top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-04

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

https://www.axios.com/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-verdict-df20ad3f-95bd-400c-bf42-a379ade65c2c.html

4 years ago

The UX on this small child is terrible

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible

4 years ago

Burn My Windows

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

4 years ago

Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)

https://twitter.com/mAxius/status/1476968324672204801

4 years ago

Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

https://showcase.onlyrecipe.app/

4 years ago

Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790964

4 years ago

My Many Girlfriends

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends

4 years ago

Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372

4 years ago

The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust

https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-01-02-raytracing-with-rust/

4 years ago

No Way to Grow Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html

4 years ago

The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculation-machine-reveals-new-secrets/

4 years ago

A neuroscientist prepares for death

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/terminal-cancer-neuroscientist-prepares-death/621114/

4 years ago

ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory

https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/

4 years ago

How to mentor software engineers

https://xdg.me/mentor-engineers/

4 years ago

Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_fd19e94f8e88a1547eae044dae16dd28

4 years ago

Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/psilocybin-in-10mg-or-25mg-doses-has-no-short-or-long-term-detrimental-effects-in-healthy-people

4 years ago

How Video Streaming Processing Works

https://howvideo.works/#processing

4 years ago

Show HN: Meetup with other travelers in a new place

https://travelfriends.xyz

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800730

4 years ago

Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator

https://github.com/remote-android/redroid-doc

4 years ago

Porting Rust's Std to Rustix

https://blog.sunfishcode.online/port-std-to-rustix/

4 years ago

Show HN: A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc.

https://github.com/dzove855/Bash-web-server

4 years ago

Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations

https://sudhir.io/uuids-ulids

4 years ago

A New Future for GnuPG

https://gnupg.org/blog/20220102-a-new-future-for-gnupg.html

4 years ago

Upgrading Executable on the Fly

https://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#upgrade

4 years ago

Neural network from scratch

https://sirupsen.com/napkin/neural-net

4 years ago

Use spacer components instead of CSS margins (2020)

https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/margin/

4 years ago

Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability

https://pngquant.org/rust.html

4 years ago

DIY Onewheel – open-source self balancing skateboard

https://www.bytesizedengineering.com/projects/openwheel

4 years ago

Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

4 years ago

No code reviews by default

https://www.raycast.com/blog/no-code-reviews-by-default/

4 years ago

Ledger – the first peer-reviewed journal on blockchains and cryptocurrencies

https://ledger.pitt.edu/ojs/ledger

4 years ago

The weight of the clipboard

https://kinduff.com/2022/01/04/the-weight-of-the-clipboard/

4 years ago

Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1

https://billprin.com/2022/01/03/real-problems-web3-solves.html

4 years ago

Do not use 'week year': YYYY

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/2505

4 years ago

IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-02.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29793770

4 years ago

Faster IndexOf for Substrings in .NET

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/63285

4 years ago

Programming in 1987 versus Today

https://ovid.github.io/blog/programming-in-1987-versus-today.html

4 years ago

Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-is-debt-spelled-like-that

4 years ago

A First Lesson in Econometrics (1970) [pdf]

https://www.uibk.ac.at/econometrics/lit/siegfried_jpe_70.pdf

4 years ago

My Personal Note Taking Journey

https://phonetonote.com/blog/my-personal-note-taking-journey/

4 years ago

Wordle Is a Love Story

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html

4 years ago

The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer

https://rchaves.app/pragmatic-pragmatic-programmer/

4 years ago

SubSync: Subtitle Speech Synchronizer

https://subsync.online

4 years ago

Pg_cron

https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron

4 years ago

Where have you gone, Peter Norton? (2014)

https://www.technologizer.com/2014/06/05/where-have-you-gone-peter-norton/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Rise in AWS accounts getting hacked and owner being stuck with the bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29789417

4 years ago

IQ decline and Piaget: Does the rot start at the top? [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2017-flynn.pdf

4 years ago

AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Ryzen-6000-Pluton

4 years ago

Database character sets and collations explained – why utf8 is not UTF-8

https://www.hellodevops.blog/posts/database-character-sets-and-collations-explained/

4 years ago

How programmers make sure that their software is correct

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/01/03/how-programmers-make-sure-that-their-software-is-correct/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794007

4 years ago

A deleted subplot from “The Matrix” contradicts its sequels

https://textualvariations.substack.com/p/matrix-deleted-predecessor-plot

4 years ago

Updated MinIO NVMe Benchmarks: 2.6Tpbs on Get and 1.6 on Put

https://blog.min.io/nvme_benchmark/

4 years ago

Why Restaurants Are So Fucked – Part II

https://joelleparenteau.medium.com/why-restaurants-are-so-fucked-part-ii-d4549485fb6e

4 years ago

Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-outwit-hidden-number-conspiracy-20220103/

4 years ago

In Defense of Async: Function Colors Are Rusty

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/async-colors/

4 years ago

(Unofficial) Insider guide to tech interviews

https://bartwronski.com/2022/01/04/insider-guide-to-tech-interviews/

4 years ago

The lost art of recovery for healing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/we-need-to-respect-the-process-of-healing-a-gp-on-the-overlooked-art-of-recovery

4 years ago

NitroPhone 2/Pro with 4.5 years of software updates

https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2022/new-nitrophone-2pro-45-years-software-updates

4 years ago

The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar (2020)

https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_Jaguar/index.html

4 years ago

Intel claims new i9 is faster than M1 Max

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1517/intel-engineers-fastest-mobile-processor-ever-with-12th-gen

4 years ago

Leave Scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done (2020)

https://wagslane.dev/posts/leave-scrum-to-rugby/

4 years ago

How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood?

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/12/19/how-do-i-open-the-hood-to-a-mercedes-eqs/

4 years ago

Archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testament’s historical accuracy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeological-dig-reignites-debate-old-testament-historical-accuracy-180979011/

4 years ago

Tarot for Techies

https://witchcraft.computer

4 years ago

Suicidal and depressed 55 yr old ex radio announcer homeless

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790708

4 years ago

OpenBSD Based Challenge Day 3

https://write.as/adventures-in-bsd/openbsd-based-challenge-day-3

4 years ago