top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-01

How to professionally say

https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/

4 years ago

979 upvotes – 393 comments

I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government

https://beanlog.vercel.app/ibonds

4 years ago

838 upvotes – 489 comments

We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it

https://pudding.cool/2022/04/random/

4 years ago

704 upvotes – 343 comments

Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal

https://fig.io/

4 years ago

587 upvotes – 245 comments

DALL-E 2 open source implementation

https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch

4 years ago

520 upvotes – 152 comments

90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs

https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1520792630853918722

4 years ago

454 upvotes – 280 comments

The Niche Programmer

https://ano.ee/blog/the-niche-programmer

4 years ago

404 upvotes – 197 comments

My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience

https://lowlyswe.substack.com/p/my-experience-getting-a-tech-job

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 283 comments

Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/technology/jony-ive-apple-design.html

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 592 comments

I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (2019)

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

4 years ago

312 upvotes – 77 comments

Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf]

https://abseil.io/resources/swe_at_google.2.pdf

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 178 comments

Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering

https://blog.plover.com/brain/add.html

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 347 comments

Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project

https://wagslane.dev/posts/things-i-dont-want-to-do-to-grow-business/

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 138 comments

Disney's writer wage theft, a year on

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/disney-still-must-pay/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 84 comments

Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain

https://www.businessinsider.com/jump-trading-sues-over-wormholecom-domain-crypto-blockchain-carl-sagan-2022-4

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 328 comments

Fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than they used to be

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 164 comments

Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?

https://successfulsoftware.net/2022/04/30/why-isnt-there-a-decent-file-format-for-tabular-data/

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 344 comments

Show HN: A Web-Based Modular Drum Machine for You to Play With

https://noisecraft.app/557

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 34 comments

US plans campaign to attract Russian scientists, engineers to America & CERN

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/us-plans-campaign-attract-russian-scientists-engineers-america

4 years ago

195 upvotes – 140 comments

Project Alice – an open source virtual assistant that can run offline

https://github.com/project-alice-assistant/ProjectAlice

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 78 comments

Oil Wells Hidden in Plain Sight in L.A

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hidden-oil-wells/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 44 comments

Remotewide – Find remote jobs with location independent pay

https://remotewide.co/

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 59 comments

New C++ features in GCC 12

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/25/new-c-features-gcc-12

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 183 comments

Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/04/28/removing-characters-from-strings-faster-with-avx-512/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 85 comments

Twelve-factor app anno 2022

https://xenitab.github.io/blog/2022/02/23/12factor/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio

https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Recommendation for the mom of a near-college-aged “tech geared” student?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31221142

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 82 comments

Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

https://www.datcreativity.com

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 149 comments

Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

https://www.cubedesk.io/home

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 70 comments

The tragic case of the wrong Thomas James is finally righted

https://www.gq.com/story/thomas-james-innocent

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 76 comments

Rust from 0 to 80% for JavaScript Developers

https://michaelsalim.co.uk/blog/rust-from-0-to-80-for-js-dev/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

New from Anaconda: Python in the Browser

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/pyscript-python-in-the-browser

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 11 comments

Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

https://alexanderell.is/posts/uncomfortable/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 32 comments

Razer Co-Founder and Gaming Mouse Inventor Robert Krakoff Has Passed Away

https://vervetimes.com/razer-co-founder-and-gaming-mouse-inventor-robert-krakoff-has-passed-away/

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_support_russian_aggression_against/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

Speedsolving Rubik's Cube: 8355 Method

https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/8355_Method

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

When hits were stored on floppy disk and created with an Atari ST (2020)

https://www.coolsmartphone.com/2020/02/03/fatboy-slim-when-hits-were-stored-on-a-floppy-disk-and-created-with-an-atari-st/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 36 comments

Digging through the archives of Scarfolk

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digging-through-the-archives-of-scarfolk-the-internets-creepiest-fake-town

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Modern Pandas (Part 2): Method Chaining

https://tomaugspurger.github.io/method-chaining.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Bunnymark GL in Jai – 200k sprites at 200fps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-v2Zjn_xuU

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

COBOL Programming Course

https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

Adopting Matrix at the Gnome Foundation

https://blog.ergaster.org/post/20220425-adopting-matrix/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

The awake ape: Why people sleep less than their primate relatives

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2022/why-people-sleep-less-than-primate-relatives

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention

https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/ritalin-behavioral-effects

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 154 comments

Xfig

http://mcj.sourceforge.net/

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Consfigurator 1.0: Common Lisp based declarative configuration management system

https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/consfigurator_1.0.0/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Do you rewrite pull requests?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31225599

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments

Pre-Code Hollywood

https://pre-code.com/what-is-pre-code-hollywood/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

SDLang – Simple Declarative Language

https://sdlang.org/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

OpenFeature – open standard for feature flags

https://openfeature.dev/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Ancient Genes for Symbiosis Hint at Mitochondria’s Origins

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ancient-genes-for-symbiosis-hint-at-mitochondrias-origins-20220426/

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Buying Real Estate with Crypto: New Mortgages Are Backed by Coins

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/buying-real-estate-with-crypto-new-mortgages-are-backed-by-coins

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments

Create YouTube playlists as links without having to log into YouTube

https://playlists.at/youtube/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

$100M spent on ETH gas fees for $200M of NFT sales

https://twitter.com/willpapper/status/1520592312379658241

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments
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