top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-07

Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/canada-to-ban-some-foreigners-from-buying-homes-as-prices-soar

3 years ago

790 upvotes – 793 comments

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-computers-used-to-do-3d-animation

3 years ago

768 upvotes – 364 comments

What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-fast

3 years ago

685 upvotes – 461 comments

I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-thought-i-would-have-accomplished-a-lot-more-today-and-also-by-the-time-i-was-thirty-five

3 years ago

600 upvotes – 452 comments

I stopped advertising and nothing happened

https://theantistartup.com/i-stopped-advertising-everywhere-and-nothing-happened/

3 years ago

590 upvotes – 388 comments

Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945451

3 years ago

580 upvotes – 430 comments

Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

https://redditle.com

3 years ago

448 upvotes – 198 comments

The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/apple-music-nullbytes.html

3 years ago

407 upvotes – 224 comments

Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/04/03/ruby-3-2-0-preview1-released/

3 years ago

364 upvotes – 98 comments

Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page

https://css-tricks.com/send-an-http-request-on-page-exit/

3 years ago

358 upvotes – 236 comments

Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/about-us/article/2022/04/07/welcome-to-le-monde-in-english_5979903_115.html

3 years ago

351 upvotes – 270 comments

Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years

https://twitter.com/rafaelmgrossi/status/1512061341212704771

3 years ago

316 upvotes – 246 comments

FAA, do your damn job

https://www.avweb.com/insider/faa-do-your-damn-job/

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 281 comments

Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

https://duncanlock.net/blog/2022/04/06/using-windows-after-15-years-on-linux/

3 years ago

299 upvotes – 562 comments

The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter

https://annoying.technology/posts/e6901c0ea272f57d/

3 years ago

295 upvotes – 206 comments

A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/04/04/book-review-a-square-meal-part-i-foods-of-the-20s-and-30s/

3 years ago

294 upvotes – 218 comments

TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++

https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html

3 years ago

280 upvotes – 113 comments

Microplastics found in live human lung tissue

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/microplastics-found-in-live-human-lung-tissue-for-the-first-time/

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 217 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever switched cloud?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942698

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 259 comments

We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/04/weve-got-a-science-opportunity-overload-its-time-to-launch-the-wolfram-institute/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 358 comments

1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/griffin-warrior-tomb-pylos-combat-agate-1142624

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 133 comments

Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)

https://tyrrrz.me/blog/unit-testing-is-overrated/

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 228 comments

Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 387 comments

rand() may call malloc()

https://www.thingsquare.com/blog/articles/rand-may-call-malloc/

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 90 comments

Raspberry Pi update removes the default user

http://deepaqua.me/2022/04/07/the-pi-user-is-dead-long-life-the-pi-user/

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 165 comments

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 84 comments

Use Git tactically

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/06/use-git-tactically/

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/fermilab-says-particle-is-heavy-enough-to-break-the-standard-model-20220407/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 122 comments

Advantages of Monorepos (2015)

https://danluu.com/monorepo/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 140 comments

Money Stuff is Linear-ish

https://danielstone.substack.com/p/money-stuff-is-linear-ish

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 44 comments

ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2022/april/50-years-backfile

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

Invitation to Europe

https://novayagazeta.eu/

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 36 comments

PiGlass v2: A wearable Pi Zero 2

https://learn.adafruit.com/piglass-v2-wearable-raspberry-pi-computer

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 39 comments

3M Cuts Output of PFAS Used in Chip Production

https://www.eetimes.com/3m-cuts-output-of-hazardous-material-used-in-chip-production/

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940747

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 145 comments

Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode

https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 31 comments

Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220406.html

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

The underwhelming impact of software engineering research

https://iansommerville.com/technology/research-impact/

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 68 comments

A detailed look at the S-300P anti-aircraft missile system

http://ausairpower.net/APA-Grumble-Gargoyle.html

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 121 comments

News for the Future of BeeWare

https://beeware.org/news/buzz/exciting-news-for-the-future-of-beeware/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)

https://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-learned-at-dropbox-part-1

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1049061/dalle-openai-gpt3-ai-agi-multimodal-image-generation/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Tell HN: Dropbox user age verification feature can lock your account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945199

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 93 comments

86Box: Why Not Pentium III?

https://86box.net/2022/03/21/why-not-p3.html

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 98 comments

Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?

https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-the-dts-vs-dolby-war-effectively-over

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

https://pipedream.com/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers

https://protomaps.com/blog/serverless-self-hosted-maps/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 19 comments

David Deutsch’s Constructor Theory

https://www.constructortheory.org/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 44 comments

Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birds-make-better-bipedal-bots-than-humans-do/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 68 comments

The physicalization of metamathematics and the implications for its foundations

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/03/the-physicalization-of-metamathematics-and-its-implications-for-the-foundations-of-mathematics/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 98 comments

Pwning the Bcm61650

https://blog.xilokar.info/pwning-the-bcm61650.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

Denonia: The First Malware Specifically Targeting AWS Lambda

https://www.cadosecurity.com/cado-discovers-denonia-the-first-malware-specifically-targeting-lambda/

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments
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