top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-05-04

Mechanical Watch

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

4 years ago

Tailscale raises $100M

https://tailscale.com/blog/series-b/

4 years ago

What are your most used self-hosted applications?

https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/

4 years ago

IBM's Asshole Test

https://johnpublic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-asshole-test/

4 years ago

The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures

https://www.warp.dev/blog/problems-with-promotion-oriented-cultures

4 years ago

Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker

4 years ago

Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31259206

4 years ago

Stripe Financial Connections

https://stripe.com/financial-connections

4 years ago

100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/100-year-old-brazilian-breaks-record-after-84-years-at-same-company-701664

4 years ago

Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management

https://www.keycloak.org/

4 years ago

Heroku resetting passwords for “a portion” of their users immediately

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255450

4 years ago

Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract termination

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/yandex-data-center-in-finland-loses-power-runs-on-diesel-due-to-war-sanctions/

4 years ago

Bitwarden: Generate a Username

https://bitwarden.com/help/generator/#generate-a-username

4 years ago

What we can deduce from a leaked PDF

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/what-we-can-deduce-from-a-leaked-pdf.html

4 years ago

TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-secures-141-million-millions-americans-deceived-turbotax

4 years ago

EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-ebug-edition

4 years ago

Science of Fasting

https://spyderdoc.substack.com/p/doctors-heart-series-part-6-science

4 years ago

Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser

https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/

4 years ago

Sqldiff: SQLite Database Difference Utility

https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html

4 years ago

Clairnote: An alternative music notation system

https://clairnote.org/

4 years ago

Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague” on NASA

https://payloadspace.com/nelson-testifies-cost-plus-contracts-have-been-a-plague-on-nasa/

4 years ago

Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/climate/john-doerr-stanford-climate.html

4 years ago

The original “Bambi”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/bambi-is-even-bleaker-than-you-thought

4 years ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/

4 years ago

Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

4 years ago

JavaScript Containers

https://tinyclouds.org/javascript_containers

4 years ago

Walkthrough of UHC’s claim reimbursement form game

https://github.com/MyUHCAdventure/MyUHCAdventure.github.io

4 years ago

Dude, where's my fuel?

https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/dude-wheres-my-fuel

4 years ago

Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures

https://ayende.com/blog/197185-B/criticizing-hare-language-approach-for-generic-data-structures?key=37121a38a2c34d1ea56119261822ef99

4 years ago

Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national Bitcoin wallets

https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-chivo-bitcoin-wallet/

4 years ago

Set up your own VPN at home with Raspberry Pi – Wolfang's Blog

https://notthebe.ee/raspi.html

4 years ago

A social analgesic? Acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces positive empathy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455058/

4 years ago

Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)

https://kidger.site/thoughts/jax-vs-julia/

4 years ago

A principled way to solve problems

https://emasquil.github.io/posts/solving-problems/

4 years ago

Writing a book for O'Reilly

http://www.thecodepainter.co.uk/blog/20220503/writeabook01.html

4 years ago

How to build an absurdly backwards-compatible website

https://flower.codes/2022/03/23/backwards-compatibility.html

4 years ago

After the first tech job

https://lowlyswe.substack.com/p/after-the-first-tech-job

4 years ago

Introducing ArcticDB: A Database for Observability

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/05/04/introducing-arcticdb/

4 years ago

Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix social media

https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-startups-take-aim-at-facebook-and-elon-musk-11651656600

4 years ago

Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-every-consumer-startup-trying

4 years ago

Google hands out Sci-Hub founder’s data to the FBI

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1499393139500412931

4 years ago

Where are the low level system engineers?

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1521611408885960705

4 years ago

DbDiagram – Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly

https://dbdiagram.io/home

4 years ago

Clojure/Script mode for CodeMirror 6

https://nextjournal.github.io/clojure-mode/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31266661

4 years ago

Critical vulnerability in the Matrix IRC bridge

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/04/0-34-0-security-release-for-matrix-appservice-irc-high-severity/

4 years ago

The semiconductor bust – still coming?

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-bust-still-coming

4 years ago

Every Bay Area House Party

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

4 years ago

How to resurrect a coral reef

https://www.vox.com/recode/23016412/coral-reef-restoration-climate-change

4 years ago

The future will have to wait (2006)

https://longnow.org/essays/omega-glory/

4 years ago

SnappyMail – Modern, lightweight and fast web-based email client

https://snappymail.eu/

4 years ago

Android 13’s new sideloading restriction of Accessibility APIs

https://blog.esper.io/android-13-sideloading-restriction-harder-malware-abuse-accessibility-apis/

4 years ago

The hardest thing about making decisions is saying no

https://fev.al/posts/saying-no/

4 years ago

Founder’s Choice

https://founderschoicevc.com/

4 years ago

100 Pages of raw notes released with the language model OPT-175

https://twitter.com/schrep/status/1521850083792154624

4 years ago