2022-07-30

Cool

• "F15" motor, to give a sense of scale: Here we have it, the first successful model rocket propulsive landing

Worthy

• Nobody Optimizes Happiness

  • HN comments

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• Himars mobile rocket launcher “virtual” teardown

• Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some want them gone - Los Angeles Times

  • Digital nomads take over Mexico City: “You're a fucking plague, locals hate you”

• US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

• Visiting Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town – Justin McElroy: journalist/ ranker of stuff

  • HN comments

• Scientists Are Perplexed by Mysterious Holes They Keep Finding on The Ocean Floor.

• Brisbane teenager built spyware allegedly used by domestic violence perpetrators

• Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

  • HN comments

• Meteor showers will light up the night sky this week

• Rocket headed for crash landing on Earth this weekend: ‘Cross your fingers’.

• CZ-5B R/B (ID 53240) | The Aerospace Corporation

  • 9a CDT, predicting impact at 12:24 CDT ± 1 hour in water, near Mexico, or Brazil

  • HN comments

  • AerospaceCorp Twitter thread

  • As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act?

  • SpaceTrackOrg

    Tracking and Impact Prediction (TIP) as of 2022-07-30 14:30:00Z for #CZ5B (#LongMarch 5B) (53240 / 2022-085B) shows projected re-entry at 2022-07-30 16:50:00 (UTC) +/- 31 minutes at approximate latitude -9.1, longitude 100.

  well out in pacific, about 1150a CDT.

• Toyota Tundra truck has 1M miles, owner let automaker study it

Horseshit

• Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit

  • Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for over a Year

• 'You can’t ban a genre of music’: NYC mayor and his son disagree over drill rap

• Ask HN: Is anyone satisfied with the future they are helping create?

• A Lawsuit Claims Skittles Are Unfit for Consumption. Experts Weigh In

• Nashville: Snitch City

celebrity gossip

• Like Bill Gates before him, Mark Zuckerberg is having a ‘Pearl Harbour’ moment

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A media-fueled social panic over unmarked graves

• Twitter Censors All Content From The Epoch Times

• Tell HN: Banned site-wide from Reddit for helping a fellow mod fight hate speech | Hacker News

• Blake Masters pushes immigration conspiracy theory

  • HN comments

• What is a recession? Wikipedia can't decide

• UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global 'War On Farmers': Experts | ZeroHedge

• "Dose makes the poison" comments saying they're writing to pre-empt "right wing concerns about the feminization of men": Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects | Hacker News

• Canada: Gun buyback: Full list of prices feds proposing to pay | CTV News

  "It will be mandatory for individuals to participate in the buyback program, have their assault-style firearms rendered inoperable at the government’s expense, or otherwise lawfully disposed," said Public Safety Canada in a statement.

Jan6

• Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts

• Capitol Police Use Of Force Reports Expose Unprovoked Brutality Against Jan. 6 Protesters | ZeroHedge

• Video Used To Charge Jan. 6 Defendant Exonerates Him On Charge Of Assaulting Police: Attorney | ZeroHedge

Musk

• Tesla to increase cost of FSD beta software beyond its $12,000 price tag

• Elon Musk blasts Wikipedia after it suspends edits of ‘recession’ page

• Elon Musk files countersuit under seal vs. Twitter over $44 bln deal

  • Elon Musk Countersues Twitter

• Twitter vs. Elon Musk trial to start October 17

• Elon Musk’s Antics Turn Owners and Would-Be Buyers Against Tesla

Gun control

• Harmless Guns- French 3D printer company sabotages printable firearms

  • [HN comments(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32280747)

Abortion

• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of abortion ruling.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Deaths from heart failure rise among young Americans.

• (2001) Someone's "I said this shit 20 years ago": Public health system has foot in mouth

• Senator Asks CDC To Clear Up Conflicting Statements On Vaccine Safety Research | ZeroHedge

• Study finds important differences in monkeypox symptoms between current and previous outbreaks.

• Kids Are Getting Monkeypox and It Could Make the Outbreak a Lot Worse

• U.S. officials say monkeypox can still be stopped

• Spain reports second monkeypox-related death in Europe

• Demand for monkeypox vaccine far outpaces supply. Officials fear spread will continue at Decadence.

• Political correctness helped turn monkeypox into a global emergency

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Instagram is going to start surveying some users about race

• Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than books of today

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta lost $2.8B on its virtual reality ambitions during Q2

TechSuck

• Intel - They are Who We Thought They Were - Share Donors

• The Microchip Era Is Giving Way to the Megachip Age

• Intel is absolutely definitely positively not cancelling its Arc graphics cards before they're even properly launched says Intel.

