top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-28

Bits of advice I wish I had known

https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/

4 years ago

1109 upvotes – 634 comments

Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights

https://blog.opensource.org/gnome-patent-troll-stripped-of-patent-rights/

4 years ago

594 upvotes – 188 comments

Snap launches its first drone

https://pixy.com/

4 years ago

543 upvotes – 404 comments

I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 464 comments

OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and Conquer

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 80 comments

E Ink Gallery 3

https://www.eink.com/news.html?type=releasedetail&id=2645&year=2022&page=1

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 324 comments

I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books

https://greglim81.medium.com/how-i-earned-160-000-in-passion-income-from-writing-non-fiction-books-8ce26b6e2635

4 years ago

337 upvotes – 224 comments

Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31189377

4 years ago

316 upvotes – 66 comments

New links found between musical training and cognitive ability

https://neurosciencenews.com/musical-training-cognition-20467/

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 163 comments

Lets talk about blockchains

https://cmdli.dev/blog/blockchain/

4 years ago

309 upvotes – 299 comments

Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/04/25/rocket-mortgage-trim-workforce-home-loan-market-shrinks/7445270001/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 493 comments

2022 Mac Studio (20-core M1 Ultra) Review

http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20220427/

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 215 comments

We need someone who has done “it” before

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-1852-we-need-someone-who-has

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization

https://www.fintopea.com

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 63 comments

I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations

https://ccleve.com/p/dont-hire-remote-employees-living

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 376 comments

The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident

https://www.asmeurer.com/blog/posts/the-sympy-hackerrank-dmca-incident/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 82 comments

Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense

https://www.eisfunke.com/article/blockchain-technology.html

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 374 comments

Founding Uber SRE

https://lethain.com/founding-uber-sre/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 111 comments

Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195476

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 100 comments

Actor system for the JVM developed by Electronic Arts

https://www.orbit.cloud/orbit/

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 91 comments

Terraform Provider for Spotify

https://github.com/conradludgate/terraform-provider-spotify

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 75 comments

Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source

https://intfiction.org/t/inform-7-v10-1-0-is-now-open-source/55674

4 years ago

202 upvotes – 51 comments

The Twelve-Factor App (2011)

https://12factor.net/

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 102 comments

EU considers banning use of up to 12,000 toxic chemicals

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/26/europe-toxic-chemicals-ban-eu/8111650971773/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

Review: Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a mandatory game for comedy fans

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/review-stanley-parable-ultra-deluxe-is-a-mandatory-game-for-comedy-fans/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 101 comments

I built an open-source, AI-powered solar panel that's 95% optimal

https://www.jackogrady.me/reinforcement-learning-solar/research-summary

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean may not be safe

https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/04/scientists-japans-plan-to-dump-nuclear-waste-into-the-pacific-ocean-may-not-be-safe/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 173 comments

Create a positive feedback loop to become motivated

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/create-a-positive-feedback-loop-to-become-motivated

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31191817

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 186 comments

What Is the Fediverse?

https://framatube.org/videos/watch/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 110 comments

Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30863-air-france-boeing-777-incident-bea-update

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 172 comments

Decentralized cluster membership in Rust

https://quickwit.io/blog/chitchat/

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/nobody-will-admit-the-best-novel

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 131 comments

Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky

https://www.science.org/content/article/balloon-detects-first-signs-sound-tunnel-sky

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 28 comments

An automatic theorem proving project

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/announcing-an-automatic-theorem-proving-project/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 76 comments

User friendly web games

https://merely.xyz:443/games/

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 68 comments

U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-growth-q1-11651108351

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 326 comments

Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-inland-seas

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 217 comments

GNU Nano 6.3

https://nano-editor.org/news.php

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 109 comments

What is a molten salt reactor?

https://www.thmsr.com/en/overview/

4 years ago

136 upvotes – 101 comments

Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MD-06-2021-0747/full/html

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 264 comments

Explorer – A library to bring dataframes to Elixir

https://www.cigrainger.com/posts/introducing-explorer/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors [pdf]

https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/pubs/papers/lbo-ispass-2022.pdf

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 156 comments

Using LEOs and GEOs

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2022-04/leogeo.html

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover

https://www.axios.com/twitter-overstated-users-elon-musk-deal-f7cecef1-b156-4998-91ff-37f6f56c82e0.html

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 111 comments

Pet Airways

https://petairways.com/pets-are-not-luggage/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 190 comments

My startup is broken

https://caseysoftware.com/blog/my-startup-is-broken

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 79 comments

Bowden's Hobby Circuits

http://www.bowdenshobbycircuits.info/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Hide a photo inside another photo

https://www.avestura.dev/blog/hide-a-photo-inside-another-photo

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

Testing my system code in /usr/ without modifying /usr/

https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments

Covid patients pushed medical extremes in life support breakthrough

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/covid-patients-pushed-medical-extremes-in-life-support-breakthrough/news-story/cd532455b2073bc87fbcd9d5abd9c0e7

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 158 comments

The EU has joined Mastodon

https://social.network.europa.eu/about

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Using LSP in Emacs and Debian

https://anarc.at/blog/2022-04-27-lsp-in-debian/

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/letter-from-a-young-distributist

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 159 comments

PranaDB – A distributed streaming database, designed to be horizontally scalable

https://github.com/cashapp/pranadb

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ (2016)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20491

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub

https://github.blog/2022-04-28-best-practices-to-keep-your-projects-secure-on-github/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Core dumps, feedback loops, and a game of telephone

https://dubroy.com/blog/core-dumps-feedback-loops-and-a-game-of-telephone/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/append-reddit/hfgllcmkdcpljffbcejhkengkfkiciob

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 89 comments

The death rate for children has dropped dramatically

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/27/1093856457/the-death-rate-for-children-has-dropped-dramatically-yet-theres-cause-for-alarm

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wild

https://jmliu88.github.io/HeSer/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Amazon Q1/2022 [pdf]

https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2022/q1/Q1-2022-Amazon-Earnings-Release.pdf

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 102 comments

Copilot is closing

https://meet.copilot.com/closing/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 84 comments

Engineered jumpers overcome biological limits via work multiplication

https://engineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/engineered-jumpers-overcome-biological-limits-via-work-multiplication

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Hatch 1.0.0 – Modern, extensible Python project management

https://github.com/ofek/hatch

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker

https://newatlas.com/robotics/jr-west-gundam-maintenance-robot/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Spots Gear That Helped Perseverance Rover Land

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-mars-helicopter-spots-gear-that-helped-perseverance-rover-land

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Ancient Temple dedicated to Zeus discovered in Egypt

https://www.livescience.com/zeus-temple-ancient-egypt

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Edworking – All-in-one productivity platform for teams

https://edworking.com/

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Counting set bits in an interesting way

http://www.robalni.org/posts/20220428-counting-set-bits-in-an-interesting-way.txt

4 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

The moon’s permanent shadows are coming to light

https://www.quantamagazine.org/secrets-of-the-moons-permanent-shadows-are-coming-to-light-20220428/

4 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments
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