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

Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/162510194/including-and-and-and-and-and-in-a-google-doc-causes-it-to-crash?hl=en

4 years ago

Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Haidt%20Testimony.pdf

4 years ago

7GUIs

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks/

4 years ago

Please stop disabling zoom

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/

4 years ago

Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it

https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2022-04-16-drag-window-by-clicking-anywhere-on-macos/

4 years ago

I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production

https://blog.thevinter.com/posts/vimeo

4 years ago

Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles

https://unpaywall.org/

4 years ago

Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard

https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard-to-accelerate-availability-of-passwordless-sign-ins/

4 years ago

Heroku Security Notification

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413?updated

4 years ago

Show HN: Tetris, but silly

https://unit520.net/deadtrees/

4 years ago

USB Cheat Sheet

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html

4 years ago

Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B

https://news.shopify.com/oh-ship-shopify-to-acquire-deliverr-for-21b-building-the-future-of-global-logistics-for-independent-brands

4 years ago

What game are you playing?

https://www.autodidacts.io/what-game-are-you-playing/

4 years ago

Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code

https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/

4 years ago

Modern Python Performance Considerations

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/893686/8978976335696804/

4 years ago

$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII

https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2022-05-04/so-the-35-sculpture-you-got-at-an-austin-goodwill-was-looted-from-a-museum-during-wwii-now-what

4 years ago

V86: x86 virtualization in the browser, recompiling x86 to WASM on the fly

https://github.com/copy/v86

4 years ago

Windmill.dev

https://docs.windmill.dev

4 years ago

Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you

https://kerkour.com/bugs-rust-compiler-helps-prevent

4 years ago

Abletone Learning Synth

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

4 years ago

GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023

https://github.blog/2022-05-04-software-security-starts-with-the-developer-securing-developer-accounts-with-2fa/

4 years ago

Zero downtime migrations

https://kiranrao.ca/2022/05/04/zero-downtime-migrations.html

4 years ago

Real World OCaml – 2nd Edition (2021)

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

4 years ago

Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflixs-big-wake-up-call-the-power-clash-behind-the-crash-1235136004/

4 years ago

The D-Notice: A British Way of Censoring the Press

https://thedissenter.org/very-british-form-of-press-censorship/

4 years ago

Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable

https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/

4 years ago

Tailscale Authentication for Nginx

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-auth-nginx/

4 years ago

How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the Earth (2018)

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-crossrail-was-affected-by-the-curvature-of-the-earth-24285/

4 years ago

Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs

https://www.innovationaus.com/mygov-is-a-huge-disappointment-key-architect-despairs/

4 years ago

Knowledge is like a house of cards

https://fhur.me/posts/collapsing-knowledge

4 years ago

In Defence of the Single Page Application

https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defence-of-the-single-page-application/

4 years ago

The Gitlab Team Handbook

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

4 years ago

Nim Version 1.6.6 Released

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/05/05/version-166-released.html

4 years ago

Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance

https://togethr.party/

4 years ago

Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains

4 years ago

Devouring the Heart of Portugal

https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portugal/

4 years ago

Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/04/swarming-drones-autonomously-navigate-a-dense-forest-and-chase-a-human/

4 years ago

A Faster Lexer in Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/a-faster-lexer-in-go/

4 years ago

Lyrebird – a voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3

https://github.com/lyrebird-voice-changer/lyrebird

4 years ago

Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy and Then Killing You

https://www.hardtowrite.com/pathogens/

4 years ago

Bugs Matter: counting insect ‘splats’ on vehicle number plates [pdf]

https://cdn.buglife.org.uk/2022/05/Bugs-Matter-2021-National-Report.pdf

4 years ago

How to Do Hard Things

https://every.to/superorganizers/how-to-do-hard-things

4 years ago

Facebook’s Retirement Plan

https://www.economist.com/business/facebooks-retirement-plan/21809131

4 years ago

On Repl-Driven Programming (2020)

https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

4 years ago

How Well Can You Kaggle with Just One Hour a Day?

https://wandb.ai/sairam6087/humpback_whale/reports/How-Well-Can-You-Kaggle-with-Just-One-Hour-a-Day---VmlldzoxNjQxMTQ4

4 years ago

UML Diagrams Designer via Code

https://sequencediagram.org/

4 years ago

Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to an extinct marine arthropod

http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2022/05/extreme-depth-of-field-light-field.html

4 years ago

OpenAlex: The Promising Alternative to Microsoft Academic Graph

https://library.smu.edu.sg/topics-insights/openalex-promising-alternative-microsoft-academic-graph

4 years ago

NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs

https://cnx.srht.site/blog/butter/index.html

4 years ago

Themes from Real World Crypto 2022

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/05/03/themes-from-real-world-crypto-2022/

4 years ago

Ask HN: My house just got hit by lightning and it fried the PSU in my computer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31270349

4 years ago

Boeing lost 1.2B in 2022 first quarter

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/04/never-ending-nightmare-boeing-lost-1-2-billion-in-2022-first-quarter/

4 years ago

Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-math-magicians-know-your-number-20220504/

4 years ago

‘I’m not a leak.’ Scientific careers aren’t a ‘pipeline,’: economists

https://www.science.org/content/article/i-m-absolutely-not-leak-scientific-careers-aren-t-pipeline-these-economists-say

4 years ago

Declassified memo 'confirms' direct connection between Saudi government and 9/11

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-government-911-new-documents-direct-connection-bayoumi-mihdhar-2022-5

4 years ago