top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-20

Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond

https://danlark.org/2022/04/20/changing-stdsort-at-googles-scale-and-beyond/

4 years ago

Memray: a memory profiler for Python

https://github.com/bloomberg/memray

4 years ago

A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/20/1093153651/a-4-year-old-can-run-errands-alone-and-not-just-on-reality-tv

4 years ago

California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/04/california-grid-set-record-with-97-percent-renewable-power-april-3/

4 years ago

Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

https://areyoutheasshole.com/

4 years ago

The unreasonable fight for municipal broadband

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/04/20/the-unreasonable-fight-for-municipal-broadband/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094361

4 years ago

How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Advice/comments/u3qipy/how_can_i_get_my_boyfriend_to_stop_digging_his/

4 years ago

If founders treated investors the way they treat employees

https://software.rajivprab.com/2020/08/18/if-founders-treated-their-investors-the-same-way-they-treated-their-employees/

4 years ago

Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1508959260905918465

4 years ago

You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it

https://www.trickster.dev/post/you-probably-dont-need-aws-and-are-better-off-without-it/

4 years ago

Show HN: Favicons for HN

https://gist.github.com/frabert/48b12088441f6195ea9292c2a5a77e3a

4 years ago

QEMU 7.0

https://www.qemu.org/2022/04/19/qemu-7-0-0/

4 years ago

Ruby YJIT Ported to Rust

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5826

4 years ago

Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31099186

4 years ago

Manager's Handbook (2020)

https://themanagershandbook.com/

4 years ago

What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)

https://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/

4 years ago

Home lab beginners guide (2021)

https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/

4 years ago

Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from

https://workmode.co

4 years ago

On anti-crypto toxicity

https://blog.mollywhite.net/anti-crypto-toxicity/

4 years ago

Show HN: I created a collection of useful websites

https://www.insanelyusefulwebsites.com

4 years ago

Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/04/18/nvidia-rd-chief-on-how-ai-is-improving-chip-design/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Best way to learn about computing history?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31095360

4 years ago

Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01070-x

4 years ago

BCI lets completely “locked-in” man communicate

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/bci-lets-completely-locked-in-man-communicate-with-his-son-ask-for-a-beer/

4 years ago

Videolan.org robots.txt

https://www.videolan.org/robots.txt

4 years ago

The swimming of a dead fish (2018)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2018/07/when-i-was-a-child-my-father-would-take-me-trout/

4 years ago

That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of computers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imMRzBzQm1U

4 years ago

In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

4 years ago

U.S. forgives 40k student loans

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-forgives-40000-student-loans-provides-aid-millions-more-2022-04-19/

4 years ago

Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)

https://davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/

4 years ago

Detailed Assemblies for an Airtight Small Home

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2022/04/19/detailed-assemblies-for-an-airtight-small-home

4 years ago

The ‘psychobiome': the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, act

https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-psychobiome-gut-bacteria-may-alter-how-you-think-feel-and-act

4 years ago

Crypto bug of the year: ECDSA signatures broken in Java

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1516570590211153922

4 years ago

Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/intel-core-i9-12900ks-world-record-78-ghz-8-cores

4 years ago

State machine replication, and why you should care

https://signalsandthreads.com/state-machine-replication-and-why-you-should-care/

4 years ago

Amazon releases 51-language dataset for language understanding

https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-releases-51-language-dataset-for-language-understanding

4 years ago

Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (2014)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/

4 years ago

Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29458-3

4 years ago

Things I would like to see in a computer algebra system

https://fredrikj.net/blog/2022/04/things-i-would-like-to-see-in-a-computer-algebra-system/

4 years ago

24-hour race won by molecule that traveled 1 micron

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/not-quite-le-mans-24-hour-race-won-by-molecule-that-traveled-1-micron/

4 years ago

Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound

https://www.wsj.com/articles/utilities-want-to-convert-coal-plants-to-nuclear-skeptics-abound-11650279600

