top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-09

Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3F9OtH2Xx4

4 years ago

Some tiny personal programs I've written

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/08/tiny-programs/

4 years ago

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes

4 years ago

Blender 3.1

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-1/

4 years ago

Bugs in Hello World

https://blog.sunfishcode.online/bugs-in-hello-world/

4 years ago

Twitter is now available on Tor

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-supported-browsers

4 years ago

China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war

https://www.axios.com/chinas-state-media-meta-facebook-ads-russia-623763df-c5fb-46e4-a6a8-36b607e1b672.html

4 years ago

Man given genetically modified pig heart dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60681493

4 years ago

Elementary OS is imploding

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding

4 years ago

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (2019)

https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx

4 years ago

Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/us-lawmakers-seek-criminal-probe-of-amazon-for-lying-about-use-of-seller-data/

4 years ago

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60662541

4 years ago

Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30617118

4 years ago

Barcode Detection API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Detection_API

4 years ago

Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL

https://supabase.com/blog/2022/03/08/audit

4 years ago

Python built-ins worth learning (2019)

https://treyhunner.com/2019/05/python-builtins-worth-learning/

4 years ago

PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/03/08/pipewire-a-year-in-review-look-ahead/

4 years ago

Play Half-Life in the Browser

https://icrazyblaze.github.io/Xash3D-Emscripten/xash-intro.html

4 years ago

Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia

https://news.uga.edu/joro-spiders-likely-to-spread-beyond-georgia/

4 years ago

TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/phone-home-ddos-attack-vector

4 years ago

Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

https://atlantic.money

4 years ago

My next main browser: a review of Orion

http://morrick.me/archives/9500

4 years ago

Why tensors? A beginner's perspective

https://mfaizan.github.io/2022/03/08/why-tensors.html

4 years ago

Ukraine warns Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered power outage

https://www.axios.com/ukraine-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-power-russia-f47aff98-0e23-4b2a-8119-4bf025afb105.html

4 years ago

Accurate Image Alignment and Registration Using OpenCV

https://magamig.github.io/posts/accurate-image-alignment-and-registration-using-opencv/

4 years ago

Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Pilot-FriXion-Erasable-Pens-A-Comprehensive-Guide/pt/670

4 years ago

AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues

https://health.aws.amazon.com/phd/status

4 years ago

A Proposal for Type Syntax in JavaScript

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a-proposal-for-type-syntax-in-javascript/

4 years ago

An unexpected Redis sandbox escape affecting Debian-based distros

https://www.ubercomp.com/posts/2022-01-20_redis_on_debian_rce

4 years ago

GJK: Collision detection algorithm in 2D/3D

https://blog.winter.dev/2020/gjk-algorithm/

4 years ago

Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210712102218.htm

4 years ago

Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615411

4 years ago

Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02918-5

4 years ago

Roskomsvoboda statement on foreign companies’ sanctions against Russians [pdf]

https://github.com/e-oz/files/blob/main/statement_of_roskomsvoboda_team.pdf

4 years ago

Booting ARM Linux the standard way

https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/

4 years ago

Four years on, new experiment sees no sign of ‘cosmic dawn’

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-new-experiment-astronomers-see-no-sign-of-cosmic-dawn-20220228/

4 years ago

Could cancer cells’ iron addiction be their Achilles heel?

https://www.technologynetworks.com/cancer-research/news/could-cancer-cells-iron-addiction-be-their-achilles-heel-359413

4 years ago

The Lie That Made Me

https://torontolife.com/memoir/the-horrifying-truth-about-my-biological-father/

4 years ago

The CSV Virtual Table

https://www.sqlite.org/csv.html

4 years ago

I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

https://vaghetti.dev/posts/macs/

4 years ago

Show HN: 2D Game engine and editor for Windows and Linux

https://github.com/ensisoft/gamestudio

4 years ago

The long strange trip to Java (1996)

http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html

4 years ago

China to provide 5 mln yuan worth of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-provide-5-mln-yuan-worth-humanitarian-assistance-ukraine-2022-03-09/

4 years ago

Launch HN: Rownd (YC W22) – Add authentication and accounts to any website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615352

4 years ago

Apple turns monitor height adjustment into a $400 upsell

https://www.engadget.com/apples-400-height-adjustable-studio-display-stand-is-a-relative-bargain-222714407.html

4 years ago

Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-physicists-chemical-reactions-magnetic-fields.html

4 years ago

US scientist falsely accused of hiding ties to China speaks out

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00528-2

4 years ago

Sending notifications programmatically: let me count the ways

https://www.trickster.dev/post/sending-notifications-programmatically/

4 years ago

Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard

https://www.righto.com/2022/03/reverse-engineering-waveform-generator.html

4 years ago

Incident at Slack

https://status.slack.com/2022-03/8a9e98bfaa32ef5f

4 years ago

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437

4 years ago

Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing parts of the app

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/03/freeing-up-60-of-storage-for-apps.html

4 years ago

A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type

https://www.zhenghao.io/posts/ts-never

4 years ago

How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-much-did-vhs-tapes-cost-in-the-80s/

4 years ago

Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language? (2020)

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/3/258915-here-we-go-again/fulltext

4 years ago

The Advantage of No Funding (2011)

https://sive.rs/nofund

4 years ago

The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/02/ride-sharing-designated-driver-alcohol-effects-uber-lyft.html

4 years ago

Lootboxes in FIFA now allowed by highest Dutch court

https://www.ruetir.com/2022/03/09/bold-statement-loot-boxes-in-football-game-fifa-now-allowed/

4 years ago

Launch HN: 8vdX (YC W22) – Venture debt to complement a seed round

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30612691

4 years ago

Running Out of Money When Building Side Projects Helps You Succeed

https://microfounder.com/blog/urgency

4 years ago

Ask HN: How do you securely self-host a server?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30618577

4 years ago

DeepSpeech 60x Smaller, 9x faster, and 2x accuracy

https://github.com/Picovoice/leopard

4 years ago

Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016)

https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/

4 years ago

Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and more

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpolicy/saito-renho-japanese-economic-growth-abenomics-redistribution

4 years ago

Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split, $10B buyback

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/amazon-announces-20-for-1-stock-split-10-billion-buyback.html

4 years ago

Can Minecraft be played without giving MS a Phone#?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30617884

4 years ago