram removing posts with mentions of abortion pills

• The post-Roe data privacy nightmare is way bigger than period tracking apps

• George Washington Can Be Proud

• You scheduled an abortion. Planned Parenthood’s website could tell Facebook

• The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world

• White House Forced To Dismiss Idea Of Abortion Tents In National Parks

• The newest content moderation minefield for tech platforms: abortion posts

Musk

• Elon Musk abruptly stopped tweeting 8 days ago, and no one knows why

  • HN comments

• Elon Stops Tweeting

• Tesla is cutting about 200 Autopilot jobs and closing office in San Mateo

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Persistent circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike is associated with post-acute Covid-19

• FDA panel recommends changing Covid shots to fight omicron this fall

• Top NY Doctor: New Covid Wave Is Starting, with the ‘Worst Version' of Omicron

• As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Plans a Vaccination Campaign

• What causes long Covid? Canadian researchers think they’ve found a key clue

• Frequency of Neurological Diseases After Covid-19, Influenza and Pneumonia

• 14,000 Army Guard Troops Could Be Axed Thursday for Refusing COVID Vax.

• Covid Vaccines and Infertility – Why are birth rates plummeting

• China's Xi Says Covid Strategy Is 'Correct and Effective'

• EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO

• Fall Will Be a Vaccination Reboot

• You Could Have Long Covid and Not Even Know It

• Fauci Suffers "Much Worse" COVID Symptoms After 'Paxlovid Rebound'

• Do mask mandates work? Bay Area Covid data from June says no

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Trans woman, 29, sparks backlash after beating girl, 13, to win NYC women’s skateboarding contest.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn

  • HN comments

• Pinterest CEO Is Stepping Down, Google Commerce Executive to Take Top Job

• FCC commissioner tells Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores

  • FCC Commissioner Urges Google and Apple to Ban TikTok

  • FCC commissioner pushes Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores

• Meta sparks anger by charging for VR apps

• Why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things

• Snap Announces Snapchat+ Subscription

TechSuck

• A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware

• TikTok Quietly Updated Privacy Policy to Collect Faceprints and Voiceprints

• History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms

• Nvidia In The Hot Seat? - by Dylan Patel - SemiAnalysis

Crypto con games

• Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those with Money Will End Up Being Fine’

• Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital plunges into liquidation

• Behind the Celsius Sales Pitch Was a Crypto Firm Built on Risk

• Bitcoin Dips Below $20k with Fundstrat Eyeing ‘Final Washout’

• Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests

• ‘Axie Infinity’ is back open for business following $625M hack

• Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital plunges into liquidation

• Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs

• Crypto feels the shockwaves from its own ‘credit crisis’

• Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity

• Crypto Loves Its Shadow Banks

• Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Ordered by Court to Liquidate

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Backstage Capital, firm backing diverse founders, has laid off 75% of its staff

• Meta, Intel, Announce Hiring Freezes

• More Than 8M Americans Are Late on Rent as Prices Increase

• Home Sellers Are Getting Anxious. ‘They Feel Like They Missed Height of Market.’

• Ask HN: Has your total compensation drastically changed with the stock downturn?

• Job cuts are rolling in. Here's who is feeling the most pain so far

• Big Tech: bloated overheads mean earnings risk ahead

• The housing market's next big crisis: too many homes

• Bed Bath & Beyond turning off AC in stores to save money.

• Ford’s Talk of New EV-Selling Rules Rattles Some Dealers

• Is inflation 8.6% or 6.5%? Yes

• Michael Burry: Tesla layoffs an ominous sign for white-collar workers

• Study: Nearly one in five Amazon drivers suffered injuries in 2021

• Substack is laying off 14% of its staff

Shortages

• Chip shortages result in record wire fraud reports by desperate buyers

• Doctors urge caution over tampon shortage: Avoid DIY products.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Cancelling Student Debt Is Unforgivable

• Rising interest rates will shackle the government – unless Congress acts

Hunter

• Joe Biden Covered Hunter's Russia-Linked Hooker Tab; Leaked Audio Proves Joe Spoke Of Dealings

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 50 Migrants dead after being found inside sweltering semitruck in San Antonio

• FTC Sues Walmart for Facilitating Money Transfer Fraud

• FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs | Hacker News

• What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike? - by Scott Alexander

  I think there’s clear evidence that the current murder spike was caused primarily by the 2020 BLM protests. The timing matches the protests well, and the pandemic poorly. The spike is concentrated in black communities and not in any of the other communities affected by the pandemic. It matches homicide spikes corresponding to other anti-police protests, most notably in the cities where those protests happened but to a lesser degree around the country. And the spike seems limited to the US, while other countries had basically stable murder rates over the same period. I understand this is the opposite of what lots of other people are saying, but I think they are wrong.

  • HN comments

• SCOTUS Returns Oklahoma’s Right To Prosecute Crimes On Native American Land

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• 'Russian Salad' on the menu at NATO summit cafe in Madrid raises eyebrows

  • HN comments

• Biden must rally against a Russia-led UN ‘cybercrime treaty’

World

• Turkey clears way for Finland, Sweden to join NATO – Stoltenberg

  • Finland, Sweden on path to NATO membership as Turkey drops veto

  • Turkey Agrees To Back Finland, Sweden NATO Bid - US Claims It Offered 'No Concessions'

  • NATO Madrid Summit Declaration

  • NATO formally invites Finland and Sweden to join the alliance

• China’s Killer Doctors: Donors Killed by Organ Removal

• India state on alert after Prophet Muhammad row beheading

• Europe sees China through a Russian lens, and Beijing is not happy

Health / Medicine

• Cerebral leaked documents show hundreds of patients were harmed

• We got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way

• It’s Probably Not Lithium - LessWrong

  People eat about 2 kg of food per day.

• Pulse oximeter less accurate in non-white patients, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Sprawl in America “is not good for our climate” says Barack Obama

• Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought

  • HN comments

• Extreme temperatures in major Latin American cities could be linked to 1M deaths

• Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge’

Ukraine War

• Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory

• Putin Travels To Friendly Central Asian Countries In 1st Trip Abroad Since War Began

• What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine?