top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-17

Zotero 6

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-6/

4 years ago

H.264 is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

4 years ago

In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Wallace#In-flight_surgery_with_a_coat-hanger_and_silverware

4 years ago

Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/

4 years ago

Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

https://lapce.dev/

4 years ago

Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising

https://opensource.org/court-affirms-its-false-advertising-to-claim-software-is-open-source-when-its-not

4 years ago

Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator

https://github.com/google/h2e_technical_documentation

4 years ago

I found a security issue on a competitor, got fired and served a summons

https://accidhacker.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/i-found-a-security-issue-on-a-competitor-got-fired-and-served-a-summons/

4 years ago

How NAT traversal works (2020)

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

4 years ago

MaskerAid iOS App

https://www.caseyliss.com/2022/3/3/maskeraid

4 years ago

Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/sksd097hm0y5

4 years ago

Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-intel-financialized-and-lost-leadership-in-semiconductor-fabrication

4 years ago

Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation (2016)

https://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents

4 years ago

Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig

http://www.jakubkonka.com/2022/03/16/hcs-zig.html

4 years ago

Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures

https://kaitai.io/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30706743

4 years ago

Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30709524

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30712175

4 years ago

Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at industrial scale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30712229

4 years ago

Fuchsia IDL Overview

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/fidl/overview

4 years ago

Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/microsoft-accidentally-reveals-that-it-is-testing-ads-in-windows-explorer/

4 years ago

Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/does-wordle-prove-that-we-can-have-nice-things-on-the-internet

4 years ago

Google Analytics 4

https://blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/prepare-for-future-with-google-analytics-4/

4 years ago

Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust

https://github.com/nadavrot/layout

4 years ago

California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-03-16/california-bill-would-let-parents-sue-social-media-companies-for-addicting-kids

4 years ago

Beavers back in London after 400-year absence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60763438

4 years ago

Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs

https://blog.robertelder.org/semiconductor-example-uses/

4 years ago

Deno 1.20

https://deno.com/blog/v1.20

4 years ago

Amazon completes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/amazon-completes-its-8-5-billion-acquisition-of-mgm/

4 years ago

MySQL now shows its thread names at OS level for better troubleshooting

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/mysql-now-shows-thread-names-at-os-level/

4 years ago

Linux Perf Examples

https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html

4 years ago

An antimatter experiment shows surprises near absolute zero

https://www.quantamagazine.org/icy-antimatter-experiment-surprises-physicists-20220316/

4 years ago

What's my place in the world population?

https://population.io/

4 years ago

Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/16/clockwork-raises-21m-to-keep-server-clocks-in-sync/

4 years ago

The Asymmetry of Open Source

https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source

4 years ago

A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

4 years ago

Ask HN: Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715727

4 years ago

Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices

https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/03/17/photography-is-not-objective.html

4 years ago

The Only Unbreakable Law [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

4 years ago

The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”

https://www.protocol.com/policy/ftc-algorithm-destroy-data-privacy

4 years ago

Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/16/google-translate-health-care-english/

4 years ago

Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems

https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

4 years ago

Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64 (2019)

https://www.vintag.es/2019/03/commodore-64.html

4 years ago

Entitlement issues (2009)

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html

4 years ago

Detecting Node Event Loop Blockers

https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/detecting-event-loop-blockers

4 years ago

Python finally offloads some batteries

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/888043/66bf43728bb39692/

4 years ago

BPG Image Format

https://bellard.org/bpg/

4 years ago

Terraform-AWS-modules/Terraform-AWS-eks transitions to non-free license

https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/pull/1937

4 years ago

Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby

https://www.bridgetownrb.com/

4 years ago

US State Privacy Legislation Tracker

https://iapp.org/resources/article/us-state-privacy-legislation-tracker/

4 years ago

France ends gas heaters subsidies

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-ends-gas-heaters-subsidies-boosts-heat-pumps-bid-cut-russia-reliance-2022-03-16/

4 years ago

The glibc s390 ABI break (2014)

https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/

4 years ago

Hacker News personal ranking app (2012)

https://github.com/joelgrus/hackernews

4 years ago

Flickr forever

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2022/03/17/flickr-forever-2022/

4 years ago

Show HN: Build predictive models with no prior ML experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30706193

4 years ago

Amazon's new role-playing game can help you build your AWS skills

https://www.techradar.com/news/amazons-new-role-playing-game-can-help-you-build-your-aws-skills

4 years ago

Dentist broke his patients’ teeth to make millions installing crowns, jury finds

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/dentist-guilty-of-deliberately-breaking-teeth-cashing-in-on-crown-repairs/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What has been your experience with bigger tech companies in London?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30710106

4 years ago

Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland

https://yle.fi/news/3-12363215

4 years ago

Compilers: The Old New Security Frontier [pdf]

https://grsecurity.net/Compilers_The_Old_New_Security_Frontier_BlueHat_IL_2022.pdf

4 years ago

Japan’s Cherry Blossom Viewing Parties

https://worldsensorium.com/japans-cherry-blossom-viewing-parties-the-history-of-chasing-the-fleeting-beauty-of-sakura/

4 years ago

Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/pro-ukraine-protestware-pushes-antiwar-ads-geo-targeted-malware/

4 years ago

N° 9–2022: ExoMars suspended

https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ExoMars_suspended

4 years ago

ACCC takes action against Meta over scam celebrity crypto ads on Facebook

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-takes-action-over-alleged-misleading-conduct-by-meta-for-publishing-scam-celebrity-crypto-ads-on-facebook

4 years ago

Hacking Hadoukens: Reverse Engineering a Street Fighter Two Cabinet

https://wrongbaud.github.io/sf-slides/

4 years ago

Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and customers aren't happy

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087133199/netflix-plans-to-start-charging-for-password-sharing-and-customers-arent-happy

4 years ago