top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-14

City Generator

https://watabou.github.io/city-generator/

4 years ago

1211 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329762

4 years ago

1147 upvotes – 466 comments

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-files-mermaid/

4 years ago

903 upvotes – 260 comments

A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/stay-in-touch

4 years ago

828 upvotes – 487 comments

Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339187

4 years ago

696 upvotes – 171 comments

Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333956

4 years ago

614 upvotes – 296 comments

Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

https://iradesign.io/

4 years ago

572 upvotes – 116 comments

Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335455

4 years ago

486 upvotes – 906 comments

Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/02/14/android-13-virtualization-lets-pixel-6-run-windows-11-linux-distributions/

4 years ago

471 upvotes – 259 comments

A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them

https://www.failscout.co

4 years ago

465 upvotes – 86 comments

Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-day-18-in-ottawa-noon-deadline-in-mayors-deal-with-convoy-pm-talking-to-premiers

4 years ago

426 upvotes – 1351 comments

MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

https://www.monolisa.dev

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 284 comments

Text Rendering Hates You (2019)

https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 153 comments

What to know about the stock market (2007)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/what-you-should-know-about-the-stock-market/

4 years ago

394 upvotes – 361 comments

Lets Get Arrested (2019)

https://github.com/hamukazu/lets-get-arrested

4 years ago

392 upvotes – 130 comments

Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 882 comments

Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later

https://www.julialang.org/blog/2022/02/10years/

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 142 comments

Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps

https://www.acm.nl/en/publications/acm-developing-new-app-unnecessary-and-unreasonable-condition-apple-imposes-dating-app-providers

4 years ago

280 upvotes – 325 comments

Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60369875

4 years ago

271 upvotes – 149 comments

Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337934

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 164 comments

How to manage software developers without micromanaging

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3649773/how-to-manage-software-developers-without-micromanaging.html

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 157 comments

Blockfi agrees to pay $100M in penalties and pursue registration

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-26

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 219 comments

Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_2/tpj0102-0001.html

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 106 comments

Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020)

https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 251 comments

Time to run or time to walk? Your body knows the answer

https://www.polar.com/blog/time-to-run-or-time-to-walk-your-body-knows-the-answer/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 91 comments

Facebook's African Sweatshop

https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/

4 years ago

208 upvotes – 162 comments

MikroTik authentication revealed

https://margin.re/blog/mikrotik-authentication-revealed.aspx

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 49 comments

Go’s Version Control History

https://research.swtch.com/govcs

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 38 comments

Crafting Interpreters – Web Version

https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 34 comments

Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/us/pedestrian-deaths-pandemic.html

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 329 comments

A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)

https://insidethemagic.net/2021/09/toy-story-2-saved-from-deletion-ks1/

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: Recent computer hacking convictions and employability?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332534

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 147 comments

UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

https://www.noplacetohide.org.uk/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 115 comments

20 Years of .NET

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 210 comments

The Go language's first commit (1972)

https://repography.com/blog/go-first-commit

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

Sonic Robo Blast 2: a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built on Doom

https://www.srb2.org/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 57 comments

Those writing extensively on note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6cFzJWgj9vZpnrQsjrZ8yCNREzCTgyFeVZTb?stackedNotes=z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQQeQWk4Dbc&stackedNotes=zUMFE66dxeweppDvgbNAb5hukXzXQu8ErVNv

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

On the Future of 12ft

https://12ft.io/the-future

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 103 comments

SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

https://github.com/vaporup/ssh-tools

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Huxley’s

https://quillette.com/2022/02/12/a-pleasure-to-burn-closer-to-bradburys-dystopia-than-orwells-or-huxleys/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 218 comments

U.S. posts $119B budget surplus in January; first in over 2 years

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-posts-119-billion-budget-surplus-january-first-over-2-years-2022-02-10/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 83 comments

Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”

https://twitter.com/atpCountry/status/1493103408462454787

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

The race to reconnect Tonga

https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/znpnejbjovl/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 27 comments

AI is changing chemical discovery

https://thegradient.pub/how-ai-is-changing-chemical-discovery/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

I Don't Like Smartphones (2016)

https://www.devever.net/~hl/smartphones

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.

https://www.jetadmin.io/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy

https://github.com/Yetangitu/Spodcast

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

Polaris Program

https://polarisprogram.com/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

American chestnut

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

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Andromeda Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game using HTML5, Canvas, Web Audio

https://github.com/susam/invaders

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Why do we round corners?

https://uxdesign.cc/why-do-we-round-corners-5145a90da6ed

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 110 comments

Penkesu Computer – A Homebrew Retro-style Laptop

http://penkesu.computer/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 32 comments

The harmful consequences of the robustness principle

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-05.html

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/i-was-an-amazon-staffer-i-finally-had-enough-when-my-wife-was-dying-and-i-was-told-to-perform-or-quit/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

How to make the internet small again

https://www.raptitude.com/2022/02/how-to-make-the-internet-small-again/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

How to write untestable code (2008)

https://testing.googleblog.com/2008/07/how-to-write-3v1l-untestable-code.html

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 80 comments

All cars could be fitted with black box trackers under new tax plans

https://www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/cars/all-cars-could-be-fitted-with-black-box-trackers-under-new-tax-plans-3567065

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 95 comments

Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand-president

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 71 comments

What Color Is Your Monad

https://patrickthebold.github.io/posts/what-color-is-your-monad/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

Dango Views Cheatsheets

https://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/4.0/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

The love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/wikipedia-high-five-too-slow-photos-mystery-couple-solved

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Launch HN: Fogbender (YC W22) – B2B support software designed for customer teams

https://fogbender.com

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Gaslighting Asian Americans About College Admissions

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/the-left-is-gaslighting-asian-americans-on-school-admissions.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

Upcoming Python features brought to you by Python Enhancement Proposals

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/67

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 79 comments

CLIPasso: Semantically-Aware Object Sketching

https://clipasso.github.io/clipasso/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Pokemon GAN

https://huggingface.co/spaces/autonomousvision/projected_gan

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

https://www.exoticsilicon.com/jay/reckless_guide_to_openbsd/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments
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