top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-01

A few things to know before stealing my 914

https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

4 years ago

1501 upvotes – 417 comments

Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/technology/amazon-union-staten-island.html

4 years ago

841 upvotes – 753 comments

A database for 2022

https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/

4 years ago

624 upvotes – 311 comments

Pens and Tablets for Linux

https://community.wacom.com/eu/enterprise/wacom-leads-the-way-with-pens-and-tablets-for-linux/

4 years ago

525 upvotes – 213 comments

Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30879327

4 years ago

452 upvotes – 164 comments

The Gov.uk Design System is now live

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/03/31/the-gov-uk-design-system-is-now-live/

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 129 comments

RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9225.html

4 years ago

354 upvotes – 108 comments

Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-have-female-animals-evolved-such-wild-genitals-180979813/

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 240 comments

Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 411 comments

Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy

https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 81 comments

Infinite Mac: An Instant-Booting Quadra in the Browser

https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html

4 years ago

281 upvotes – 103 comments

Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-lichess-source-code

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878761

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 787 comments

Authorization in a Microservices World

https://www.alexanderlolis.com/authorization-in-a-microservices-world

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 69 comments

Critical Gitlab vulnerability let attackers take over accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-gitlab-vulnerability-lets-attackers-take-over-accounts/

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 43 comments

Markov Chains for programmers

https://czekster.github.io/markov/

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 29 comments

My macOS keyboard shortcuts

https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/posts/keyboard-shortcuts/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

https://rectangles.app/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 102 comments

Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc

https://blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codegen_gcc-progress-report-10

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 47 comments

Retro Compaq LTE Laptop Powered by Raspberry Pi

https://dmitrybrant.com/2022/02/20/a-retro-laptop-like-no-other

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 38 comments

Spin – WebAssembly Framework

https://www.fermyon.com/blog/introducing-spin

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 75 comments

Two Vexing Problems in Functional Programming

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/two-vexing-problems-in-functional-progamming.html

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 210 comments

Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/how-elden-ring-succeeds-by-ignoring-20-years-of-open-world-design

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 160 comments

Transformers for software engineers

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/transformers-for-software-engineers/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 20 comments

How we secure Monzo's banking platform

https://monzo.com/blog/2022/03/31/how-we-secure-monzos-banking-platform/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 140 comments

Farewell, Elementary

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/farewell-elementary/

4 years ago

164 upvotes – 163 comments

Seriously, Stop Using RSA (2019)

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 101 comments

Inclusive Coding Bot on GitHub

https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/4029

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 220 comments

Learning math? Think like a cartoonist

https://betterexplained.com/articles/math-cartoonist/

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

High schoolers create filter to remove lead in water

https://www.freethink.com/health/lead-in-water

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 133 comments

OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs

https://openmw.org/2022/openmw-roadmap-update/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 39 comments

Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep pace with rivals

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/metas-ai-lab-loses-some-key-people.html

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 127 comments

In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/04/01/maximalist.html

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 225 comments

Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (2013)

https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/01/18/how-justice-clarence-thomas-uncovered-a-seven-year-old-bug-in-my-computer-program/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 159 comments

DARPA Completes Underminer Program: New tactical tunneling technologies

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-03-31

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 105 comments

Google Search results are below the fold

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xiprnqszu0ejsc6/google_ad.png?dl=0

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: Why don't PCs have better entropy sources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877296

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions

https://github.com/barthr/redo

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

Daniel Gross: Why Energy Is the Best Predictor of Talent

https://www.safegraph.com/podcasts/daniel-gross-why-energy-is-the-best-predictor-of-talent

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 138 comments

I didn't return my Apple Studio Display

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/i-didnt-return-my-apple-studio-display.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 199 comments

Using foot pedals for modifier keys in Linux (2014)

http://techtrickery.com/pedals.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Seen from space, the longest conveyor belt is in Morocco

https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/107839/seen-from-space-world-s-longest.html

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 76 comments

1950 Census Records

https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

No increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users, new study finds

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-03-30-no-increased-risk-brain-tumours-mobile-phone-users-new-study-finds

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 224 comments

Reasons to not use PCA for feature selection

https://blog.kxy.ai/5-reasons-you-should-never-use-pca-for-feature-selection/

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

Basque–Icelandic Pidgin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%E2%80%93Icelandic_pidgin

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesful attempts to refloat

https://gcaptain.com/ever-forward-general-average-declared/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: gh-dash – GitHub CLI dashboard for pull requests and issues

https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

C++23 Will Be Really Awesome

https://www.kdab.com/cpp23-will-be-really-awesome/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

I Heart Microscopes

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/microscopy/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

HBPF – eBPF in Hardware

https://github.com/rprinz08/hBPF

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Our smartphones are stuffed with photos. The challenge is finding the good ones

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/your-camera-roll-contains-a-masterpiece

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878759

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 176 comments

Comic Helvetic, an Unholy Combo of Comic Sans and Helvetica

https://kottke.org/22/04/comic-helvetic-comic-sans-and-helvetica

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Zero Trust Architecture doesn't solve all problems, but partial ZTA solves fewer

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59079.html

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from scratch

https://pikuma.com/courses/learn-3d-computer-graphics-programming

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

A Linux security fix briefly breaks DMA

https://lwn.net/Articles/889593/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

House passes bill to limit cost of insulin to $35 a month

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/health/insulin-price-house-bill-democrats.html

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 101 comments

I like unusual books. Here’s what I’d read – if I had time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/03/30/secret-book-list/

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Increase your League of Legends rank using ML

https://www.mage.ai/blog/league-of-legends-ranking-guide

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments
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