top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-27

Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/report-90-nurses-considering-leaving-profession-next-year

4 years ago

1367 upvotes – 1261 comments

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apples-self-service-repair-now-available/

4 years ago

643 upvotes – 367 comments

Public Money, Public Code

https://publiccode.eu/

4 years ago

639 upvotes – 206 comments

Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school

https://asuprep.asu.edu/khan-world-school/

4 years ago

584 upvotes – 255 comments

I put my whole life into a single database

https://krausefx.com//blog/how-i-put-my-whole-life-into-a-single-database

4 years ago

515 upvotes – 164 comments

SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html

4 years ago

491 upvotes – 444 comments

I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)

https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/

4 years ago

470 upvotes – 397 comments

Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/google-terrible-health-information

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 424 comments

MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker

https://news.mit.edu/2022/low-power-thin-loudspeaker-0426

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 165 comments

Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180379

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 396 comments

North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-phone-jailbreakers/

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 196 comments

Show HN: Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup

https://github.com/adnanaga/pushy

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 65 comments

Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10920

4 years ago

318 upvotes – 118 comments

Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in LA's Lincoln Park

https://heysocal.com/2022/04/26/deutsche-bank-whistleblower-found-dead-in-las-lincoln-park/

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 143 comments

Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive

4 years ago

310 upvotes – 66 comments

The Kia Instrument

https://www.kia.com/us/en/movement/our-instrument

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 211 comments

Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks

https://www.pzuraq.com/blog/four-eras-of-javascript-frameworks

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 237 comments

Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly

https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog/blob/main/LEARN.md

4 years ago

279 upvotes – 143 comments

Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)

https://blog.porter.run/why-companies-move-off-heroku/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 225 comments

No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “standby” devices

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/no-you-cant-save-30-per-year-by-switching-off-your-standby-devices/

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 411 comments

Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API

https://textsynth.com/playground.html

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 134 comments

Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS

https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 84 comments

Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-dreamliner-delays-faa-defects-11651067545

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 238 comments

FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL

https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=0008c159562b877700cd9b7c96f941de4ee69af5

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 91 comments

Uber concedes deception, prepares for $26M ACCC spanking

https://www.innovationaus.com/uber-concedes-deception-prepares-for-26m-accc-spanking/

4 years ago

196 upvotes – 181 comments

The Datasette Ecosystem

https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/ecosystem.html

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 22 comments

Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/twitter-buyout-puts-mastodon-into-spotlight/

4 years ago

181 upvotes – 207 comments

Big Wind is the meanest firefighting tank you ever saw (2021)

https://hackaday.com/2021/12/06/big-wind-is-the-meanest-firefighting-tank-you-ever-saw/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 64 comments

LineByLine: Memorize Anything

https://www.linebyline.app/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 40 comments

Running Containers on AWS Lambda

https://earthly.dev/blog/aws-lambda-docker/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 78 comments

Increasing the surface area of blogging

https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/04/21/new-rss/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 48 comments

Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back

https://loneliness.one/translate

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 181 comments

Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11918

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (2014)

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180508

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 177 comments

So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell

https://www.channable.com/tech/so-long-surrogatesa

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 131 comments

Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening

https://earthsky.org/earth/heatwave-in-india-breaks-records/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31185038

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

Is it the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?

https://danielstone.substack.com/p/new-york-review-of-books-of-each-others-books

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 88 comments

Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/alibaba_cloud_android_risc_v_port/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/04/27/devops-is-at-the-center-of-gitlab/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 123 comments

Fintech App Switch Leaks Users’ Transactions and Personal IDs

https://vpnoverview.com/news/fintech-app-switch-leaks-users-transactions-personal-ids/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

Introduction to Haskell Typeclasses

https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-typeclasses

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

Fourth-generation programming language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 103 comments

Making Faster B-Trees with Go Generics

https://www.scylladb.com/2022/04/27/shaving-40-off-googles-b-tree-implementation-with-go-generics/

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Do you find it challenging to talk to your users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178577

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: gq – like jq or zq, but you use Go

https://github.com/hherman1/gq

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

The SSO Wall of Shame

https://sso.tax/

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/27/central-african-republic-adopts-bitcoin-as-legal-tender/

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 144 comments

Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2022/q1/Q1-2022_Earnings-Presentation_Final.pdf

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 171 comments

Abusing RPi GPIO pins as a radio controller

https://www.riveducha.com/raspberry-pi-gpio-send-radio-signals

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31181237

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 160 comments

Top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/inflation-corporate-america-increased-prices-profits

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183419

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

A Driver on the GPU

https://www.basnieuwenhuizen.nl/a-driver-on-the-gpu/

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

'Bloodworms' harvest copper for metal jaws

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4aw94q/demonic-looking-bloodworms-harvest-copper-for-deadly-metal-jaws

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments
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