top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-16

How our free plan stays free

https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/

4 years ago

684 upvotes – 200 comments

TUIs

https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

4 years ago

557 upvotes – 207 comments

Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins

4 years ago

477 upvotes – 477 comments

Deliberately optimizing for harm

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/deliberately-optimizing-harm

4 years ago

445 upvotes – 279 comments

5 Charged with Stalking, Harassing, Spying on US Residents for PRC Secret Police

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-individuals-charged-variously-stalking-harassing-and-spying-us-residents-behalf-prc-0

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 182 comments

US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/16/us-federal-reserve-interest-rates-inflation

4 years ago

436 upvotes – 669 comments

Deno Is Webby

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/deno-is-webby-pt-2/

4 years ago

407 upvotes – 206 comments

Zelensky video deepfake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697932

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 281 comments

C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore

https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 326 comments

My boundaries as an open source developer

https://joeldenning.com/?p=29

4 years ago

370 upvotes – 238 comments

Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests

https://petapixel.com/2022/03/14/famous-navy-ufo-video-was-actually-camera-glare-evidence-suggests/

4 years ago

342 upvotes – 372 comments

US Copyright Office refuses application with AI algorithm named as author

https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/02/us-copyright-office-refuses-to-register.html

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 165 comments

NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install

https://snyk.io/blog/peacenotwar-malicious-npm-node-ipc-package-vulnerability/

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 164 comments

Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack

https://mrd0x.com/browser-in-the-browser-phishing-attack/

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 143 comments

Bunny DNS – A scriptable DNS platform

https://bunny.net/blog/transforming-internet-routing-introducing-bunny-dns/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696451

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 83 comments

Typography is impossible (2016)

https://medium.engineering/typography-is-impossible-5872b0c7f891?gi=14f21e50b8a9

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 63 comments

Nova 9

https://nova.app/releases/?ref=elist

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 99 comments

Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 126 comments

Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tesla-fired-employee-who-posted-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.html

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 336 comments

Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac

https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boost-achievement-unlocked-on-docker-desktop-4-6-for-mac/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 153 comments

Continental Europe successfully synced with Ukraine and Moldova power systems

https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2022/03/16/continental-europe-successful-synchronisation-with-ukraine-and-moldova-power-systems/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 43 comments

The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 75 comments

libmill - Go-style concurrency in C

http://libmill.org/index.html

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 54 comments

Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)

https://tdarb.org/blog/hamburger-menu-alternative.html

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 199 comments

Plasticity Is CAD for Artists

https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 102 comments

Antiproton Orbiting Helium Ion

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/absolutely-bonkers-experiment-measures-antiproton-orbiting-helium-ion/

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 68 comments

Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20220316234055&lang=en

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 67 comments

Be good to your mentors

https://commoncog.com/blog/be-good-to-your-mentors/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 63 comments

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Google seems to have signed me up for Google Pay without asking

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1504079288051589120

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 89 comments

Tell HN: Amazon's book search is gamed, keyword-stuffed, and inaccurate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30700700

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30698269

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 103 comments

Technical Time Travel: On Vintage Programming Books

https://tiemoko.com/blog/vintage-tech-books/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 92 comments

Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search

https://www.datanami.com/2022/03/15/home-depot-finds-diy-success-with-vector-search/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 89 comments

Flutter is better than React Native in all the ways that don’t matter

https://shift.infinite.red/flutter-is-better-than-react-native-fed10c92a768?gi=3110e8d1fe6

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 153 comments

Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30698215

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

Firms must report hacks to DHS in 72 hours under law

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/biden-signs-law-requiring-firms-to-report-hacks-in-72-hours

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Decision: Red Hat, Inc. vs. Daniel Pocock / Software Freedom Institute SA

https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1980642.htm

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 74 comments

Open Source Design

https://opensourcedesign.net/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 23 comments

