top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-02-27

Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes

https://justine.lol/lambda/

4 years ago

BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/britains-bp-says-exit-stake-russian-oil-giant-rosneft-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

New JSON query operators in SQLite 3.38.0

https://tirkarthi.github.io/programming/2022/02/26/sqlite-json-improvements.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30485544

4 years ago

Why not hire part-time developers?

https://aklos.substack.com/p/why-not-hire-part-time-developers

4 years ago

Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Global-chip-shortage-may-soon-turn-into-an-oversupply-crisis

4 years ago

Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)

https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-userland-abi-and-the-consequences/

4 years ago

Caltech's CS interview prep course

http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs11/material/interviews/

4 years ago

Open source alternatives to popular SaaS products

https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives

4 years ago

The road to success is paved with rejection letters

https://perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/the-road-to-success-is-paved-with-rejection-letters

4 years ago

Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research

https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq

4 years ago

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Feb 26, 2022

http://www.iswresearch.org/2022/02/russia-ukraine-warning-update-russian_26.html

4 years ago

Germany mulls extending nuclear plants' life-span

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-mulls-extending-nuclear-plants-life-span-economy-minister-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

Year 2038 problem is still alive and well

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2022/02/17/year-2038-problem/

4 years ago

Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-vote-against-apple-managements-pay-plan-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

iCloud+ custom email domains should be better

https://domlaut.com/icloud-custom-email-domains-should-be-better/

4 years ago

Computer Programming with Nim

https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html

4 years ago

AWS Lambda adds supports for .NET 6

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-the-net-6-runtime-for-aws-lambda/

4 years ago

Show HN: Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client

https://github.com/CamHenlin/MessagesForMacintosh

4 years ago

How IKEA tricks you into buying more stuff

https://thehustle.co/how-ikea-tricks-you-into-buying-more-stuff/

4 years ago

J. Kenji López-Alt says you’re cooking just fine

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/j-kenji-lopez-alt-says-youre-cooking-just-fine

4 years ago

Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain

https://ruoyusun.com/2022/02/27/zig-cc.html

4 years ago

Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/very-probable-that-swiss-will-freeze-russian-assets-president-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

Ukraine launches site to help families of captured and killed Russian soldiers

https://200rf.com

4 years ago

Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html

4 years ago

Germany commits €100B to defense spending

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724

4 years ago

Using Ansible and Nomad for a homelab (part 1)

https://blog.aleksic.dev/using-ansible-and-nomad-for-a-homelab-part-1

4 years ago

Practical guide to solving hard problems

https://praeclarum.org/2022/02/19/hard-problems.html

4 years ago

Intel gets worse, but Power11 might get better

https://www.talospace.com/2022/02/intel-gets-worse-but-power11-might-get.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492487

4 years ago

Tinder’s pricing algorithm can charge users up to 5x more for same service

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/new-research-tinders-opaque-unfair-pricing-algorithm-can-charge-users-up-to-five-times-more-for-same-service/

4 years ago

I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling

https://kevinkle.in/posts/2022-02-27-org_journal/

4 years ago

An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger/

4 years ago

Don't Write a Programming Language

https://write.as/loke/dont-write-a-programming-language

4 years ago

Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13

https://gist.github.com/gmurdocca/88857b58dc4668d88b0d0fae6ebf8b64

4 years ago

10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

https://torrentfreak.com/10-years-ago-the-feds-shut-down-megaupload-220120/

4 years ago

Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/26/cellphones-security-blankets/

4 years ago

Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine

https://bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

4 years ago

The Kalman filter: helping chickens cross the road

https://mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/2022/02/01/the-kalman-filter-helping-chickens-cross-the-road/

4 years ago

Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

4 years ago

Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (1965)

https://archive.org/details/TotalResistanceSwissArmyGuideToGuerrillaWarfareAndUnderground

4 years ago

Colors.lol (2020)

https://colors.lol/

4 years ago

Russia orders block on foreign clients' bids to sell Russian securities

https://www.reuters.com/business/russian-cbank-orders-block-foreign-clients-bids-sell-russian-securities-document-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

How to grow crystals at home with fertilizer

https://crystalverse.com/growing-crystals/

4 years ago

A professor who beat roulette

https://thehustle.co/professor-who-beat-roulette/

4 years ago

Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00556-y

4 years ago

Ukraine creating international territorial defense legion – Zelensky

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3414438-ukraine-creating-international-territorial-defense-legion-zelensky.html

4 years ago

The internet was designed with a narrow waist

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html

4 years ago

Ruby Fiber Scheduler

https://brunosutic.com/blog/ruby-fiber-scheduler

4 years ago

Colorado to become first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments

https://kdvr.com/news/local/colorado-to-become-first-state-to-accept-crypto-for-payments/