• Parallelising Huffman decoding and x86 disassembly by synchronising non-self-synchronising prefix codes | dougallj

  • HN comments

• China's SMIC Shipping 7nm Chips, Reportedly Copied TSMC's Tech

Crypto con games

• 75% of retailers plan to accept cryptocurrency payments within the next 2 years

• Stablecoins Do Not Deserve Special Treatment

• Tell HN: Kraken customers experiencing fund withdrawal issues

• Helium says its crypto mesh network is used by Lime and Salesforce – it isn’t

• Troubled Crypto Lender Babel Lost Big While Trading Client Funds

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How to Successfully Sell Your Used Goods Online: What Science Tells Us

• Amazon sheds record 99k employees after overstaffing warehouses

• AMD passes Intel in market cap

• The silver linings of a recession

• Intel Lost Nearly $500M in Brutal Second Quarter

• In a market badly out of kilter, many older residents are stuck in their homes

• RealNetworks agrees to deal to take the company private

• Consumer debt was heavily restricted in 1940s to curb inflation

  • HN comments

• Prime Health | No Mercy / No Malice

• U.S. Bank used customer data to create sham accounts to inflate sales numbers

• As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy

• What Happens If The Fed Doesn't Capitulate On Interest Rates? | ZeroHedge

• Disney as a reason for optimism: We’re probably in the early stages of a new bull market

Shortages

• Hershey warns it won’t be able to meet demand for Halloween candy.

• Baby Formula crisis starts getting WORSE as parents accuse Biden of forgetting about them | Daily Mail Online

  • Why is the baby formula crisis still getting worse?

• The US's biggest datacenter market is short on electricity

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman Move ‘Forward’ with Third Party

• The Inflation Reduction Act: Some Initial Thoughts

• Google moves to keep political campaign messages out of spam

• GOP officials refuse to certify primaries: “This is how Republicans are planning to steal elections” | Salon.com

  Republican election officials in at least three states have refused to certify primary votes, in a sign of things to come amid the party's baseless election fraud crusade.

Hunter

• The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop - Tablet Magazine

• There’s a Serious Problem With the DOJ Investigation Into Hunter Biden.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The US’s federal courts were reportedly hit by another data breach

  • US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

• Montgomery County to offer rebates for private security cameras

• ‘You Can Get Anything’: How SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft

  • HN comments

• Did this man spend 20 years in prison for murdering a man who is still alive?

• NJ police used baby DNA to investigate crimes, lawsuit claims

• Nicholas Roske Used Reddit and Discord To Plan Assassination of Kavanaugh And Potentially Two Other Justices

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• If US fighter jets escort Pelosi's plane into Taiwan, it is invasion

  • Instapundit comments

  • Kremlin Expresses "Solidarity" With China, Calls Pelosi Taiwan Visit A "Provocation"

  • China's Army Posts "Get Ready For War!" Message On Social Media, State Mouthpiece Says PLA Has "Right" To Intercept Pelosi's Plane

  • Pelosi’s Taiwan trip plan apparently confirmed by US lawmakers

• History of ‘yao guan’ shows US cannot laugh off China’s intentions

• Don't say we didn't warn you

• "Pure Lies": China Contradicts White House On Key Aspect Of Biden-Xi Call | ZeroHedge

• China to hold live-fire exercises in waters near Fujian, opposite Taiwan

• What if They Gave a War and Everybody Was Woke? - WSJ

• Air Force Includes Drag Show In Woke ‘Diversity’ Festival At Langley | The Daily Wire

• Biden is losing the plot on Russia sanctions. Russia made $100B in oil and gas

• US Quietly Tightens Grip on Exports of Chipmaking Gear to China

• Biden says burn pits killed his son. More than 261,000 veterans are sick

• Does Anyone Still Understand the ‘Security Dilemma’?

World

• Adrenaline-seeking firefighter started French wildfires, say prosecutors

• Althouse: "The Taliban’s brutality toward women in Afghanistan is a 'suffocating crackdown' that goes beyond the widely condemned bans on work and school to include..."

• Dutch farmers in a rage over emissions cuts.

• German cities impose cold showers and turn off lights amid Russian gas crisis

  • Gas Levy Could Triple Household Heating Bills In Germany

• German court rules bulldozing homes for coal is legal

• Shinzo Abe’s Assassin Succeeds in Exposing Japan’s Deep Ties with ‘Cult’

• Indonesia blocks Yahoo, PayPal, Steam, gaming websites over licence breaches

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• ‘A nerdy group of misfits’: the US company behind Ukraine’s ‘kamikaze’ drones

• Bellingcat investigator: “Putin wants his killers back” (US prisoner swap)

• Washington Post: Russian advances in Ukraine have stalled and the tide may be turning in Ukraine’s favor.

• Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm

• In the Russia-Ukraine war, drones are one of the most powerful weapons

• Kickstarter: Zelensky action figure

• How Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship

• Prior to invasion, Russian agents may have infiltrated Chernobyl nuclear site

Health / Medicine

• U.S. polio case tied to viruses detected in U.K., Israel

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Las Vegas declares emergency, with less than 50 days of clean water supply left

• “After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance”

  • HN comments

• Extreme heat, flash drought and more flash flooding are all on tap this weekend

• It’s Not Easy Being Green | History Today

  Brazil’s investment in sugar-ethanol transformed an important domestic agricultural product into a national energy option, but it also produced extensive environmental and social costs that the country still struggles to address today.

• America needs better charging networks

• Ignore the hype that the world is about to turn vegan

• Big Oil vs. the World