top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-03-27

Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch

https://www.networksfromscratch.com

4 years ago

792 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822339

4 years ago

569 upvotes – 273 comments

Firefox UI/UX History

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%5D-0.-Firefox-UI-UX-history

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 175 comments

I hate what video games have become

https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/679923341152468992/i-hate-what-video-games-have-become

4 years ago

436 upvotes – 667 comments

Killed by Microsoft

https://killedbymicrosoft.info

4 years ago

435 upvotes – 339 comments

Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/27/amazon-personal-data-request-dark-pattern/

4 years ago

362 upvotes – 182 comments

Countering threats from North Korea

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/countering-threats-north-korea/

4 years ago

347 upvotes – 156 comments

What made the NES so interesting?

https://nicole.express/2022/the-nes-as-an-artifact.html

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 123 comments

Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing

https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/toecyt/dual_75_4k_tv_floor_computing/

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 276 comments

It looks like you’re trying to take over the world

https://www.gwern.net/Clippy

4 years ago

334 upvotes – 274 comments

Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

https://medium.com/@appsrentables1/google-cancels-our-google-play-publisher-account-and-ends-my-familys-source-of-income-97d4e85cd046

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 252 comments

Technicolor Tokyo

https://neocha.com/magazine/technicolor-tokyo/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 73 comments

TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1507893647341142016

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 416 comments

How to write a linter using tree-sitter in an hour

https://siraben.dev/2022/03/22/tree-sitter-linter.html

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 11 comments

Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

https://illusion.64history.net/2022/wipeout-psx-windows-source

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 132 comments

The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-vacuum-tubes-forgotten-rival

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 94 comments

Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220323-the-jokes-that-have-made-people-laugh-for-thousands-of-years

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30819678

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 319 comments

Azores – Evacuations Begin as Seismic Crisis Unfolds in Atlantic

https://weatherboy.com/evacuations-begin-as-seismic-crisis-unfolds-in-atlantic-threats-of-volcanic-eruption-toxic-gases-landslides-and-tsunami-discussed/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 62 comments

Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-we-made-a-mistake-delaying-the-lapsus-hack-disclosure/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 63 comments

5G Skeptic

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/03/26/Is-5G-BS

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 253 comments

Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics

https://devlog.hexops.com/2022/mach-v0.1-zig-graphics-in-60s

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 47 comments

Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Python and Qt simplified

https://build-system.fman.io/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

Kotlin for JavaScript

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 261 comments

When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/well/family/teen-tough-love-programs.html

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 240 comments

New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/new-type-ultraviolet-light-makes-indoor-air-safe-outdoors

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 133 comments

Portal 2: Desolation is giving the classic puzzle game a graphics overhaul

https://www.pcgamer.com/portal-2-desolation-is-giving-the-classic-puzzle-game-a-huge-graphics-overhaul/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

On Being Disappeared

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/on-being-disappeared

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 221 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822682

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 158 comments

Firejail: Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 53 comments

USPS Service Standards Maps

https://postalpro.usps.com/ppro-tools/service-standards-maps

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 100 comments

The user experience problems of quadratic voting

https://timdaub.github.io/2022/03/27/the-user-experience-problems-of-quadratic-voting/

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

Marginalia Search: 1 Year

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/49-marginalia-1-year.gmi

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 29 comments

Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)

https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 30 comments

Tao of Node – Design, Architecture and Best Practices

https://alexkondov.com/tao-of-node/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30819579

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 82 comments

Restic 0.13.0

https://restic.net/blog/2022-03-26/restic-0.13.0-released/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

U.S. Surnames with No Vowels

https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/26/#vowelless-names

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 95 comments

Word2Vec Explained. Explaining the Intuition of Word2Vec

https://towardsdatascience.com/word2vec-explained-49c52b4ccb71

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: How do I secure the domain for my business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30818950

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement learning

https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control (2020)

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2476570146/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

What's the strangest code you've seen a senior developer write? (2019)

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-strangest-code-youve-seen-a-senior-developer-write

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 101 comments

Depth of Field

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/depth-of-field/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Manfred Awesomic CV: Open source machine and human compatible CV standard

https://github.com/getmanfred/mac

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14

https://www.bookvine.io/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Mistakes I've made (2011) [slides]

https://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/the-10-mistakes-ive-madeso-you-dont-have-to

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Daily-driving a Mac, one year later

https://catfox.life/2022/03/26/daily-driving-a-mac-one-year-later/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 179 comments

Operation Jumbo Drop: How sending large packets broke our AWS network

https://medium.com/in-the-hudl/operation-jumbo-drop-how-sending-large-packets-broke-our-aws-network-ff5041fc7a09

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Self Modifying Code as an alternative to macros

https://matklad.github.io//2022/03/26/self-modifying-code.html

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Olbers' Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Why and how to start a startup serving emerging markets

https://www.benkuhn.net/emco/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

The Tao of Acme

https://benghancock.github.io/blog/2022/tao-of-acme.html

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

BlocklyML visual programming tool for Machine learning and Python

https://github.com/chekoduadarsh/BlocklyML

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Big Sur, California (1984)

https://maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11222gro.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Free coding exercises for budding gophers (2017)

https://gophercises.com/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

The Cons Microprocessor [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41115/AI_WP_080.pdf

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments
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