top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-15

When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/

4 years ago

996 upvotes – 543 comments

DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and-youtube-dl-from-its-search-results-220415/

4 years ago

864 upvotes – 446 comments

Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html

4 years ago

669 upvotes – 1081 comments

Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

4 years ago

612 upvotes – 258 comments

My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440

4 years ago

591 upvotes – 624 comments

Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

https://news.mit.edu/2022/frequency-therapeutics-hearing-regeneration-0329

4 years ago

569 upvotes – 212 comments

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 195 comments

Neovim 0.7 Released

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.7.0

4 years ago

336 upvotes – 216 comments

Shirky.com is gone

https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 143 comments

It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/14/its-still-stupidly-ridiculously-difficult-to-buy-a-dumb-tv/

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 427 comments

The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land

https://www.bicyclecolorado.org/bike-news/colorado-safety-stop-becomes-law/

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 616 comments

Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ten-members-international-stock-manipulation-ring-charged-manhattan-federal-court

4 years ago

300 upvotes – 172 comments

Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators

https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-user-tokens/

4 years ago

281 upvotes – 67 comments

The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown

https://storiesfromthestateofexception.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/the-silenced-deaths-of-the-shanghai-2022-lockdown/

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 277 comments

Rustaceans at the border

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/889924/2b330ed9ea4a9e23/

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 405 comments

Tax the Land

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22951092/land-tax-housing-crisis

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 590 comments

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction

https://blog.boot.dev/cryptography/elliptic-curve-cryptography/

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 40 comments

New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design

4 years ago

211 upvotes – 254 comments

Bevy 0.7: data oriented game engine built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019)

https://lethalguitar.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/re-implementing-an-old-dos-game-in-c-17/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 25 comments

Psychedelics and mental illness

https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/psychedelics

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 156 comments

Primer: Statistical Armour

https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/statistical-armour

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 89 comments

Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security

https://ameliorated.info/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 218 comments

Terrible things I'd do with your money

https://timdaub.github.io/2022/04/15/the-terrible-things-I-would-do-with-your-money/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 77 comments

Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust

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

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 22 comments

What Artists Notice

https://stopa.io/post/294

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 61 comments

How to draw sub cutaways in MS Paint (2015)

http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20in%20MS%20Paint.html

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 61 comments

List Of Adhesive Tapes

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

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 135 comments

Wikipedia globally blocks Apple Private Relay IP ranges from editing

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay

4 years ago

162 upvotes – 91 comments

Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 176 comments

One-line drawings

https://schollz.com/blog/one-line/

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

VRML

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

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 144 comments

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 239 comments

I hope distributed is not the new default

https://www.zeptonaut.com/posts/i-hope-distributed-is-not-the-new-default/

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 265 comments

Be Less Technical

https://www.sequential.dev/posts/be-less-technical/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 69 comments

Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article260445977.html

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 249 comments

Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/sinking-a-warship-is-a-truly-rare-event-in-modern-naval-warfare

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 241 comments

Mac App Store Ransomware

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/04/15/mac-app-store-ransomware/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running

https://restofworld.org/2022/colombias-webcam-industry-mentors/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully renegotiated an AWS non-compete?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31041711

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 192 comments

EpubPress, turn web content into ebooks

https://epub.press

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

Pointers Are Complicated III, or: Pointer-integer casts exposed

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2022/04/11/provenance-exposed.html

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31037947

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#

https://github.com/lars-berger/GlazeWM

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

Tools we use to make our game satisfactory [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ao9-UIZIQ

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Generate Python extensions using Nim language

https://ramanlabs.in/static/blog/Generate_Python_extensions_using_Nim_language.html

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL

https://bytebase.com/blog/database-migration-sqlite-to-postgresql

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Two-qubit silicon quantum processor with operation fidelity exceeding 99%

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn5130

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA

https://hypercardsimulator.com/Account/Coffee

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

The History of Franz and Lisp

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9740557

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-adopts-limited-duration-shareholder-rights-plan-enabling-all-shareholders-to-realize-full-value-of-company-301526627.html

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 222 comments

Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/single-mom-sues-coding-boot-camp-over-job-placement-rates-195151315.html

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 113 comments

Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whistle-Blowers Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-12/medicare-fraud-whistleblowers-accuse-insurers-of-faking-claims-to-make-billions

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Vectorflow: Minimalist neural network library faster than TensorFlow in D

https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Gambit – open-source tools for doing computation in game theory

http://www.gambit-project.org/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

SUSE Linux Enterprise Opens Its Development Model to the Public

https://linuxiac.com/suse-linux-enterprise-alp/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

https://github.com/Softmotions/iwnet

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Algorithms and Data Structures – Transition systems (2004) [pdf]

https://cs.au.dk/~gerth/dADS1-12/daimi-fn64.pdf

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Make Scientific Posters Easier Than Using PowerPoint

https://app.biorender.com/#new-poster

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Two Silicon Valley executives charged with H-1B visa fraud

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-14/two-silicon-valley-executives-charged-with-h-1b-visa-fraud

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 82 comments

Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-record-prefers-males

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 115 comments

What Is at Stake in Ukraine

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/04/16/what-is-at-stake-in-ukraine

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 241 comments
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