top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-14

Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter

4 years ago

We lost 54k GitHub stars

https://httpie.io/blog/stardust

4 years ago

StarBook 14-inch

https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

4 years ago

5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/06/29/5-minute-breathing-workout-lowers-blood-pressure-much-exercise-drugs

4 years ago

Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESa3Du3udY

4 years ago

Ethereum Has Issues

https://blog.dshr.org/2022/04/ethereum-has-issues.html

4 years ago

Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31028795

4 years ago

Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-germany-wont-keep-its-nuclear

4 years ago

Fennel: A Practical Lisp

https://www.mattroelle.com/fennel-the-practical-lisp

4 years ago

How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezME4_xMMnk

4 years ago

Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm – Russian Defense Ministry

https://tass.com/russia/1438045

4 years ago

The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down

https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

4 years ago

I'm tired of Google's business products

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026257

4 years ago

An argument for a return to Web 1.0

https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/oldweb.html

4 years ago

New Covid nasal spray outperforms current antibody treatments in mice

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/04/new-covid-19-nasal-spray-outperforms-current-antibody-treatments-in-mice/

4 years ago

Doing small network scientific machine learning in Julia faster than PyTorch

https://julialang.org/blog/2022/04/simple-chains/

4 years ago

Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)

https://randthoughts.github.io/little-rant-about-gnomes-file-manager-aka-nautilus/

4 years ago

iViewed your API keys

https://wale.id.au/posts/iviewed-your-api-keys/

4 years ago

Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees

https://apnews.com/article/business-inflation-prices-4ae9ab8b6dd28652672f3e2615149de0

4 years ago

Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027766

4 years ago

Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas

https://voussoir.net/writing/browser_in_the_dark

4 years ago

As inflation soars, how is Arizona iced tea still 99 cents?

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-tea-inflation-99-cents

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027526

4 years ago

Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/04/02/americans-views-on-the-war-reveal-a-striking-generational-divide

4 years ago

Why Ruby Has Symbols

https://dmitrytsepelev.dev/why-has-ruby-symbols

4 years ago

Incident with GitHub Actions and Codespaces

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/vxvyrmy9w1vp

4 years ago

Gallium OS: a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices

https://galliumos.org/

4 years ago

License to Use JSLint for Evil

https://web.archive.org/web/20130203112329/http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502

4 years ago

The history of the elimination of leaded gasoline

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/04/the-history-of-the-elimination-of-leaded-gasoline/

4 years ago

Can You Insert Hardware Trojan Spyware IP into an IC at the Fab? Yes

https://www.eejournal.com/article/can-you-insert-hardware-trojan-spyware-ip-into-an-ic-at-the-fab-yes-you-can/

4 years ago

Ancient tombs and statues unearthed beneath Notre Dame Cathedral

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/ancient-tombs-statues-notre-dame-cathedral-archaeological-dig

4 years ago

Link: Simple, secure one-click payments by Stripe

https://link.co/

4 years ago

Archaeologists unearth ancient Sumerian riverboat in Iraq

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-sumerian-riverboat-in-iraq/

4 years ago

Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_rust_a_better_fit_for_cheri_and_other_platforms.html

4 years ago

My mate is making a tool for DnD players to quickly visualise scenarios

https://doodlegrid.com

4 years ago

Heatsink Skiving (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PUk0m3bISI

4 years ago

InvenTree: Open-source inventory management system

https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree

4 years ago

Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial”

https://lithub.com/on-natural-wine-inherited-money-and-the-delusions-of-the-future-rich-millennial/

4 years ago

Clojure isn’t for me (2020)

https://swlkr.com/posts/clojure-isnt-for-me/

4 years ago

Hitler’s Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945 (2018)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hitlers-teeth-confirm-he-died-1945-180969133/

4 years ago

My Life as a Mentalist

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/04/07/where-i-go-my-life-as-a-mentalist/chronicles/where-i-go/

4 years ago

Tesla must pay ex-worker $15M for “disturbing” racist abuse, judge rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/tesla-must-pay-ex-worker-15-million-for-disturbing-racist-abuse-judge-rules/

4 years ago

Computer Science Open Data

https://jeffhuang.com/computer-science-open-data/

4 years ago

Replacement power supply for the Toshiba T1200 laptop computer

https://github.com/BasicCode/Toshiba-T1200-PSU

4 years ago

Pipedream: ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for Hacking Industrial Control Systems

https://www.wired.com/story/pipedream-ics-malware/

4 years ago