top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-15

Google Search Is Dying

https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

4 years ago

Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

https://ncwit.org/profile/lorinda-cherry/

4 years ago

Akamai to Acquire Linode

https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode

4 years ago

Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344989

4 years ago

Audiblegate

https://twitter.com/wdfpodcast/status/1492810241372741636

4 years ago

Building an iPod for 2022

https://ellie.wtf/ipod/

4 years ago

Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information

https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-tool-never-pixelation

4 years ago

My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash

https://sdomi.pl/weblog/15-witchcraft-minecraft-server-in-bash/

4 years ago

Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant

https://www.wsj.com/articles/woman-appears-cured-of-hiv-after-umbilical-cord-blood-transplant-11644945720

4 years ago

That wild Ask a Manager story

https://jacobian.org/2022/feb/14/that-wild-aam-story/

4 years ago

I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic

https://kg.dev/thoughts/i-love-you-hn-but-youre-toxic

4 years ago

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biofuels-emissions-idUSKBN2KJ1YU

4 years ago

Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands

https://www.windowscentral.com/pc-parts-vendor-newegg-has-bit-scandal-its-hands

4 years ago

Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201

4 years ago

My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story

https://jorisroovers.com/posts/my-smart-home-2021

4 years ago

DuckDuckGo \u202E

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u202e

4 years ago

No one cared about my spreadsheets

https://www.econlib.org/no-one-cared-about-my-spreadsheets/

4 years ago

Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html

4 years ago

Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344379

4 years ago

Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good

https://reproof.app/blog/notes-apps-help-us-forget

4 years ago

What are your company's anti-values?

https://willsewell.com/posts/2022-02-15-what-are-your-companys-anti-values.html

4 years ago

JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows

https://www.jdeploy.com

4 years ago

Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

4 years ago

Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow

https://thewalrus.ca/bitcoin-widow/

4 years ago

The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation

https://www.slowboring.com/p/misinformation-myth

4 years ago

Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019)

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-25/americans-are-retiring-to-vietnam-for-cheap-health-care-and-a-decent-living-standard

4 years ago

Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2024455119

4 years ago

Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

https://www.shortwave.com/blog/introducing-shortwave/

4 years ago

Starship is threatening NASA’s moon contractors

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/12/elon-musk-space-freaking-out-competitors-00008441

4 years ago

Google Release Chrome OS Flex

https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/

4 years ago

Networking of a turn-based game

https://longwelwind.net/blog/networking-turn-based-game/

4 years ago

Software defined USB port (Raspberry Pi pico RP2040)

https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico-PIO-USB

4 years ago

Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks

4 years ago

Belgium approves four-day week

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/15/belgium-approves-four-day-week-and-gives-employees-the-right-to-ignore-their-bosses

4 years ago

The Unbundling of Airflow

https://blog.fal.ai/the-unbundling-of-airflow-2/

4 years ago

Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/version-100-in-chrome-and-firefox/

4 years ago

NES 64 – Commodore 64 Kernal and Basic ROMs Ported to the NES

https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=23693

4 years ago

Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory (2019)

https://www.science.org/content/article/citizen-sleuths-exposed-pollution-century-old-michigan-factory-nationwide-implications

4 years ago

Tell HN: GitHub leaked names of private repos with pages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348980

4 years ago

Frawk: A fast, JITted, statically-typed AWK written in Rust

https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk

4 years ago

Going Big with TCP Packets

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/884104/89d8ccf8f52ad9dc/

4 years ago

An unsolicited streaming app spec

https://hypercritical.co/2022/02/15/streaming-apps

4 years ago

Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-file-system-update-sub-millisecond-read-latency/

4 years ago

A Review of Shader Languages

https://alain.xyz/blog/a-review-of-shader-languages

4 years ago

A Small Ode to the CRT

https://axio.ms/projects/2022/02/08/CRTBox.html

4 years ago

San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-police-linked-a-woman-to-a-crime-16918673.php

4 years ago

ML training compute has been doubling every 6 months since 2010

https://twitter.com/ohlennart/status/1493521176286609412

4 years ago

Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq

https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/02/15/delayed-job-vs-sidekiq-which-is-better.html

4 years ago

Against an increasingly user-hostile web (2017)

https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/

4 years ago

Bash Pitfalls

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

4 years ago

Show HN: StealthDrop – Anonymous crypto airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs

https://github.com/nalinbhardwaj/stealthdrop

4 years ago

I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020)

https://kevinbasset.medium.com/i-used-benfords-law-to-analyze-covid-19-in-113-countries-1a1194668069

4 years ago

Finality does not exist in payments

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/no-payments-are-final/

4 years ago

Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/announcing-netlify-graph-a-faster-way-for-teams-to-develop-web-apps-with-apis

4 years ago

Heavy Wears the Crown and the Kohinoor

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/heavy-wears-the-crown-and-the-kohinoor.html

4 years ago

I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home dir

https://ariadne.space/2022/02/04/how-i-wound-up-causing-a-major-outage-of-my-services-and-destroying-my-home-directory-by-accident/

4 years ago

Video Game Project Management Anti-Patterns [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06183

4 years ago

Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-places-two-page-advocacy-ad-in-the-new-york-times/

4 years ago

Assembly Four announces closure of sex-work-friendly social platform Switter

https://assemblyfour.com/switter-public-statement

4 years ago

The Beanie Baby Bubble of '99

https://thehustle.co/the-great-beanie-baby-bubble-of-99/

4 years ago

Dutch foundation seeks consumer damages over Apple, Google app payments

https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-foundation-seeks-consumer-damages-over-apple-google-app-payments-2022-02-15/

4 years ago