top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-25

Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384

4 years ago

Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ukraine-calls-hacker-underground-defend-against-russia-2022-02-24/

4 years ago

How I learned French in 12 months (2020)

https://runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html

4 years ago

Learn Rust by writing a small OS

https://os.phil-opp.com/

4 years ago

Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?

https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it

4 years ago

Understanding the War in Ukraine

https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/

4 years ago

You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough

https://www.treehugger.com/geothermal-drilling-technology-quaise-energy-5219924

4 years ago

Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/02/25/why-the-west-is-reluctant-to-deny-russian-banks-access-to-swift

4 years ago

Radiation spikes in Chernobyl

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1497156832170815516

4 years ago

On the removal of Come Back Alive

https://blog.patreon.com/on-the-removal-of-come-back-alive

4 years ago

Project Oberon

http://www.projectoberon.com

4 years ago

OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems

https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb

4 years ago

Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30473322

4 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30469036

4 years ago

The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/07/the-claimed-effect-size-is-about-a-zillion-times-higher-than-is-plausible/

4 years ago

A practical guide to securing Google Workspace for a startup

https://fleetdm.com/handbook/security#google-workspace-security

4 years ago

Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me

https://css-tricks.com/explain-the-first-10-lines-of-twitter-source-code/

4 years ago

Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml

4 years ago

Badger 2040 – Fast updating RP2040 based e-Ink badge

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040

4 years ago

Ink/Stitch

https://inkstitch.org/

4 years ago

Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/russia-limit-facebook-access-response-media-censorship-2022-02-25/

4 years ago

Don't Use RAR

https://group.miletic.net/en/blog/2022-02-24-dont-use-rar/

4 years ago

Curious lack of sprintf scaling

https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/02/25/Curious-lack-of-sprintf-scaling/

4 years ago

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI

4 years ago

An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script

https://blog.zazu.berlin/software/a-almost-perfect-rsync-over-ssh-backup-script.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of audio

https://erlj.notion.site/Neural-Instrument-Cloning-from-very-few-samples-2cf41d8b630842ee8c7eb55036a1bfd6

4 years ago

Announcing Actix Web v4.0

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/wiki/v4-Announcement

4 years ago

Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00047.html

4 years ago

The definitive guide that you never wanted: Backpack fabrics (2017)

https://pangolinswithpacks.com/the-definitive-guide-that-you-never-wanted-backpack-fabrics-566aa1567af9?gi=2b7021b17405

4 years ago

Effective teams don’t keep secrets

https://www.theadamthomas.com/effective-teams-dont-keep-secrets/

4 years ago

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022

https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/02/25/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2022.html

4 years ago

Breaking rainbow takes a weekend on a laptop

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/214

4 years ago

Zig build system internals

https://mitchellh.com/zig/build-internals

4 years ago

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/ml-pytorch-book.html

4 years ago

Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (1997)

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/row/rusav.htm

4 years ago

Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia warns

https://www.tbsnews.net/world/finland-or-sweden-joining-nato-would-spark-russian-response-russia-warns-376246

4 years ago

Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/fetch

4 years ago

Migra: Diff for PostgreSQL schemas

https://github.com/djrobstep/migra

4 years ago

Invasion could drive 5M Ukrainians to flee abroad – U.N

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/invasion-could-drive-5-million-ukrainians-flee-abroad-un-2022-02-25/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30471631

4 years ago

Belling the Cat

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

4 years ago

Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-drawings-to-life/

4 years ago

Piet-GPU Progress: Clipping

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2022/02/24/piet-gpu-clipping.html

4 years ago

All You Zombies

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

4 years ago

Facebook, Google other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-google-and-other-tech-firms-must-verify-identities-under-proposed-uk-law-112501065.html

4 years ago

Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-achieve-perfect-secrecy-with-imperfect-devices-20220225/

4 years ago

MuZero’s first step from research into the real world

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/MuZeros-first-step-from-research-into-the-real-world

4 years ago

Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists

https://harpers.org/archive/2022/03/cryptonomicon-bitcoin-maximalists-miami/

4 years ago

Factorio Friday Facts: Steam Deck, Ghost bugs, Docs improvements

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-368

4 years ago

Two new ways of extracting lithium from brine

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/two-new-ways-of-extracting-lithium-from-brine/21807823

4 years ago

Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native webhooks service

https://getconvoy.io

4 years ago

PyPI in a Box (2020)

https://vuyisile.com/pypi-in-a-box-using-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-portable-pypi-server/

4 years ago

ARJ Software

http://www.arjsoftware.com/

4 years ago

DIY Split Flap Display

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2022/01/09/diy-split-flap-display/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to keep tech running in the apocalypse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30471557

4 years ago

ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/3/258894-acm-ethics-and-corporate-behavior/fulltext

4 years ago