top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-23

My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-04-23-fiber7-25gbit-upgrade/

4 years ago

753 upvotes – 507 comments

Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old

https://twitter.com/protopop/status/1517701619374338050

4 years ago

668 upvotes – 410 comments

I stopped working on black hole information loss

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-stopped-working-on-black-hole.html

4 years ago

461 upvotes – 356 comments

Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

https://thisaidoesnotexist.com/

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132610

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 549 comments

U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/will-interest-rates-on-savings-accounts-go-up-marcus-ally-bank-keep-levels-low

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 338 comments

Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23036976/eu-digital-services-act-finalized-algorithms-targeted-advertising

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 211 comments

Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017)

https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#gc

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 250 comments

The Curse of Systems Thinkers

https://blog.relyabilit.ie/the-curse-of-systems-thinkers/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 120 comments

Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum

https://github.blog/2022-04-23-zx-spectrum-40-year-anniversary/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 73 comments

Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (2010)

https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/voyager-2-has-flipped-its-bit/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 122 comments

Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap)

https://balintreczey.hu/blog/firefox-on-ubuntu-22-04-from-deb-not-from-snap/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 260 comments

Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 519 comments

$34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code

https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1517680400142716929

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 256 comments

DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

https://every.to/divinations/dall-e-2-and-the-origin-of-vibe-shifts

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 156 comments

Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 100 comments

Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change

https://apnews.com/article/climate-technology-science-business-media-8ba71b6baf07c520ddb6fbfff101ad4a

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 321 comments

Introducing Threads in Beta

https://element.io/blog/introducing-threads-in-beta/

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 76 comments

Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 77 comments

Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/23/discussing-crypto-the-left-technofeudalism-with-evgeny-morozov-crypto-syllabus-long-interview/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 260 comments

A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)

https://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 62 comments

Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to teens across the U.S

https://bookriot.com/unbanned-books/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 163 comments

EU DSA: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-digital-services-act-industry-and-government-interests-prevail-over-citizens-digital-rights/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 66 comments

Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

https://github.com/systemd/casync

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 25 comments

The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220419-00/?p=106496

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 31 comments

Making open source hardware design a reality

https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-hardware-tools

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt

https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 128 comments

The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft

https://www.righto.com/2022/04/the-digital-ranging-system-that.html

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (1988)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adobe-postscript

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 52 comments

Umberto Eco on common features of fascism (2016)

https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

4 years ago

116 upvotes – 155 comments

Cryptocurrency as a cybersecurity alarm

https://stakedy.com/long/cryptocurrency-as-a-cybersecurity-alarm.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Why did the ruble stabilize and what's going on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132780

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 232 comments

The one time North Vietnam’s MiGs attacked U.S. navy warships

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-one-time-north-vietnams-migs-attacked-u-s-navy-warships

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe

https://wusspuss.neocities.org/xmpp.html

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 140 comments

VeriGPU: GPU in Verilog loosely based on RISC-V ISA

https://github.com/hughperkins/VeriGPU

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

When No-Code Stops Scaling (2020)

https://head.ai/content/when-no-code-stops-scaling

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 74 comments

Cdecl: C Gibberish ↔ English

https://cdecl.org/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

K8s Iceberg

https://flant.com/k8s-iceberg.svg

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2000)

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Funding decentralised/local-first applications for GNOME

https://blog.ergaster.org/post/20220422-decentralised-local-first-applications/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

A day after he bought electric scooter, man killed in battery explosion

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/vijayawada-man-killed-in-electric-scooter-battery-explosion-7883920/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

VCR Virus Fake VHS Copy-Protection Warning Label (2016)

https://whyimnotanartist.net/2016/03/08/vcr-virus-fake-vhs-copy-protection-warning-label/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust

https://opentitan.org/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

History of roff

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/roff.7.html#History

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Fleet – Experimental build tool for Rust that’s up to 5x faster

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132659

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Ozarks Technical Community College robbed of nearly $900k

https://www.bransontrilakesnews.com/news/local/article_0a6f60d4-c25a-11ec-9270-1b30a93475bc.html

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 83 comments

War Without Rules: Inside China’s Playbook for Global Domination

https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2022/04/18/communist_china_has_thrown_out_the_old_rules_of_war_827699.html

4 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/arizonas-dry-future-begins-as-colorado-river-shrinks-11650718801

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 110 comments

Building the Inverse Jim Cramer Index

https://quantbase.medium.com/the-inverse-jim-cramer-index-d314c359ed8e

4 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments
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