top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-20

Windows needs a change in priorities

https://den.dev/blog/windows-priority-shuffle/

4 years ago

I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1505597901011005442

4 years ago

Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark

https://www.trickster.dev/post/decrypting-your-own-https-traffic-with-wireshark/

4 years ago

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers

https://meldmerge.org/

4 years ago

NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/nyregion/clean-air-idle-car.html

4 years ago

Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”

https://ymcinema.com/2022/03/17/vimeo-we-are-a-b2b-solution-not-the-indie-version-of-youtube/

4 years ago

Ur-Fascism By Umberto Eco (1995) [pdf]

https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

4 years ago

Steam to Chrome OS

https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/155131703/steam-to-chrome-os?hl=en

4 years ago

Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742589

4 years ago

Plaintext Productivity

https://plaintext-productivity.net/

4 years ago

George Hotz against the institutions

https://return.life/2022/03/07/george-hotz-comma-ride-or-die/

4 years ago

Mitmproxy 8

https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy8/

4 years ago

Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-will-soon-ask-australian-users-to-show-id-to-view-some-content/

4 years ago

Show HN: Typebeat: Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth

https://github.com/kofigumbs/typebeat

4 years ago

Vanced Discontinuation

https://telegra.ph/Vanced-Discontinuation-03-19

4 years ago

Major government surveillance revelations fail to make a big splash

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/598809-major-government-surveillance-revelations-fail-to-make-a-big-splash

4 years ago

Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html

4 years ago

When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/remember-when-apple-built-a-mac-os

4 years ago

Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul

https://gankra.github.io/blah/fix-rust-pointers/

4 years ago

Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (2020)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/22/boarded/

4 years ago

How much Rust in Firefox?

https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

4 years ago

Addressing Criticism of RISC-V Microprocessors

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/addressing-criticism-of-risc-v-microprocessors-803239b53284

4 years ago

Show HN: I’m Building a Nerf Dart Missile Defense System [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF-f_AdCxl0

4 years ago

CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS

https://github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeEdit

4 years ago

FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects

https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3

4 years ago

Verilog Is Weird

https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/

4 years ago

The Interview Process at Canonical - application withdrawn

https://twitter.com/dmsimard/status/1505262381609406467

4 years ago

Ask HN: I'd like to practice coding GUI from scratch. Any recommendations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30746110

4 years ago

What doctors wish patients knew about long Covid

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-long-covid

4 years ago

Silicon Valley's sex censorship harms everyone

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-values-internet-sex-censorship/

4 years ago

After 600 hours 64 workers at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant finally relieved

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/03/20/1934212/after-about-600-hours-64-workers-at-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-finally-relieved

4 years ago

Pointers and Memory Management in Python

https://github.com/ZeroIntensity/pointers.py

4 years ago

Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97m3-w2cp-4xx6

4 years ago

A better way to divide the pie

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/better-way-to-divide-the-pie

4 years ago

A letter to Microsoft for not attributing authors of the Edge Flatpak app

https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/03/19/a-letter-to-microsoft-for-not-attributing-authors-of-the-edge-flatpak-application.html

4 years ago

LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android built with Piped

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/

4 years ago

Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/20/last-week-on-my-mac-is-look-up-destined-for-csam/

4 years ago

Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs

https://varun.ch/hangouts

4 years ago

Melrōse, a language to program and play music (2021)

http://ernestmicklei.com/melrose/introduction_melrose/

4 years ago

M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mac-studio-dissected-m1-ultra-about-3x-bigger-than-amds-ryzen-cpus

4 years ago

Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal

https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/using-minitel-1b-as-serial-terminal.html

4 years ago

The secret sounds of Dune: Rice Krispies and Marianne Faithfull

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/movies/dune-denis-villeneuve-sound.html

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a CLI tool that turns pixels into emojis

https://github.com/ahhhh6980/Mosaic

4 years ago

Amazon warehouse fires a worker 1 day before his $3000 hiring bonus

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/ti3ml2/amazon_warehouse_fires_my_brother_1_day_before/

4 years ago

The stilt-walking shepherds of France's grasslands, 1843-1937

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stilt-shepherds-of-france-1843-1937/

4 years ago

Inflation is a disease (1978) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_nGEj8wIP0

4 years ago

PHP Streaming Audio

https://github.com/gadgetguru/PHP-Streaming-Audio

4 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source 3D Location-Based Wireless Mesh Network

https://github.com/kurthildebrand/hyperspace

4 years ago

Demystifying the Analemma

https://mtirado.com/blog/demystifying-the-analemma/

4 years ago

How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world

4 years ago

Silicon Valley’s supposed obsession with tech-free private schools (2019)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-smartest-people-in-the-room-what-silicon-valleys-supposed-obsession-with-tech-free-private-schools-really-tells-us/

4 years ago

My biggest mistake as an RPA developer

https://anupam.de/projects/descriptify/articles/articles/BiggestMistakeasRPADeveloper.html

4 years ago

You and the planet need a heat pump

https://www.wired.com/story/why-you-the-planet-need-heat-pump/

4 years ago

Using files with browsers, in reality

https://macwright.com/2022/03/04/browsers-and-files.html

4 years ago

The conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/inside-the-conspiracy-to-kill-julius-caesar

4 years ago