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

Jd

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview

4 years ago

1212 upvotes – 129 comments

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.html

4 years ago

1144 upvotes – 513 comments

Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911623

4 years ago

936 upvotes – 417 comments

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists

4 years ago

765 upvotes – 396 comments

Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app/

4 years ago

693 upvotes – 445 comments

Are you a baby? A litmus test

https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/95-are-you-baby-a-litmus-test

4 years ago

660 upvotes – 309 comments

Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001494730/000110465922041911/tm2211482d1_sc13g.htm

4 years ago

537 upvotes – 711 comments

Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech

https://chrisseaton.com/army/

4 years ago

485 upvotes – 577 comments

Exit interviews are a trap

https://jacobian.org/2022/apr/4/exit-interviews-are-a-trap/

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 407 comments

Tinygrad

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 144 comments

Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS

https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/autofill_tld_whitelist_url

4 years ago

373 upvotes – 172 comments

My free-software photography workflow

https://blog.fidelramos.net/photography/photography-workflow

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 117 comments

There's no way to report spam on Google Drive

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/04/theres-no-way-to-report-spam-on-google-drive/

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 100 comments

Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport

https://wongm.com/2022/04/backyard-approaching-lighting-adelaide-airport/

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 133 comments

RedwoodJS 1.0

https://v1launchweek.redwoodjs.com/

4 years ago

293 upvotes – 187 comments

25+ years of personal knowledge management

https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-04-03-25-years-of-personal-knowledge-management

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 69 comments

Return to Monkey Island

https://grumpygamer.com/return_to_monkey_island

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 60 comments

Are you nice or kind?

https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/42-are-you-nice-or-kind

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 201 comments

The Personal Security Checklist

https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 112 comments

Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 207 comments

Ask HN: How do I develop focus?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30905620

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 191 comments

HTTP Feeds

https://www.http-feeds.org/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 95 comments

Cython is 20

http://blog.behnel.de/posts/cython-is-20/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 70 comments

I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computers (2020)

http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/locked-down-computers.html

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 331 comments

Single-chip processors have reached their limits

https://spectrum.ieee.org/single-chip-processors-have-reached-their-limits

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 152 comments

Why don't more languages offer flow typing?

https://ayazhafiz.com/articles/22/why-dont-more-languages-offer-flow-typing

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 122 comments

The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account

https://twitter.com/nightgolfer/status/1509116982611759107

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 64 comments

A blue connector does not USB 3.0 make

https://majenko.co.uk/blog/our-blog-1/usb-3-0-blues-56

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 124 comments

Eigen: A C++ template library for linear algebra

https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 84 comments

Mastodon: A free, open-source, and decentralized Twitter not owned by anybody

https://mastodon.social/about

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 162 comments

Meta quickly detects silent data corruptions at scale

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/17/production-engineering/silent-errors/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 95 comments

Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile

https://www.nginx.com/blog/improving-nginx-performance-with-kernel-tls/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 52 comments

OwnTracks – keep track of your own location

https://owntracks.org/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Uranium Safe

https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/project-sapphire-how-to-keep-600-tons-of-kazakh-highly-enriched-uranium-safe/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 124 comments

Olaf's New Menu Item

https://blog.plover.com/tech/olafs-report.html

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

Return to Monkey Island – Coming 2022

https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/1510995575025528836

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube

https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft

https://iliana.fyi/blog/tailscale-auth-and-threat-modeling/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

Exchange electricity prices in France go through the roof

https://twitter.com/energy_charts/status/1510916995872702464

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 103 comments

Uninhabitable places in 2100 (interactive map)

https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/klimawandel-hitze-meeresspiegel-wassermangel-stuerme-unbewohnbar/en.html

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 70 comments

“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures, 2019 edition

https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.html

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 75 comments

Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44967/audi-owner-finds-basic-hvac-function-paywalled-after-pressing-the-button-for-it

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 117 comments

Boopkit: eBPF backdoor (TCP) for spawning reverse shells

https://github.com/kris-nova/boopkit

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

Rust on Espressif chips Q1 2022

https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-04-04-2022/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-business-essentials-now-available-for-small-businesses/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Today is Antitrust Day. Tell Congress to put people back in control of tech

https://www.antitrustday.org/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

Netflix Should Sell Ads

https://stratechery.com/2022/why-netflix-should-sell-ads/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 355 comments

Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Zooming_into_the_Sun_with_Solar_Orbiter

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

RealityScan Beta: Mobile Photogrammetry

https://www.capturingreality.com/introducing-realityscan

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

How LCEVC works – A new approach to video compression

https://www.lcevc.org/how-lcevc-works/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

TruffleHog v3 – Detect and automatically verify over 600 credential types

https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

Learn about Concept Maps

https://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/learn.php

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Infrastructure as Code Should Feel

https://scalefactory.com/blog/2022/01/27/how-infrastructure-as-code-should-feel/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 50 comments

Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density

https://www.whichev.net/2022/03/29/theion-sulphur-crystal-batteries-promise-breakthrough-in-energy-density/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments
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