top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-18

First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/

4 years ago

Asahi Linux alpha release

https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

4 years ago

How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M

https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-zillow-is-like-my-bad-fantasy-football-team/

4 years ago

Christopher Alexander has died

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2022/03/18/christopher-alexander-1936-2022

4 years ago

How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list

https://dynomight.net/lists/

4 years ago

Crypto is an unproductive bubble

https://alexkolchinski.com/2022/03/18/crypto-is-an-unproductive-bubble/

4 years ago

How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/how-putins-oligarchs-bought-london

4 years ago

Food Packaging

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/food-packaging

4 years ago

US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-fleets/us-schools-can-subscribe-to-an-electric-school-bus-fleet-at-prices-that-beat-diesel

4 years ago

Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here

https://zverok.space/blog/2022-03-15-STILL-WAR.html

4 years ago

Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/amazon-prime-subscription-cancel-secret-project-b2038207.html

4 years ago

LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

https://librewolf.net/

4 years ago

On the Weaponisation of Open Source

https://beny23.github.io/posts/on_weaponisation_of_open_source/

4 years ago

If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?

https://abhinavsharma.com/blog/google-alternatives

4 years ago

The Line of Death (2017)

https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/

4 years ago

Alexandria Search

https://www.alexandria.org/

4 years ago

Linux on an M1 Mac

https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1504626783240736768

4 years ago

Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees Want Only WFH: Survey

https://metrosaga.com/ready-to-work-at-lesser-salaries-or-even-quit-employees-want-only-wfh-survey/

4 years ago

Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-descends-into-despair-708cb8f4a171ce3f1c1b0b8d090e38e3

4 years ago

Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole

https://fowlie.github.io/2022/02/25/keyboards-rabbit-hole/

4 years ago

Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

https://oh-heck.dev

4 years ago

Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18

https://www.zx2c4.com/projects/linux-rng-5.17-5.18/

4 years ago

Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30720565

4 years ago

AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2022-03-18-aeg-combi-microwave-unusable-after-update--device-thinks-it-is-a-steam-oven.Bkxu7Aa-z9.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming

https://bytelegend.com

4 years ago

Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ivermectin-didnt-reduce-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-largest-trial-to-date-11647601200

4 years ago

Dav1d, fast AV1 decoder, version 1.0

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/blob/1.0.0/NEWS

4 years ago

Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30724830

4 years ago

Show HN: Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning

https://calenday.co/?ref=hn

4 years ago

Building games through natural language using OpenAI’s code-DaVinci model

https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/17/building-games-and-apps-entirely-through-natural-language-using-openais-davinci-code-model/

4 years ago

Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the ADA

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-web-accessibility-guidance-under-americans-disabilities-act

4 years ago

Software is no longer sold; it's adopted

https://orbit.love/blog/software-is-no-longer-sold-its-adopted

4 years ago

Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/mozilla-and-open-web-docs-working-together-on-mdn/

4 years ago

Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA"

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/03/product-of-u-s-a-or-not-system-doesnt-bother-denvers-10th-circuit-court/

4 years ago

I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing

https://paranoidvalueinvestor.substack.com/p/im-too-risk-adverse-for-index-investing

4 years ago

Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m1-ultra-rtx-3090-benchmarks

4 years ago

Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

4 years ago

An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)

https://github.com/MadRabbit/halmak

4 years ago

Launch HN: Theneo (YC W22) – Generate Stripe-Style API Docs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30720623

4 years ago

ESA Votes to Suspend Roscosmos Partnerships

https://payloadspace.com/esa-votes-to-suspend-roscosmos-partnerships/

4 years ago

The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B (2021)

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-england-to-make-1-1b-4834df0605d1?gi=9e38fbcf4733

4 years ago

The Open Source Initiative Did Not Win Neo4j vs. PureThink

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/03/17/OSI-Neo4j-PureThink.html

4 years ago

Data Mesh Architecture

https://www.datamesh-architecture.com

4 years ago

My entire PC got wiped Do not download

https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/408

4 years ago

Multiple Vulnerabilities in PfSense

https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2022031507

4 years ago

Strategy is not X

https://www.umr.io/blog/strategy-is-not-x

4 years ago

Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones

https://hypebeast.com/2022/3/apple-made-6-5-billion-usd-by-removing-accessories-with-new-iphone-purchases

4 years ago

A new kind of equity program

https://www.getcruise.com/news/a-new-kind-of-equity-program/

4 years ago

Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar

https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar/blob/main/WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt

4 years ago

Lagrange points solved one of physics' biggest problems

https://www.space.com/lagrange-points-solve-major-physics-problem

4 years ago

Should you work fixed hours, even if you have a flexible schedule?

https://remote.ma/2022/03/16/should-you-work-fixed-hours/

4 years ago

No is a complete sentence

https://networkingnerd.net/2022/03/18/no-is-a-complete-sentence/

4 years ago

The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys past, present and future

https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism

4 years ago

How to Prepare for a Recession

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/03/how-to-prepare-for-a-recession/

4 years ago

Container escape flaw fixed in CRI-O runtime engine

https://duo.com/decipher/container-escape-flaw-fixed-in-cri-o-runtime-engine

4 years ago

Microprocessor Board Plans for Old School CPUs: 6502, Z80, 6809, etc.

https://www.kswichit.com/

4 years ago

Apple I Emulator (2019)

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tlX3W7

4 years ago

Arkenfox: Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking user.js template

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

4 years ago

Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world

https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster/

4 years ago

White House: Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/events-webinars/

4 years ago

How many days since a record-high temperature?

https://pudding.cool/2022/03/weather-map/

4 years ago

Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)

https://karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html

4 years ago

Structured Concurrency

https://250bpm.com/blog:71/

4 years ago

Everyday Magic in the Middle Ages (2021)

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/09/everyday-magic-middle-ages/

4 years ago

Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30724511

4 years ago

Building a blog from scratch in 2022 using Hugo, Docker and a bit of Python

https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/everything-old-is-new-again/

4 years ago

Show HN: Edrys – an open-source remote teaching platform

https://github.com/edrys-org/edrys

4 years ago

Python 3 Types in the Wild

https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/03/18/python-3-types-in-the-wild.html

4 years ago

A Summary of OAuth 2.0 Attack Methods

https://tutorialboy24.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-summary-of-oauth-20-attack-methods.html

4 years ago

Serverless site analytics with Clojure nbb and AWS

https://www.loop-code-recur.io/simple-site-analytics-with-serverless-clojure/

4 years ago

War on free speech: Politicians and commentators label war critics “traitors”

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/18/the-war-on-free-speech-politicians-and-commentators-label-war-critics-traitors/

4 years ago