top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-08

Apple M1 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-unveils-m1-ultra-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-for-a-personal-computer/

4 years ago

The new silent majority: People who don't tweet

https://www.axios.com/political-polarization-twitter-cable-news-ac9699c6-260d-4141-b511-5c7193566ea1.html

4 years ago

Apple Mac Studio

https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/

4 years ago

I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

https://seema.page

4 years ago

Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

https://boredcaveman.xyz/post/0x2_static-torrent-website-p2p-queries.html

4 years ago

Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans

4 years ago

WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas

https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/

4 years ago

America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do we import crude?

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/america-produces-enough-oil-to-meet-its-needs-so-why-do-we-import-crude

4 years ago

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

4 years ago

Google to Acquire Mandiant

https://www.mandiant.com/company/press-release/mgc

4 years ago

Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

https://www.apple.com/studio-display/

4 years ago

Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux kernel

https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/iou-ring-exploiting-the-linux-kernel

4 years ago

New iPhone SE

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-announces-the-new-iphone-se-a-powerful-smartphone-in-an-iconic-design/

4 years ago

An Investigation of the Facts Behind Columbia's U.S. News Ranking

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation.html

4 years ago

One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions

https://earthly.dev/blog/see-state/

4 years ago

Venting doesn’t work

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/venting-makes-you-feel-worse-psychology-research.html

4 years ago

Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-response-war-ukraine

4 years ago

Inflation propagates unevenly

https://devonzuegel.com/post/inflation-propagates-unevenly

4 years ago

Solar Power/Batteries are 60% of planned new U.S. electric generation capacity

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51518

4 years ago

It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end

https://nautil.us/i-just-want-to-know-what-im-made-of-14367/

4 years ago

Interactively edit individual DCT blocks in any JPEG image in the browser

https://github.com/OmarShehata/jpeg-sandbox

4 years ago

Launch HN: Optery (YC W22) – Remove your personal info from the internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010

4 years ago

White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (2014)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24345178/

4 years ago

The most important thing to understand about queues (2016)

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2016/08/26/the-most-important-thing-to-understand-about-queues/

4 years ago

Spotify was down

https://www.spotify.com/us/

4 years ago

Prediction that Kyiv falls to Russian forces by April 2022 goes from 90% to 26%

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9939/kyiv-to-fall-to-russian-forces-by-april-2022/

4 years ago

Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C

https://github.com/alcover/buffet

4 years ago

M1 Ultra Geekbench Score

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/13330272

4 years ago

If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine

https://callrussia.org/

4 years ago

Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-wasnt-really-capable-as-an-engineer.html

4 years ago

A new speed milestone for Chrome

https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/a-new-speed-milestone-for-chrome.html

4 years ago

Twitter's new Tor onion service

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1501282223009542151

4 years ago

S.e.p.i.a. – Digital voice assistant

https://sepia-framework.github.io/

4 years ago

Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory

https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1500895234011680778

4 years ago

Transforming cities with superblocks

https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/test-84fa5e52-d305-4a2e-99de-1e775162b3c9

4 years ago

Deepfakes, can you spot them?

https://detectfakes.media.mit.edu/

4 years ago

How can we know if paid search advertising works?

https://causalinf.substack.com/p/how-can-we-know-if-paid-search-advertising

4 years ago

The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before

https://grsecurity.net/amd_branch_mispredictor_part_2_where_no_cpu_has_gone_before

4 years ago

Ford to Impose Non-Negotiable Pricing on EV Sales as Part of Model E Plan

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/ford-to-impose-non-negotiable-pricing-on-ev-sales-as-part-of-model-e-division-plan.15168/

4 years ago

C Package Manager

https://github.com/clibs/clib

4 years ago

A brief reflection on Mac software stagnation

http://morrick.me/archives/9508

4 years ago

QuickJS JavaScript Engine

https://bellard.org/quickjs/

4 years ago

Apple Event March 8, 2022

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/event-stream/

4 years ago

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013)

https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

4 years ago

Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

https://www.ft.com/content/9bb87474-49de-4ac1-92f0-cc291f789357

4 years ago

HTML comments work in JavaScript too

https://smitop.com/post/js-html-comments/

4 years ago

Charles Csuri, ‘Father of Computer Art,’ Dies at 99

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/charles-csuri-dead-1234621107/