4 years ago

Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-implement-international-pact-access-shipping-straits-due-ukraine-war-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

Putin puts Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on alert

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550

4 years ago

Explanation of Bitcoin’s Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

https://suhailsaqan.medium.com/explanation-of-bitcoins-elliptic-curve-digital-signature-algorithm-6603f951863a

4 years ago

Show HN: TopHat Finance – free, open, and offline

https://athenodoros.github.io/TopHat/

4 years ago

Arctic Inuit, Native American adaptations to cold and body fat distribution

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/34/4/1021/3065792

4 years ago

More than 600 Russian scientists sign open letter against war with Ukraine

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-than-600-russian-scientists-sign-open-letter-against-war-with-ukraine/4015292.article

4 years ago

An-225 destruction image analysis

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/t2lnql/an225_destruction_image_analysis_seems_real/

4 years ago

Login with a Public Ed25519 Key

https://github.com/62726164/ed25519-login

4 years ago

I made a site to track Russian Military Radio Communications

https://russianwarchatter.info

4 years ago

States where teachers’ unions are strongest are slowest to get back to in-person

https://www.city-journal.org/strong-teachers-unions-mean-more-covid-restrictions

4 years ago

Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27

http://www.iswresearch.org/2022/02/russia-ukraine-warning-update-russian_27.html

4 years ago

Russia’s way of conducting urban warfare bodes ill for Kyiv

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/russias-way-of-conducting-urban-warfare-bodes-ill-for-kyiv

4 years ago

The Competitive Duality of Slay the Spire

https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srvds6

4 years ago

Req – An HTTP Scripting Language

https://andrewpillar.com/programming/2022/02/26/req-an-http-scripting-language/

4 years ago

$60 PC Oscilloscope Review

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/26/60-pc-oscilloscope-review/

4 years ago

Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

https://sliv.top/2022/02/26/top-sliv-vseh-voennosluzhashhih-vs-rf/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30489142

4 years ago

Longbet: By 2027, software will be metered/sold by the second

https://longbets.org/884/

4 years ago

Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03036-1

4 years ago

Thunderbird’s New Home (2020)

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

4 years ago

Help Ukraine: resources, how to help without money, more

https://helpukraine.simple.ink/

4 years ago

Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P

4 years ago

Dr. Seuss’ satirical lesson on nuclear armament and the absurdity of war (2016)

https://www.dailyfig.com/2016/08/15/dr-seuss-satrical-lesson-on-nuclear-armament-and-the-absurdity-of-war/

4 years ago

The dark secrets of Whopper Sacrifice (2009)

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-dark-secrets-of-whopper-sacrifice/

4 years ago

Liquorix Kernel

https://liquorix.net/

4 years ago

Tank Mouse: Wireless Amiga-inspired optical mouse

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lukas-remis/tank-mouse-your-new-amiga-mouse

4 years ago

GNU Guix package and system manager

https://guix.gnu.org/

4 years ago

Help me to bring my family from war

https://ferkad.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/help/

4 years ago

Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-demands-google-restore-access-its-media-youtube-channels-ukraine-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

Self Balancing Arduino Robot

https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/02/26/james-brutons-strange-bicycle-robot-self-balances-with-an-omni-wheel/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Kasparov's 2015 book should have been a must read for many

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488300

4 years ago

Dependency injection in Go with Uber-go/fx

https://vincent.composieux.fr/article/dependency-injection-in-go-with-uber-go-fx

4 years ago

An-225

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

4 years ago

Norway says its sovereign fund will divest from Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-says-its-sovereign-fund-will-divest-russia-2022-02-27/

4 years ago

Wuhan market was epicentre of pandemic’s start, studies suggest

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00584-8

4 years ago

How to make small tweaks to free software

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/799a4af4a9919c14c956272fe971b5d1

4 years ago

Crypto scams taking advantage of Ukraine conflict

https://blog.avast.com/crypto-scams-taking-advantage-of-ukraine-conflict-avast

4 years ago

An Ableton Live set is gzipped XML (2012)

http://crooked-hideout.blogspot.com/2012/01/ableton-live-set-is-gzipped-xml-ruby.html

4 years ago

Writing UTF-8 Programs in Plan 9

https://seh.dev/9runes/

4 years ago

Can you get pwned with CSS?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/can-you-get-pwned-with-css/

4 years ago

Metaphysics of Mapping Buildings

https://snufk.in/blog/mapping-buildings.html

4 years ago

Expremigen: Expressive MIDI Generation Library

https://github.com/shimpe/expremigen

4 years ago

First impressions of the Freenet network

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/freenet.html

4 years ago