top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-17

The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-interview/

4 years ago

893 upvotes – 448 comments

How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf

4 years ago

779 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062799

4 years ago

685 upvotes – 345 comments

“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG

https://fosstodon.org/@rudolf/108147439615842718

4 years ago

470 upvotes – 216 comments

Unreal vs. Unity Opinion

https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/035087d8736441786b10e8c3879d50dd

4 years ago

425 upvotes – 315 comments

Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/16/2154203/richard-stallman-speaks-on-the-state-of-free-software-and-answers-questions

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 596 comments

The Uber Bubble

https://braveneweurope.com/hubert-horan-the-uber-bubble-why-is-a-company-that-lost-20-billion-claimed-to-be-successful

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 538 comments

Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/samsung-electronics-cultural-issues

4 years ago

343 upvotes – 221 comments

The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen

https://nicole.express/2022/the-center-point-can-not-hold.html

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 104 comments

The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today

https://twitter.com/dbasch/status/1515737443395383299

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 293 comments

Assume your devices are compromised

https://www.go350.com/posts/digital-secrets/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 188 comments

The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59479.html

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 115 comments

What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 436 comments

Why are some egg yolks so orange?

https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/why-are-some-egg-yolks-so-orange

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 253 comments

Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 59 comments

3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10167835/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 140 comments

Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker

https://webapp.io/blog/github-actions-10x-faster-with-firecracker/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 59 comments

Eric Schmidt's influence on U.S. science policy

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 90 comments

Stabilization of gamma sulfur enables 4000 cycle Li-S batteries [pdf]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2.pdf

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 128 comments

Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games

https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 127 comments

Dexed FM synthesizer similar to DX7 running on bare metal Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 33 comments

Fuck Your Miracle Year

https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/fuck-your-miracle-year

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 160 comments

Scallop: A Neurosymbolic Programming Language

https://scallop-lang.github.io/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 27 comments

Collectibles are terrible investments

https://fullstackeconomics.com/sorry-collectibles-are-terrible-investments/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 158 comments

Rewriting Sysctl(8) in Rust: Systeroid

https://blog.orhun.dev/rewriting-sysctl-in-rust/

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 77 comments

A French town where the lighting is alive

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-the-living-lights-that-could-reduce-energy-use

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 84 comments

Vampire Attack Twitter

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/04/16/vampire-attack-twitter.html

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH

https://github.com/natesales/q

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Employees.fyi – Easily compare U.S. workforce demographic data

https://employees.fyi

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

Warpgate: Smart SSH bastion that works with any SSH client

https://github.com/warp-tech/warpgate

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

I Made an Entire Call Center Angry over Losing $94k [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQy0nBzdAYI

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Don't build useless features

https://staysaasy.com/product/2022/04/16/battlefield-product-management-dont-build-useless-features.html

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 62 comments

Beanstalk Farms stablecoin project loses $182M to exploit

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=beanstalk-farms-stablecoin-project-loses-182-million-to-exploit

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 75 comments

Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf]

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1003_Building%20a%20Hacker%20Space.pdf

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-old-way-of-learning-languages/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years

https://twitter.com/MrSollozzo/status/1515324097223225345

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 90 comments

With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)

https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFT54hO1X8M

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v4BaWwoyA0

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

Clojure and Doom Emacs on a brand new M1 computer

https://www.arthurbrrs.me/clojure-doom-emacs-m1

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

How to code, build, and deploy from an iPad using Gitlab and Gitpod

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/02/10/how-to-code-build-and-deploy-from-an-ipad-using-gitlab-and-gitpod/

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 79 comments

Social animals seek power in surprisingly complex ways

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-animals-seek-power-in-surprisingly-complex-ways/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Broadcom introduces Wi-Fi 7 chipset solutions

https://linuxgizmos.com/broadcom-introduces-worlds-first-wi-fi-7-chipset-solutions/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058930

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 80 comments

Hero 2.0, an ultra-low cost 3D-printed robotics platform

https://www.wevolver.com/article/hero-20-an-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-robotics-platform-could-open-swarm-robotics-experimentation-up-to-all

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

100k Detroit homeowners illegally taxed $600M still waiting to be compensated

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-illegally-overtaxed-homeowners-600m-theyre-still-waiting-to-be-compensated-29800877

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes: enforce network policies on encrypted traffic

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1022

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

The Missing Kubernetes Type System

https://danielmangum.com/posts/the-missing-kubernetes-type-system/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US

https://www.wired.com/story/as-climate-fears-mount-some-are-relocating-within-the-us/

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 139 comments
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