top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-10

“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”

https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-07/thai-cave-rescue-thailand-tham-luang-2018-diver-mikko-paasi

5 years ago

694 upvotes – 272 comments

Instagram Has Become SkyMall

https://clivethompson.medium.com/instagram-has-become-skymall-68b9f2fbbc30

5 years ago

652 upvotes – 328 comments

Against SQL

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 339 comments

25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-internet-router-pc-build/

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 347 comments

Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda

https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 84 comments

Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-05/solar-power-is-dirt-cheap-and-about-to-get-even-more-powerful

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 397 comments

Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager

https://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/2021-02-07%20Linux%20Audio%20is%20Dead

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 168 comments

Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use

https://fairuseify.ml

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 150 comments

Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 180 comments

What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)

https://www.blopig.com/blog/2020/12/casp14-what-google-deepminds-alphafold-2-really-achieved-and-what-it-means-for-protein-folding-biology-and-bioinformatics/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 118 comments

Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/09/data-infrastructure/ribbon-filter/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 40 comments

PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud

https://sosna.de/posts/pgaas-memory-overcommit/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 57 comments

AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net

https://tmdev.itch.io/aieyes

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 50 comments

FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval

https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-head-asks-for-investigation-into-aduhelm-drug-approval-2021-7

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 154 comments

No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/no-bids-over-70-indian-coal-mines-up-auction-2021-07-09/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 140 comments

80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics

https://twitter.com/eric_khun/status/1413724571765809152

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 143 comments

Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1779166

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 150 comments

Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (2019)

https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

Preschool children rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict

https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13612

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple Maps vs. Google Maps

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/06/19/apple-iphone-warning-switch-google-maps-to-apple-maps-after-chrome-and-gmail-backlash/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool

https://github.com/sstadick/hck

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 34 comments

Expressive Animator: free software vector animation and motion graphics editor

https://www.expressivesuite.com/products/expressive-animator.html

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 47 comments

A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 119 comments

Nicole gets a real computer – the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard (2020)

https://nicole.express/2020/nicole-gets-a-real-computer.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 20 comments

The Ink programming language

https://dotink.co/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 198 comments

HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser

https://www.httrack.com/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/09/death-valley-record-high-temperature/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 89 comments

Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210705-why-introverts-didnt-actually-win-lockdown

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 191 comments

EdgeDB: EdgeQL

https://website-atgsmhega-edgedb.vercel.app/docs/tutorial/queries

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 89 comments

The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives

https://micahcantor.xyz/blog/extension-developer-emails/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study

https://interestingengineering.com/lithium-from-seawater

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01893-0

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 95 comments

The global threat from plastic pollution

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6550/61

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbq7z/nasa-is-quietly-funding-a-hunt-for-alien-megastructures

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)

https://www.economist.com/business/2017/08/17/efficiency-eludes-the-construction-industry

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 133 comments

Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/04/28/rethinking-software-testing-perspectives-from-the-world-of-hardware/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210701-the-damaging-effects-of-boreout-at-work

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)

http://www.jtoy.net/blog/deep-reinforcement-learning-is-a-waste-of-time.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 113 comments

Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 133 comments

A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/a_bitter_pill_for_Microsoft_Copilot/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Unlimited, free intraday stock data API

https://www.styvio.com/home

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 100 comments

How safe is Colin Furze's tunnel?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/oh0vt0/how_safe_is_the_colin_furzes_tunnel/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 75 comments

The coupon code is a slap in the face (2013)

https://justinjackson.ca/the-coupon-code-is-a-slap-in-the-face

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Nanofiber membrane makes seawater drinkable in minutes

https://www.inceptivemind.com/nanofiber-membrane-makes-seawater-drinkable-minutes/19959/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Zygalski Sheets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygalski_sheets

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 1 comments

Cavalry – 2D Animation Software for Mac and Windows

https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Hottest Temperature Ever – A Crazy Year of Weather

https://peratonweather.com/blog/2021/7/9/715-am-hottest-temperature-ever-recorded-on-earth-took-place-on-july-10th-1913-in-death-valley-california-a-crazy-year-of-weather

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today

https://twitter.com/DrJeffMasters/status/1413662322896289794

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

AI Text-to-Speech models have accents too

https://blog.waleson.com/2021/07/text-to-speech-models-have-accents-too.html

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments
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