Polylith is a functional software architecture at the system scale

https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith/

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 82 comments

AsahiLinux's Introduction to Apple Silicon

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 5 comments

How to make Docker images even smaller

https://symflower.com/en/company/blog/2022/complete-guide-on-shrinking-container-images/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

What You Can't Say (2004)

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 204 comments

What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus (2019)

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/what-is-linux-keyring-gnome-keyring-secret-service-and-d-bus/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client

https://www.biglybt.com/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

Are there limits to economic growth?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00723-1

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 169 comments

Hands-On with PostgreSQL Authorization – Part 2 – Row-Level Security

https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/hands-on-with-postgresql-authorization-part-2-row-level-security

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

How to make an IBM 1311 disk drive move around the floor

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/16291/6854

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Norwegian developer job board for Ukrainian refugees

https://www.kode24.no/tech-jobs-norway

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 176 comments

How to Set Prices for Handmade Goods

https://www.workshopmag.com/pricing-basics/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

Sharding a database can make it faster

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/14/how-sharding-a-database-can-make-it-faster/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code – Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-copilot-autocomplete-for-code/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 68 comments

Macro Shots Taken Inside Instruments (2012)

https://fstoppers.com/commercial/pictures-unbelievable-macro-shots-taken-inside-instruments-6129

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

The Last i486 Online

http://last486.online/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 115 comments

Microwave ovens and their hazards

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/microwave_ovens.html

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Create your own complete UI color system easy as 1-2-3

https://github.com/arnelenero/simpler-color

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Mapping the Solar System

https://github.com/eleanorlutz/asteroids_atlas_of_space

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Types versus sets (and what about categories?)

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2022/03/16/Types_vs_Sets.html

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

The succession drama at Scholastic

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/inside-the-succession-drama-at-scholastic

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

MSFT demonstrates formerly elusive physics needed to build scalable qubits

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/azure-quantum-majorana-topological-qubit/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

How Good Is Monterey’s Visual Look Up?

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/16/how-good-is-montereys-visual-look-up/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

James Webb: 'Fully focused' telescope beats expectations

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60771210

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s cured, and it’s not better for you (2019)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-uncured-bacon-illusion-its-actually-cured-and-its-not-better-for-you/2019/04/19/0c89630c-608c-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 119 comments

How True Are Your d20s? (2013)

http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

Vectorizing the Code of Federal Regulations

https://max.io/blog/encoding-the-federal-register.html?r=1

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Tell HN: I Need Project Ideas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30702431

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Tiny WASI – A tiny WASI runtime written in TypeScript

https://github.com/qrdate/tinywasi

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Fire ants cover inaccessible surfaces with particles to aid food search (2020)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1744-7917.12891

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

The New Neurasthenia: How burnout became the buzzword of the moment

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-new-neurasthenia-tyson

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 88 comments

In the time Python can perform 1 FLOP, an A100 can chew through 9.75M FLOPS

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1503844580474687493

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Launch HN: PropelAuth (YC W22) – End-to-end auth service for B2B products

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30700770

4 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

African Agritech

https://www.niamaelbassunie.com/blog/african-startups-part-ii

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Measuring the Earth with Traceroute (2002)

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0208087

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Crypto Startup That Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs Is Having Some Trouble

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-16/worldcoin-the-eyeball-scanning-crypto-unicorn-hits-signup-snags

4 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Tell HN: I can't buy a PS4 because of my email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697838

4 years ago

57 upvotes – 134 comments

NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-alignment-milestone-optics-working-successfully/

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Debian developer demoted, quits after two decades with project

https://itwire.com/open-source/debian-developer-demoted,-quits-after-two-decades-with-project.html

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696077

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30705500

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

Find more ways to be an outsider

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/03/being-an-outsider-benefits-third-culture-kids/627011/

4 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html

4 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments

The emerald ash borer is threatening a Native-American tradition (2019)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976144/emerald-ash-borer-baskets-wabanaki-invasive-pest-maine-tradition-trees

4 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments
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