top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-01-15

Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence

4 years ago

1079 upvotes – 290 comments

Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt22015050/executive

4 years ago

876 upvotes – 204 comments

It’s not still the early days of blockchain

https://blog.mollywhite.net/its-not-still-the-early-days/

4 years ago

554 upvotes – 1054 comments

hiccupFX.js

https://hiccupfx.telnet.asia/

4 years ago

452 upvotes – 78 comments

Set up a practically free CDN

https://gist.github.com/charlesroper/f2da6152d6789fa6f25e9d194a42b889

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 149 comments

Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 82 comments

Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/

4 years ago

342 upvotes – 368 comments

Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/15/googles_facebook_advertising/

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43876/tesla-model-3-owner-discovers-car-was-delivered-missing-a-brake-pad

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 334 comments

The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-shameful-decline-of-scientific-american-a028b90d0bdd

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 235 comments

Open Infrastructure Map

https://openinframap.org/#2/26/12

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 45 comments

The Zen of Drinking Alone

https://drunkard.com/the-zen-of-drinking-alone/

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 266 comments

Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-19-skyrims-myth-of-the-treasure-fox-finally-explained

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 97 comments

GNU Radio

https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 68 comments

Exploiting IndexedDB API information leaks in Safari 15

https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/indexeddb-api-browser-vulnerability-safari-15/

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 92 comments

TinyBase: A JavaScript library for structured state

https://tinybase.org

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 75 comments

Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (2012)

http://blog.stephenwyattbush.com/2012/04/07/dad-and-the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 105 comments

Free book to master SSH tunneling concepts

https://github.com/opsdisk/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 25 comments

Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret (2015)

https://tonyortega.org/2015/06/13/google-helps-scientology-billionaire-bob-duggan-hide-a-dark-family-secret/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 41 comments

Portable replacement for a $60k VO2 Max machine

https://www.instructables.com/Accurate-VO2-Max-for-Zwift-and-Strava/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 106 comments

Who Uses To-Do Lists?

https://arunkprasad.com/log/who-uses-todo-lists/

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 200 comments

DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same

https://nofilmschool.com/canon-kills-dslr

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 319 comments

How to Be Useless

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-wander-free-and-easy-through-life-by-being-useless

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 125 comments

Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-01-05/html/sor-dors271-eng.html

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 36 comments

Self-replicating radiation-shield for deep-space exploration: Radiotrophic fungi

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.205534v6

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 83 comments

Python Communist Revolution

https://github.com/jokteur/python_communism

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 136 comments

The λ-Cube

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Functional_Programming/The_%CE%BB-cube

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 99 comments

Hellofresh employees' open salary initiative

https://hfsalary.org/

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 152 comments

Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-using-500-starlink-satellite-dishes-as-self-heating-beds-180979401/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 138 comments

United States Pirate Party

https://uspirates.org/faq/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 142 comments

Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/google-research-themes-from-2021-and.html

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 51 comments

Protocols that have not changed in the last 30 years

https://dmitryelj.medium.com/tired-of-the-modern-web-discover-some-retro-protocols-you-still-can-use-today-30bbca48d3f2

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 165 comments

Will you write HTML with us tomorrow?

http://html.energy/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 62 comments

Street Fighter II, Sound System Internals

https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_sound_system/index.html

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple complies with Dutch ruling, lets dating apps use other payment systems

https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/15/apple-complies-dutch-regulators-ruling-allowing-apps-use-payment-systems

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

Welcome to the land that no country wants: Bir Tawil (2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 78 comments

The Gates of Hell

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell-turkmenistan

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 65 comments

Safari 15 IndexedDB Leaks

https://safarileaks.com/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 29 comments

Build a weather station with Elixir and Nerves

https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Rome: Decline and Fall Pt 1: Words

https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-fall-part-i-words/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics

https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/francis-fukuyama-against-identity-politics

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 117 comments

Lisp Badge (2021)

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AEE

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 14 comments

“You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail

https://startupsandecon.substack.com/p/you-dont-own-web3-a-coinbase-curse

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

How to Read a Textbook (2003)

https://www.cuesta.edu/student/resources/ssc/study_guides/reading_comp/305_read_text.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Minimal Viable Programs – Joe Armstrong – Erlang and Other Stuff

https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viable-program.html

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Five Years a (Bootstrapped) Founder

https://www.outseta.com/posts/five-years-a-founder

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

The Gritty, Underground Network Bringing Japan’s Arcades to the US

https://www.wired.com/story/gritty-underground-network-bringing-japan-arcades-to-us/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 71 comments

SmallTalkUnix

http://thoughtstorms.info/view/SmallTalkUnix

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments

Attacks on Email Sender Authentication

https://www.blackhat.com/us-20/briefings/schedule/#you-have-no-idea-who-sent-that-email--attacks-on-email-sender-authentication-19902

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitter Home made me miserable

https://stitcher.io/blog/twitter-home-made-me-miserable

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments

5G is for sensing, not communication [pdf]

https://acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/20768974/sigg_et_al_VT_conf.pdf

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Linux from Scratch

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Quadrable: Multiversion DB – Sparse binary Merkle tree with partial-tree proofs

https://github.com/hoytech/quadrable

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Spinthariscopes

https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_12

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Internal Facebook Note: Here Is a “Psychological Trick” to Target Teens

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebooks-teens-tbh-psychological-trick-memo

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/15/trading-is-gambling-no-doubt-about-it-how-cryptocurrency-dealing-fuels-addiction

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

German police use coronavirus contact-tracing app to find witnesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/13/german-covid-contact-tracing-app-luca/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Cog resurgence

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202201/cog_resurgence.html

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Open Railway Map

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

The Medieval Queens Whose Daring, Murderous Reigns Were Quickly Forgotten

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-queens-daring-reigns-quickly-forgotten-180979246/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

A Call to Build Models Like We Build Open-Source Software

https://colinraffel.com/blog/a-call-to-build-models-like-we-build-open-source-software.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Curse of the Colonel

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

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments
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