top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-23

I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

https://telkins.dev/posts/how-i-shaved-187mb-off-uniteds-airlines-439mb-ios-app/

4 years ago

626 upvotes – 439 comments

The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220208-00/?p=106232

4 years ago

535 upvotes – 157 comments

Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

https://shop.simulavr.com/

4 years ago

463 upvotes – 396 comments

EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2022/698934/EPRS_BRI(2022)698934_EN.pdf

4 years ago

459 upvotes – 383 comments

Inside Pornhub

https://www.theverge.com/c/22925906/pornhub-mindgeek-content-moderation

4 years ago

382 upvotes – 404 comments

PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos

https://joinpeertube.org/

4 years ago

373 upvotes – 191 comments

FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-issues-notice-over-boeing-737s-5g-wireless-interference-2022-02-23/

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 384 comments

Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query any database via Postgres

https://hydras.io/

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 77 comments

Dwarf Fortress Steam Updates – Release Roadmap

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3099043827445055732

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike

https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=115176&p=1703136#p1703136

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 137 comments

Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

https://vancedapp.com/

4 years ago

290 upvotes – 346 comments

Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440123

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 261 comments

Subaru, Kia shut off some car features rather than adhere to 'right to repair'

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-world/some-car-features-shut-down-rather-than-adhere-to-right-to-repair-law/507-490590e2-aef7-4d1d-acc2-11414b48786d

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

https://supernotes.app/?ref=hn

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 164 comments

Ngrok Alternatives

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3

https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 114 comments

I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare

https://ersei.saggis.com/en/blog/im-sorry-everyone-cloudflare

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 206 comments

Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/23/support-open-source/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 64 comments

A Shader Trick

http://the-witness.net/news/2022/02/a-shader-trick/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

Radio Garden

http://radio.garden

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 34 comments

Intel acquires Linutronix

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Products-and-Solutions/Software/Intel-Acquires-Linutronix/post/1362692

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a web app playing them

https://telegie.com/v27/videos/GEWzFNgKbw6V

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 55 comments

“Sustainability with Rust” post misleading about Go

https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1496352325157457922

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 332 comments

What makes writing more readable?

https://pudding.cool/2022/02/plain/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 111 comments

The Rain System “contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition”

https://www.rain.aero/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 155 comments

FLAC 1.3.4

https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 162 comments

Is it time to remove reiserfs?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/2/20/89

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 244 comments

Cloudflare to acquire Area 1 Security for $162M

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-are-acquiring-area-1/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments

Moral injury can occur in many contexts and populations, including the workplace

https://hbr.org/2022/02/employees-are-sick-of-being-asked-to-make-moral-compromises

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 179 comments

No minimum parking requirements? No problem for Fayetteville, Arkansas

https://www.sightline.org/2022/02/22/no-minimum-parking-requirements-no-problem-for-fayetteville-arkansas/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 160 comments

Neptune OS: a WinNT personality of the seL4 microkernel

https://github.com/cl91/NeptuneOS

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

A guide to IPFS connectivity in web browsers

https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-06-10-guide-to-ipfs-connectivity-in-browsers/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 30 comments

sqlite-utils - CLI & Python utility functions for manipulating SQLite databases

https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/index.html

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 16 comments

U.S. Secret Service Launches Cryptocurrency Awareness Hub

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2022/02/us-secret-service-launches-cryptocurrency-awareness-hub

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 294 comments

Ledit: Simple, GPU-rendered, no bullshit text editor

https://github.com/liz3/ledit

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 76 comments

We changed our roof and cut CO2 emissions

http://www.martindaniel.co/roof/index.html

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 114 comments

How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink

https://schmud.de/posts/2021-12-01-eink.html

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 129 comments

Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC instead of Samsung

http://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=3852

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 75 comments

OK for Apple to Call Sagan 'Butt-Head Astronomer' (1994)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010720203253/http://idiot-dog.com/humor/butthead.html

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440486

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries

https://taras.glek.net/post/ebpf-mmap-page-fault-tracing/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Desperation-Induced Focus

https://rkg.blog/desperation-induced-focus.php

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Kissing in the Middle Ages

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/02/kissing-middle-ages/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Clear – Open-Source FPGA ASIC

https://groupgets.com/campaigns/1003-clear-the-open-source-fpga-asic-by-chipignite

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Exploring X11 windows and devices and emulating mouse movements and keystrokes

https://relational-pipes.globalcode.info/v_0/examples-x11-basics.xhtml

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 8 comments

Paranoid SQL Execution on Postgres

https://ardentperf.com/2021/07/06/paranoid-sql-execution-on-postgresql/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop

https://gizmodo.com/can-police-use-facial-recognition-scans-at-traffic-stop-1848581619

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 159 comments

Ask HN: Why don't more software projects use BitTorrent for downloads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436367

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Hathora – Multiplayer Game Development Made Easy

https://docs.hathora.dev/#/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

The prospects for 128 bit processors (1995)

https://yarchive.net/comp/128bit.html

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 99 comments

Ultra-introverts who live nocturnally

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/02/ultra-introverts-nocturnal-lives/622856/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

Is C++ Doomed?

https://tednesday.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/is-c-doomed/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 162 comments

Everything you need to know about monorepos

https://monorepo.tools/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Hide all mentions of Wordle in Hacker News feeds

https://gist.github.com/tucnak/746b115d497c5f53b3a064001c61dd45

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Car stolen with homemade GPS tracker in backseat

https://blues.io/blog/gps-asset-tracker-with-blues-wireless-and-react/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 81 comments

Atomic Habits of Desire

https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/atomic-habits-of-desire

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Scientists discover centuries-old Arctic creatures surviving on fossils

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbwxv/scientists-discover-centuries-old-arctic-creatures-surviving-on-fossils

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

RoarVM – The Manycore SqueakVM

https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EPA's Desire for EVs

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38975569/us-postal-service-mail-trucks-epa-electric/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 119 comments

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)

https://norvig.com/lispy.html

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Beam: Simple sharing across your organization

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-beam

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Parsing series of integers with SIMD (2018)

http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-parsing-int-sequences.html

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Bicycle Recommendations

https://www.lincolnquirk.com/2021/04/10/bikes.html

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 125 comments

Faculty hiring dominated by graduates of elite institutions

https://www.aaas.org/news/faculty-hiring-dominated-graduates-elite-institutions

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 64 comments

Optimize for Simplicity First

https://wagslane.dev/posts/optimize-for-simplicit-first/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

The Buf CLI, an all-in-one tool for Protobuf development, has reached v1.0

https://buf.build/blog/buf-cli-v1

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Google leaves TODO message at the top of basic HTML homepage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436450

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

French minister announces new plan for supporting open source

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-action-plan-open-source-french-administration

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

On Bloom's two sigma problem (2020)

https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Server Side Rendering at scale

https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2022/02/server-side-rendering-at-scale.html

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 64 comments

You are not your career/job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30438854

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Notes on software abstraction (2020)

https://oh4.co/site/on-abstraction.html

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

Life at Low Reynolds Number (1976) [pdf]

https://science.curie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Purcell_life_at_low_reynolds_number_1977.pdf

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Do Not Change Your Job

https://candost.blog/do-not-change-jobs/

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed

https://typefully.com/profile

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

The remake of 'Shadow of the Colossus': A technical perspective (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBZEZWGYek

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments
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