4 years ago

Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report

https://www.science.org/content/article/uranus-should-be-nasa-s-top-planetary-target-influential-report-finds

4 years ago

Show HN: Two-way Jira sync in a collaborative spreadsheet and Gantt

https://www.visor.us/landing/visor-for-jira-launch

4 years ago

Show HN: Job board to find venture capital jobs

https://venturecapitalcareers.com/

4 years ago

Increase in hepatitis of unknown origin in children

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0419/1293155-hepatitis-children/

4 years ago

I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed

https://robertheaton.com/almost-scammed/

4 years ago

Go Developer Survey 2021 Results

https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-results

4 years ago

Wide-Band WebSDR

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

4 years ago

Discussions: Real human answers in search results

https://brave.com/discussions-in-brave-search/

4 years ago

Simular VR: Lenses and Schematics

https://simulavr.com/blog/lenses-and-vxr-schematics/

4 years ago

Marriage Markets (and Muscularity)

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/marriage-markets-and-muscularity

4 years ago

Faster Geospatial Enrichment

https://tech.marksblogg.com/faster-geospatial-enrichment.html

4 years ago

A downtick is coming for online advertising

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-downtick-is-coming-for-online-advertising-11650294985

4 years ago

Mathematical Foundations of Monte Carlo Methods

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/mathematics-physics-for-computer-graphics/monte-carlo-methods-mathematical-foundations

4 years ago

Useful Self-Improvement Interventions (2013)

https://www.lincolnquirk.com/si/2013/07/16/si_useful-interventions.html

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why does this image look 3D?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31102152

4 years ago

Panic Playdate In-Depth Review

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/review-playdate-earns-its-179-price-tag-with-cute-design-memorable-games/

4 years ago

IKOS: Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation

https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos

4 years ago

War of memes: Why Z-war won't end with peace

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1516162437455654913.html

4 years ago

The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/terminal-for-js-devs/

4 years ago

Faster GDB startup

https://tromey.com/blog/?p=1084

4 years ago

Le Corbusier's project Plan Voisin – a radical urban design for Paris from 1925

https://www.clemensgritl.com/video

4 years ago

Java 15 introduced a cryptographic vulnerability

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/java-15-introduced-a-cryptographic-vulnerability-578958

4 years ago

Hydration is pure overhead

https://www.builder.io/blog/hydration-is-pure-overhead

4 years ago

Netflix Officially Adding Commercials

https://popculture.com/streaming/news/netflix-officially-adding-commercials/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Which new skills for a data science career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31093910

4 years ago

Twitter Employee Revealed Identity of User to WaPo Reporter

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/washington-post-libs-tik-tok-doxxed-taylor-lorenz/

4 years ago

GitHub suspending Russian accounts, deleted project history and pull requests

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/04/19/github-suspending-russian-accounts/

4 years ago

Ribbit Scheme bootstraps with Posix shell while supporting TCO, call/cc and GC

https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit/commit/14077d111425c8472dd5a0e865462dea70a8d206

4 years ago

Is growth linear, not exponential?

https://rootsofprogress.org/is-growth-linear-not-exponential

4 years ago

Does anyone else think Google search quality has gone downhill fast?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/u74vx6/does_anyone_else_think_google_search_quality_has/

4 years ago

Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions (2021)

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/being-poor-ish-revisited-reader-questions

4 years ago

Apple to roll out child safety feature that scans messages for nudity to UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/20/apple-says-new-child-safety-feature-to-be-rolled-out-for-uk-iphones

4 years ago

Show HN: DTL: a language and JavaScript lib to transform and manipulate data

https://getdtl.org/

4 years ago

The Ever Loving Hell

https://onefoottsunami.com/2022/04/20/the-ever-loving-hell/

4 years ago

A plastic bag’s 2000-mile journey

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-tesco-recycle-plastic-waste-pledge-falls-short/

4 years ago