top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-03

Search engines and SEO spam

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901

4 years ago

592 upvotes – 534 comments

Lab Leak 2.0?

https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20

4 years ago

576 upvotes – 298 comments

The Demise of Scientific American

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202

4 years ago

563 upvotes – 413 comments

“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/[email protected]/

4 years ago

549 upvotes – 273 comments

Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language

https://coqui.ai/

4 years ago

513 upvotes – 112 comments

Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

https://github.com/tkellogg/dura

4 years ago

475 upvotes – 199 comments

Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done

https://fullstackeconomics.com/winnie-the-pooh-should-have-been-free-decades-ago/

4 years ago

418 upvotes – 376 comments

Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU

https://blog.willemmelching.nl/carhacking/2022/01/02/vw-part1/

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 165 comments

You don't need that CORS request

https://nickolinger.com/blog/2021-08-04-you-dont-need-that-cors-request/

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 243 comments

Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites

https://www.vantajs.com/

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 97 comments

Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 400 comments

Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch

https://ebiten.org/blog/native_compiling_for_nintendo_switch.html

4 years ago

361 upvotes – 42 comments

Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done

https://nick.comer.io/post/ios-shortcuts

4 years ago

356 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782099

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 759 comments

Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29781027

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 213 comments

Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778880

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 370 comments

Healthy soil is key to feeding the world

https://worldsensorium.com/healthy-soil-is-the-real-key-to-feeding-the-world/

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 165 comments

Jerrycan

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

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 155 comments

High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/economists-to-cattle-ranchers-stop

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 250 comments

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

4 years ago

258 upvotes – 75 comments

Hello, Youki

https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2021/12/27/youki_first_release/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 22 comments

Tips for making writing more fun

https://davnicwil.com/tips-for-making-writing-more-fun/

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 64 comments

Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8702434/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 275 comments

The Matrix looks dramatically different on Hulu versus on HBO Max

https://www.echevarria.io/blog/the-matrix-looks-different-hulu-hbo-max/index.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 167 comments

C Runtime Overhead (2015)

http://ryanhileman.info/posts/lib43

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: How do I manage the profit of a successful website?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779944

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 134 comments

Surviving the desert by building a motorcycle from a broken car? (2017)

https://historygarage.com/emile-leray-survived-the-desert-by-building-a-motorcycle-from-his-broken-car/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 136 comments

Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned

https://scanofthemonth.com/game-boy-original/

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 70 comments

NASM Assembly Language Tutorials

https://asmtutor.com/

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 40 comments

DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

https://dustinbrett.com

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 126 comments

How to grow green potassium ferrioxalate crystals from iron rust

https://crystalverse.com/potassium-ferrioxalate-crystals/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 34 comments

Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-altra-max-128-core-priced

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 211 comments

OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light

https://www.onebag.com/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 202 comments

Power, frequency, management: how M1 E cores win

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/03/power-frequency-management-how-m1-e-cores-win/

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

The World of Vintage Operating Systems

https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)

https://www.zillow.com/research/homelessness-rent-affordability-22247/

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 232 comments

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years

https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/#

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 24 comments

Tamriel Rebuilt Roadmap

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/content/tamriel-rebuilt-roadmap

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 54 comments

When WikiLeaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaoszone-409-when-wikileaks-bu

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 49 comments

Write Like You Code

https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/write-like-you-code

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 67 comments

GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining

https://lwn.net/Articles/880248/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

Sonic 3D: Director's Cut (2019)

https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D:_Director%27s_Cut

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 54 comments

AaronOS

https://aaronos.dev/AaronOS/aosBeta.php

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022)

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ethernet-switch-for-audiophiles

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 194 comments

Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever – except she was a fraud

https://paperpile.com/blog/elena-ceausescu-scientist-fraud/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 79 comments

How South Korean TV took over the world

https://theface.com/culture/korean-cinema-took-over-the-world-squid-game-dr-brain-hellbound-parasite-netflix

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 153 comments

Computers Built to Last

https://www.datagubbe.se/30yearcomp/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 54 comments

High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy and higher brain dysfunctions

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl6077

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 204 comments

The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/the-drenching-richness-of-andrei-tarkovsky

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

Treefrog: A code editor that uses both AST and text editing commands

https://treefrog-editor.com/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 78 comments

A not so gentle intro to web3

https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/web3

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 129 comments

Guide to Doing Radio Astronomy with RPi and SDR [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssS_zBQWDEXMENc2_aqqPGxGkEEU5Ea3/view

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)

http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 50 comments

Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-ryan-petersen-ceo-of-flexport

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

How to Write about Africa (2019)

https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 117 comments

Ten Lessons from Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/2021-jouppi.pdf

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 15 comments

YouTube and Twitter delete Joe Rogan interview with scientist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364679/YouTube-Twitter-delete-Joe-Rogan-interview-scientist-helped-invent-MRNA-vaccines.html

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782096

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 225 comments

Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03534

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals transition to open access

https://journals.aas.org/oa/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: How to take first steps to escape burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29776218

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 80 comments

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Dungeon Games

https://www.gwern.net/CYOA

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Picosnitch – a reliable and lightweight security/privacy tool for Linux

https://elesiuta.github.io/picosnitch/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

Leaving the company I co-founded

https://www.patjfin.com/blog/leaving-monaru

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

What do I do when my boss is sabotaging interviews?

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181787/what-do-i-do-when-my-boss-is-sabotaging-interviews

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 114 comments

RPi Pico: 100BASE-T with cheap ethernet PHY module

https://github.com/maximeborges/pico-rmii-ethernet

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Myopericarditis rates in young men after Covid-19 vaccine second dose [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268209v1.full.pdf

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 106 comments

Profiling Linkers

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/profiling-linkers

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 0 comments

Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications

https://github.com/babashka/obb

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Paper Railroad Wheels? (2016)

https://www.cupery.net/wheels.html

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

70 First Co-Founder Dates

https://abeclark.substack.com/p/70-first-co-founder-dates

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 85 comments

In 1953 a telco executive predicts the rise of smartphones and video calls

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13906656/a-bay-area-mans-1953-prophecy-predicted-smartphones-video-calls-and-apple-watches

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 74 comments

Unsupervised Brain Models

https://xcorr.net/2021/12/31/2021-in-review-unsupervised-brain-models/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 1 comments

Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

https://genuary.art/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer

http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments
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