top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-29

How Dwarf Fortress is built

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

5 years ago

The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

https://alexskra.com/blog/the-mermaid-is-taking-over-google-search-in-norway/

5 years ago

Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

https://i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4Hg99zw.jpg

5 years ago

Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale

5 years ago

Crafting Interpreters is available in print

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

5 years ago

Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html

5 years ago

“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1420807961518088194

5 years ago

Command line tools for productive programmers

https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/

5 years ago

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

5 years ago

Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/

5 years ago

Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22598747/kindle-3g-network-shutdown-e-readers-no-internet

5 years ago

Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it

http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google-is-in-on-it

5 years ago

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

5 years ago

Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database

https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300-000-personal-id-photos

5 years ago

FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot

5 years ago

Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/

5 years ago

UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application

https://ustaxes.org/start

5 years ago

The Playdate store is now open

https://shop.play.date/

5 years ago

One Tenth of a Second

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second

5 years ago

Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-remote-culture-war-has-begun

5 years ago

The Itanic Has Sunk

https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/

5 years ago

So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming

https://css-tricks.com/so-you-want-to-self-publish-books-and-courses-on-programming/

5 years ago

Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors

https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate

5 years ago

Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

https://github.com/syncfast/clockwise

5 years ago

Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13023

5 years ago

Low level is easy (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html

5 years ago

The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU

https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease

5 years ago

The fig is an ecological marvel

https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig

5 years ago

Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-209a

5 years ago

Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users

5 years ago

ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1420795248205312000

5 years ago

Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts

https://thewalrus.ca/smell-you-later-the-weird-science-of-how-sweat-attracts/

5 years ago

Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition

https://jacobian.org/2021/jul/8/appsec-pagnis/

5 years ago

M4 as a templating language (2020)

https://chrisman.github.io/9.html

5 years ago

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cal-newport-industrial-revolution-for-office-work/

5 years ago

You can be shy and still be a CEO

https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/how-thrilling-ceo-shilla-kim-parker-gets-it-done.html

5 years ago

M8.2 earthquake near Perryville, Alaska

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000f02w/executive

5 years ago

What the Heck is a Data Mesh?

https://cnr.sh/essays/what-the-heck-data-mesh

5 years ago

Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots

https://klarasystems.com/articles/lets-talk-openzfs-snapshots/

5 years ago

Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02065-w

5 years ago

US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/29/eviction-moratorium-expiration-renters

5 years ago

South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor

https://www.globallegalpost.com/news/south-africa-issues-worlds-first-patent-listing-ai-as-inventor-161068982

5 years ago

Announcing Vitess 11

https://vitess.io/blog/2021-07-27-announcing-vitess-11/

5 years ago

Rust Audio Development Forum

https://rust-audio.discourse.group/

5 years ago

Liveblocks: Add real‑time collaboration to your product in minutes

https://liveblocks.io/blog/introducing-liveblocks

5 years ago

Morloc: Foreign languages unified under common functional type system

https://github.com/morloc-project/morloc

5 years ago

Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver

https://blog.cri.epita.fr/post/2021-07-29-hunting-a-bug-in-the-i40e-intel-driver/

5 years ago

Renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48896

5 years ago

Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996057

5 years ago

Show HN: WASM and WebGL Fluid Simulation

https://birchlabs.co.uk/liquidfun-wasm/

5 years ago

On Geofoam

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/on-geofoam

5 years ago

Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/quest-2-4-million-units

5 years ago

Show HN: Notes.cx – A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown support

https://notes.cx/

5 years ago

Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-aws-support-for-internet-explorer-11-is-ending/

5 years ago

The weird world of Australian sea snakes

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/07/the-weird-world-of-australian-sea-snakes/

5 years ago

Swarm, the satellite connectivity company, debuts $499 evaluation kit

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/swarm-debuts-499-evaluation-kit-for-consumers-and-tinkerers/

5 years ago

CATL Unveils First Generation of Sodium-Ion Batteries

https://www.catl.com/en/news/665.html

5 years ago

Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency

5 years ago

A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12699

5 years ago

The Baked Data architectural pattern

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/

5 years ago

ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Gmy2s4Nmkw6VDv2B6b5K1DLYhPrTUqSntrlmYzJpNw/edit#

5 years ago