top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-20

Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills

https://0xf00ff00f.github.io/rotator/

4 years ago

The fastest GIF does not exist

https://www.biphelps.com/blog/The-Fastest-GIF-Does-Not-Exist

4 years ago

Be anonymous

https://kg.dev/thoughts/be-anonymous

4 years ago

Things that used to be hard and are now easy

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/02/20/things-that-used-to-be-hard-and-are-now-easy/

4 years ago

Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes

http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2022/02/game-boy-wordle-how-to-compress-12972.html

4 years ago

Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India [audio]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/14-vijayanagara-the-last-emperors-of-south-india/id1449884495?i=1000551515692

4 years ago

Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do

https://probablydance.com/2022/02/19/reasons-why-babies-cry-in-the-first-three-months-how-to-tell-them-apart-and-what-to-do/

4 years ago

Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/02/20/websockets

4 years ago

Fengari – Lua for the Browser

https://fengari.io/

4 years ago

A pentester gets root - step by step example

https://kaizoku.dev/htb-devoops

4 years ago

My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

https://www.nathanlippi.com/blog/digital-dojo

4 years ago

Real Me and Fake Me

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n03/joe-dunthorne/diary

4 years ago

Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform

https://github.com/penpot/penpot

4 years ago

Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can do with less hype

https://lastweekin.ai/p/conscious-ai

4 years ago

Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/19/google-drive-users-stung-by-macos-dsstore-copyright-infringement-issue

4 years ago

Can you warm yourself with your mind?

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/can-you-warm-yourself-with-your-mind

4 years ago

Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters, corrupt politicians

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians

4 years ago

Microsoft YARP

https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy

4 years ago

The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

4 years ago

Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cardboardwm.html

4 years ago

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

https://theconversation.com/first-gene-therapy-for-tay-sachs-disease-successfully-given-to-two-children-176870

4 years ago

Compromising Angular via expired NPM publisher email domains

https://thehackerblog.com/zero-days-without-incident-compromising-angular-via-expired-npm-publisher-email-domains-7kZplW4x/

4 years ago

Push-ups with Python, mediapipe and OpenCV

https://aryanvij02.medium.com/push-ups-with-python-mediapipe-open-a544bd9b4351

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405011

4 years ago

Facebook/Meta asks: “Wouldn't it be nice to die?”

https://defector.com/facebook-meta-asks-wouldnt-it-be-nice-to-die/

4 years ago

Anime Photography in the Cel Era (2020)

https://alexswak.tumblr.com/post/630061631289835520/cel-anime-photography

4 years ago

Node.js Notebooks

https://github.com/DonJayamanne/typescript-notebook

4 years ago

Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-project-zero-finds-linux-developers-patch-security-holes-faster-than-anyone-else/

4 years ago

Get better sleep – Anecdata and sleep tech

https://www.adithyabalaji.com/productivity/2022/02/01/Sleep.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409523

4 years ago

Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)

https://www.xfive.co/blog/snowboarding-ultimate-guide/

4 years ago

My favorite essays of life advice (2020)

https://www.benkuhn.net/weeklyessays/

4 years ago

Scholars once feared that the book index would destroy reading

https://lithub.com/how-scholars-once-feared-that-the-book-index-would-destroy-reading/

4 years ago

Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drastic&hl=en&gl=US

4 years ago

How a Book Is Made – Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/books/how-a-book-is-made.html

4 years ago

x86 Is an Octal Machine (1995)

https://gist.github.com/seanjensengrey/f971c20d05d4d0efc0781f2f3c0353da

4 years ago

Sven Guckes Has Died

https://twitter.com/danielefrijia/status/1495522225218330624

4 years ago

Newcomer's Welcome Package: Thule Air Base, Greenland [pdf]

https://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/Plan%20My%20Move/Thule%20Information.pdf

4 years ago

Ontario government staffer fired after $100 donation to Ottawa convoy

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-government-staffer-out-of-a-job-after-100-donation-to-ottawa-blockade-others-under-scrutiny-1.5784390

4 years ago

Why learn Racket? A student's perspective

https://www.micahcantor.com/blog/why-learn-racket/

4 years ago

About adding a static route to my DOCSIS modem

https://blog.danman.eu/about-adding-a-static-route-to-my-docsis-modem/

4 years ago

How Does NTP (Network Time Protocol) Work?

https://sookocheff.com/post/time/how-does-ntp-work/

4 years ago

List of free cybersecurity services and tools from US CISA

https://www.cisa.gov/free-cybersecurity-services-and-tools

4 years ago

Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 1 (2016)

https://zmatt.net/unlocking-my-lenovo-laptop-part-1/

4 years ago

List of life-like cellular automata

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/List_of_Life-like_cellular_automata

4 years ago

More intuitive partial function application in Python

https://github.com/chrisgrimm/better_partial

4 years ago

‘Space cleaner’ satellite spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite/a-60658574

4 years ago

Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (2016)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12496

4 years ago

Grocery delivery “dark stores” in Amsterdam

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/grocery-delivery-dark-stores-in-amsterdam-have-residents-hopping-mad/

4 years ago

Simple passwordless authentication for web projects

https://matthewc.dev/projects/webdev/passwordless-auth/

4 years ago

MISP – open-source threat intelligence and sharing platform

https://www.misp-project.org/

4 years ago

Ten richest men have six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1B people

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-double-their-fortunes-pandemic-while-incomes-99-percent-humanity

4 years ago

Roman mosaic depicting feast found in Caesarea Germanicia in southeastern Turkey

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/late-roman-mosaic-depicting-feast-found.html

4 years ago

Lit-up fishing nets reduce catch of unwanted sharks, rays and squid: study

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lighted-fishing-nets-dramatically-reduce-shark-ray-and-squid-bycatch-180979597/

4 years ago

How to optimize the security, size and build speed of Docker images

https://www.augmentedmind.de/2022/02/20/optimize-docker-image-security/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How Is Your Neck?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403555

4 years ago

Official Response: Request to Freeze Canadian Edge Users’ Accounts

https://edge.app/blog/company-news/official-response-request-to-freeze-canadian-edge-users-accounts/

4 years ago

Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

4 years ago

A man who lived in a Singapore forest for 30 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60284352

4 years ago