4 years ago

AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals

https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol

4 years ago

Open Source Spectral warping wavetable synth

https://vital.audio/

4 years ago

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

http://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/

4 years ago

AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation

https://www.angellist.com/blog/100m-fundraise

4 years ago

Mathematicians discover the perfect way to multiply (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply-20190411/

4 years ago

Google purchasing and expanding its Warsaw office for $700M

https://9to5google.com/2022/03/07/google-warsaw-office/

4 years ago

Unraveling the JPEG (2019)

https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/

4 years ago

Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine

https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/statement-of-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-republic-of-poland-in-connection-with-the-statement-by-the-us-secretary-of-state-on-providing-airplanes-to-ukraine

4 years ago

Google Cloud to acquire Mandiant for $5.4B

https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2022-03-08-mgc

4 years ago

Advice on JSX Conditionals

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/01/17/jsx-conditionals/

4 years ago

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/

4 years ago

Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/98.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=97.0.1

4 years ago

Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30596404

4 years ago

Lyrics in ogg/vorbis and MP3 files

https://cweiske.de/tagebuch/embedded-lyrics.htm

4 years ago

Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation

https://thewalrus.ca/how-canada-accidentally-helped-crack-computer-translation/

4 years ago

Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application

https://www.fornjot.app/

4 years ago

The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/press-releases/coca-cola-company-suspends-business-russia

4 years ago

US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/03/08/destroyer-cant-deploy-because-co-wont-get-covid-vaccine-navy-says/

4 years ago

Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/internet-backbone-giant-lumen-shuns-ru/

4 years ago

How Kubernetes works under the hood with Docker Desktop

https://www.docker.com/blog/how-kubernetes-works-under-the-hood-with-docker-desktop/

4 years ago

Three Pillars of Reproducible Builds

https://fossa.com/blog/three-pillars-reproducible-builds/

4 years ago

The Hacker's Diet

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

4 years ago

What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCoQb-zqYDI

4 years ago

RT challenges EU ban at Europe's second top court

https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-eu-rt-idINL5N2VB5JK

4 years ago

Erotetics

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

4 years ago

UP9600: How to Bit-Bang 9600 Baud RS-232 on the C64

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1656

4 years ago

Putin may be planning to pummel Kyiv into submission

https://www.axios.com/battle-kyiv-urban-warfare-putin-invasion-ef4e50ab-4f07-4aba-be49-4ea2cf450a0c.html

4 years ago

Swedish PM rejects opposition calls to consider joining NATO

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/applying-join-nato-would-destabilize-security-situation-swedish-pm-says-2022-03-08/

4 years ago

I'm leaving Rails core and I'm not interested in being in the alumni

https://github.com/rails/website/pull/27

4 years ago

Still no consensus on testing private methods

https://jesseduffield.com/Testing-Private-Methods/

4 years ago

UN Climate change is so severe we're running out of time to adapt

https://www.axios.com/un-climate-change-ipcc-2022-053ce9eb-0ac4-4b2e-b8ef-554a92769c8b.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why do certain websites' images get smaller when I zoom in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600480

4 years ago

Zen and the Art of Reliability

https://zendesk.engineering/zen-and-the-art-of-reliability-f42fa7e64849

4 years ago

Show HN: I'm working on an open-source self-hostable GitHub Gist

https://drift.maxleiter.com/

4 years ago

Beijing is re-writing the Ukraine narrative

https://www.axios.com/beijings-ukraine-censorship-35a02a04-91b2-4efb-8a91-a9d111a2a3a0.html

4 years ago

New Mexico's governor signed a bill to make in-state college tuition-free

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/us/new-mexico-college-tuition-free-cec/index.html

4 years ago

MiniVNC Remote Desktop Server for Vintage Macintosh Computers

https://github.com/marciot/mac-minivnc

4 years ago

User reports indicate problems at Discord

https://downdetector.ca/status/discord/

4 years ago