top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-24

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-orders-military-operations-ukraine-demands-kyiv-forces-surrender-2022-02-24/

4 years ago

Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ukraine-war-flashes-neon-warning-lights-chips-2022-02-24/

4 years ago

Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/885941/01fdc39df2ecc25f/

4 years ago

Twitter based map of Russian troop movements

https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor

4 years ago

Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/americas-most-widely-consumed-cooking-oil-causes-genetic-changes-brain

4 years ago

Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chernobyl-power-plant-captured-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-official-2022-02-24/

4 years ago

As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place

https://twitter.com/jetbrains/status/1496786254494670851

4 years ago

A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters

https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1496861068945154056

4 years ago

Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

https://twitter.com/EstonianGovt/status/1496728085890273284

4 years ago

NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

https://newpipe.net/

4 years ago

Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament

https://www.axios.com/indian-chess-player-praggnanandhaa-16-beats-world-champion-bb300238-b7ec-436a-966b-68e50593a6d7.html

4 years ago

Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)

https://drewdevault.com/2021/06/27/You-cant-capture-the-nuance.html

4 years ago

AMD is now worth more than Intel

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-is-now-worth-more-than-rival-intel-111725905.html

4 years ago

Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00391-1

4 years ago

Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person

https://ktla.com/news/los-angeles-is-spending-up-to-837000-to-house-a-single-homeless-person/

4 years ago

Elevator.js (2015)

https://tholman.com/elevator.js/

4 years ago

PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide

https://gist.github.com/jcoleman/1e6ad1bf8de454c166da94b67537758b

4 years ago

One in three young people say they felt happier during lockdown

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-three-young-people-say-they-felt-happier-during-lockdown

4 years ago

Heroku was Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456688

4 years ago

Italy gets its first unicorn as Scalapay raises $497M from Tencent

https://sifted.eu/articles/italy-first-unicorn-scalapay-tencent-series-b/

4 years ago

World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-first-octopus-farm-stirs-ethical-debate-2022-02-23/

4 years ago

Graph Theory and Linear Algebra [pdf]

https://www.math.utah.edu/~gustafso/s2017/2270/projects-2017/dylanJohnson/Dylan%20Johnson%20Graph%20Theory%20and%20Linear%20Algebra.pdf

4 years ago

Rust 1.59.0 with inline assembly support etc.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/02/24/Rust-1.59.0.html

4 years ago

How old are democracies across the world?

https://ourworldindata.org/democracies-age

4 years ago

Here comes the first TikTok war

https://mikeelgan.substack.com/p/here-comes-the-worlds-first-tiktok

4 years ago

Vim – Minimal Setup Explained

https://www.guckes.net/vim/setup.html

4 years ago

SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.834808/full

4 years ago

An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376855

4 years ago

Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/

4 years ago

Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)

https://jless.io/

4 years ago

Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools

https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/02/23/rails-fiber-safe-connection-pools.html

4 years ago

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in Bash

https://lacker.io/math/2022/02/24/godels-incompleteness-in-bash.html

4 years ago

Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter

https://github.com/dahliaOS/pangolin_desktop

4 years ago

Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1496680828285460490

4 years ago

The time has come to replace file systems

https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file

4 years ago

The underground economy of solitary confinement

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/02/18/inside-the-underground-economy-of-solitary-confinement

4 years ago

Become a better data engineer on a shoestring (free resources)

https://www.dataengineering.academy/pipeline-data-engineering-academy-blog/learn-data-engineering-on-a-shoestring-free-courses

4 years ago

Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7292

4 years ago

An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/fish-fossils-show-asteroid-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-struck-in-the-spring/

4 years ago

Enforcement by Software

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/02/24/enforcement-by-software/

4 years ago

Dive into deep learning compilers

https://tvm.d2l.ai/

4 years ago

A Silly Usecase for WebSockets (strobe warning)

https://www.jakobmaier.at/projects/lamp/

4 years ago

PlanetScale increases plans to include billions of reads

https://planetscale.com/blog/increasing-planetscale-plan-limits-to-include-billions-of-reads

4 years ago

Stockfish.js

https://github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js

4 years ago

Explosions in Kiev and Kharkiv now [CNN]

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/index.html

4 years ago

Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How

https://www.activelylearn.com/post/metacognition

4 years ago

Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells

https://www.science.org/content/article/largest-bacterium-ever-discovered-has-unexpectedly-complex-cells

4 years ago

Emulator of Original Dell Charger Using ATTINY85

https://github.com/KivApple/dell-charger-emulator

4 years ago

A list of lightweight websites without bloat

https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites

4 years ago

Decentralizing Distribution

https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/decentralizing-distribution.html

4 years ago

The future is fungi

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2022/02/the-future-is-fungi/

4 years ago

Going multipath without Multipath TCP

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/multipath-without-mptcp

4 years ago

Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ukraine-was-betrayed-in-budapest-russia-vladimir-putin-us-uk-volodymyr-zelensky-nuclear-weapons-11645657263

4 years ago

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md

4 years ago

A six-fold improvement in the Merkle tree storage for Tezos

https://medium.com/tezedge/prevent-the-loss-of-baking-rewards-with-the-6-times-faster-and-more-stable-tezedge-context-storage-ade5714228b5

4 years ago

Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/spielman/sagt/

4 years ago

Show HN: Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges

https://supershields.io

4 years ago

Russia’s Putin announces military operation in Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-russia-moscow-kyiv-626a8c5ec22217bacb24ece60fac4fe1

4 years ago

Lithops

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

4 years ago

The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot (2020)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/the-chemistry-of-cold-brew-coffee-is-so-hot-right-now/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do you start researching for a project idea?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456235

4 years ago

We are hiring contract developers to build new features in PyPI

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2022/02/we-are-hiring-contract-developers-to.html

4 years ago

The punk strategy guide to the logical thinking process (2019)

https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-punk-strategy-guide-to-the-logical-thinking-process/

4 years ago

Live Updates: Putin Orders ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/23/world/russia-ukraine

4 years ago

Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-bandwidth users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30454852

4 years ago

Big tech makes a big bet: Offices are still the future

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/technology/big-tech-offices.html

4 years ago

Launch HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Automatically clean Jupyter notebooks using AI

https://mutable.ai/

4 years ago

Suddenly increased Gamma radiation in Ukraine?

https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#11/51.3463/30.1513/gamma/comp+cams+fire

4 years ago

Show HN: Snipd – AI podcast player to highlight and take notes with transcripts

https://www.snipd.com

4 years ago

Russia Declares War on Ukraine

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/23/russia-ukraine-invasion-crisis-update/6906567001/

4 years ago

The Future of Tun and Tap VPNs on macOS (2020)

https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html

4 years ago

Mastering Dyalog APL (2009) [pdf]

https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/documents/MasteringDyalogAPL.pdf

4 years ago

Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?

https://reallifemag.com/search-party/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How are you helping employees affected by the war in Ukraine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450365

4 years ago

Things the CSS spec folks got right

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/things-the-css-spec-folks-got-right/

4 years ago