top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-09

Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL

https://persepolis.getty.edu

4 years ago

879 upvotes – 200 comments

MIT graduate students vote to unionize

https://thetech.com/2022/04/08/grad-students-unionize

4 years ago

638 upvotes – 379 comments

Heaps: A free, open-source and cross-platform game engine

https://heaps.io/index.html

4 years ago

508 upvotes – 94 comments

Super Simple Storage Service

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

4 years ago

466 upvotes – 155 comments

An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown

https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghais-stunning-fall-from-grace/

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 518 comments

Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

https://www.explordle.com/map/wor

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 86 comments

I need to find an apartment

https://mattrighetti.com/2022/04/05/i-need-to-find-an-appartment.html

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 305 comments

Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost

https://github.com/ekzhang/bore

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 76 comments

Google says AI generated content is against guidelines

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-ai-generated-content-is-against-guidelines/444916/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 185 comments

Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/parking-kills-businesses-not-bikes-or-buses

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 428 comments

Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 57 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot ROM, line 442?

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-bootrom/blob/ef22cd8ede5bc007f81d7f2416b48db90f313434/bootrom/bootrom_rt0.S#L442-L444

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 73 comments

The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash

https://tookmund.com/2022/04/importance-of-the-trailing-slash

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 51 comments

Middle managers fear they've become irrelevant with work from home

https://fortune.com/2022/04/07/remote-work-from-home-is-over-firing-pay-cut/

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 164 comments

Back to India

https://yugal.me/back-to-india/

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 353 comments

Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours

https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/california-employees-4-day-workweek.html

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 220 comments

Patina and Intimacy

https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/patina-and-intimacy

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 84 comments

m.u.g.e.n. 2D Fighting Game Engine

http://www.elecbyte.com/mugendocs-11b1/mugen.html

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 49 comments

Always tell kids the truth (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/active-families/tell-your-kids-truth/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 251 comments

I Believe Zig Has Function Colors

https://gavinhoward.com/2022/04/i-believe-zig-has-function-colors/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 158 comments

A basic introduction to NumPy's einsum

https://ajcr.net/Basic-guide-to-einsum/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Why Blog at All?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30965485

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 119 comments

The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet

https://newsletter.impervious.ai/impervious-browser-functionality-overview/

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 127 comments

Jimmy Carter saved Canadian nuclear reactor after meltdown

https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 112 comments

Starting Your Computer Music Journey with Clojure and Overtone in Emacs

https://savo.rocks/posts/starting-your-computer-music-journey-with-clojure-and-overtone-in-emacs/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 9 comments

Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30972546

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 57 comments

Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’

https://deadline.com/2022/04/ed-sheeran-creative-cost-shape-of-you-plagiarism-lawsuit-films-songwriting-sessions-1234997792/

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 170 comments

3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2011)

https://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio

https://anno.so/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

Zine – an simple and opinionated tool to build your own magazine

https://github.com/zineland/zine

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Electronics Flea Market

https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

My Org Roam Notes Workflow (2021)

https://hugocisneros.com/blog/my-org-roam-notes-workflow/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Visi On by VisiCorp – The obscure first full GUI for the IBM PC

http://toastytech.com/guis/vision.html

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Quaise Energy – Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy

https://www.quaise.energy

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 95 comments

Reverse-engineering the LM185 voltage reference chip and its bandgap reference

https://www.righto.com/2022/04/reverse-engineering-lm185-voltage.html

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Turn Photos into 3D Models

https://www.r3dphoto.app/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 47 comments

Stanford prof calls cops on Berkeley prof who exposed her $5K/hr consulting fee

https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/stanford-prof-calls-cops-on-berkeley-prof-who-exposed-her-5k-hour-consulting-fee/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 67 comments

The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/the-unravelling-of-an-expert-on-serial-killers

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What do you do to recharge after a day of work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969437

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: 3D model file thumbnails for Windows Explorer

https://github.com/EYHN/space-thumbnails

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Russia War Crimes

https://war.ukraine.ua/russia-war-crimes/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

OpenSSH now uses hybrid post-quantum streamlined NTRU Prime X25519 by default

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Eero Pro 6E and Eero 6 Review: Fast and Easy

https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/4/eero-6-plus-and-eero-pro-6e-review

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

The Caves of Mars (2019)

https://www.usgs.gov/news/caves-mars

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO–Then Disappeared (2020)

https://www.history.com/news/ufo-fighter-jet-disappears-over-lake-superior-kinross-incident

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: How to think about direction in life/career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30972009

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Wanderwort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderwort

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Research on whether reading fiction makes you nicer

https://lithub.com/its-official-according-to-science-reading-fiction-makes-you-nicer/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Errors

https://chelseatroy.com/2022/03/11/why-compilers-dont-autocorrect-obvious-parse-errors/

4 years ago

64 upvotes – 101 comments

The Evolution of Indoor Climate

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-indoor-climate-part

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments
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