top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-11

Etsy Strike

https://etsystrike.org/

4 years ago

1135 upvotes – 554 comments

Van life (cancer edition) finale

https://imgur.com/gallery/prUy1Kt

4 years ago

678 upvotes – 262 comments

I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing

https://sslping.com

4 years ago

641 upvotes – 262 comments

Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/how-noise-pollution-affects-heart-health

4 years ago

597 upvotes – 510 comments

Europe is investing heavily in trains

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/travel/europe-trains.html

4 years ago

581 upvotes – 640 comments

Success and Failure at Pebble

https://medium.com/@ericmigi/why-pebble-failed-d7be937c6232

4 years ago

557 upvotes – 311 comments

Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

4 years ago

534 upvotes – 488 comments

Elon has decided not to join our board

https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1513354622466867201

4 years ago

512 upvotes – 497 comments

Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks

https://twitter.com/kjartanmuller/status/1513462616030683138

4 years ago

502 upvotes – 247 comments

Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30986893

4 years ago

469 upvotes – 102 comments

Node.js packages don't deserve trust

https://josephg.com/blog/node-sandbox/

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 345 comments

I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it

https://climateer.substack.com/p/avoided-emissions

4 years ago

394 upvotes – 426 comments

Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket

https://twitter.com/dvsch/status/1458813237651247109

4 years ago

381 upvotes – 346 comments

Impressions from a first-time Mac user

https://loganmarchione.com/2022/04/impressions-from-a-first-time-mac-user/

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 728 comments

Real World Recommendation System

https://blog.fennel.ai/p/real-world-recommendation-system

4 years ago

357 upvotes – 148 comments

FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'

https://reason.com/2022/04/08/the-fbi-decided-not-to-knock-down-a-suspects-front-door-because-it-was-an-affluent-neighborhood/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 367 comments

San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019303/heres-what-happens-cops-pull-over-a-driverless-cruise-vehicle-general-motors

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 486 comments

Playing with DALL-E 2

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r99tazGiLgzqFX7ka/playing-with-dall-e-2

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30983517

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 142 comments

Apple starts manufacturing iPhone 13 in India

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-starts-manufacturing-iphone-13-india-2022-04-11/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 194 comments

Is my advice too mercenary?

https://jacobian.org/2022/apr/11/mercenary/

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 375 comments

Protect domains that do not send email

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protect-domains-that-dont-send-email

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 34 comments

DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla

https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/04/09/check-out-this-deepminds-new-language-model-chinchilla-70b-parameters-which-significantly-outperforms-gopher-280b-and-gpt-3-175b-on-a-large-range-of-downstream-evaluation-tasks/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 142 comments

Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal

https://www.livescience.com/first-interstellar-object-detected

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir

https://multiplayer.dev

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 57 comments

Iced – A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework

https://github.com/ern0/howto-wasm-minimal

4 years ago

217 upvotes – 42 comments

Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT)

https://crdt.tech/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 54 comments

NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit

https://newatlas.com/space/spinlaunch-nasa/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 200 comments

Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 138 comments

Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finland-sweden-set-to-join-nato-war-ukraine-latest-7m8bn6mf8

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 420 comments

The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08890

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 59 comments

‘We’re a Cult’: Inside Bitcoin’s Shameless Hypefest

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-bitcoin-2022-conference-in-miami-beach

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 259 comments

I decided to move away from big tech for my children and myself

https://lof.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-04-11%20How%20I%20decided%20to%20move%20away%20for%20bigTech%20for%20my%20children%20and%20myself.gmi

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 295 comments

-h –Help -help Help –? –?

https://blog.craftyguy.net/cmdline-help/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 231 comments

Incident Report for Confluence

https://confluence.status.atlassian.com/incidents/hf1xxft08nj5

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 133 comments

Weightless cats – Do space cats land on their feet? (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XtK6R1QAk

4 years ago

168 upvotes – 164 comments

Get familiar with workspaces

https://go.dev/blog/get-familiar-with-workspaces

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 96 comments

Security Comics

https://securityzines.com/#comics

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 19 comments

More Fakery

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-fakery

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

AWS RDS Vulnerability Leads to AWS Internal Service Credentials

https://blog.lightspin.io/aws-rds-critical-security-vulnerability

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 15 comments

What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust

https://blog.adamchalmers.com/making-a-dns-client/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 27 comments

Medusa is a device that allows connecting of old computers to modern displays

http://medusa-sc.org/index.php?title=Description

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 72 comments

Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/researchers-home-in-on-possible-day-zero-for-antikythera-mechanism/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 123 comments

How and why Daily is using Rust for our WebRTC APIs

https://www.daily.co/blog/how-and-why-daily-is-using-rust-for-our-webrtc-apis/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 27 comments

Elementary Audio: a modern platform for writing high performance audio software

https://www.elementary.audio/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 107 comments

Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61070591

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: What jobs can I have knowing Python?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985277

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

One of the most popular activities in non-industrial societies: doing nothing

https://twitter.com/mnvrsngh/status/1510978995269029888

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery

https://artemis.sh/2022/04/11/package-manager-murder-mystery.html

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Tonight we’re gonna log on like it's 1979

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/04/tonight-were-gonna-log-on-like-its-1979.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 41 comments

Michelle Yeoh, martial arts and the multiverse: inside the year’s wildest movie

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/11/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Best practices for editing remote code locally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30987770

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 178 comments

Why a Slide Rule Works

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/04/10/why-a-slide-rule-works/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

The Apple-1's shift-register memory

https://www.righto.com/2022/04/inside-apple-1s-shift-register-memory.html

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

What if Sun Microsystems acquired Apple in 1996?

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-internet-wars-tl.523117/

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 120 comments

Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track

https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/spring-operation-update/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 136 comments

Senior EU officials were targeted with Israeli spyware

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-senior-eu-officials-were-targeted-with-israeli-spyware-sources-2022-04-11/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments
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