top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-03

Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric (2021) [video]

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/5003184/

3 years ago

531 upvotes – 113 comments

Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data

https://manuelclaeysbouuaert.be/projects/ferrargis.html

3 years ago

521 upvotes – 69 comments

The strange business of hole-in-one insurance

https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/

3 years ago

481 upvotes – 266 comments

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01068

3 years ago

461 upvotes – 224 comments

When I made another Monkey Island

https://grumpygamer.com/when_i_made_another_monkeyisland

3 years ago

460 upvotes – 211 comments

Porting Zelda Classic to the web

https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/

3 years ago

447 upvotes – 114 comments

Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks

https://github.com/onceupon/Bash-Oneliner

3 years ago

439 upvotes – 108 comments

I fell in love with low-JS

https://edofic.com/posts/2022-01-28-low-js/

3 years ago

429 upvotes – 295 comments

A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climate/solutions/a-first-for-canada-new-type-of-nuclear-plant-opening-by-2028

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 404 comments

How to Walk (12 miles a day)

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/how-to-walk-12-miles-a-day

3 years ago

417 upvotes – 251 comments

Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31252070

3 years ago

414 upvotes – 237 comments

CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews

3 years ago

406 upvotes – 415 comments

Considered "18+"

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/02/considered-18/

3 years ago

391 upvotes – 152 comments

Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/5/3/we-now-accept-monero/

3 years ago

345 upvotes – 238 comments

Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform

https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/working-with-react-and-the-web-platform/

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 267 comments

Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/03/preventing-burnout-a-managers-toolkit/

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 194 comments

How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8

https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1521489115585421314

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 122 comments

I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed

https://medium.com/@ChrisNielsen123/i-replaced-my-native-ios-app-with-a-cross-platform-web-app-and-no-one-noticed-1653901ce244

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 168 comments

Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter

https://www.engadget.com/apple-criticized-by-employees-over-working-from-home-policy-in-open-letter-123027735.html

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 599 comments

Emacs for Professionals

http://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/emacs-for-professionals/index.html

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 109 comments

Best Raspberry Pi Projects

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/best-raspberry-pi-projects

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock

https://betagainst.fun/

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 143 comments

Dubai real estate data leak – Exposes criminals, officials, and politicians

https://e24.no/internasjonal-oekonomi/i/Bj97B0/dubai-uncovered-data-leak-exposes-how-criminals-officials-and-sanctioned-politicians-poured-money-into-dubai-real-estate

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 111 comments

Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

https://pitivi.org/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 102 comments

Companies That Use Haskell in Production

https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 90 comments

A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly

https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage2/cc_x86.s

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 76 comments

Fediverse

https://fediverse.party

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 133 comments

Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?

https://harelang.org/blog/2022-05-02-what-is-hares-scope/

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 443 comments

Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

https://wildbit.com/blog/postmark-has-been-acquired-by-activecampaign

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 67 comments

Why video calls are bad for brainstorming

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01183-3

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 100 comments

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions

https://news.mit.edu/2022/single-memory-stored-across-many-connected-brain-regions-0502

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 73 comments

India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1820621

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 68 comments

IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway

https://test.mensa.no/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 336 comments

Why Hy?

https://docs.hylang.org/en/alpha/whyhy.html

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 128 comments

Go's Concurrency Examples in Java 19

https://mccue.dev/pages/5-2-22-go-concurrency-in-java

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 114 comments

Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Suggests Imminent Overturn of Roe vs. Wade

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-874f-dd36-a38c-c74f98520000

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 132 comments

Framework Laptop Wins Two Design Awards

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-wins-two-design-awards

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website

https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 89 comments

UA Gotta Be Kidding

https://bkardell.com/blog/UAGottaBeKidding.html

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 90 comments

Purism Librem 14 review (part 1): The ethical flagship

https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-14-ethical-linux-privacy-laptop-review/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 54 comments

Data broker is selling location data of people who visit abortion clinics

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 97 comments

Botnet that hid for 18 months

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/how-hackers-used-smarts-and-a-novel-iot-botnet-to-plunder-email-for-months/

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 22 comments

How to play tabletop RPGs by yourself: A beginner's guide to solo roleplaying

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/how-to/how-to-play-tabletop-rpgs-by-yourself

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 60 comments

Sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software

https://www.sigstore.dev/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Plan C Pills

https://www.plancpills.org/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite

https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-sqlite/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: I'm deprecating LinkedIn recruitment with a Lisp, SQLite and htmx

https://withoutdistractions.com/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 57 comments

How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-draft-opinion-00029475

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 309 comments

JavaScript quiz that may confuse you

https://pitayan.com/posts/8-javascript-quiz-that-may-confuse-you/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 91 comments

Postgres and Parquet in the data lake

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/parquet-and-postgres-in-the-data-lake

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

A Philosophy of Software Design – Book Summary and Notes

https://elvischidera.com/2022-04-29-philosphy-software-design/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Making friends on the internet

https://jon.bo/posts/making-friends-online/

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

The growing discontent behind Nintendo’s fun facade

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-america-contractors-full-time-complaints-report

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 141 comments

History of the browser user-agent string

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

The A.I. Of Doom

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-ai-of-doom-1993

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Airbnb Q1

https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1521582440783007745

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 137 comments

Buttondown is a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters

https://buttondown.email/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Pirate site traffic surges with help from manga boom

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-traffic-surges-with-help-from-manga-boom-220503/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31245625

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 101 comments

Bunny Roundabout

https://rachel.blog/2022/05/03/bunny-roundabout/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 68 comments

Oral administration of NMN is safe and efficiently increases blood NAD levels

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036060/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments
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